I find that many people my age have NEVER heard of woody allen or have never seen any of this movies....its just sad. Anyways i loved this movie, i especially liked the scene where woody was just reanimated and he was goofing off with the wheelchair. the sense of humor reminds me of Austin Powers...i mean both movies have nasty men who mysteriously appeal to women.
oh its keen...no its better than keen...its...KUGAT!
.... while absolute sh*t like Harry Potter and Hilary Duff is constantly occupied. It is indeed sad. I thought this movie was great and I only saw it once.
"The leader's nose!"
I like cheese! It is cool!
so far have only managed to see two films with woody allen in: sleeper and casino royale, but he was amazing
i laugh at your species
I've only seen this and Everything You've Always Wanted to Know about Sex* *but were afraid to ask. I must admit the ladder made me laugh, but not nearly enough to be called a classic, whereas this... well.. er.... is a classic. Yeah. Okay.
I like cheese! It is cool!
I assume that you are talking more about people of the age of Soon-Yi Previn than of people in their forties or later. It's easy for people to ignore movies older than themselves, and Sleeper is now 31 years old. It's not that people don't get the 'old' stuff; it's that they don't know about it. It's easier to talk about recent fluff than about Sunset Boulevard -- which is a pity.
This movie holds up well. Much of it is about the neuroses of Woody Allen, which back then were funny and still are. (His current neuroses aren't so funny, which explains why his personality detracts from his more recent works). It also feeds upon Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle for the plot element of someone waking up after 20 years. Just add another zero.
Cinema is a legitimate art form and a legitimate conduit for literature. One can laugh and think at the same time as one watches Sleeper, which I can't say about the "Austin Powers" series, which in some ways represents a dumbed-down version of Sleeper. If we contrast the antiquity of cinema to that of oil painting, then we find that hardly anyone watches anything more than about ninety years old and that few of us pay attention to paintings from before about 600 years ago; quality from before then is not so great. Not paying attention to movies more than thirty years old is about like ignoring all paintings from about 200 years ago. The sorts of paintings that one would recognize include the Impressionists and some modern works, but one would miss the great works of the likes of Michelangelo and Rubens.
Those who buy video should remember the maxim "quality first'. Indeed, one can have access to great movies in a way that one cannot have access to oil paintings or sculpture. An original painting by Rembrandt is out of the question for all but a miniscule few, but anyone can get a DVD of Lawerence of Arabia for much less than the cost of a carton of cigarettes or a fifth of rotgut whiskey. We are all collectors, and with movies, we can collect well.
hahaha, it is funny caus eI was discussing Lawrence of Arabia with a friend who is a diehard LOTR fan, and he said that Lawrence of Arabaia "was just too long"
I laughed so hard and felt bad for him.
Lawrence of Arabia too long? It is a long film but I could watch it if it were twice the length, its such a great film, one of the greatest ever. Its amazing David Lean doesn't get as much credit anymore.
Me and my friends are in our early twenties and a few of us are diehard woody fans, we've seen everything the man has made. And while the rest of my friends have heard of him and don't watch his movies, i made them all at least watch Annie Hall which i find almost everybody loves.
There is also a bit of backlash against him because of the whole thing with Mia Farrow and her adopted daughter. Many of my relatives always have to comment that he's a pedaphile when i bring him up(although really he's not, maybe polanski is). My father refuses to watch his films because of that(he's pushing 50) however he walked in on me watching Manhattan once and ended up sitting down and watching the whole thing. If my relatives weren't so biased because of that scandal i bet they'd all really enjoy his films.
Wood Allen's humor and wit are not dumbed down trash typically like the crap that teens typically see today.
American public schools in general are quite poor and many youth today don't even read much.
Even some American adults don't read. (Try living in brain-dead LA, it is like
a comatose freeway land full of very ignorant, shallow children)
(Notice Woody Allen seems to hate LA)
This movie wasn't funny, at all. It was mildly interesting, but the humor was grade school crap with all the roaring twenties music. I couldn't wait till it was finally over.
The only movie I was begging for to be over more than this was The Aristocrats.
This movie wasn't funny, at all. It was mildly interesting, but the humor was grade school crap with all the roaring twenties music. I couldn't wait till it was finally over.
