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Lucimay wrote:...doesn't Redford make a better director than he does an actor? uh-huh. yeah. (why does everybody dog on Ordinary People?? i loved that movie!!)
Redford is a very good director. He and Clint Eastwood are maybe the two finest actor-directors in Hollywood. They both have a reputation for consistently drawing out excellent performances from the casts in their movies.

I love Ordinary People. It's among my thirty or so favorite films of all time. It tells its story simply, and it is emotionally honest in a way that very few other films are, in my opinion. This is one of the least pretentious movies I've ever seen. And this was Redford's directorial debut, no less! It was brave of him to make such a movie, but it merely played to his strength as an "actor's director."

Redford's other directing efforts haven't affected me as powerfully as Ordinary People, but I have not seen all of them. However, Quiz Show was very good, with a very fine performance by Ralph Fiennes (as usual).
if i must watch Redford act...he and pitt really work great together in Spygame...best thing Redford's ever done
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Hey, I liked Butch and Sundance! Newman and Redford were a great duo.

But you've made me want to check out Spygame. I had thought about seeing it when it was in theatres, but I ended up skipping it.

And while I was plodding away on my post, that danlo dude snuck in. :P
danlo wrote:Never saw Quiz Show--my fav Finnes movie is Strange Days (I even love Tom Sizemore's role, and lusted after Juliette Lewis), but everyone thinks it's weird and disagrees with me--The Constant Gardener looks excellent, I must see it!
I liked Strange Days a lot. Very underappreciated movie. It conjured an appropriately paranoid and hysterical "end-of-the-millenium" atmosphere. Intoxicating stuff. Oh, and I'll be watching The Constant Gardener this weekend.

Sorry, what was this topic about? Oh, Brad Pitt. Yeah, he's good. Se7en was superb - in a repulsive sort of way, heh. But I had problems with 12 Monkeys, as I said in the Terry Gilliam thread. While everyone else found Strange Days weird, I found 12 Monkeys incomprehensible. But at least Pitt and Willis made the film watchable, even if I couldn't understand the story. (Later, someone finally explained the ending's meaning to me. Sort of.)
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*gasp* she goes all wonky over Finnes in Strange Days!!!! gulp.


wants to see constant gardener too!!


i'm so glad somebody else liked ordinary people MM!!! MTM is flat out stunning in that!! i grew up with Mary/Laura man....to see the complexity of emotion she displays in this film floored me. sutherland, sutton. freakin great movie.


you must see spygame. good, i promise. :D
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I like Redford in everything he's ever been in. His movies, as an actor and director, are always "must see" for me. My wife thinks he's the finest thing ever, especially during his younger years. I can put "The Way We Were" in the DVD player and leave her alone - it's the best wifesitting video ever ;)
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Not a huge Redford fan, but I loved The Last Castle and Sneakers.
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Cail wrote:Not a huge Redford fan, but I loved The Last Castle and Sneakers.
ohyeah!!! forgot about Sneakers...i liked that too!
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies


i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio


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the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
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Sneakers was a lot of fun. An underrated caper with a fabulous cast!

I've never seen The Last Castle, though.
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The Last Castle is excellent. It's a film I could see buying. Not a fun film at all, but a good story, well told.

Sneakers was a lot of fun, I may end up getting that one too.
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I have Last Castle on DVD, besides Redford's excellent performance, James Gandolfini is fantastic as well.
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Tazzman wrote: I'm as straight as they come.
There's a potential risk in "straight", right?
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