Hardbopjazz Posted May 26, 2022 Report Share Posted May 26, 2022 Actor Ray Liotta has died. He was 67. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Ghost Posted May 26, 2022 Report Share Posted May 26, 2022 Just got the news, very sad, loooved him in Goodfellas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted May 27, 2022 Report Share Posted May 27, 2022 Oh that´s bad news. I saw some films with him when he was younger. He often played a bad guy. Wasnt´there a film where he was a police man who stalked a married woman ? And there was another film where a young and married businessman is seduced by a blonde woman and her friend is a quite dubious character played by Liotta ? I don´t remember the titles of the films.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Ghost Posted May 27, 2022 Report Share Posted May 27, 2022 5 hours ago, Gheorghe said: Oh that´s bad news. I saw some films with him when he was younger. He often played a bad guy. Wasnt´there a film where he was a police man who stalked a married woman ? And there was another film where a young and married businessman is seduced by a blonde woman and her friend is a quite dubious character played by Liotta ? I don´t remember the titles of the films.... Cannot forget when Hannibal scalped Ray's head and was having breakfast with him (if you will) lols. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted May 27, 2022 Report Share Posted May 27, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Holy Ghost said: Cannot forget when Hannibal scalped Ray's head and was having breakfast with him (if you will) lols. That was the moment I said "this is a garbage movie, disgusting for disgusting's sake." Liotta's breakthrough in Something Wild was extremely impressive, IMO. But I am a little biased, it was filmed partially in Tallahassee when I was an undergrad, and I remember watching it in a theater, and the audience reaction to the first recognizable Tallahassee location (the restaurant where he runs out on the check). Plus a favorite Poli-Sci professor, Glenn Parker, was an extra in the reunion scene - very visible in a theater, on a TV not so much. Simple fact is Liotta had charisma and screen presence to spare, right from the start. Edited May 27, 2022 by Dan Gould Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted May 27, 2022 Report Share Posted May 27, 2022 He'll always be Shoeless Joe Jackson to me. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted May 27, 2022 Report Share Posted May 27, 2022 Excellent movie. Saw it at a pre-release screening with no hint of what was going to be going on and was blown away. Perfectly cast throughout. Jonathan Demme at his best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Ghost Posted May 28, 2022 Report Share Posted May 28, 2022 Sorry, Goodfellas, ladies and gentlemen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Ghost Posted May 28, 2022 Report Share Posted May 28, 2022 (edited) Think everyone is thinking Field of Dreams. Liotta. Ed Harris, Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones. Edited May 28, 2022 by Holy Ghost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted May 28, 2022 Report Share Posted May 28, 2022 20 hours ago, Holy Ghost said: Think everyone is thinking Field of Dreams. Liotta. Ed Harris, Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones. That was intentional on my part. That's what I'll always think of when I hear Liotta's name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Ghost Posted May 29, 2022 Report Share Posted May 29, 2022 17 hours ago, felser said: That was intentional on my part. That's what I'll always think of when I hear Liotta's name. I'm just messing around. I get this movie and The Natural confused all the time; two totally different actors! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted May 29, 2022 Report Share Posted May 29, 2022 2 hours ago, Holy Ghost said: I'm just messing around. I get this movie and The Natural confused all the time; two totally different actors! The Natural was an abomination for anyone who read the Bernard Malamud book. They utterly destroyed the total meaning of the book by so drastically changing the last part of the story. So much for the concept of the "antihero". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted May 29, 2022 Report Share Posted May 29, 2022 24 minutes ago, felser said: The Natural was an abomination for anyone who read the Bernard Malamud book. They utterly destroyed the total meaning of the book by so drastically changing the last part of the story. So much for the concept of the "antihero". Yah, but I like that Randy Newman (Copeland-like) score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted May 29, 2022 Report Share Posted May 29, 2022 That would be Copland-like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted May 29, 2022 Report Share Posted May 29, 2022 4 hours ago, felser said: The Natural was an abomination for anyone who read the Bernard Malamud book. They utterly destroyed the total meaning of the book by so drastically changing the last part of the story. So much for the concept of the "antihero". Very true. (Off-topic) That's not unusual for Hollywood. For instance, Winston Groom's novel Forrest Gump (which I read long before the movie was made) is much darker than the Hollywood adaptation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Ghost Posted May 30, 2022 Report Share Posted May 30, 2022 Well if we're going to weigh in manuscripts/books v. movies, my first big let-down started with Copulas' adaption of Hinton's "The Outsiders;" couldn't stand it. Hated the cast, acting (can't stand Ralph Machio, Matt Dillon) clearly the director (Nick Cage's uncle) I was 12 when that crap was released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmonahan Posted June 7, 2022 Report Share Posted June 7, 2022 On 5/29/2022 at 11:32 AM, medjuck said: Yah, but I like that Randy Newman (Copeland-like) score. Me too, regardless of how it's spelled! gregmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holy Ghost Posted June 8, 2022 Report Share Posted June 8, 2022 In the midst of all this, I stumbled across this movie while I was out of town on tv (among HBO's usual run of movies, that I've been watching since I was 10 (Clash of the Titans, Ghostbusters, Alien...,) The Many Saints of Newark (2021) maybe was his last movie, but it's another version of the young Soprano, a good fella like approach to the gang life like Goodfellas was about. I only watched about a half hour of it, then we had plans to do something, but it looked really good. Anyone no what I'm talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 Now I know what movies we had seen on TV: "Something wild" " Unlawful entry " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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