Strange indeed. Some parts they were completely off (acting?), but caught all the big twists before they happened. Which I've never seen anyone do. Either pretending, lucky or very smart
Guy Pierce never really got the credit he deserves. He's excellent in every role he's had, yet never got bigger roles or the notoriety others received, like Russel Crowe.
He was massive down under. Positively acting Royalty. So he may not have had the acclaim like Crow had internationallly. But Guy certainly made a big ol' stamp.
I agree this is one of the best neo-noir's I've ever seen. It's right up there with movies like The Friends of Eddie Coyle and The Yakuza. As good as this was I read the book and the book was better but they did an excellent job of adapting it. James Elroy is a great writer.
Easy top 10 movie of all time. Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe's big break and another 90s banger from Spacey. So smart, so well written with a crackling pace. Why can't more movies be like this ?
A great Noir film...Shame it was up against Titanic for the Oscars (FYI, I think this is a better film). I love that everyone in this film is crooked in one way or another. Rolo Tomassi.
Russell Crowe went through a period of making great movies that would have won Oscars in most years but missed out on almost all of them because they got released in the same years as some absolutely massive movies that just steamrolled over everything.
James Ellroy’s book series is so good. He took real crimes like Bloody Christmas and created a fiction around them. A fantastic adaptation maybe the best ever. Russell Crow is IT in this movie.
@@trhansen3244 They don’t portray all black people as violent, just those black people. They weren’t innocent young men, framed for a crime they didn’t commit, they were criminals that had records so they were easy to frame.
"I guess this is kind of where he...broke his teeth in." Nice foreshadowing for the character's violent streak! lol Mrs. Movies is right on the Dudley/Rolo Tomasi thing. There's no connection between Dudley and the death of Ed's father. Vincennes only told Dudley that name so that Ed would immediately realize that Dudley killed Vincennes and that Dudley was the big bad guy.
Pretty subjective. I prefer L.A. over Titanic, but you can’t deny the billions it pulled in. People love a young love story were one of the sacrifices themselves for the other. Very cliché tactic.
@@alexshank1414 Absolute dreck. Just a terrible movie from start to finish. The worst part is that we have several amazing stories from the actual survivors, but James Cameron decided to make up a stupid fake story instead.
I've heard other people say that, but I always found it to be clunky. I had read the book before seeing the film and there was no Rollo Tomassi, instead the facts were gradually put together over a period of years with a bunch of subplots. I think the screenwriters came up with the Rollo Tomassi bit to save time on exposition.
Amazing movie. I saw this at a preview screening and was blown away. Great performances all around and there were audible gasps during one scene. You'll know where.
Funny that Rockstar recommend LA Confidential to watch when Rockstar Games create a game called LA Noire which is based on this film. Cole Phelps is obviously based on Edmund Exley character.
Excellent film with great direction, great writing and great performances. Glad you guys are watching this. One of the best films of 1997, perhaps the best film of 1997. Hope you’re both doing well, have a great day and take care!
Back in '86 Kim Basinger was in "9 1/2 Weeks" which was the original "Fifty Shades". Such a beautiful lady. This movie gets better every time you watch it. Great cast.
'Confidential' was he leading tabloid in Hollywood back in the 40s/50s... that's where the title is from, but they used 'Hush Hush' as a knock off on Confidential... Big shots used it all the time to get their way... agent Henry Wilsson gave them info on Tab Hunter to save Rock Hudson from being outed. Tab Hunter titled his autobiography 'Confidential'.
At the same time screenwriter Brian Helgeland won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, he also won the Razzie for Worst Screenplay. He asked the Razzie academy to make him a special gold plated Raspberry and placed it next to his Oscar as a reminder of the fickleness of Hollywood.
I love this movie so damn much. One of my all-time favorites. For my money, it should have won Best Picture over Titanic, but I definitely understand why Titanic took home the prize that year.
Honestly my all-time favorite film. There's nothing about it I would change. By the way, those aren't all dirty cops at the Victory Motel shootout. They're mostly gangsters who used to work for Mickey Cohen. Dudley and Bruening are the only cops there. You can see this in the article that they show about Smith's death. It's why they were able to play off the deaths in the end to the cops led by Smith fighting mobsters and his dying in the process.
