I didn't think the remake of "All the King's Men" was as bad a movie as the critics said. When you assemble that much talent you have to come up with something. It was all right and true to the book, which remains one of my favorites.

My lost love knows Penn through Clint Eastwood and says he is a great guy. The first time she met him she said she liked "The Falcon and the Snowman", which is not at the top of his resume. The second time he said, "You aren't going to bring up 'The Falcon and the Snowman' again, are you?" She says he is much nicer than you might guess. He'll pin you in a corner and argue a point to death, she says, but it's out of curiosity. She says he and Robin are beautiful in their love for each other. That must count for something even in celebrity land.


>Actually, to me 'admire' means 'wish I could do that' <g> Not faint at all. And I just added the three DVDs of Decalog, Blue and the Double Life of Veronique to my Netflix.
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>( and stumbled across an old Truffaut I'd forgotten about - if you haven't seen Adele H you are in for a treat )
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>Another director I'd have to put on the list on the strength of one film is Sean Penn. Ever see The Pledge ? I think it is the best performance Jack Nicholson has ever given. ( of course if Penn also directed 'All the Kings Men' I guess than cancels out <s> )
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>I have to admit i haven't seen any of his stuff for a long time. Now you've inspired
>>"Admire" is faint praise <g>. That's OK. We all have our own tastes and that's part of what makes life interesting. Personally my Kieslowski favorite is the Decalogue. (Alternate spelling = Dekalog). It blows me away that the parts of it originally aired on Polish television.
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>>>I only know the Three Colors and Double life of Veronique but admire them.
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>>>>We have some favorite directors in common. Here is another I think you will like: Kieslowski. His movies are absorbing in their own right. I also admire him for creating art in the most inhospitable of climates. He was a tough old bird. He had something to say and he said it.
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>>>>>"Greatest" is tough. Great is easier - can do it pretty much by director :
>>>>>Kurosawa, Altman, Scorcese, Coppola, Riddley Scott, Polanski, Howard Hawks, Tarantino, Peckinpah, Zhang Yimou, Louis Malle, Chabrol, Resnais, Truffaut ... there have been some pretty great movies
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>>>>>( and I agree the Red Violin is a great movie. )
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>>>>>>Now that you've posted the dumbest movie of all time, what would be your idea of the greatest movie of all time? Mine is probably The Red Violin.
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>>>>>>>Sure, there are lots of bad movies. Top Gun is one. Shrek 3 is another. And then there's the Piano....
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>>>>>>>But on Friday night, I saw the absolute worst movie of all time.
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>>>>>>>I was training and driving back and forth from NJ all week, so by Friday evening I was wiped out. I fell asleep watching the Braves game on TBS, and woke up around 1 PM. I was too tired to get off the couch, so I just stayed there and watched the late movie on TBS.
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>>>>>>>Oh, god, I wish I'd gone to bed.
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>>>>>>>The movie was "Cocktail", with Tom Cruise. I want to hurt this film, but will never be able to hurt it as much as it hurt me.
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>>>>>>>I wanted to change the channel, but my cat had knocked the remote away, and I was too lazy to reach for it. So I just vegged out on the couch some more, and was subjected to this piece of cinema trash. I was creating limericks in the third grade that were better than Cruise's bartender poetry. Cruise has come full circle - he started out making idiotic films, and now his life is an idiotic film.
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>>>>>>>If there were indeed a God, I'd pray for him to wipe out the culture of the 1980's, which produced the worst films of all time (except for Judd Nelson, he was harsh)