Has anyone seen...?

[Iamspartacus]

Has anyone seen any of these? Are they good?

Serpico
Catch 22
This Boy's Life
His Girl Friday
Hard Eight
Painted Veil

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by Iamspartacus

Has anyone seen any of these? Are they good?

Serpico
Catch 22
This Boy's Life
His Girl Friday
Hard Eight
Painted Veil

I've seen two of them and was not at all impressed. I'll let you guess which ones LOL

(and the rest, I have no interest in)

[GreenGaijin]

Put me down for 0/6 . Although, I do want to see Serpico at some point. To be honest, when I was a kid and I saw the cover, I thought it was about Jesus Christ.

[Spicoli]

I just got a new flame thrower, wanna see it work?

[spanky87]

Serpico - not great Lumet, underwhelming

Catch 22 - never seen it

This Boy's Life - very good coming of age film. Great performances by both DiCaprio and DeNiro.

His Girl Friday - Excellent film. Great chemistry between the leads.

Hard Eight - Least favorite PT Anderson film, but still a good and worthwhile debut. It's pretty much a showcase for Phillip Baker Hall.

Painted Veil - I've only seen the Naomi Watts version, good flick, great performance by Watts (oscar nom worthy at least) Most depressing one out of this list.

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by Iamspartacus

Has anyone seen any of these? Are they good?

Serpico
Catch 22
This Boy's Life
His Girl Friday
Hard Eight
Painted Veil

I saw Serpico a few weeks ago. It was decent, nothing I'd watch again. Those movies in the 70s...they needed better editors. Felt like it needed to be trimmed some. But Pacino is amazing.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

I saw Serpico a few weeks ago. It was decent, nothing I'd watch again. Those movies in the 70s...they needed better editors. Felt like it needed to be trimmed some. But Pacino is amazing.

Thank you! I find most 70's movies to be highly overrated. There are probably less than 20 movies from that decade that I would say I really liked.

[GreenGaijin]

Originally Posted by Spicoli

I just got a new flame thrower, wanna see it work?

That better be a Serpico reference.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Iamspartacus

Has anyone seen any of these? Are they good?

Serpico
Catch 22
This Boy's Life
His Girl Friday
Hard Eight
Painted Veil

Watch Serpico on Friday and wasn't much of a fan. It's great performance from Pacino but the film just desperately lags to get you invested in what is going on.

[Mandalorian]

I also thought Pacino was great in Serpico. It's not my favorite Sidney Lumet film, but I still think it's pretty damn good, and worth watching.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by RJ Smoove

I also thought Pacino was great in Serpico. It's not my favorite Sidney Lumet film, but I still think it's pretty damn good, and worth watching.

I think a better Lumet film would be Dog Day Afternoon, that film is a tour-de-force

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by Foggy

I think a better Lumet film would be Dog Day Afternoon, that film is a tour-de-force

I love that one.

[Jimmy Bro]

Seen Catch-22 and it was boring

[TheAnimeLegend]

Originally Posted by Iamspartacus

Has anyone seen any of these? Are they good?

Serpico
Catch 22
This Boy's Life
His Girl Friday
Hard Eight
Painted Veil

I have seen A Boy's Life. Good movie, both Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio are really good in it!

[Bl@deRu>>er]

Only one I've seen on the list is "The Painted Veil", agree with previous poster on it, Naomi Watts is great and Edward Norton is very good too.


I originally saw it on DVD and bought the German blu-ray release on Amazon a few years ago (if you click the amazon link you'll see its listed as playable in regions A,B, and C, which is another way of saying its region-free. ) -I'm in the USA and never had a problem on any of my blu-ray players, which includes a PS3.


http://www.amazon.com/Painted-Veil-B...e+painted+veil

[chris_sc77]

Originally Posted by Iamspartacus

Has anyone seen any of these? Are they good?

Serpico
Catch 22
This Boy's Life
His Girl Friday
Hard Eight
Painted Veil

Serpico - great film.
Catch 22 - could not get into it. turned off after 20 mins.
This Boy's Life- great film. Great performances. ("you can get it doggy style or you can get it laying on your side. this is my house and I make the rules!")
His Girl Friday - never seen it.
Hard Eight - excellent PTA film.
Painted Veil - very good for what it is. liked this a lot more than I thought I would

[Kevin Holly]

Serpico is badass, I'd recommend it.

Hard Eight is also great. A worthy debut from a great director.

[vader4]

Originally Posted by Iamspartacus

Has anyone seen any of these? Are they good?

Serpico
Catch 22
This Boy's Life
His Girl Friday
Hard Eight
Painted Veil

I've seen Hard Eight. It's good, but not great and my least favorite of Paul Thomas Anderson's films. To be fair though, it was originally titles "Sydney" and wasover 2 hours. Hard Eight is a movie I would recommend to Paul Thomas Anderson fans and will only recommend to others when the original is released.

[The Great Owl]

I saw This Boy's Life at the theater in the early 1990s. It features some brilliant acting from Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, and it's a rather fascinating look at the unpleasant undercurrents of life in small-town America in the 1950s/early 1960s. The nerdy little girl in the movie was played by Eliza Dushku, funnily enough.

[legendarymatt92]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

I saw Serpico a few weeks ago. It was decent, nothing I'd watch again. Those movies in the 70s...they needed better editors. Felt like it needed to be trimmed some. But Pacino is amazing.

It's to do with the New Hollywood thing that was around back then; directors had much more say in the final cut, and it's often why 70s films (especially compared to today's releases) may seem slightly ponderous and long for no apparent reason.

To OP, I've seen Serpico and it's an entertaining film, but certainly not Lumet's best or most memorable.