Ed Exley wanted to continue weeding out corruption from the LAPD, so he played politics to get into a position later in his career that he could do something about it. Would he succeed? Probably not, but he had noble intentions.
Yeah, I disagreed with Mrs. Movies' take on Exley. Thought she was very dismissive of and way too hard on his character. The guy was in a department full of corrupt cops and despite him wanting to climb the ladder in the department, he still had good intentions. He had a great arc and became a better cop and detective while becoming more jaded and knowing how to play the game in order to make the LA police department respectable.
the captain didn't kill Ed's dad. jack was saying that he's the guy who gets away with it. But also, he knows that if he provides the name to Dudley that Dudley, being a cop will naturally want to find out who he's talking about to tie up any loose ends. and that he will then potentially mention the name to Exley who will instantly recognize that there is no way for Dudley to know that name. and that therefore he has some involvement in Jack's killing. he basically set a trap for Dudley with his dying breath.
I’m impressed how she called out the Rollo Tomassi device! A cop used the name to test a hospital’s response time in checking for a patient in the Chris Watts case.
The face that Exley gives Dudley when he asks about Rollo Tommasi shows that Exley is a man of considerable skills and talent. It's sort of like when Michael Corleone was telling them he would kill them both if they planted a gun in that restaurant. Everyone laughed and underestimated Michael who was the Devil himself. Everyone underestimated Exley too. Dudley knew that he was skilled, but even he underestimated Exley's ambition, and it cost him his life!
Exley knew the story would have been suppressed and would have been putting himself, Bud and Lynn in danger. The offenders had all been killed, this way the department has been cleaned and he is promoted when means he can support change from within.
Ed's dad was not a traffic cop. They say in the scene where Dudley and Ed were discussing his promotion that his dad was a Detective Lieutenant. FYI the "Confidential" is a common title in Film Noir. (Kansas City Confidential, New York Confidential, etc.)
One of my all time favorite movies! This, and Devil In A Blue Dress, with Denzel Washington. That one is also set in California, but in the late forties, right after the war. It has the same mystery vibe to it, and the clothes, the cars, everything! And it has Tom Sizemore, Don Cheadle and Jennifer Beals!
Bud White and Ed Exley are two sides of the same coin, with one of their main commonalities being that they suffered injustice that went unpunished. Bud's dad never answered for the abuse and murder of his mom, Ed's dad's killer was never identified or arrested. Captain Dudley was not Rolo Tomasi.
"Does Ed get promoted to captain?" Yes. In the book series this is based on Ed is constantly rising in rank and power. At the end of the last book "White Jazz" there's an epilogue which tells what happened to all the characters up to the present day.. Ed as of the late 80's/early 90's is Congressman who's just won the California governors election. Also in the books Dudley survives the shootout and continues to cause trouble (with a limp and an eyepatch)
There was supposed to be a sequel to this film in the 1970s with Crowe, Pearce, and Chadwick Boseman and co-writer Brian Helgeland in the director's chair, but Boseman's passing prevented that.
I think you are the first person who recognized Simon Baker (The Mentalist) when reacted to this movie! I'm impressed! And yes, The Mentalist was my favorite TV series 😄.
I think the Bud White character was created in connection to the real life Johnny Stampanato. In real life, Stampanato did marry Lana Turner. He was killed by Turner's daughter as he was physically beating Turner. He had bean abusive to her for the entirety of their relationship.
Guy Pearce went from an Aussie soap (Mike in Neighbours) to international stardom in the space of just a few years, blazing the trail for many others from Aussie soaps to follow.
The title of this movie refers to a notorious 50’s magazine, Confidential, the inspiration for Hush-Hush. It was a publication peddling the trashiest gossip floating around Hollywood, Las Vegas, and Reno - the more salacious, the better. Some of it was even true.
This is one of Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet novels, I read the Black Dahlia back in the 80s another excellent novel, I believe it has some of the same Cops in all of them but not sure, thanks yall!
L.A. Confidential was part of noir mystery writer James Ellroy's "L.A. Quartet," along with The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz. The four novels featured many of the same characters that appeared in each of the stories, which took place over a period of time from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, beginning with The Black Dahlia, and continuing with The Big Nowhere and L.A. Confidential, and concluding with White Jazz. Only L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia were adapted to the screen.
