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Summary: Quirky Coen Brothers Classic was Made for the Adults....
Review: ....but kids can get in on the tongue in cheek fun, too. It has touches of "It's A Wonderful Life", "Meet John Doe" (w/ Gary Cooper) and "His Gal Friday"....but being a part of the Coen cosmos, expect to be laughing at something unusual. It is surprisingly a great holiday fable that I predict will gain more popularity as a "must show" each year. Tim Robbins is cast perfectly as the rube with a lucky streak placed in a situation where every one is, more or less, corrupt, bankrupt, bureaucratized. Jason Leigh has that Rosalind Russell banter/swagger down cold and Paul Newman does corporate corruption well. Look out also for the Betty ("pop 'im one") Boopish Anna Nicole Smith in a walk on. The moral of the moovy is...thank gawd evvrybody don't use Polygrip...
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Summary: Untitled
Review: It was bad! Bad Bad Bad! It made me Mad Mad Mad! If you buy it, you'll be Sad Sad Sad! No Bueno!
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Summary: Long Live the HUD!
Review: This movie features a brilliant storyline, and being directed by the same filmmakers who would later bring us 'The Big Lebowski', it was sure to please. The movies fast-paced style is a very pleasant change from the average fare on the market today. This is a movie to buy, because you will want to see it over and over again. My one complaint is that the DVD version doesn't provide any "extras", and as stated before the quality is only mediocre...I was definetly expecting more from this. But all-in-all, it is a must-have for your DVD collection!
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Summary: "I run this business"
Review: There's always some little details in the Coen brothers' movies that separate them form trash, and, instead, make them genious. Sometimes the line can be very small. All in all, this movie was classified as some sort of dissapointment at the time of it's rlease. Sure, it can be called clumsy or clicheéd. I mean, the plot doesn't seem so stunning at first. But there are again some little things that make this movie so brilliant. It can be seen as a critisation for the over-commecilaity, but more than anything iti is a fars. and a dam funny movie. Casting is also brilliant ( for example, watch Jennifer Jason-Leigh!), and the photography - oh the photography! Actually , if anything elese doesn't attract you in their movies, you'll have admire the certain freshness there is n the scenes. Credits to the camerawork. Plus; the lot is also at least a bit out of sight. Yumm...
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Summary: Norville Barnes Creation. O (You know, for movies)
Review: I like this movie. From the acting to the cinematography, this movie is a breath of fresh air. Just when you think you got it pegged, you find it you were wrong. A movie about the rise from the mailroom to the 44th floor (45th counting the mezzanine) and how the seemingly imbecilic Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) manages to succeed and then fail. He is assisted in his failure by a devious board of directors who, as fate would have it, are also the cause of his success. As I said, the cinematography is great in this movie. Accompany this with a great script, terrific characters and an outstanding soundtrack and you have a sure winner. This is not a juvenile comedy and it is refreshing to be entertained with adult humor. This movie will definitely withstand multiple viewings. Once you see this movie you will understand the title for this review. As said in other reviews, the DVD only offers the movie and language options. There are no special features or cast bios.
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Summary: no no no, actually it's HIS GIRL FRIDAY meets brazil ; )
Review: sheer pleasure is watching paul newman growl & bulldoze his crusty way through scenes! :D and what enviable turns jjleigh's career's enjoyed in the 90's- playing that cuckoo film student in "the big picture", dorothy in "mrs. parker and the vicious circle", and her cracklin' roz "hildy johnson" russell homage here :) how can anyone Not be swept away by hudsucker's fantastic, heady achievement! :D vt
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Summary: Oddly diverting, but too fragmented
Review: I was about to give this three stars, but seeing how clumsily the previous reviewers have overrated this film (several couldn't spell the directors' name correctly, one suggests it's set in the 40s, and another claims the Robbins character "makes it to the top" when he does no such thing), I decided to bust it to two as a corrective. I find anything the Coens make to be worth checking out, but to put this ahead of "Miller's Crossing," "The Big Lebowski," and even "Barton Fink" (not to mention "Raising Arizona"), as one reviewer does, is just silly. "The Hudsucker Proxy" is one of the more interesting failures I've seen in a while. It plays with genres (parody to farce to melodrama to fantasy), vocal accents (Jennifer Jason Leigh is all over the map), music (mix in a little Khatchaturian and Bizet), pacing (sometimes the dialogue races at breakneck speeds, other times the camera takes forever to pull back), and time periods (a tribute to screwball romances and Wall Street/journalism comedies of the 30s and 40s, the movie is explicitly set in the final month of 1958 but visually occupies some no-time that straddles several decades). The plot and acting are but so-so at best. (My wife guessed and announced one of the central plot twists, something about the blue letter, a good hour before it happened; don't you just hate when that happens?) Although it's supposedly December in New York, there are a number of scenes with sunshine and people in shirtsleeves. Robbins is decent in a wide-eyed innocent role that demands little (he's had enough of those -- "Erik the Viking" was sufficient); Jason Leigh overacts wildly but looks great; the romance between the two is utterly unbelievable, especially from her point of view; Newman provides gruff fun but doesn't have a lot to do either. Someone has noted Buscemi's cameo; there's also a surprising one by Peter Gallagher (the husband in "sex, lies & videotape" and the supersalesman in "American Beauty") as a swing band crooner. What makes this movie exciting are the inventive camera work (running feet almost punching the lens as they sprint forward; more than one 44-foot suicide plunge; newsreel pastiches) and especially the set design (love that boardroom table, and the hula hoop warehouse). These are primarily what I would have awarded a third star for.
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Summary: Great movie, not-so-great DVD
Review: The Hudsucker Proxy is one of my favorite movies of all time. I won't go over what's so great about it because you can get all that just as well by reading the other reviews on this page. I do want to address the quality of the DVD, however. While the DVD does offer both standard and widescreen mode (anamorphic, no less), it decidedly comes across as a sub-par job. The transfer is terrible, dark and grainy in places and completely washed-out in others (the dancing scene made me wonder if something was wrong with my player). The sound is in Dolby stereo rather than the 5.1 channel surround just about everything post-1990 is available in. Not to mention the complete lack of extras: no actor bios, commentary (which I would have really liked to have seen) -- not even a theatrical trailer. For a movie of this quality, I would have expected a lot more. I love this movie, so I got it anyway and am happy with it (after all, it won't deteriorate like VHS). But don't expect a Matrix quality disk or anything.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This may be the funniest and most intelligently crafted comedy I've ever seen. It's a crazy story but if you like Pulp Fiction, Very Bad Things, Flirting with Disaster or The Simpsons then you should love this movie! Jeff Bridges is great in a role I never would have pictured him in and John Goodman is at his absolute best.
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Summary: Not much to say -->
Review: I am sorry to say that this is my favourite film of all time - sorry, because it is a hard thing for someone who has such a various taste in books and music to have an absolute favourite in another medium...but this little work of art is precisely that, with superb acting by Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Newman, plus an excellent supporting cast. I suppose I should worship the Coen brothers, whom I praise non-stop when Fargo or the Big Lebowski are mentioned (the latter with a bit more restraint). But this film...it is different from anything else I have seen. Although set in the 40's/50's, it does not really seem to have any location in time or geography - just some American city, some foolish genius, and some misguided corporate individuals. Kind of Monty Python mixed with Shawshank Redemption, the Sting and Some Like It Hot mixed in for good measure. If that means anything - enjoy!
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