Posted on 07/06/2009 3:09:44 PM PDT by Borges
The 80s remake of ‘To Be Or Not to Be’ wasn’t a patch on the great 1941 film.
nor consummate the potential thereof.
I liked his films also, until it becomes obvious that his satire was too closely associated with his actual convictions, (as manifest with his stepdaughter relations).
It isn’t funny anymore when his ironic associations in his black humor manifests his true heart.
I must admit that inserting the Greek chorus (esp. F. Murray Abraham) into the story in _Mighty Aphrodite_ was a stroke of genius.
Sleeper is one of the funniest movies ever made and the future nanny state he predicts with “bread and circuses” to placate the sheeple, corrupt govt, and fake food makes me think he was predicting the present administration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pvCwC2rsg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDSyJl04Rko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FRjp41wxNw&feature=related
Everything since then have been (IMHO) self-analyzing dreck.
Mark
Yes. My taste runs to Grant, Steward, Davis, Crawford and Kerr et al..not this old pervert and his stupid movies.
Well, I’m still waiting for my Orgasmatron!
Mark
(is that what it was called? It’s been so long since I saw the movie!)
Oh I dunno, “As You Like It”, with Kenneth Branagh, was pretty funny at several points. Michael Keaton as Dogsberry was quite good, as was Branagh, and Keanu Reeves was at least unintentionally funny.
Allen’s best films are some of the most intelligent films ever made the U.S. And if you knew much about Cary Grant you wouldn’t single out Allen as a pervert. And Legend has it that Jimmy Stewart impregnated Marlene Dietrich and then wouldn’t talk to her. Orson Welles drove to her to get an abortion.
Sour grapes.
His movies are STUPID! I can’t stand the old pervert OR his movies.
Nope. Woody Allen, who was never one of my favorite people anyhow, fell completely off my radar when he started diddling his semi-adopted daughter.
I could care less what he gets or does not get. I will never watch or rent another movie of his again in my life.
Uuuh yeah, literary allusions and literate jokes = stupid.
Way to seperate the Art from the Artist!
Pedophile! Pervert! And ugly to boot.
Thanks for your thoughtful response.
The original might have been better, but the 80s remake was pretty damn funny.
Lies and Misdemeanors is a truly great film in every way. True, he has re-made it himself twice, but it stands, imo, as one of the fifty best films ever.
‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’
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