supersoul

Bubi, I completely agree with you about the two Wilder films (comedy side) you mentioned. "Kiss Me, Stupid" outshines (strictly personal opinion) "The Seven Year Itch."

You're right, happypippo, and besides, Lebowski as a character has nothing to do with the rapists from A Clockwork Orange; he leads his laid-back life lounging on the couch or bowling, not assaulting others.

a cinephile who doesn't like either the tragic Wilder of Double Indemnity, Ace in the Hole, Sunset Boulevard, Lost Weekend or the "comedy" Wilder of Some Like It Hot, Kiss Me, Stupid, Not for Money but for Love. The Apartment, in my opinion, is like a rock enthusiast who doesn't like either the Beatles or the Rolling Stones...

well, let's say it's as if it were a corpse because he's injured, before dying he records his confession on tape (........I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman) and then the flashback begins... it's clear that he isn't the actual dead person from Sunset Boulevard, you're right.

How did the Doors sing? "People are strange"... you see movies like "Hello Denise" rated with 5 stars and then just 4 stars for Sunset Boulevard... what can I say... life is beautiful because it’s varied?

I completely agree, but it’s you who has given a moral depth to The Man Who Wasn't There, not to this one.

but how the hell can you not give this film a 5? Queen Kelly is truly the unfinished film, due to the advent of sound, by Stroheim/Max that is screened to the protagonist by the butler Max/Stroheim. Isn’t this interaction pure genius?
@happypippo: already in the previous "The Flame of Sin" by the same Wilder, the story is told by the corpse.

The Coens smash it... the beauty is that cinephiles are divided between considering them geniuses or fools. This is "The Big Sleep" revisited in the crappy reality of today; there is no longer a Marlowe or a cynical and suffering Bogart with his convictions. Here, the hero is just a stoned guy on pot and white Russians who couldn’t care less about the rest of the world and only gets angry when someone urinates on his beloved carpet. Tell me, what kind of moral depth should this film have? Dude, more than a rookie, is about "guy," "fellow," signifying the absolute anonymity of the character; just think about how he reduces the epic funeral of his friend's ashes to a farce. Among the best films of the Coens... now I anxiously but worryingly await their cinematic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's tragic book; I've seen how they tackled the terrible figure of the ruthless and cold killer from the book: a Javier Bardem with a Roy Orbison hairstyle—are they going to turn it into a farce again?

"early eighties, one of the most musically homogeneous periods in the history of music." BULLSHIT: let me randomly list a few albums released around '82 that if this ABC record gets a 5, then they should get at least a 25: Violent Femmes (self-titled), XTC (English Settlement), Virgin Prunes (If I die, I die), Gun Club (Miami), Social Distortion (Mommy's Little Monster), Tuxedo Moon (Desire), Rain Parade (Emergency Third Rail), Mink de Ville (Coup de Grace), The Lounge Lizards (self-titled), Christian Death (Only Theatre of Pain), Clock DVA (Advantage), Bad Brains (Rock for Light), R.E.M. (Murmur), John Cale (Music for a New Society)... should I keep going?

do this simple operation: go on YouTube and first watch the video of Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top and then the one of Pretty Fly by the Offspring and let your imagination run wild.... The son of the guy who successfully makes it on his own (ZZ Top video) is now a loser trying to mimic the rappers (Offspring video)....