Well there's a great topic: What's more scary? Clowns or dummies.
[insert political joke here]

That's probably an opinion you should keep to yourself from now on.
Unless you like getting into heated arguments with film buffs.
But I agree with you about The Shining not being scary.
Creepy? Yes. Frightening? Not so much.

The thing is Mitchum really doesn't seem to be acting at all ( his usual MO, I know )
whereas DeNiro is flinging his Method Acting thing all over the place. He just comes across as a big ol' ham. Plus Sorcese plays the whole thing like a horror film at the climax so Max Cady morphs into the cliched unkillable bogeyman…

Great choice! I don't remember exactly how scared I was when I saw it on TV as a kid but it was definitely a favourite of mine. And while we're talking about goofy comics being scary I'm suprised @avclub-955d864a62659945cc9434898e275deb:disqus hasn't mentioned The Nutty Professor.

If Drew had swapped roles with Neve Campbell I would have found those films much more enjoyable.

Triple threat.

Saw The Fly in the theatre and I almost bolted on half a dozen occasions.
The maggot, the ear falling off, good lord, just too many crazy scenes to list! The last 30 minutes build to such an operatic, hysterical climax, it's almost unbearable. One of the most unnerving films ever made.
That's if you don't include …

Yeah, the Ben Gardener scene is what did it for me too. Even when I got home in the middle of the afternoon I was scared to open my wardrobe! Despite the fact that half-eaten corpses hardly ever turn up in my neighbourhood.
Not ones eaten by sharks anyway.

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"A pair of quadruple whiskies and another pair of pints, please."

Unlike most people hereabouts I've always liked this show but perhaps they've got as much mileage out of the four guys as they can. Time for the girls to take over I say!

If he's going to make one last movie it should really be a western. He once said that was the only reason he wanted to become a director in the first place. Of course a western would be pretty hard work physically so maybe not.

Love all the Bridges movies mentioned.
You could add Stay Hungry and Cutter's Way to the list. The latter came out in 1981 but it seems to belong in the 70s.

The way the gang members are just mindless cannon fodder does recall Romero rather than Hawks. But Carpenter has repeated the Rio Bravo thing in many interviews…
Then again there's no reason a movie can't have numerous influences and inspirations. A mixture of Hawksian adventure with a Romero zombie movie worked out…

Yeah but you don't actually see the kid shot in Leone's film. IIRC there's a cut from the gun barrel to a train whistle. In 'Precinct 13' a blood squib explodes in the middle of her chest. Actually I'm still sorta shocked by that.
Kim Richards was such a familiar face in the 70s.

Have you read Peter Biskind's take on Thunderbolt and Lightfoot?
Very interesting. Btw Bridges was great in that role.
As for Cazale, he definitely should've won for either Fredo or Dog Day Afternoon. Sheesh, he was never even nominated, not once.
The Oscars really do suck.

Funny you should mention this as Ben Elton tried this on Aussie TV earlier this year.
Live From Planet Earth was an hour-long sketch show entirely written by Elton which lasted all of 3 episodes. Some of the performers showed promise but the material was dire and extremely dated. It also featured a Amy Winehouse…

nearly every line from Amanda Peet (esp, Pregnant Amanda Peet)
Bucky, I don't mean to be cruel but are you out of your mind?
Good Lord I could never decide who was more awful, Peet or Paulson.Their casting pretty much doomed the show from the start.
@avclub-2b1a15ab613d3fba82787755f4dc4dec:disqus You've nailed it. Not…

I agree with every word.

So glad it wasn't. Amazingly he's appeared in 10 movies since Studio 60 !