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Summary: This movie Rocks!
Review: Hey Lorelei...first of all, S.E. Hinton is a woman and second of all, what kind of language would you prefer in a movie about gang fights, some candy coated stuff??? The movie is a great one, plain and simple.
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Summary: UNFORGETABLE!!! - 20 YEARS LATER
Review: I am in my early forties and when I look back at all of the movies I have seen in my life, a few stand out as unforgetable. Rumble Fish is one of them. It was a perfect role for Dillon who works with Rourke and Hopper in an amazingly trippy mood-fest!! The way Coppola filmed this one is rather unique and amazing - far from reality. But if you've been where the characters have been in real life, the method makes sense. You don't have to live it to feel it - because I know of straight, white-collar folks who have appreciated the complexity - BUT it helps to have been there. Congratulations to Coppola for creating a stylish, timeless treasure that movie fans are only now beginning to appreciate. For those who love to critique movies based on the norm and logic: pick this one up, sit back and let go for awhile.
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Summary: Rumble Fish
Review: I hated this film. I loved the book and all of S.E. Hinton's book. There were so many scenes in this movie that were not in the book. It was painful to watch. The only thing good about this film is the idea that it was made in black and white with only the rumble fish being in color. It's sad to see that people like Matt Dillon and Francis Ford Coppola were involved with this disaster of a film.
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Summary: Rumble Fish
Review: I really enjoyed the book Rumble Fish. One of the reasons i enjoyed Rumble Fish was because it was action packed. I like gang stories and Fights and stuff. If you like to be into books then Rumble Fish is the book for you. It shows the life of a thug bad and good sides. I'm not much of a book reader myself but Rumble Fish made me read this book form beginning to end. I recommend this book to all people.
-KF
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Summary: I really don't know what to say.
Review: I watched this movie today, and I really don't know what to say about it. The acting was pretty good and the beginning was really great but, I dunno. This movie ends up going nowhere, and as much as I'd like to say that I liked this movie, I just can't. I was very bored watching this movie, but I kept watching hoping it would get better. At the end I thought, well, it was ok and it could have been better. But I must say that the camerawork in this movie was amazing. A lot of closeups and a lot of the views were just breathtaking. If you're into good camerawork, check this one out.
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Summary: Fish Out of Water
Review: I'm a Matt Dillon Fan. Coppola uses the beauty of Dillon's youthful face to explore adolescent rebellion. S.E. Hinton's story is again, greasers of a vague time period, maybe the late 60's, but her screenplay is anytime, Oklahoma City, which is amusing. This isn't Chicago or NYC, no; we're talking about mid-western kids in a city with maybe two hundred thousand. The well dressed, middle-class to upper class kids rumble with the low class greaser kids of the bad side of town. This is similar to Hinton and Coppola's The Outsiders. Hinton was a young teen when she wrote Outsiders and not much older when she wrote Rumble Fish. They are similar in the sense that all the drugs, booze, and sex are moralized over by a straight character, Steve, in Rumble Fish, the retard recorder of rumbles. Dillion and Mickey Rourke basically play themselves being so cool, they are a parody of juvenile delinquents, of a 1950's James Dean era. However, the cinematography, the indulgence in experimental film, the stylization of big city-every-town,in a way, it's all true, the hedonism of youth, but on the other hand, it could only happen on film with an unbelievable musical score by Stewart Copeland of The Police.
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Summary: The Sixth Sense
Review: Intriguing review of inner fears in childhood and its surprising consequence in adult world. What seems to be a damned boy will finally be a sensitive heart: he really deserves an Oscar! Bruce Willis is, also, better here than in previous films. Unexpected end gives the story a plus. Excellent!
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Summary: Alienation
Review: It wans't for nothing that Coppolla gave Rourke a whole bunch of Camus to read on this one. He shines as the guy miscast in everyone's dull reality. The man who has everything but desires little or nothing from what we call the real world or normal life. The film itself is beautiful; photography, set design, costumes, everything down to the last detail. Maybe that's why this film is so good, because Coppolla gave almost free reign to his artists to create something special. Something experimental, almost. Maybe I relate to this film more than most. But that's my conceit. Born in the wrong era, man. He'd be a prince or something, etc. I love it. Probably the zenith of Coppolla's career before he went into his 80's freefall. I used to respect this guy, but now. He's just another Divine Brown. Come on, Keanu in Dracula, as anything but a hound of hell? Watch it and experience some real cimena. Free some of those fish and realise what it's all about. That clock is ticking. Oh and I love the soundtrack. Stan Ridgeway and Stuart Copeland at his best. You can feel the drums ticking down to the ultimatum. Don't box me in.
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Summary: It's a great Film!
Review: It's hard to believe that Francis Ford Coppola could have assembled the talent for this film - Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper, Nicolas Cage, Christopher Penn, Vincent Spano, Laurence Fishburne, and Tom Waits. That's not even mentioning the film's soundtrack, put together by Stewart Copeland with a guest vocal by Stan Ridgway.This film, based on S.E. Hinton's novel of the same name, is a take on radically disaffected youth without direction. There can be no sequel to this story, because as the film ends, it becomes obvious that there's nowhere left for the protagonist, Rusty James (Matt Dillon), to go. Mickey Rourke gives a particularly good performance as the Motorcycle Boy. It's too bad that he was never really able to reach the same level of intensity in a lot of his other subsequent work. Diane Lane and Dennis Hopper also give standout performances. The film's soundtrack works excellently, without being a distraction, yet it is strong enough to stand alone on its own merit. "Rumble Fish" is one of my favorites. The film might be pretentious, but so what? Pretentiousness doesn't always detract from any message inherent in a good work of art. Why hold this film up to some phony standard? This film is easily one of Coppola's best, and one of the twenty-five best films of the eighties.
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Summary: An Artistic Vision Brought to the Screen
Review: It's rare to see a film reach the public exactly as the director intended. Rumble Fish however has not been crippled by concerns over the movie's commercial viability, and is an accurate rendering of Coppola's vision. Both vivid and moody, Rumble Fish spins to life a world that's hard to forget. The cast, dialogue, cinematography, and soundtrack all are top-notch.
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