Mr Movies is so much more generous to Mrs Movies nonsense than she is to his! There are several times when she gets things wrong or has a silly opinion and he lets it slide. But she doesn't let any of his mistakes slide!
this is one of my favs seen it probably a dozen times but still decided to go on the ride with you guys i want to see more classic detective mystery movies
L.A. Confidential is such a rewatchable masterpiece, especially considering the novel's adaptation to the big screen was considered impossible, due to its complex plot. Sadly it flew under the radar back then and lost at the Oscars, because it was up against Titanic.
It did not fly under the radar. It was almost universally praised, had far higher critical ratings than Titanic and received several Oscar noms. That is not really "under the radar".
Great acting, well casted, memorable characters and dialogue, twisty gripping plot. This movie was just overall excellent movie and well worth the Oscar nomination for best movie.
Ed's dad got shot by a purse snatcher... but he was a detective lieutenant... remember the scene where they promise Ed a promotion for finking on the other cops? His dad made detective as a lieutenant.
The title of the movie comes from two 1950s film noir crime movies, New York Confidential and Kansas City Confidential. This is my favorite Russell Crowe movie. I've seen it probably 5-6 times and never caught the Shirley Temple hooker at the party. I had to rewind after you mentioned it to catch it.
I actually saw Kansas City Confidential because of this movie. The similarity of the title and the fact it was film noir and It turned out to be one of my favourites of the film noir genre.
Of the two I liked Kansas City Confidential the best, but both are good. Of all the film noir crime movies out there, The Maltese Falcon is right at the top.
@@billbabcock1833 I haven't seen New York confidential yet, it's on my list though. I haven't seen The Maltese Falcon in so long now I should probably watch it again soon aswell. The Big Combo (1955) with Cornel Wilde & Richard Conte is one of my favourites too. Besides the excellent supporting cast in Kansas City Confidential, I actually thought John Payne was pretty good in the lead role aswell. I checked out some other Film Noir John Payne was in such as Larceny (1948), The Crooked Way (1949), 99 River Street (1953), Slightly Scarlet (1956) & The Boss (1956). They were all pretty good but I still thought Kansas City Confidential was the best of them.
My god i forget who beautiful Kim Basinger is, i had the biggest crush on her when i was younger in the 80’s and 90’s. She is stunning! This movie is easily one of my favorite crime thrillers of all time
“Ingenue d-es” in Hollywood is what he said, not “Jew d-es.” An ingenue is a young actress or singer that doesn’t quite know their way around the business yet.
Thank you grand daddy rockstar. Great pick . I always liked Captain Dudley, James Cromwell gives a hell of a performance . Mrs. movies picked him as the bad guy real quick, she was on top of things pretty much the whole movie, good for her. Btw Rolo Tamasi was a name Ed gave to the man who killed his dad. Who was not Dudley Smith.
Dudley Smith is probably one of the most overlooked villains in film history. He hates anyone who isn't him: a fit, tall, heterosexual WASP male police officer. If you look at the victims in the film, he has no compassion when they're harmed or murdered, either by his hand, his word (the rumor about the Mexicans being violent against the two cops probably originated from him), his goons, or oblivious puppets like Bud White and Ed Exley. Cromwell should have gotten a second Oscar nomination.
If you enjoyed this movie you should check out Copland with Sly, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta, written and directed by James Mangold, who directed Logan.
This is one of my all time favorite crime dramas. It completely captures the true ugliness of the LAPD's history of corruption as well as the monstrous truth behind Hollywood glamour. It's like Hitchcock meets Dragnet
There are three movies I consider my all-time favorites; Alien Psycho L.A. Confidential I even used to have a Victory Motel t-shirt. Until it fell apart.
Confidential was a tabloid in the 50's, its style and look was very similar to hush hush. Stompanato was real and was dating lana turner, her daughter shot him after him being abusive. Really was a gangster squad, a police sponsored moonlighting unit as well that went after mickey cohen and his crew. Really was a bloody christmas as well. Badge of honor was a take on dragnet. Great movie a top 5 for me. Went to the fornosa restaurant was awesome. Thanks for the reaction.
The word ingénue is a noun that means an innocent, naive, or young woman, or an actress who plays such a role. It can also refer to the stage role of an ingenue.
One of the greatest noir crime drama movies ever made!
i watch or listen to it from time to time in my nightshifts. always entertaining😎
..in the '90s.
