A prophetic masterpiece
is it actually that bad? I refuse to believe prime De Palma made a terrible movie
>>221818273It’s one of those movies that got shat for saying all the quiet parts out loud. Also starts with “yep that’s me I bet you’re wondering how I got into this situation”
>>221818171Movie is mid. Not nearly as bad as some people make it. It's got some fantastic shots, but it's mostly boring and empty. Book about its filming is must read, though. Gargoyle shot and plane landing are top cinema, but Palma had nothing to do with them. He just sent B team to shot some establishing shots.
Is the book itself any decent? I like 80s yuppie shit.
>>221818375The book is one of the best novels of the 80s and the most prescient books ever written if you lived through 2020 hysteria
horrible title
>>221818375The book is miles better than the movie, much smarter and more cynical. Also, Bateman and McCoy from Bonfire of the Vanities both work at Pierce & Pierce
>>221818478>im rich, my world crashing down around me and I must use and destroy every resource at my disposal in order to survive, including burning all of the affluent things I don't need but like Much better title
>>221818375The descriptions of working as a bond trader and his income along with his apartment and expenses is really interesting. Wolfe researched this book really deeply hanging out with all the wall street guys, the detectives and the race hustlers in new York at the time
>>221818171Melanie Griffith is badly miscast. Bruce Willis was badly miscast. Tom Hanks was badly miscast. Sherman was already in a Wall Street movie as Charlie Sheens coworker. He's right there John C McGinley
>>221818804Perfect Peter Fallow who's actually English if they remake it
>>221818171bruce willis sucks
>>221818854Honestly steve, he could be your brother
>>221818885he was very good at playing one type of character one way, with an extremely fragile image of it that he knew and overprotected like an ass
>>221818940kek
>>221818885I liked him in Death Becomes Her and 12 Monke.
>>221819189Fifth Element, Sixth Sense. He's been in a ton of good movies
>>221818171The sad thing is realizing it wasn’t prophetic. It was describing the time it was written. Nothings changed in almost 50 years.
It's one of those right-wing propaganda pieces about the so-called "liberal media" that stuck out like a sore thumb in the 90s because it was so obvious what it was and smart film critics called it out.But nowadays? It's just another tuesday.
>>221820330Yes but it was isolated to a few urban areas not the entire country
>>221820411I like how no one is going to call you on your bullshit because they’re too afraid of being “baited.”
>>221820812The plea bargain system wasn’t not isolated to “a few urban areas.”
>>221820411What was propaganda about it?
>>221820863Wtf does this have to do with anything?
>>221821192It’s one of the book/movie’s core subjects. As the overloading of the court system is the main reason the judge is willing to let bullshit slide if it gets this stupid fucking case off his plate.
>>221818273There are some great moments and shots floating in an ocean of muddled nonsense. It's not atrocious, but it's not good and nowhere near what the average movie goer would expect from a star studded DePalma movie.
>>221821916>muddledI don’t understand is this critical or supportive please tell me I don’t understand!
De Palma has made more shitty movies than good ones
movies need to adopt something like the yellow paint idea from gaming to let people know when the important things are happening
>>221823270But he still made Blow Out and Body Double so he gets the eternal pass.
>>221818375Me too, can you recommend any books or movies?
>>221818171It's a good movie.>b-but it's not like the book!!!!Fuck off you pretentious retard. This is a MOVIE. Not a BOOK.
