God I did not like this movie at all - had no idea it would be so bad
Bad (flat, stilted) acting
Flat plot
Poor pacing
Clumsy editing
Crappy casting
Lame music
... Man.
I liked it.
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It's an iconic movie for a reason...
The acting wasn't flat, the people being portrayed were... They pose and preen for one another as well the screen, as this is what they do in their lives... I think Gere was cast well as were the women...
If by lame music you mean the score then I agree with everything you said, but I still like the movie. It's a time capsule.
shareYeah, as a movie, it's fucking terrible! It's better if you think of it as a lifestyle program.
Honestly, I think the reason it was a hit, was because people liked to sit there and ogle the lifestyle of the characters. This was the beginning of the 1980s after all, and this crap film hit at just the time people were starting to listen to Reagan and believe that "Greed is Good" and become yuppie scum. So they looked at these shallow, immoral characters as role models, more than entertainment.
What you say is true. At the time, I thought it was a great movie... that Richard Gere's character was so f*****g cool and I wanted to be just like him.
Now, everything about the movie seems horribly dated, including the oh-so-80s synth-disco score by Giorgio Moroder. When I saw it again a few years ago, I couldn't even get through it. All the characters now just seem like douchebag products of their time.
Thank you!
It really is a terrible film, and offhand I can't think of a movie with a worse ending. I mean, the whole movie is spent establishing that these people are shallow, spoiled, and self-indulgent, and now they want us to believe that they're going to make something incredibly difficult work over the long term? Naw, they'll give it up after a few visits, when they both find a new man.
Reagan was the best president this country ever had! What would you want, a communist shit hole where everyone is equally poor and has to stand in bread lines?
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