Frankie99 wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:40 pm I mean, it's fine. It's a show.

kmc wrote: Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:59 pm Last of Us episode 3…holy cow top tier art

Wood Goblin wrote: Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:06 am

penningtron wrote: Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:46 am He probably just meant 10 minute rock songs and he's correct.

I posted something on FB about how “Marquee Moon” is the fastest ten minutes in rock. It’s just perfect. CCR’s cover of “Heard It Through the Grapevine” is another one that feels like it’s one-third its actual length.

The Sacred Cows thread is great, because I love seeing how basically like-minded people can sincerely disagree on this stuff.

zorg wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:49 am I just rewatched Godfather I and II after probably 30 years. Godfather I is still pretty good, but it's Brando that gives it the necessary shot in the arm gravitas to take make it truly memorable. II, which everybody seems to crow about endlessly really is a bit of a kitchen sink effort. The fall of Cuba, Senate hearings, Sicily, Vegas. But for all that effort, all I remember is just Pacino sitting around a dimly lit Lake Tahoe living room being cranky because everybody betrayed him. It takes like 3 hours for Fredo to get his, and that SOB had it coming since like hour 2 of part I. I get it. Empires crumble, nothing is forever. The Yin and the Yang, It just feels kind of hollow, ultimately, and I don't see it comparing favorably to things like Visconti's The Leopard. To be fair to Coppola, for all it's vanity and indulgence, I remember Apocalypse Now being far superior. On to part III....which I don't think I ever actually finished, for the reason that everybody already knows.

tonyballzee wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:08 am I hate ranch dressing.

I really don't see why some people are so goddamned obsessed with it. Just go ahead and gloop mayonnaise on your salad, why don't you. Or dip your chicken wings in mayo. BLORP! Mmm, eggy.

zorg wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:49 am I just rewatched Godfather I and II after probably 30 years. Godfather I is still pretty good, but it's Brando that gives it the necessary shot in the arm gravitas to take make it truly memorable. II, which everybody seems to crow about endlessly really is a bit of a kitchen sink effort. The fall of Cuba, Senate hearings, Sicily, Vegas. But for all that effort, all I remember is just Pacino sitting around a dimly lit Lake Tahoe living room being cranky because everybody betrayed him. It takes like 3 hours for Fredo to get his, and that SOB had it coming since like hour 2 of part I. I get it. Empires crumble, nothing is forever. The Yin and the Yang, It just feels kind of hollow, ultimately, and I don't see it comparing favorably to things like Visconti's The Leopard. To be fair to Coppola, for all it's vanity and indulgence, I remember Apocalypse Now being far superior. On to part III....which I don't think I ever actually finished, for the reason that everybody already knows.

The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:30 pm I’ve actually been tempted, in the past, to start a thread querying the PRF community: “Who Should Have Played Kurtz?”

The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:30 pm

zorg wrote: Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:49 am I just rewatched Godfather I and II after probably 30 years. Godfather I is still pretty good, but it's Brando that gives it the necessary shot in the arm gravitas to take make it truly memorable. II, which everybody seems to crow about endlessly really is a bit of a kitchen sink effort. The fall of Cuba, Senate hearings, Sicily, Vegas. But for all that effort, all I remember is just Pacino sitting around a dimly lit Lake Tahoe living room being cranky because everybody betrayed him. It takes like 3 hours for Fredo to get his, and that SOB had it coming since like hour 2 of part I. I get it. Empires crumble, nothing is forever. The Yin and the Yang, It just feels kind of hollow, ultimately, and I don't see it comparing favorably to things like Visconti's The Leopard. To be fair to Coppola, for all it's vanity and indulgence, I remember Apocalypse Now being far superior. On to part III....which I don't think I ever actually finished, for the reason that everybody already knows.

I think Godfather II would be better without the “young Vito” flashbacks. They distend the movie unreasonably in proportion to their middling contribution to it.

While we’re on the subject, I think Apocalypse Now is an overrated movie in which one of the best fIlm performances I’ve ever seen (i.e. Martin Sheen’s) is all but squandered by one of the worst film performances I’ve ever seen (i.e. Marlon Brando’s). The entire movie is one long build-up to meeting Kurtz, and Martin Sheen sells the unholy shit out of describing Kurtz’s reputation and depicting the fatal fixation he inspires in people … on which Brando utterly—comically, if it weren’t so infuriating—fails to deliver. Brando’s reading of Kurtz’s radio transmissions sounds like something out of a bad comedy, and his personification of Kurtz is inert, uncommitted, mumbly, and completely lacking any semblance of gravitas. His performance as Kurtz effectively makes the movie an exasperating shaggy-dog story.

I’ve actually been tempted, in the past, to start a thread querying the PRF community: “Who Should Have Played Kurtz?” It’s something I’ve debated as a thought exercise over the years (within the limits of my familiarity with the population of actors active at that time) and have never come up with a satisfactory answer. I’d interested to hear your thoughts, PRF (in a separate thread, if more appropriate).