http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090568/
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http://www.videodetective.com/movie_trailer/8_MILLION_WAYS_TO_DIE/trailer/P00003419.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBe8mltpkA&feature=related
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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Good seeing Cinefamily packed on a brisk Tuesday nite for these jams. I'd seen both films a couple times, but I just realized while watching the nice print of To Live n' Die in L.A. that Max Waxman, Attorney at Law's Pasadena office (oddly a 2-story, yellow Craftsman-style house), is right next door to my buddy's old house...including the church across the street, where Chance and Vukovich are perched for the botched stakeout! If you wanna go see for yerself, just head up Lake toward Mt. Lowe.
ReplyDeleteAlso, good for Hewitt to notice the bottle(s) of Pepto in the scene where the ulcer-ridden Carl Cody (John Turturro) finally gets recaptured...ah, the hidden pleasures of watching on the big screen. I missed that authentic detail, because I was so engrossed by Chance's technique of clutching a woman's throat so she can still breathe, but not make a peep. There are several variations of this impressive move in cinema, but I've yet to master it off-camera.
All in all, good show, good venue, even if the final 20 seconds of the digital projection of 8 Million Ways To Die got flubbed.
Sorry to say this but all you guys missed out hard. One of the best double features I had ever seen. Never having seen either of these probably had a lot to do with it. The sound and color in to live and die in la was increadible. So abrasive and shocking I kept gripping the couch behind my head. Big screen works. Even though 8 million ways to die was digi and had achopped ending it was a great partner to tladila. Sade Vs Wang chung. White suits vs green and red skin. It was worth it for Andy Garcia alone. Snow cone scene.
ReplyDeleteAndy Garcia was the shit in 8 Million Ways to die. "The White Stuff? Isn't that the movie about the astronauts?" Total badass. It is the non-Elmore Leonard movie that is way better than most actual Elmore Leonard movies.
ReplyDeleteFriedkin is the man and To Live and Die in L.A. is totally awesome . . . the chase scene rattled everyone up so bad that they all had the giggles for the last half hour. And that one woman in the audience's reaction to the ending, perfect . . . she was totally destroyed by it!
Chance is such an asshole, I love it. I wanna see the movie where it's Chance versus Ramrod the pimp from Vice Squad . . . battle of the assholes.