After reading all reviews this promises to be a B+W masterpiece. Stagey production presents characters that are so dislikeable and uninteresting. One scene brought a chuckle when Karl Malden briefly slipped into his "Baby Doll!" mode. After 45 minutes of trying to watch I pulled the plug. The whole thing is a cheap Tennessee Williams ripoff complete with fake Southern accents.
shareThe family lived in Cleveland. That's in the Midwest. I guess because their so dysfunctional that everyone assumes its southern family. You weren't the first person to make that mistake on this board. I've lived in the south all my life and I didn't notice the accent except when the oldest brother is still in Florida.
I got a little frustrated too, but I finished it. I wouldn't have told everyone I stopped halfway through...I doubt finishing it would have changed your opinion but at least you could say you gave it a fair chance. Watching half of it then coming to a dead board to bitch doesn't really help us classic movie fans that did see it and want to discuss the movie.
Also, I wouldnt say it was a TW ripoff. The author of the book wrote Midnight Cowboy too and that movie is hailed as a classic.
I'm not a big fan of "brooding, angry young men" genre pictures that go into exposure of the ugly underbelly of the very society and system that gave writers the freedom to rail against their own liberators. Besides, that genre has been done to death and I'm not really thrilled that it's made someething of a comeback in modern films of the last 10-20 years.
I did see ALL FALL DOWN and it's a well made production but I like its unsettling subject matter about as much as I like doing my taxes or having my teeth pulled.
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shareKept waiting for something interesting to happen besides over acting...
shareOh, I don't know...I thought it was interesting that Echo's gloves' stayed perfectly clean while tweaking her car's motor. Idiotic, but interesting.
shareWell maybe she had to fiddle with the distributor a lot so she kept that part clean. She did after all know right where to go to fix the issue. Or she kept her whole engine clean. It's a clean machine, very keen.
Ephemeron.
Keeping a distributor or, for that matter, an engine, clean...I'd rate that the same order of interesting as fiddling about under the hood with gloves.
shareThis is terrible!
Almost impossibly bad attempt at Southern Gothic in the mode of Tennessee Williams.
The laughable names (Berry-Berry? Echo? What?!) and potboiler characters are just too much to take. When a great director like John Frankenheimer can't do anything with a script, you know the movie is in serious trouble!
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