Not just that but one of the greatest movies ever made. Period
It’s one of my favorite movies. It was a great adaptation of the book.
Amen
Mrs. Movies catching the Rollo Tommasi twist was just a chef's kiss. Well done!
Still one of my favorite movie twists ever.
They both oddly seemed to know every twist. Hmmmm.
@@trhansen3244 They did have an incredible hit rate at spotting the twists etc. Far more than they usual. Sus!
Strange indeed. Some parts they were completely off (acting?), but caught all the big twists before they happened. Which I've never seen anyone do. Either pretending, lucky or very smart
Rollo *DelMassi! lol
Guy Pierce never really got the credit he deserves. He's excellent in every role he's had, yet never got bigger roles or the notoriety others received, like Russel Crowe.
He was massive down under. Positively acting Royalty. So he may not have had the acclaim like Crow had internationallly. But Guy certainly made a big ol' stamp.
He's finally gonna get some this year. Almost a shoe-in for an Oscar nomination for The Brutalist.
He’s also fantastic in “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” along with Hugo Weaving and Terence Stamp.
He got a ton of roles after this.
Very true.
One of the best movies of the past 30 years. Just fantastic.
@@JBeck33 yes, definitely in my top 20.
I agree this is one of the best neo-noir's I've ever seen. It's right up there with movies like The Friends of Eddie Coyle and The Yakuza. As good as this was I read the book and the book was better but they did an excellent job of adapting it. James Elroy is a great writer.
One of the best of all time, not just the past 30 years.
Yep
Easy top 10 movie of all time. Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe's big break and another 90s banger from Spacey. So smart, so well written with a crackling pace.
Why can't more movies be like this ?
“Ingenue Dyke” lol
This is maybe my favourite movie of all time. They captured the tone of James Ellroy’s writing so well.
its not Jew its Ingenue. it means a young innocent woman, think pre transformation sandy in grease or katrina Van tassel in sleepy hollow
Came here to say that. It's not a term you hear much outside of the theater.
It was lol mistake.
😅🤣😂 I told her the same thing myself.
Thank you for pointing this crucial fact out.
Movie reactors often lack necessary common intelligence
A great Noir film...Shame it was up against Titanic for the Oscars (FYI, I think this is a better film). I love that everyone in this film is crooked in one way or another. Rolo Tomassi.
I agree I liked this much more than Titanic.
Russell Crowe went through a period of making great movies that would have won Oscars in most years but missed out on almost all of them because they got released in the same years as some absolutely massive movies that just steamrolled over everything.
@@SadPeterPan1977 He absolutely should have won the Oscar for A Beautiful Mind.
Mrs. Movies is always a few steps ahead of the hubby..."Rollo Tomassi"
@37:35 to 34:45 - best part of this reaction 😄
She ALWAYS is. She ruins so many reactions with that brain of hers.
One of the most brilliant movies made! Story, writing, twist and turns, brilliant acting! Grade A movie!!!
James Ellroy’s book series is so good. He took real crimes like Bloody Christmas and created a fiction around them. A fantastic adaptation maybe the best ever. Russell Crow is IT in this movie.
It wasn't until very recently that I even realized the LAPD Bloody Christmas incident was a real thing. Wild.
@ I didn’t know until I read the Ellroy books a few years ago - decades after seeing the movie several times - and Wiki’d the background.
I just don't like the way they portray black people, as if they were violent people who commit crimes.
@trhansen3244 In fairness, those specific black people were picked because they had records. Also, there aren't really any clean hands in the film.
@@trhansen3244 They don’t portray all black people as violent, just those black people. They weren’t innocent young men, framed for a crime they didn’t commit, they were criminals that had records so they were easy to frame.
"I guess this is kind of where he...broke his teeth in." Nice foreshadowing for the character's violent streak! lol Mrs. Movies is right on the Dudley/Rolo Tomasi thing. There's no connection between Dudley and the death of Ed's father. Vincennes only told Dudley that name so that Ed would immediately realize that Dudley killed Vincennes and that Dudley was the big bad guy.
The best movie of 1997 and it wasn't even close. Light years better than Titanic.
Sorry. Jack Frost won.
Pretty subjective. I prefer L.A. over Titanic, but you can’t deny the billions it pulled in. People love a young love story were one of the sacrifices themselves for the other. Very cliché tactic.
