underated film two brilliant actors
does anyone else feel that this is a gem of a movie that has been overlooked over the years.The acting is brilliant hackman and pacino spark off each other
sharei dont know if its a gem of a movie but it is underated.ive just seen it and i thought it was really great.depressing as s*it though.the final scenes of pacino and hackman are mesmerising.
pacino really is God.
Gene Hackman's "drunk scene" is by far the best acting I have ever seen
shareCouldn't agree more about Hackman and Pacino on screen. I thought they were absolutely amazing. I'm a huge Al Pacino fan (which is the reason I watched it) but I thought Hackman was the star of the show. *** SPOILER ALERT *** In the moments after Pacino gets beaten up in prison, all you want to do is see Hackman and his reaction to what has happened (as they haven't been speaking to each other for a while). His reaction is everything you want and imagine it to be! Great film.
shareI thought this film was fantastic, and in many ways about the things we teach others and the things we learn as we move through life. The realism was interesting as well.
The writing was EXCELLENT, acting excellent, editing superb...
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Some of my fav bits were: Pacino's meltdown at the fountain...I had this odd feeling after his phone call that something was out of whack.
The scene with Riley was intense...I liked Hackman's measured response.
Anyway--this was a great film to catch on a saturaday afternoon.
jep
i watched it on a tuesday morning... but okay.
Anyways... good film, i was dissapointed by the ending, wanted more closure, but it deffinettly signifies real life well. I cared about the characters toward the end, but i wish i knew what would happen to them, since i cared about them alot.
***1/2 out of *****, sorry for the low rating, 3 is average for me, so it was good. I liked Al Pacino's character. Gene Hackman was great too. Fabulous Acting... i just thought the closure was dissapointing.
the closure was fine... you just need to use your imagination more. you're not one of those people who need "the end" shown on the screen at a theatre to tel you the movie is over do you?
many great movies are about the journey, and where they might be headed... you don't need everything spelled out for you... great movies leave you with some unanswered questions and discussion.
think about it.
The film was a beautiful portrait of two lives coming together by chance and the impact that one life has upon the other.
Gene Hackman gave a fantastic performance as the dominant character, but Al Pacino is no less a figure to watch as well. The development of these two throughout the film during their different trials and tribulations was just layer upon layer brilliant.
Many aspects of the plot were telegraphed, but the joy was in watching the story unfold, even if you thought you knew what was coming. There are many memorable scenes, and as not to act the spoiler here, I would just say to those who have not viewed this film, go and rent it, or catch it on cable.
You won't be sorry.
I agree, meyster7. I actually loved the ending.
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Although it's incredibly sad to see lion catatonic at the end, I love how when the lady at the train station asks "Round Trip?", Max pauses a moment and then says "Yea, round trip." In those final lines lies the closure. He doesn't give up on Lion. Throughout the whole movie you question how genuine and honest Max is about the future, until then. I thought it was a wonderful and delightful movie. One of Al Pacino's most creative and funny characters ever. 10 out of 10 for me.
I wanted to punch Annie right in the mouth though...
I saw this on cable, the other night, and so I looked up the BB, here, to see what others thought.
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I was interested to see that no-one seems to have read into the plot what I assumed to be the case: Pacino's character, the Scarecrow, suffered massive (and undetected/untreated) brain-damage from the beating he took, and he was becoming more and more ill, after they were released from prison. Hence "Pacino's meltdown at the fountain," which jep1970 commented-on.
He added "I had this odd feeling after his phone call that something was out of whack..." Well, no wonder - he's suffering cranial bleeding (or whatever) and finally gets to 'phone his ex-girlfriend, and has to cope with the fact that not only does she want nothing to do with him, but also that his never-seen child, a boy, had been aborted by her. (She lied about this, but of course he doesn't know this.)
No wonder he ended up in a coma!
Great movie. Probably Gene Hackman's best performance, and really cool of Pacino to let his buddy Gene steal so many scenes.
PopeBambi
I didn't really get that Gene had stolen some scenes, but maybe that's because I was too busy watching that FOX named Al Pacino!
Great acting to both Hackman and Pacino. Good humor too!
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imo, the beating in jail didn't give him brain damage.
Returning home to give his child a birthday present was what kept him going, it was pretty much his reason to live. When his ex-wife tells him that the child was aborted... he's in shock. She makes him feel guilty about it, almost as if it was his fault (the whole "oh i fell down the stairs and nobody was around to help me" story). When he goes to the fountain, and is playing with the little boy he realizes what he missed out on. He realizes what he might of had, had he been there for the mother. He just can't take it, and breaks down. He has a nervous breakdown. And back when this movie was made, when a person had a nervous breakdown they went into a mental institution.
just my 2 cents
*miscarriage
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