Beanbioca
As Good As It Gets
Grimossfer
Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Catangro
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
roddekker
Remembering that The Outlaw was a product of its time (the early 1940s) when the censor board (headlined by the vicious Will Hays) was as-tough-as-nails on any Hollywood, mainstream picture that dared to push the limits of violence and sexual content - It took director Howard Hughes nearly 2 years of wrangling with the likes of Hays to finally get The Outlaw released in American theaters.And, now, looking back at this film, 72 years later, one really does end up asking themselves what the heck all of the fuss was about.But, with that said - I know one thing for certain - All of the legal battling that Hughes got involved in over The Outlaw's release sure provided some great publicity for his picture.As I understand it, curious spectators (especially the guys) were lined up right around the block for this Western-dud whose only selling point was the accentuation of Jane Russell's 38D bust-line. And, that's it!Anyway - Speaking about The Outlaw's story (in general) - It sure came across to me like some sort of a really screwy tale about vicious betrayal amongst cowboy-outlaws who were secretly, madly in love with each other, but were too afraid to admit it.
tigersharkp40
My oh my, I've seen some butt ugly films in 67 years but I must say that this piece of junk was the worst. A two hour monstrosity that took me a half a day to plow through. I picked this film up at a thrift store for 50 cents and now I know why. I thought it would be a classic, but I should have known better when I saw Howard Hughes on the box. The dialog was idiotic at best and the story was totally absurd and boring to tears. The three male main characters came right out of a bath house for sure. Sorry I had to give this abortion a 1 as I had no choice of a zero. Thank God for Jane Russells magnificent breasts.....all was not lost.
delandsmokin
this movie really surprised me. nothing from this era of American movies was like this i've ever seen. you can not think of this as bad acting as some reviewers will say. you have to think of this as "true" acting: they are acting the way people act in real life. not the way we are used to seeing them on camera. this "kid" is like every hardass street punk with a horrible childhood i ever met. you can see the emotional depravity in his gaze on the other characters. his unflinching at being grazed across the hand and shot through the ears; as hard as a hardass can be. crying inside but not letting these people the satisfaction of knowing it. us just waiting for him to retaliate but him having the satisfaction of putting Doc through the heartache. the sexual tension and innuendos between jane and jack are more like modern movies than something from this era. i bet many people left disgusted and went and complained to their pastor they were "demonized" by this movie. many others probably wondered why other films didn't come so close to reality. not gay in any way. 'f' the homos just wishing it was.
lepoisson-1
Contains major spoilers.People have been totally slamming this movie, and I don't feel that's completely fair, since the photography is pretty good. OK, so the acting (if you can call it that: it's more like reciting lines) is wooden. The screen-writing is hilarious, and not because this is supposed to be a comedy (or was it? I've seen this three times and I'm still not sure). Maybe it's supposed to be British humor, where all absurd situations get treated as if it were normal: Example 1: Doc's girlfriend falls in love with Billy, and Doc appears upset but doesn't display any emotion. Example 2: Doc shoots Garrett's friends, and Garrett says - with a straight face - something akin to "this isn't going to help our friendship". Oh yes - and the music is sometimes vaudevillian comedy style, usually at inappropriate times.I've usually limited my bad movie watching to science fiction or drama...and now I can add a Western to the mix.Highly recommended.
