Damn, you don't dig on the Beegees? Or those amazing dance sequences, or that unusual love story? Boogie Nights stole a lot from SNF. Great film, imo.
Hereditary: That sh** crazy/10! I didn't even finish the movie. After the thing with the little girl happened my wife and I switched to Shrek. It was too much and too close to bed time. We didn't want that image on our minds.
Boogie Nights is a 9.5 out of 10. It didn't need to steal anything from Travolta. Has he made a decent movie since Pulp Fiction?
It was primarily just about John Travolta's starring role...and the subtelties of how to be so cool. At the time, Travolta was a TV star on Welcome Back Kotter, and there was a lot of expectations of what kind of roles he could play in movies. That led to Grease, then Urban Cowboy, as he just knocked each role out of the park. Compare Travolta to the lack of success Fonzi had moving to movies...Wrinkler had to start playing awkward nerds and stuff. Rate Travolta, not the movie.
But it did steal from SNF, and PTA himself admitted it and is a huge fan of SNF. Like most actors, he has dropped off as he has aged. He was fantastically good in the O.J. SImpson show with Cuba Gooding, though. (Blowout is massively underrated, too...)
*That's not what the critics thought. *There is a reason QT was desperately trying to get Travolta to play Vincent. It's because he kicks ass. Deal with it. *Bad taste...
This is totally untrue. Travolta's career was in the 'whatever', he hadn't done a serious movie in over a decade (does "Look Who's Talking" count?), and Tarantino got him for the part because the actors he wanted (Madsen, then others) couldn't do it. He was great in that movie, he was great in Get Shorty, he is a totally shitty actor though. Name some other movies and prove me wrong.
I saw it when it came out at the theater, still have images from it stuck in my head.....first horror movie that's done that since the classics (Exorcist, TCM, Rosemary's Baby, Ect...) I watched when I was kid.....
Ex Machina - 8 out of 10 Creepy and well paced. I kinda saw the ending coming but wasn't sure in what way it would exactly play out. Nevertheless, even though the movie felt like it moved slowly, at the same time I was never bored. Just a fascinating topic. It's left open ended. I wonder if a sequel is in the works?
Going off the top RT movies: Maverick Tombstone Butch Cassidy Blazing Saddles Good, Band & the Ugly. Minor shoutout to Rustler's Rhapsody, which I thought was funny back in the 80's.