Saw "The Greatest Game Ever Played" - based on the true story of the 1913 U.S. Open in which amateur Francis Ouimet defeats British legend Harry Vardon. Good movie. Also caught "L.A. Confidential" - a personal fave.
axe - 2 good ones. seen both a few times. LA Confidential was really solid. Great acting from several cast members. It may have won best pix that year if it wasn't for Titanic. The chubby caddie really did grow up to be a multimillion too. i think he was a into many car dealerships etc. ted ray went onto to win the US Open 2 yr later. he was the other guy in the finals...
And the leader after Round 1 was a local (Philadelphia) star, John McDermott. Unfortunately he developed severe mental problems in his early 20s and was in and out of institutions most of his life. I remember LA Confidential losing out to Titanic. As Good as It Gets, Good Will Hunting, and Wag the Dog also came out that year.
He was an ass in that movie... Yeah I think LAC or Good Will Hunting had a chance at Best Pix. Freaking Titanic!
saw the drop with tom hardy and james gandolfini this weekend. very odd movie. kind of hard to follow. it was okay.
WolfCop (2014) i liked this one. funny horror film about an alcoholic cop that gets turned into a werewolf.
saw 2 faces of january. trailer was awesome. movie began great and then got silly and then stupid. ugh. house of cards season 3 so far is not that good. and saw lucy with scarlett johanson. wow. not only is she bad but the movie is beyond bad. jeez.
Caught a couple Keanu Reeves movies Saturday afternoon: "Speed" and "Point Break." I like both a lot - not a lot of brain power required, but good action fun. Saturday night saw an all-time classic and personal fave: "Roman Holiday." Hard not to love Audrey Hepburn and want to be a guy like Gregory Peck.
axe-keep reading of a point break remake.... no one tops reeves and swayze and busey bf he went nuts. haha
hollywood is out of ideas. been that way for years. no original ideas out there and they closed the door to screenwriters like me unless you were in before. the old boys club rules deep in hollywood and the new crop of writers isn't welcomed.
It was Jackie Gleason night on AMC last night. He wasn't the star of either movie I watched, but both were great movies, and he was great in both: Requiem for a Heavyweight (Anthony Quinn, Gleason, Mickey Rooney) The Hustler (Paul Newman, Gleason as Minnesota Fats, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie)
axe--oh you picked one of my favorites - the hustler. first black and white movie i ever saw and loved it. the middle is long and mushy but man is it great. i think the hustler was one of the first movies besides streetcar named desire where all 4 stars were oscar nominated. streetcar became the first to have 3 of them win. in the hustler, all 4 - newman, scott, laurie and gleason were oscar nominated. i still don't get how in the color of money newman said his career ended before it started and someone put the screws to him in i assume in reference to scott. that was in oakland. so if fast eddie went into a pool hall in bumble alabama he couldn't shoot pool because scott would have the blacklist out on him? i doubt it. it was the 50's and no internet. just telephone. still a great movie. A+++
*REF* i still gotta read the novel for the color of money bc that's the real sequel. no Vincent character and written by the same author of the novel the Hustler. to make the last temptation of Christ, they lured Martin Scorcese into a side deal to do the color of money. He couldn't make the one without the other. They did not want to use the book as material so they made it up and brought in Tom Cruise to be Vincent. Tom and Newman became best friends after the movie and Newman taught him how to shoot pool. I bought the book on ebay for $5.00. Gotta read it sometime.
No, that was EXACTLY it. Newman would pay Scott at the end after he beat Fats; Scott threatened to have his thumbs, fingers, AND arms broken. Newman said he'd better just kill him, because if he only busted him up good he'd put himself back together and kill Scott. Scott said okay, he could walk and not pay...but Newman couldn't ever show his face in a big-time pool hall ever again.
