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Summary: Nothing beats watching this movie with a beer
Review: If you like Bukowski. Watch this movie. If not don't even bother. If you have no clue who bukowski is, go visit the book section of this store and order Betting on the Muse and all your questions will be answered. If you ever wanted to enter the dark shadowy world of bars, brawls and Bukowski, this is the movie for you.
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Summary: We're all "somethingfly's"
Review: When I first saw this film at age 17 I was not familiar with the writings of Buk but had learned some about his life via publicity for the film. The film is beautifully executed, and as some other reviewers at this forum have alluded to, it's not exatly mainstream American entertainment. Look, Buk was a specific type, with a specific lifestyle, he happened to be tough enough and talented enough to make great art from it. We should all be so talented no matter what kind of life we lead. Rourke is a revelation and Dunaway is perfect as his tainted love. Watch, don't judge and you'll feel some universality of the vibrations of being alive --Unless you're dead in the heart,head and crotch, then fukyas anyways!
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Summary: We're all "somethingfly's"
Review: When I first saw this film at age 17 I was not familiar with the writings of Buk but had learned some about his life via the publicity for the film. The film is beautifully executed, and as some other reviewers at this forum have alluded to, it's not exatly mainstream American entertainment. Look, Buk was a specific type, with a specific lifestyle, he happened to be tough enough and talented enough to make great art from it. We should all be so talented no matter what kind of life we lead. Rourke is a revelation and Dunaway is perfect as his tainted love. Watch, don't judge and you'll feel some universality of the vibrations of being alive --Unless you're dead in the heart,head and crotch, then fukyas anyways!
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Summary: A Great American Film!
Review: Henry, played by Mickey, was one of the lasting authentic performances we'll ever have of this fine gentle cad actor we must confess we love. We take a tour of the Strip where lives are stripped of their painted decor in hard liquors and brawls out back in the alley where reality hits the paved, bricked mitts. But his movie is not about the sewer. It is about grace and attainment, about the traded and betrayed lives of those who seek the illusion of immortality, the "unoriginal macho energy", and the offender Wilbur, who plunders the meek aspiring girl into making runs to the drug store to procure liniments for their shared disintegration and her youth wearing bend into alcoholic predisposition toward a mid-life caveat for coping with the cruel world's lecherous predators and her own rended resolve for independence. Mickey was panned for his excellent freely felt portrayal of Henry the Drunk, when his lines around the bar sounded too drawn out and staged. Rourke bloodied, glowered and eye-rolled the part to perfection however, and I like his toasts. I'd drink to that! If you want a mirror, rent Jeff Bridges in The Fisher King, what an upstaging oscar worthy portrayal of abysmal $%@#faced-ness! "It was no ____ing picnic!" --Jack Lucas, The Fisher King. When we encounter the extremes of both youthful and middle aged womanly extravagance in this film, we see it through the filter of wealth in this welter of filth. Wanda is played by Faye Dunaway, the typist chippy who can't white-out the cycle of depression and dependency her life has handed her, and whose legs attract both Henry and the audience into an amazed re-romance with this screen goddess. Alice Krige plays the alighting angel who lights upon Henry's submitted writings and offers him a guide. And what we are, after all of Henry's musings to himself, (in that unpublished stuff some drunk just mutters to them self), left to wonder at the end of the film is if Henry didn't refer to himself when he told Tully, (Alice Krige), about the cage she was entrapped in with the golden bars* and presumably Elton's forgotten costume sunglasses--the baby grand and flamboyant man. The movie moves you into and then back out of that little bar on the Strip, and if you noticed the neon, it was: The Golden Horn*. To all my frieeeeeendsssss! Heeeeeeeeey ! . Thanks Everybody, drink sane and live. WALK THERE! Drink low point beer until you get, the other pissed, then leave. WALK HOME! CHEERS! :D :D
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Summary: greatest movie ever
Review: bukowski wrote a great movie rourke ruled its that simpl
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Summary: Why Can't They Make More Movies Like This?
Review: I saw this movie before I had read any books by Charles Bukowski. After I saw this movie I went out and bought as many books by Hank as I could. He never disappoints. I wish there were more movies that portrayed the rotten part of life with the same dignity, humor, and honesty as Hank's movie. Bukowski tells his story with all the bloody details. Yes, it is gruesome at times, but that's the way he saw it. This is a good movie because of it's honesty. Hank told the truth.
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Summary: Incredibly.......Bukowski.......for lovers of Lenny Bruce!
Review: If you haven't seen this film...where have you been! Typical Rourke flair. From excerpts of the book Tales of Ordinary Madness, Henry Chamofsky is up to his ears...if he could find them, with Faye Dunaway in one of his and her finest roles. You should definately add this one to your collection.
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Summary: Rourke's best performance
Review: Any fan of Rourke will enjoy this movie. Mickey makes an excellent drunk, highly amusing. "Some people never go crazy, what truly horible lives they must lead."
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Summary: Without question the worst movie I've ever seen
Review: Enjoyable only to those who don't mind wallowing in excrement
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Summary: Somber subject matter, but a hilarious and beautiful film.
Review: Yes, Rourke is great but someone needs to mention that this is among Dunaway's finest performances, which is saying a lot. When these two didn't get nominated for Oscars, Siskel and Ebert proclaimed that they had been "robbed." Especially Faye, I must say, because that was the year that Cher won for *Moonstruck.*
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