Let's face it. One of the reasons we love the movies is to look at the beautiful people: we enjoy the eye candy as much as the plot!
When I go back and view a film like Two Days in the Valley, which was made 17 tears ago, I marvel at the actors and actresses who were so damn attractive way back then. Of course, they're still pretty folks, but check 'em out when they were in their 20's! I'll stay on this superficial plane just long enough to laud the dazzling looks of a very young Charlize Theron....and for you ladies, go back and see James Spader. Wow, true Hollywood Good-Lookers!
OK, sorry, films are more than good looks, right? (Should I ask that question??!!)
This flick is a fine piece of work. In it, five or six plots unfold and eventually mingle to create a cogent, powerful story. No spoiler, of course, but here's the basic gist: Two gangsters, hit men, are hired to do a job. Then one turns on the other. Then one takes hostages and bonds with them. Then the other returns to his girlfriend. Eventually, all become entwined in a very engaging and weird plot.
Just one more comment that might pique your interest: Teri Hatcher and Charlize Theron get into a wicked girl fight that very nearly spoils their good looks! Oh my!
Now add to a very creative story a cast of extraordinary actors: Danny Aiello, Jeff Daniels, Teri Hatcher, Marsha Mason, Eric Stoltz, Keith Carradine, Louise Fletcher, and the beautiful ones, Theron and Spader.
Go back to 1996, where a film gem awaits! You won't be disappointed. And...if you don't like the movie, you can at least enjoy some very pretty faces!
I WILL, and I believe I HAVE, watched every frame of film James Spader has been in, including every episode of Boston Legal. Put simply, he puts me in a trance.
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Anyway, this is a guilty pleasure film of mine. Just weird and fun. And it really captures a cultural microcosm in time and space known as L.A. during the "beautiful-people" era.
Haha, so you are a James Spader super-fan! Yes, I agree about your description of the film as "weird and fun." I failed to mention in my review that the locale is L.A., so the flick is indeed L.A.-ISH! So, Valerie, any other "hunks" you'd like to confess to (sorry for the preposition at the end of the sentence, there, English teacher)
ReplyDelete1. Oh no, you don't; you won't entrap me that way. A lady never shows her cards.
ReplyDelete2. I have never minded when a sentence is ended with a preposition. Seems to me, it rarely impedes understanding. This is my "chill" issue.
Haha! OK, then, I will just have to review some other films and ask my viewers if they consider the male lead "hunky!!" Then maybe you'll cough it up! Fun how we move from the sublime to the pedestrian in our film reviews...but hey, good looks in Hollywood count for a lot! When I was going to a private high school in San Francisco, I had the fantastic experience of diagramming sentences. English teachers today not only don't practice that outdated art, but if they use the word subject, verb, or predicate noun, the kids' eye gloss over! If I ever ended a sentence with a preposition, the teacher would write NEASWAP on the page... "never end a sentence with a prepostion." That's an idea to think ABOUTL!
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