So, I mentioned my dislike for this film, and you act as if it's a problem to have a different opinion. You sound like an.......
shareI find that many people my age have NEVER heard of woody allen or have never seen any of this movies....its just sad.
larzfrommarz, you give me hope for the future (and the present)... I don't
know how old you are, but so many young people are totally uninterested by
anything that occurred "before they were born" - as if their presence is so
crucial to the universe that nothing worthwhile existed before! I am a few
years younger than Woody Allen and have been a fan of his movies since early
in his career. Not all of them are as good as Annie Hall, nor as funny as
Sleeper, nor as engaging as Manhattan, but when he gets it right you have a
wonderful film. His affair with his step-daughter was rightly frowned upon
by society and he has been judged harshly by many. But I don't have to like
the man to enjoy the characters he brings to the screen. There are surely
many people whose work we value, knowing nothing about personal foibles they may have. I'm just happy to know there are younger people like you who
enjoy "old" movies the same way I loved Bogart, Cagney and Colbert when I
was growing up. (and that's Claudette, not Stephen!)
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I impersonated him on stage for a talent competition stand up in eleventh grade last year: people for the most part seemed to know who I was imitating.
They know about him.
They probably thought you we're doing Kenneth Branagher
"Enough with the badges! When do we get the freakin' guns!?"
Our generation is completely brainwashed or braindead. Hardly ANY of my friends could even say they've SEEN a Woody Allen film. (Except my best friend, Lennon. He saw Sleeper years ago, and I watched it for the first time with him.) Not the point. Most people my age only know about Woody Allen because of the said Soon-Yi/Mia scandal. Ok. Yeah, I didn't agree with it, but the man is still a film and comical genius! For example: Clinton. Not exactly a good moral example, but he was a decent President. (some may beg to differ. Lol.)
Sorry, I tend to get off track. I was at a concert last week, and the friends I was with didn't recognize "Hotel California" and "Summer of '69" when the band we saw covered these songs.
As a generalization, our society is pretty uncultured. If it didn't happen in the last five minutes, it isn't worth knowing. So I've made it my personal agenda to culture my friends. I make them watch classic films with me and we always listen to oldies (but goodies!) in my car.
We need to get this damn generation back on track, and appreciate our vast and varied culture! ;-)
I'm 15 and I've seen I believe only 16 movies that Woody Allen has directed (I do hope to one day see all 40, nearly 41) and I do notice that most of the people at my school don't know about the culture of the past. They don't know what beatniks are or who Alan Alda is (I've asked several people) and it is sad, but not just the culture of the past is the one worth knowing. There are plenty of great bands or movies of today. I have seen hundreds of old movies, the oldest probably being from 1915, so not old as in from the 80's, and I do agree: it is a shame. I read a lot (it seems compared to other people at my school) and watch many more movies than them and listen to music that most of them have never heard of (although, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that a guy in my math class likes Eels), so I guess I'm an exception, and I am offended to be categorized in this big generalization about my generation. I'll stop rambling now. But I love this movie, great stuff.
shareI don't think Sleeper is a sad movie. I saw it two days ago and i thought it was a really funny Sci-fi Comedy. Woody Allen was so hilirious. But in a way you kind of feel sorry for his character who awakes only to find he has been frozen for 200 years. Which would defanly be a shock for those who have been in suspended animation for a long time.
share> I don't think Sleeper is a sad movie.
~goes back through previous posts trying to figure out who they thought claimed it was a sad movie~
" the sense of humor reminds me of Austin Powers.."
Myers admitted he copied this scene for Austin Powers.
I am just now going through a Woody Allen phase. I have always wanted to see more of his earlier works. Sleeper was great. I laughed my a$$ off. I am a big fan of his verbal wit as well and for some reason the nuerotic Woody never gets old.
Great movie, I love how it depics the future, and finding a newspaper from 1990 was cool.
Highly recommended!
-Mark
Same here, watching every woody allen movie I can find and loving most of them very much! Woody Allen is god!
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Always good to hear there're folks who will watch or listen to something not churned out for their little age bracket (I know plenty of folks my own age, over 50, who won't do that!) Certainly check out more of his movies - the 'early, funny' films (his words) are great, and even his less inspired stuff is worth a watch.
Re. your endline - I'm sure Diane Keaton meant 'Keane', as in the guy who did these treacly wide-eyed kid paintings her friend worked into his art. 'Cugat' was a bandleader who held a Chihuahua dog onstage and married Charo. That these folks embody high culture in the future is worrisome to say the least.