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Originally Posted by roshiq
Though it actually deserves a solid "D" or hardly a "D+" but I like to give it a "C-" just for the Bill Moseley's part & for that hot chick Clare Grant...the only watchable things in this movie.
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Eye candy can do wonders...
12 Angry Men (1957). i can see why this is one of Roshiq's favs, if not No.#1. This classic is nigh perfect if not so. 12 Angry Men takes place almost solely in one room, the jury room. The stifling heat only adds to the symbolism of the boiling emotions as these men decide the fate of a young man. This great character study beautifully typifies the hidden agendas as well as the inculcated notions as instilled into man by culture. We have bigotry, boredom, apathy, insecurity, peer pressure, repressed anger, alienation, arogance,... Well, you get the idea. There is one scene that absolutely portrays the power of man's social nature so wonderfully that it was chilling. And those closeup shots at the end-kudos. All in all a movie deserving the moniker of a classic.
Bad Lieutenant (1992). Thankfully, this movie was only around 96 minutes or so, because i could not have taken any more. That said, Harvey Keitel really portrayed a rather bad cop in this disturbing flick. In fact, Keitel's performance was nothing short of brilliant. Flip flopping from rage to blatant opportunism to heartfelt bouts of angst and despondency, one can say that this whole flick hung on Harvey's performance, and he came though big time. This was not an entertaining nor a fun movie, but an important movie nonetheless. The story itself was a perfect mess, pretty much a snapshot out of an anti-hero's last couple of days in a deep downward spiral, but it somehow tightened up just in time to take a mess of a story and turn it into art. Abel Ferrara's direction was incredible, extracting every ounce of Keitel's talent and deftly capturing it onto film. As a punch-gut movie, it was sheer brilliance. Mercie beaucoup.
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