his original movies are so much better than the ones he didn't write. But even the latter category is full of good stuff. Body double is on my short list for movie i'm going to watch when i edward g robinson in onions green myself
The Hitchwiener homage is great stuff. The dolly zoom at the end of Body Doubles from the bottom of the grave is kino. I would argue it is even better than the famous one in Vertigo that it is ripping off.
^sorry i missed body double on that list. thats his magnum opus. dressed to kill and blow are up there. someone itt should plug mission impossible because its one of the best in that series.
He really classed up Mission Impossible. Femme Fatale is peak coomer kino. I think his 70s work is boring and laughably dated but his 80s work is generally good.
Interesting comment, can't say I entirely disagree but care to elaborate?
>He really classed up Mission Impossible.
Just watched that today. It's better than I remembered; I don't know why people think the plot is convoluted. It seems pretty straightforward to me.
Didn't like Scarface that much despite Pacino, story just isn't that interesting, but you can see its fingerprints in every drug lord movie/series since. Blow Out is really curious.
Yeah it has a lot of memorable lines, but the whole sister plot was pretty annoying, and I was surprised how quickly it snapped into him being the paranoid drug lord after he achieves success. It feels like there's a chunk missing where things go smoothly for a while. The part near the end where they tail that guy in New York also felt like it was out of a different movie.
De Palma is not as popular as he should be considering how good his filmography is and how influential he is. Tarantino is his direct offspring. People know his movies but they don’t give him enough respect. 90% of artists don’t have a body of work this good. Classic after classic after classic.
Dressed To Kill is psycho troony kino. The scene where the hooker girl is casually explaining how a wiener is "turned into" a vegana for a sex change op, while the old lady is overhearing them horrified, is somehow this board's current sense of humor but done 40 years ago.
I’ve long wondered why that scene hasn’t become a common webm. I mean it’s just fricking perfect
^sorry i missed body double on that list. thats his magnum opus. dressed to kill and blow are up there. someone itt should plug mission impossible because its one of the best in that series.
Body Double blew me away, a crash course in filmmaking and style. So fricking good
his original movies are so much better than the ones he didn't write. But even the latter category is full of good stuff. Body double is on my short list for movie i'm going to watch when i edward g robinson in onions green myself
Also I want to teach an intro to film studies course where i make zoomers watch his horniest movies
He reveres Hitchwiener a bit too much for his own good, but a great director all the same.
The Untouchables, Scarface, Body Double, Phantom of the Paradise, Carlito's Way...it's all gravy
Jist rewatched untouchables, i love the portrayal of the opulence of al capones world
The Hitchwiener homage is great stuff. The dolly zoom at the end of Body Doubles from the bottom of the grave is kino. I would argue it is even better than the famous one in Vertigo that it is ripping off.
those arent even his best movies
^sorry i missed body double on that list. thats his magnum opus. dressed to kill and blow are up there. someone itt should plug mission impossible because its one of the best in that series.
70s Fincher
yes. that bad.
He really classed up Mission Impossible. Femme Fatale is peak coomer kino. I think his 70s work is boring and laughably dated but his 80s work is generally good.
Interesting comment, can't say I entirely disagree but care to elaborate?
>He really classed up Mission Impossible.
Just watched that today. It's better than I remembered; I don't know why people think the plot is convoluted. It seems pretty straightforward to me.
Not true at all. If Gone Girl was made in 1992 and directed by De Palma it would’ve been a masterpiece but it sucks ass instead
Gone Girl makes perfect sense. It arguably doesn't lean into the horror enough but it's one of the most redpilled movies I've seen.
Didn't like Scarface that much despite Pacino, story just isn't that interesting, but you can see its fingerprints in every drug lord movie/series since. Blow Out is really curious.
frickin' lesbian
Yeah it has a lot of memorable lines, but the whole sister plot was pretty annoying, and I was surprised how quickly it snapped into him being the paranoid drug lord after he achieves success. It feels like there's a chunk missing where things go smoothly for a while. The part near the end where they tail that guy in New York also felt like it was out of a different movie.
PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT!
Carlito’s Way is a superior film. Highly recommend it. I was surprised how much more I enjoyed it than Scarface which is a bit uneven.
Kino machine
Carrie, Phantom of the Paradise, Blow Out, Sisters, Body Double are giga kino
any one of these would be in the top 10 of whatever the average Cinemaphile newbie watched in the last year
De Palma is not as popular as he should be considering how good his filmography is and how influential he is. Tarantino is his direct offspring. People know his movies but they don’t give him enough respect. 90% of artists don’t have a body of work this good. Classic after classic after classic.
100% and now i want to watch Snake Eyes again for that impeccable first half, the only BDP I ever saw in theaters.
Blow out is better than Blow up!
Dressed To Kill is psycho troony kino. The scene where the hooker girl is casually explaining how a wiener is "turned into" a vegana for a sex change op, while the old lady is overhearing them horrified, is somehow this board's current sense of humor but done 40 years ago.
I’ve long wondered why that scene hasn’t become a common webm. I mean it’s just fricking perfect
Body Double blew me away, a crash course in filmmaking and style. So fricking good
LIFE AT LAST
I love the ending of Carrie and how it looks
For me, it's Snake Eyes.
>What does Cinemaphile think of this man and his movies?
Blow Out was really good.
Travolta is great in this. I'm less interested in the movie but his performance is top notch