Here is where I will keep track of the flicks I've watched. If you see typos or errors, or you really like what I wrote, or maybe you flat out disagree with me. Don't be shy! Lemme know what YOU think.
This is another one I won't mind checking out again because I didn't write anything about it when I watched it, except these few notes.
Meta movie making from De Palma - an indictment of the viewer, equating the film industry with peeping tom voyeurism and taking pleasure in viewing others.
Another crazy fucking movie. It wasn't hard to figure out what was going on plotwise - that there was a twist, just what the hell kind?
Dude so looks like Bill Maher.
It has some seriously cool shots, like the POV from the grave, and the whole music video scene in the fetish club with Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Oh my God. What a crazy movie. I feel conflicted about how much I enjoyed this mess. I don't think it could be made today, it's too offensive and ignorant regarding transexuals and mental illness. It's such a lurid flick. I knew I was in for something different when the film started off soft core porno with Angie Dickenson lathering her boobs and snatch up in the shower all lasciviousness while watching a hunky bare chested man shave with a straight razor. It's bizarre slow motion with sugary muzak. BTW who uses a straight razor?!! Suddenly she's being attacked by another man in the shower who also has a straight razor, but that must be a fantasy, because next you see her in bed moaning while being piledrive humped by her husband.
That's all I wrote when I watched this back in February, so I think I'll have to watch it again. Sometime I'll have a De Palma fest and watch everything of his I've never seen and revisit the ones like this, that I liked. Lots of times though, a movie isn't nearly as good when you no longer have part of your brain trying to figure out what the plot is while you're watching.
I remember I kept thinking well this is just mental and preposterous, really similar to Argento in it's incoherency, but that didn't make me want to stop watching - far from it, I wanted to see MORE!
I really like Brian De Palma's flicks. I think he's a nut though. I read recently, that when he was making Carrie, for the final scene where Carrie is unleashing her fury at the school dance, he was told the fire hoses were too dangerous to use on scenes featuring the actors because the water pressure was too strong. I guess he yeah yeah whatevered that, because he did use the hoses, and PJ Soles got pasted in the face. The blast punctured her eardrum, and the pain made her pass out. She was deaf for 6 months.
He's most often compared to Alfred Hitchcock, and I can see that, because aside from the formalist similarities, Hitchcock was an asshole to his actors too.
