First question - what is it with 80s movies (and music videos) showing a guy zipping up his fly when getting ready for the day? I swear, I see that all the time in them, and I don't know why, unless it's an implied sexual thing that is lost on me.
I was more disturbed by Way of the Dragon where Chuck Norris dick literally bumped into the camera when he came off the airport.
Who plays baseball/stickball in a suit? Apparently that entire group of guys, I guess.
Clearly Micky Rourke and Eric Roberts were merely humble heralds for the true master.
seemed to know it was better to walk away since he's not going to change for her.
Technically, wasn't it she who walked away on him? With the phone-call recording and the whole going berserk in his living room and all.
This film definitely carries on the trend we've had lately of morally ambiguous/criminal protagonists, with Over the Edge and Convoy, and now this. Can we root for anyone? Should we?
Such questions always seem foreign to me. Isn't it just important that the protagonist are interesting/engaging? Why should we have to root for them?
It kind of came out of nowhere, but it was just great. It was one of those foreshadowing "goodbye" scenes where we can tell this is a character's last moments. "I'm so close to retirement..." DEAD.
Yeah, you could easily cut it out of the movie. It's not vital to the plot at all. Just there so to let the actress have one great scene in the spotlight.
That workout scene reminded a lot of us of Aerobicide, and I'm happy we picked up on it. I agree, it's easily the best aerobics movie, I'm surprised someone hasn't posted that famous gif from it. You know the one.
Yeah!
Deadly Prey's David Ager kicking some more ass!!! (that was what you were thinking about, right?
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Those were some real slaps to. She was slapping the shit out of him, that or its one of the best fake slap scenes I've ever seen.
Rita Hayworth and Angie Dickenson could have KO'd her in round 1!
Not sure why Charlie took so much shit off of him.
He clearly loves him more than he loves Darryl Hannah. Notice how sarcastic he can be with Darryl. When she cries before him, he smiles sardonically. When Paulie cries in front of him, he cries right back. That says everything about his character. He can handle Darryl coldly, but Paulie he just loves too much. There is an emotional connection between the guys in this film that Charlie doesn't have with his girl.
Made me laugh coz I wouldn’t be surprised if she was thinking it also applied to her job as an actress in this film
True method acting
This is an interesting point. Her presence in the whole film is basically sex appeal.
Well now, if your star actress is introduced in a sexually suggestive situation (the stretching), there's basically a 90% chance that she's there for the sex-appeal.
To me she was the weakest character, I don't know if she was supposed to be the moral center of the film (trying to get Mickey Rourke to come around, who would in turn bring Eric Roberts back)
I think that she was basically there just to illuminate a critical quirk of Rourke's character. He doesn't want to change. He loves her -- but he loves his old life even more than her. He's fully willing to sacrifice his love and his child with her for Paulie's sake, and being the pope of Greenwich Village.
The longer this discussion goes on the more it seems like this movie is just a love-affair between dudes.