Yes, it devalues it by sort of going "Ah, it's OK folks, he was already a loser" rather than making it look like something that could happen to any of us.
Falling Down-Michael Douglas
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Idaho said:
agreed. It's a wish fufilment thing, we dream about going on the rampage that he does. In reality we are more likely to snap a pencil and be slightly nasty to our workmates
Gmart
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Effing Brilliant when at the end he seems amazed saying "you mean i'm the baddie!"
All he'd been trying to do was get to his daughters birthday,
And also when he cuts across a golf club and gives some old geezer grief, causing his heart attack.
He becomes a sociopath in front of your eyes and just breaks down. Modern life destroys him and though we all might indeed "break a pencil", not everyone does.
All he'd been trying to do was get to his daughters birthday,
And also when he cuts across a golf club and gives some old geezer grief, causing his heart attack.
He becomes a sociopath in front of your eyes and just breaks down. Modern life destroys him and though we all might indeed "break a pencil", not everyone does.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Gmarthews said:
oh lord I'd forgotten that bit. Tis slightly horrid imo. His realisation that he is the things he hates.
Still reckon it's michaels best performance
mhendo
Aussie in San Francisco
I'm glad that there are so many people who like this movie. So many folks i recommend it to don't have any time for it.
I think it's a great 80s timepiece (it was made in the 1990s, but it's really about 1980s LA). Great commentary on social problems and on modern consumer society. One of my favorite scenes is in the fast food place, where he compares the burger he's given with the one in the picture; anyone who's ever eaten fast food can relate to that scene.
I do agree that the late-in-the-film revelation of his previous mental problems is a bit of a cop-out, and that it would have been better not to try to explain him like that, but i still like the movie a lot anyway.
I think it's a great 80s timepiece (it was made in the 1990s, but it's really about 1980s LA). Great commentary on social problems and on modern consumer society. One of my favorite scenes is in the fast food place, where he compares the burger he's given with the one in the picture; anyone who's ever eaten fast food can relate to that scene.
I do agree that the late-in-the-film revelation of his previous mental problems is a bit of a cop-out, and that it would have been better not to try to explain him like that, but i still like the movie a lot anyway.
brokenyolk
vegetable lover
terrible, TERRIBLE film! 
just bobbins....... dodgy sentiments running through every part of it.
just bobbins....... dodgy sentiments running through every part of it.brokenyolk
vegetable lover
DotCommunist said:
christ, there's so much to choose from...... romancing the stone, jewel of the nile
yuck.
King Biscuit Time
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Glad I managed to pick this up and re-watch it.
Got me thinking of other films that are set over one day - Spike Lee's 'Do the right thing' is (i think) and like falling down, its set on the hottest day of the year.
Got me thinking of other films that are set over one day - Spike Lee's 'Do the right thing' is (i think) and like falling down, its set on the hottest day of the year.
jodal
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King Biscuit Time said:
La Haine is, more or less, or over the course of a night, to be precise.
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