MOVIE REACTION L.A. Confidential (1997) PATRON PICK First Time Watching Reaction/Review Re-Edit
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I thought this should have taken best picture in 1997. But alas, the sinking boat.
I love it 2 but titanic was and still is massive. More ppl have seen titanic then la confidential. It would of been like trying to go against the first avatar or avengers endgame some movies just get bad release years
One of the most tightly written and directed films of the 90s, just absolutely classic. And gutsy as hell to cast two Aussie male leads who were not widely known. Helgeland's adapted screenplay is just sooo good, but that's only because the book is even better, but impossibly detailed and interwoven even compared to the movie.
The detectives are the Tin Man, The Scarecrow, and The Cowardly Lion. Exley is accused from the beginning of having no courage and ends up with a medal for courage. Bud is accused of being brainless, but he puts together a lot of the pieces. Vincennes is heartless and only cares about himself...until he sees Simon Baker's character with his throat cut and nobody cares, except Vincennes.
Bloody Christmas was a real event. Bud thought the photos were going to be of him and Lynn not Exley and Lynn.
"Where's his lawyer?"
This is 1952. You weren't guaranteed a lawyer until the Gideon case in 1962. Also, no Miranda rights until the mid 60's.
Mickey Cohen was a real mobster, Johnny Stampanato was his real henchman. Incidentally, Johnny was killed by Lana Turner's daughter( supposedly). Some think Lana did it. Bloody Christmas was a real event...at the police station.
You guys are great reactors, keep up the good work!! 💯👍
The supreme Court ruled on shooting suspects in the back in Furman v Georgia. The fleeing felon doctrine. Passed in 1972. Finally college pays off for me! 😂😂
"Exley got the world" In the last book of the trilogy that LA Confidential is a part of Author James Ellroy included an afterword that listed all the characters and what happened to them up to the time of the books publishing in 1992. Ed Exley was the longtime California Attorney General who'd just won the Governors race and was being mentioned as a Presidential candidate.
But then, Sid Hutchin' daughter found the negatives of the pictures that her dad took of Exley and Lynn and Exley dropped out of the race.
You could actually watch it again just for the enjoyment of it, because it's a great film
I've watched this quite a few times & always enjoy it. Great reaction.
Interesting to see people's moral compasses when they react to this film. It's funny what red shirt has to say about what is just and what is not with regard to the woman who was kidnapped and raped, vs. what Edmund said to White after that encounter. I feel that Guy Pearce has been tragically underused in recent films, but I love him in this and in Prometheus, even if it was a film that made scientists die from embarrassment. Rollo Tommassi is a name we should not soon forget.
Actually most classic noir pre-dates the hayes code. The hayes code actually killed classic noir because most classic noir didn't portray the cops in a particularly good light. After the hayes code you started getting the police procedural instead.
I am going to have to respectfully say that this is entirely incorrect.
In fact, the term "film noir" wasn't coined until 1946, a dozen years after the big Hollywood studios began enforcing the Hays Code. And the classics of the genre -- The Big Sleep, Kiss Me Deadly, Touch Of Evil, The Big Heat, Double indemnity, D.O.A., In a Lonely Place, The Third Man, The Lady From Shanghai, Night and the City, Detour, etc. etc. are all post-code, and mostly post WWII.
These classic noirs worked around the prohibition (which was only enforced somewhat inconsistently anyway at times) to show the police as corrupt by making most of the doomed heroes in these films either private eyes (like Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade) and the like. But also: if a studio really wanted to show police corruption, they worked around the Hays Code on that. The Big Heat (1953) is a great example and a great flick. The Big Fix is another example, although it's not a great movie (and seems to try to get around the Hays Code by making the corrupt cop almost comically villainous and having the protagonist get a happy ever after ending.)
@@chrishornbostel9831Excellent comment about film noir, which corrects many misconceptions about the genre.
Completely incorrect
glad you guys enjoyed this. such a great under appreciated movie!
"Under appreciated"?? It was nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture, winning 2, and has a 99 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. Stop with that stupid "underrated" or "under appreciated" crp. Maybe you need to broaden yourself, it was only underappreciated by you, perhaps.
your right, not the best wording... kind of forgotten? I don't know... director couldn't even get a sequel off the ground. after being initially praised, I would say it hasn't stayed in the public consciousness like other films of its caliber have for sure
I love this movie. May i recommend that you guys watch The Killing by Kubrick?
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you guys might consider not talking over movie dialog. The general idea is, watch during dialog, talk during action. It’s especially important for films like this, where the script has been so carefully tuned, and the actors so precise in their skill and delivery.
Of course, this is just my opinion. There are many ways to enjoy movies. You guys seem focussed on trying to guess what will happen before the film shows us the answers. Meanwhile, some people prefer to stay in the moment - in synch emotionally with the story. For others it’s a mix, or it can just depend on the genre of the movie. And this is a crime drama/murder mystery after all, so trying to solve it is perfectly understandable. All I know is there were several key moments of dialog we couldn’t hear, so nuances you missed and emotional pay offs you didn’t appear to have experienced. I can’t speak for anyone else, but it was mildly frustrating to watch.
I like the Planet Express painting! Who are The Cows.
Is this sarcasm?
Ok. You guys got my attention. Here we go
You guys should watch Memento!! It's awesome
We have both seen it several times :) a classic for sure
What's with the just naming actors?
I bet Rotten Tomatoes made u watch this
I bet it was actually the Patron who chose it for them, which they tell you in the first 30 seconds of the video you didn't watch.
*Always* watch great films at least twice. For the joy of the Art 🖤🤍
This is the right time to point to another great influential crime caper the two of you would enjoy: "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950)
The quality of this film is that you want to go back and watch it again, and again - I've watched this classic over twenty times over the years - the mark, in my opinion, of a truly remarkable film.
Great job, guys. Great job figuring out that James Cromwell was a bad guy so quick. For most people (me included), it's a complete shock when he turns around and shoots Kevin Spacey.
Based on a true story.
The VERY VERY LAST credit is for a dedication to Sgt. Jack Vincence
Great movie. Love it. Did you two recognize Klaes Ashford (David Strathairn) from The Expanse?
Yes we did! That moment had to be cut from the UA-cam version unfortunately
good movie.
Great film!
Of course he's going to take the bag with the blood on it! That's a whole kilo, bro! Just empty that bag into a new bag, destroy the old bag. Don't want to throw money away!