Hardcore
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Movie Reviews of Hardcore
Movie Review: A must watch
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a must see movie. You will want to watch it over and over and then share it with your friends.Movie Review: TURN lT 0FF!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
TURN lT 0FF!!! TURN lT 0FF!!! TURN lT AHHHHHHCH!!! turn it offMovie Review: Into the heart of darkness...
Summary: 4 Stars
Businessman Jake Van Doren's(George C. Scott in a riveting, brilliant performance) life and his deeply held religious beliefs are shaken to their core. Van Doren's teenage daughter doesn't return from a church outing. Worried, Van Doran hires a private detective Andy Mast(Peter Boyle)to help track her down. What Mast returns with shakes Van Doren Calvinist faith. His daughter has been appearing in cheap porno movies. Van Doren realizes the only way to bring his daughter back from this seamy, sordid world is if he goes to get her himself. He poses as a porno producer to get leads that will take him to his daughter in hopes that he can get her back before something truly horrible happens to her.
This riveting drama from Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver")clearly draws from some of Schrader's own convictions and religious beliefs. His upbringing as a Calvinist influences and informs the character of Van Doren. Scott, Boyle "Outland", "Everybody Loves Raymond"), Dick Sargant ("Bewitched"), Season Hubley and Marc Alaimo ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine")The DVD transfer looks crisp and sharp. Unfortunately, the age of the film and the film stock means that it does look grainy but that actually works in favor of the story capturing the harsh look of porno movies and giving a gritty reality to the film.
There's no extras on the film which is a pity. I would love to have heard Schrader's comments on the making of the film 25 years later. While George C. Scott isn't around any longer, Season Hubley and Peter Boyle could also have provided a commentary track (and it would have been less expensive to produce than a featurette on the making of the film). It seems to me I recall a vintage promo piece that was aired on TV during its theatrical run. Including that along with some updated interviews with Boyle, Hubley and producer Buzz Feitshans would have provided extra value here but, knowing the limited budget the producer of the DVD had to work with, it was probably cost prohibitive. It's a pity as this terrific but brutal film certainly deserves far better than just a standard transfer without any extras.
Movie Review: starts slow, but worth the wait
Summary: 4 Stars
After the obligatory DID WE MENTION HE'S RELIGIOUS??? opening of the film with all the typical Norman Rockwell scenery and lots of organ music (actually not bad...kinda tense and creepy), what you have is a pretty well directed (though badly edited) film with some great performances from George C. Scott and Peter Boyle. Season Hubley does a good job for her (short) part of the film, reminding me of Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver. Supposedly, the crew of that movie (sans Scorsese) made this one as well, and if so it shows. Replace the (annoying) sax music that pops up constantly in that, replace it with the odd organ music from this and replace the world-weary Travis for an uptight religious guy from the red states and you have the basic idea.
I was expecting it to be at least half as raw as Taxi Driver based on all that, but it's actually closer to a black comedy (okay, except for the snuff film) with Scott delving into the amateur porn industry and getting throw out of a whorehouse. Peter Boyle manages to be sleazy and likeable at the same time, and there's enough 70's style action to keep you interested (since the actual finding of his daughter seems like an afterthought...she's in movie for about ten seconds before she disappears.)
Also...if anyone has seen the Korean movie ''Bad Guy'', this seems like it could have been a big influence on it. B+
Movie Review: Tour de force performance
Summary: 4 Stars
George C. Scott is Jack VanDorn, a conservative midwestern business man who is thrust into the seedy world of pornography when his daughter runs away from a church outing at Knotts Berry farm. VanDorn travels to Los Angeles after a private investigator discovers that she has been making stag films. This is perhaps one of George C. Scotts most dramatic and sometimes humerous performances. The scene where the investigator, played by Peter Boyle, show VanDorn the stag film is both shocking and heartbreaking as VanDorn breaks down and crys for him to "turn it off!" It is a heartwrenching moment that had me on the verge of tears. Although Scott felt that writer/Director Paul Schrader was an accomplished writer (taxi Driver) he felt that he was a terrible director. I disagree, I think the film works and that Schrader delivers an entertaining and sometimes uncomfortable look at the world of pornography. Look for George C. Scott in a powerful tour de force performance in "Hardcore"