@@alexshank1414 People pay billions for crap every year.
@@joegreene7619 Titanic wasn’t crap tho.
@@alexshank1414 Absolute dreck. Just a terrible movie from start to finish. The worst part is that we have several amazing stories from the actual survivors, but James Cameron decided to make up a stupid fake story instead.
A great film. Brilliant cast with Russell Crowe becoming a full-on movie star. The Rollo Tomassi thing is one of the greatest plot points in cinema.
I've heard other people say that, but I always found it to be clunky. I had read the book before seeing the film and there was no Rollo Tomassi, instead the facts were gradually put together over a period of years with a bunch of subplots. I think the screenwriters came up with the Rollo Tomassi bit to save time on exposition.
I still like the interview room scene, each to his own.
Amazing movie. I saw this at a preview screening and was blown away. Great performances all around and there were audible gasps during one scene. You'll know where.
"Rollo.... Tomasi."
Funny that Rockstar recommend LA Confidential to watch when Rockstar Games create a game called LA Noire which is based on this film. Cole Phelps is obviously based on Edmund Exley character.
Phelps survived, change my mind
Karen's article was titled "Ingenue Dykes in Hollywood", talking about young fresh starlets who were secretly lesbians.
Right. Not "On Jew Dykes".
Yeah. Neither of us have actually ever heard that word before. So she heard what she heard and went with it.
@@YouMeTheMovies
It’s an archaic term, probably not commonly used since the 40’s and 50’s.
@@frankb4517You can still hear it in theater circles
'just the facts ..' is a famous catch-phrase from an old t.v. show about the LAPD called 'Dragnet'.
It’s also the catchphrase of the in-movie show “Badge of Honor” which was no doubt a reference to Dragnet.
Excellent film with great direction, great writing and great performances. Glad you guys are watching this. One of the best films of 1997, perhaps the best film of 1997. Hope you’re both doing well, have a great day and take care!
Back in '86 Kim Basinger was in "9 1/2 Weeks" which was the original "Fifty Shades". Such a beautiful lady. This movie gets better every time you watch it. Great cast.
This is my all time favorite movie. The screenplay is so tight, the performances are amazing, and the setting is gorgeous.
Mrs Movies spotting ALL of the plot clues.
Because this isn’t her first time watching. You can tell she’s definitely seen this before
'Confidential' was he leading tabloid in Hollywood back in the 40s/50s... that's where the title is from, but they used 'Hush Hush' as a knock off on Confidential... Big shots used it all the time to get their way... agent Henry Wilsson gave them info on Tab Hunter to save Rock Hudson from being outed. Tab Hunter titled his autobiography 'Confidential'.
Kayla is correct, Rolo is just a symbol representing those who have escaped justice.
And spotting the deliberated final clue drop early though
Damned sharp woman
Or maybe it’s not actually her first time watching
At the same time screenwriter Brian Helgeland won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, he also won the Razzie for Worst Screenplay. He asked the Razzie academy to make him a special gold plated Raspberry and placed it next to his Oscar as a reminder of the fickleness of Hollywood.
I love this movie so damn much. One of my all-time favorites. For my money, it should have won Best Picture over Titanic, but I definitely understand why Titanic took home the prize that year.
Fantastic acting by Spacey
The whole cast is great but my personal MVP is Spacey.
This is a great movie. Now you need to watch "Chinatown" 1974 and "The Untouchables" 1987.
Honestly my all-time favorite film. There's nothing about it I would change. By the way, those aren't all dirty cops at the Victory Motel shootout. They're mostly gangsters who used to work for Mickey Cohen. Dudley and Bruening are the only cops there. You can see this in the article that they show about Smith's death. It's why they were able to play off the deaths in the end to the cops led by Smith fighting mobsters and his dying in the process.
This movie has won a lot of awards during its time with an all ⭐️ cast & a great director what a fantastic film.
The GOOD OLD DAYS! And I wasn’t even born until 1987! 😅
Youngster!
Ed Exley wanted to continue weeding out corruption from the LAPD, so he played politics to get into a position later in his career that he could do something about it. Would he succeed? Probably not, but he had noble intentions.
Exley isn't nearly as noble in the book. Especially once he's in the CIA.
