It Ain't Cool

The American Spectator ^ | 10Jun05 | Wlady Pleszczinski

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Interesting article, I'd never even heard of the movie in question before Wlady mentioned it. But I do disagree with "The Great Escape". I have it on DVD and watch it at least 2-3 times a year.

[Neanderthal]

I will have to look up this movie.

[raybbr]

Love With the Proper Stranger (at IMDB.com)

[lillybet]

Its a truly wonderful movie, very harrowing to watch and
outstanding acting by both of them , Robert Wagner said that McQueen and Wood together were incredible in this movie

[jocon307]

ping for later

[macamadamia]

I watched The Thomas Crown Affair on DVD, widescreen, a nice copy. I thought it was much better than this writer indicates. Even if the movie is all style, its damn nice style. The multiple screen montage thing was big during the 60s, often used in uninspired ways, but this movie used the technique in very clever ways. Also, Haskell Wexler's cinematography here is IMO exquisite.

Also I loved Bullitt, especially the airport scene at the end. These two movies alone, flaws and all, make most movies today look anemic.

[IoCaster]

Love With the Proper Stranger

Good flick. I watched it probably about the early to mid 70s on TV in NYC. Have never seen it broadcast since then. Of course, I haven't really watched much TV the past fifteen years.

[Hatteras]

"(notwithstanding the overhyped car chase, in which the same Volkswagen is passed more than once in a downhill sequence), "

The infamous "green volkswagen". But "overhyped"? C'mon, that's the most awesome car chase in cinematic history!

[Jhensy]

In any event, the only time Newman ever came close to being cool was in a movie named Cool Hand Luke...

Welllll.... I'm no big fan of Newman's, but c'mon: 'Hud', 'Butch Cassidy' "The Sting'... just off the top of my head.

[KateatRFM]

An 80 year old man who can still drive a racing car in anger, even if it is a DP, has cornered the market on cool.

And how about McQueen's going AWOL from the Marines? Didn't I hear about that last night on ABC?

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Actually, I think the car chases in "Ronin" would give "Bullitt" a run for its money. ;^)

[FreedomPoster]

Ping; I think you would like this.

[Old Grumpy]

I do remember that movie; it was pretty good. However, being a western movie fan, my favorite will always be Nevada Smith.

[FreedomPoster]

As an A8 driver, I have to agree on the superiority of Ronin's chase scenes.

But love the McQueen movies just the same.

[7thson]

An attempt to flush this movie down the Memory Hole.

[YaYa123]

I bet at the time, the movie would have been considered a "chick flick". Here's a good list of all McQueen's movies:

FILMOGRAPHY

The Hunter (1980)
Tom Horn (1980)
An Enemy of the People (1978)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Papillon (1973)
The Getaway(1972)
Junior Bonner (1972)
Le Mans (1971)
The Reivers (1969)
Bullitt (1968)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Nevada Smith (1966)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Soldier in the Rain (1963)
The Great Escape (1963)
The War Lover (1962)
Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1960)
Never So Few (1959)
"Wanted: Dead or Alive" (1958)
The Blob (1958)
Never Love a Stranger (1958)

[7thson]

Don't forget 'Slapshot.' I am not a fan of hockey - don't hate it but don't like it either, I grew up in the south and hockey was not big - but that has got to be one of the funniest sports movies of all time.

[rabidralph]

Yeah, that airport scene could never happen today. DHS would have shot him dead for "terrorizing" the plane.

[sittnick]

But The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven don't stand up to adult viewing.

I guess I must not be an "adult" then...I loved both movies.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I rank "Slapshot" up there with "The Longest Yard", "Major League", and "Hoosiers" as the best movie dedicated to a sport of all time. And who could not love the Hanson brothers? ;^)