Cruising (Deluxe Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Cruising (Deluxe Edition)
Movie Review: I Am Really Disappointed in Al Pacino for Not Living Up the Expectations of His Homosexual Character.
Summary: 2 Stars
Viewed: 12/07
Rate: 3
12/07: Cruising is a big disappointment. Even bigger disappointment is Al Pacino. That was absolutely nothing. He basically tip-toed walked through this film. In result, he made Cruising look totally unconvincing. He didn't kiss a guy, let alone have sex with one of them. I think the movie tried to tell me that he did, but come on...that's pretending. As far as the story goes, take away the gay men with leather in the background, the film is so ordinary that it could have been a TV episode itself. The only best part of Cruising is the atmosphere, the background, and the gay club scene. Hadn't it was for Al Pacino, somebody would have stepped in, made it a very believable film, and convince me that it would be truly unique. But Al Pacino never looked the part, didn't blend in quite well, and acted nowhere near what he did in Serpico. If I have to be remiss about anything by Al Pacino, it's Cruising by a mile. He chickened out, plain and simple. The ending had a twist, which was telling me that it was Al Pacino's character the whole time, doing the killings. Honestly, I don't buy it, not even for a slight second. I find it hard to believe if the suspected killer confesses his crimes, he can get eight years for killing five homosexuals. Something in that equation doesn't add up. Cruising is just bad.
Movie Review: Great movie - terrible DVD-version...!
Summary: 2 Stars
"Cruising" is a great, underrated movie, no doubt about that. Gay cult-filmmaker Bruce LaBruce was right when he wrote that no other film depicts the S&M-scene in NYC better than that film...there is just one big problem with this Special-Edition-DVD: William Friedkin couldn't resist tinkering with the visual style of the film. For example, he changed the colours, so that each scene either has a heavy blue-ish or green-ish tone to it. That looks silly and disturbs the realistic atmosphere of the film. Even more disastrously, he added visual effects to Pacino's famous dancing scene - probably to heighten the feeling that Pacino's character is getting crazy. (As if we didn't know). The problem is: those stroboscope-effects look horribly cheap and totally take you out of the scene. The scene was the emotional highlight of the film. Now it is the lowpoint. Friedkin ruined his own film. What a shame.Movie Review: I cant think of anything good to say about this film.
Summary: 2 Stars
This was my first viewing of this film. Maybe I was expecting more, but I felt let down by the whole story line. Al Pacino does infact do very well in his part which seems to pull you into the film. Its a dark and depressing look at the overly stereotyped S&M and cruising scene in the 70's/80's. The shocking or disturbing murder scenes, with the exception of the first, are dull and lackluster. There was nothing disturbing about them. Bigger drawbacks were the overall gay scenes were not convincing enough. So much looked staged and rehearsed, specifically the cruising scenes in the woods or city. It felt like people were trying to hard to act the gay parts. The ending is a let down. The climax of the movie seemed to peter out in a film that should have ended 15 minutes ago. There are some good points to the film itself, but I cannot think of any at this time.Movie Review: Crusing
Summary: 2 Stars
I saw the movie "Crusing" in the theater back in 1979 and remember the fear it provoked in the gay community.it was so "now" and the performances were all top notch,so you can imagine my excitment when i saw that it was now available on DVD. Well that was then this is now,it does not stand the test of time. We were all bored and kept wondering what was it that we liked so much before? Maybe we are all so desencatized now days.so to put it in a nut shell it was really bad and not even bad in a campy way.there are so many movies you can watch over and over again and they hold up well...this is not one of them.Movie Review: Not that controversial
Summary: 2 Stars
I think the controversy was alot of hype. I thought so when I saw it back in 1980. Visually its very well done, but unfortunately in makes no sence.
However, it has an absolutely killer soundtrack. If you can get your hands on it (and it isn't easy) by all means do. Willie DeVille, the Germs, The Cripples, Muttiny, Rough Trade, Madelyn Von Ritz, John Hyatt (before he got all down-home and nice). Down and dirty gritty punk heaven. Definitely at the top of my list of favorite albums.