@avclub-c65a46c16b70bf886e62e791cd4a80b3:disqus I'm vitriolic because a) I'm defending my position against attacks and b) the apparently needless tragedy of it all bothers me and offends me. I feel like Burgess Meredith in Rocky; it offends me that somebody that talented and visionary — that indispensably necessary —…

Out of Sight was gloriously good.

@avclub-0d4efaa2c9d1041eb9b8b5319eec8531:disqus Thanks for reminding me of Tom Waits as Renfield! It's even worse than I remembered.

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It's absolutely terrible, and, additionally, it's garish, ugly, badly shot and has hideous production design.

Let me guess: you're an Altman fan, right?

Me too! I forgot that one. Yeah. And it had that wonderful Stephen H. Burum photography. And the WIlliam Kennedy script. Great stuff! Yet another Robert Evans triumph.

It was awful. He had the nerve to put Bram Stoker's name on the title even though it's the least faithful adaptation ever made — the Bela Lugosi movie follows the book more closely. And he approached it with this snide "I'm not going to do any special effects" approach…and those awful performances…it's dreadful.…

@frug:disqus It's all crap. Dracula (with that horrible James V. Hart script); The Rainmaker; Gardens of Stone; Peggy Sue Got Married…it's just a ton of shit.

@frug:disqus Kubrick had nobody reining him in. The last time anyone constrained him was Jack B. Harris on Strangelove and it was their last movie together.

You know, I can't stand William Goldman. With his "no-one knows anything" bullshit and his prima-donna act about Robert Towne's superior re-write of the end of Marathon Man and his crummy, contemptuous adaptation of Misery and all his snide bullshit.

Yeah, but it's so good — not only did it get that Palm D'Or and make a fortune, it's universally understood to be a modern masterpiece. I can understand having a shattered psyche, or running out of money (both things happened to, say, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Matisse), but I can't understand having one's talent just…

I'm actually watching The Deer Hunter right now. It's amazing how good it is (and how, well, stupefying Heaven's Gate — with which I have a standard-issue film-geek love/hate relationship — is).

@avclub-27e87cc851baee4401e8eed1d89fa6ba:disqus Don't forget "Atlantis" in Goodfellas.

Yeah, but it got Pitt interested in him.

Yeah, it is. It's awful.

@avclub-130f14e3e5c0263f013b56d8c212f26a:disqus Yeah!

That was one of my favorite touches!

All of this is reminding me of how much I disliked the movie. As if adults would play all these Melrose Place-type games about a superhero from another planet getting a human woman pregnant. It would be the biggest fucking deal in history; not some Lifetime Original Movie plot with a lot of conversations between…

The explanation is that the movie sucked.