Yeah, I disagreed with Mrs. Movies' take on Exley. Thought she was very dismissive of and way too hard on his character. The guy was in a department full of corrupt cops and despite him wanting to climb the ladder in the department, he still had good intentions. He had a great arc and became a better cop and detective while becoming more jaded and knowing how to play the game in order to make the LA police department respectable.
the captain didn't kill Ed's dad. jack was saying that he's the guy who gets away with it. But also, he knows that if he provides the name to Dudley that Dudley, being a cop will naturally want to find out who he's talking about to tie up any loose ends. and that he will then potentially mention the name to Exley who will instantly recognize that there is no way for Dudley to know that name. and that therefore he has some involvement in Jack's killing. he basically set a trap for Dudley with his dying breath.
Kim Basinger was a massive movie star in the 80s.
A Georgia gal.
I’m impressed how she called out the Rollo Tomassi device!
A cop used the name to test a hospital’s response time in checking for a patient in the Chris Watts case.
Saw it at the theater and really loved it. Great actors and storyline. Started Russell Crowe and Guy Pearces careeers.
The face that Exley gives Dudley when he asks about Rollo Tommasi shows that Exley is a man of considerable skills and talent. It's sort of like when Michael Corleone was telling them he would kill them both if they planted a gun in that restaurant. Everyone laughed and underestimated Michael who was the Devil himself. Everyone underestimated Exley too. Dudley knew that he was skilled, but even he underestimated Exley's ambition, and it cost him his life!
Exley knew the story would have been suppressed and would have been putting himself, Bud and Lynn in danger. The offenders had all been killed, this way the department has been cleaned and he is promoted when means he can support change from within.
🎶 Jerry Goldsmith's score instantly set the era's mood. ❤ the end piece when Exley looked after Bud as the car drove away.
24:01 fun factoid; This scene was set in Echo Park. The shop in the background was made famous as “Toretto’s Market” in ‘Fast and the Furious.’
"I guess this is where he broke his teeth in" is a Sopranos level malapropism, lol. Great reaction.
Ed's dad was not a traffic cop. They say in the scene where Dudley and Ed were discussing his promotion that his dad was a Detective Lieutenant. FYI the "Confidential" is a common title in Film Noir. (Kansas City Confidential, New York Confidential, etc.)
One of my all time favorite movies! This, and Devil In A Blue Dress, with Denzel Washington. That one is also set in California, but in the late forties, right after the war. It has the same mystery vibe to it, and the clothes, the cars, everything! And it has Tom Sizemore, Don Cheadle and Jennifer Beals!
Bud White and Ed Exley are two sides of the same coin, with one of their main commonalities being that they suffered injustice that went unpunished. Bud's dad never answered for the abuse and murder of his mom, Ed's dad's killer was never identified or arrested. Captain Dudley was not Rolo Tomasi.
I always interpreted " they never found the old man" as Bud killing his father and burying him somewhere, but perhaps I was wrong.
3:33 "Officer Bud White." [Easy enough.]
4:45 "Sergeant Jack... something." [🤣🤣🤣]
I'm a massive fan of detective type movies/shows... and just saw this one for the first time a few weeks ago. So good!
Russell has 3 amazing movies, IMO...."Master & Commander", "Gladiato", and this one....❤
the Nice Guys is also great!
As well as the underrated films, Cinderella Man and American Gangster
A beautiful mind was good
The Insider
@@grimdimly yeah but that was al pachino movie not crowe
"Does Ed get promoted to captain?" Yes. In the book series this is based on Ed is constantly rising in rank and power. At the end of the last book "White Jazz" there's an epilogue which tells what happened to all the characters up to the present day.. Ed as of the late 80's/early 90's is Congressman who's just won the California governors election. Also in the books Dudley survives the shootout and continues to cause trouble (with a limp and an eyepatch)
There was supposed to be a sequel to this film in the 1970s with Crowe, Pearce, and Chadwick Boseman and co-writer Brian Helgeland in the director's chair, but Boseman's passing prevented that.
There's a book series! Oh interesting. I might have to dig into that.
Mrs casually admitting that she beats Mr was hilarious 🤣
I think you are the first person who recognized Simon Baker (The Mentalist) when reacted to this movie! I'm impressed! And yes, The Mentalist was my favorite TV series 😄.
I think the Bud White character was created in connection to the real life Johnny Stampanato. In real life, Stampanato did marry Lana Turner. He was killed by Turner's daughter as he was physically beating Turner. He had bean abusive to her for the entirety of their relationship.
Guy Pearce went from an Aussie soap (Mike in Neighbours) to international stardom in the space of just a few years, blazing the trail for many others from Aussie soaps to follow.
One of Russel Crowes best performances IMO.
Which is kind of ironic since it's more or less his first foray into Hollywood.
😅 Mrs. Movies is so smart to almost instantly spot the schemes. I've seen L.A. CONFIDENTIAL several times and I'm still piecing it together.
22:26 I honestly thought Mrs had won the Champion's League there for a second.
The title of this movie refers to a notorious 50’s magazine, Confidential, the inspiration for Hush-Hush. It was a publication peddling the trashiest gossip floating around Hollywood, Las Vegas, and Reno - the more salacious, the better. Some of it was even true.
22:25 big damn water jug jump scare 😱
And Rolo Tomassi is a metaphor for “the guy that gets away.” Not that Dudley was the same guy. It was a coping mechanism for Exley.
I guess Hunter Biden is today's Rolo Tomassi.
This is one of Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet novels, I read the Black Dahlia back in the 80s another excellent novel, I believe it has some of the same Cops in all of them but not sure, thanks yall!
always impressed with mrs. she was ahead of the game the whole way.
one of my favorite movies. so well done and what a finale.
Yeah, I wonder how she could possibly know the original suspects were being set up.
Because the description “first time watching is a load of bs” she’s definitely seen this before. She even seems bored watching this
L.A. Confidential was part of noir mystery writer James Ellroy's "L.A. Quartet," along with The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz. The four novels featured many of the same characters that appeared in each of the stories, which took place over a period of time from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, beginning with The Black Dahlia, and continuing with The Big Nowhere and L.A. Confidential, and concluding with White Jazz. Only L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia were adapted to the screen.
James Cromwell gives a fine performance as the villain, Dudley Smith. In real life, he's a nice guy and a political activist.
Mr Movies is so much more generous to Mrs Movies nonsense than she is to his! There are several times when she gets things wrong or has a silly opinion and he lets it slide. But she doesn't let any of his mistakes slide!
Agreed! lol He's a very chill and a really cool reactor and individually one of my favorites.
Aww girl! You mentioned "Mystery Alaska" my wife and I love that movie.
There's so much going on in this movie, every time I watched it I noticed something that escaped me before.
PS I used to have the soundtrack.
I think this is one of the best movies I have ever seen, it is excellent in every way.
This movie seemed to suddenly appear one day, an instant masterpiece.
Every time I see this movie it makes me want to play through L.A. Noire again
I loved that game. Wish they remastered it
Boy, do I have good news for you then!
this is one of my favs seen it probably a dozen times but still decided to go on the ride with you guys i want to see more classic detective mystery movies
L.A. Confidential is such a rewatchable masterpiece, especially considering the novel's adaptation to the big screen was considered impossible, due to its complex plot.
Sadly it flew under the radar back then and lost at the Oscars, because it was up against Titanic.
It did not fly under the radar. It was almost universally praised, had far higher critical ratings than Titanic and received several Oscar noms.
That is not really "under the radar".
Great acting, well casted, memorable characters and dialogue, twisty gripping plot. This movie was just overall excellent movie and well worth the Oscar nomination for best movie.
Ed's dad got shot by a purse snatcher... but he was a detective lieutenant... remember the scene where they promise Ed a promotion for finking on the other cops? His dad made detective as a lieutenant.
My mom rented this from Blockbuster back in the day, we all loved this gem of a flick 🔥🔥🔥
Wow, she's a real investigator, Kuddos!
The title of the movie comes from two 1950s film noir crime movies, New York Confidential and Kansas City Confidential.
This is my favorite Russell Crowe movie. I've seen it probably 5-6 times and never caught the Shirley Temple hooker at the party. I had to rewind after you mentioned it to catch it.
I actually saw Kansas City Confidential because of this movie. The similarity of the title and the fact it was film noir and It turned out to be one of my favourites of the film noir genre.
Of the two I liked Kansas City Confidential the best, but both are good.
Of all the film noir crime movies out there, The Maltese Falcon is right at the top.
@@billbabcock1833 I haven't seen New York confidential yet, it's on my list though.
I haven't seen The Maltese Falcon in so long now I should probably watch it again soon aswell. The Big Combo (1955) with Cornel Wilde & Richard Conte is one of my favourites too. Besides the excellent supporting cast in Kansas City Confidential, I actually thought John Payne was pretty good in the lead role aswell. I checked out some other Film Noir John Payne was in such as Larceny (1948), The Crooked Way (1949), 99 River Street (1953), Slightly Scarlet (1956) & The Boss (1956). They were all pretty good but I still thought Kansas City Confidential was the best of them.
Ed made captain, that’s was Bud was looking at when he was in the back of the car. Ed’s shoulders had a new Captain’s bar
One of the all time greats👍🏻
My god i forget who beautiful Kim Basinger is, i had the biggest crush on her when i was younger in the 80’s and 90’s. She is stunning! This movie is easily one of my favorite crime thrillers of all time
As good as she looked in this movie, I think she looked her most gorgeous in Batman89.
WE NEED THAT SMILE 2 REACTION!
top film of the 90s, IMHO, 10 ten film of all time
“Ingenue d-es” in Hollywood is what he said, not “Jew d-es.” An ingenue is a young actress or singer that doesn’t quite know their way around the business yet.
Woah... Mrs. Movies figured out all of the plot points so early in her viewing. Impressive!
I wonder how.
You were right on many times, mrs 👍 I actually had a hard time figuring the plot the first time I watched this 😄
Thank you grand daddy rockstar. Great pick . I always liked Captain Dudley, James Cromwell gives a hell of a performance . Mrs. movies picked him as the bad guy real quick, she was on top of things pretty much the whole movie, good for her. Btw Rolo Tamasi was a name Ed gave to the man who killed his dad. Who was not Dudley Smith.
Dudley Smith is probably one of the most overlooked villains in film history. He hates anyone who isn't him: a fit, tall, heterosexual WASP male police officer. If you look at the victims in the film, he has no compassion when they're harmed or murdered, either by his hand, his word (the rumor about the Mexicans being violent against the two cops probably originated from him), his goons, or oblivious puppets like Bud White and Ed Exley. Cromwell should have gotten a second Oscar nomination.
If you enjoyed this movie you should check out Copland with Sly, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta, written and directed by James Mangold, who directed Logan.
Just 100% a finely made film, superbly written and everyone fits their period character. Hardly any scene or line I would change
Kim Basinger:
"The Getaway" (1994 remake)
good 1940's LA murder mysteries:
"Mulholland Falls" (1996)
"Black Dahlia" (2006)
Introduced in "Never say never again", the remake of "Thunderball"
great show guys, so much fun everytime!
The way they were able to capture the energy of LA in the 50's makes me wish I lived it.
I used to love this movie. Have not seen it in years.
This is a great noir revival!
This is one of my all time favorite crime dramas. It completely captures the true ugliness of the LAPD's history of corruption as well as the monstrous truth behind Hollywood glamour. It's like Hitchcock meets Dragnet
I'm a little young for the Kim Basinger Era, but this Oscar felt like one of those makeups and/or career awards we see from time to time
Loved this movie. Those two Aussie actors were fantastic.
One of my favorite movies and not reacted to often enough. Looking forward to this one.
There are three movies I consider my all-time favorites;
Alien
Psycho
L.A. Confidential
I even used to have a Victory Motel t-shirt. Until it fell apart.
Now you two are the only reactors who have reacted to both of my favorite movies; this and Natural Born Killers.
Confidential was a tabloid in the 50's, its style and look was very similar to hush hush. Stompanato was real and was dating lana turner, her daughter shot him after him being abusive. Really was a gangster squad, a police sponsored moonlighting unit as well that went after mickey cohen and his crew. Really was a bloody christmas as well. Badge of honor was a take on dragnet. Great movie a top 5 for me. Went to the fornosa restaurant was awesome. Thanks for the reaction.
The word ingénue is a noun that means an innocent, naive, or young woman, or an actress who plays such a role. It can also refer to the stage role of an ingenue.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS...an excellent choice. Easily (IMO) in my top 50 of all time. Maybe even my Top 25.
its a steaming pile of shit
stfu retard the movie is pure bollocks