I Saw It...the Norman Jewison Poll

I've only seen eight of these myself.

Can I just vote for Danny DeVito's opening speech from Other People's Money? I seem to recall this scene being used as a teaser trailer, because I never saw the film itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUJTRqV7B8E

I voted for zero mostel. how could I not?

somehow, never get tired of moonstruck

thats a sly joke, right Aimless?

(shrugs) what would I know about sly humor?

might vote for Rollerball or F.I.S.T., obv In the Heat of the Night is probly better but it's been a long time since i've seen any of them and that's the mood i'm in.

I assume you're mixing up The Russians Are Coming with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Aimless--same year, for starters.

Voted The Cincinnati Kid, if only for Lady Fingers.

Nah. I voted Fiddler on the Roof, which I misremembered as starring zero m not topol. You can easily see that films are not a very big part of my life, but also, at 60, my memory for small details has become cluttered, fragmentary and unreliable.

btw, I like A Funny Thing, but haven't watched it for a long, long time. Every once in a while I find myself singing bits of "a comedy tonight".

n the Heat of the Night got shit for a while for beating B&C for Best Picture, but it's a respectable movie and often rather good.

There's a local rapper who had a big signing event on fairfax and his self owned label is named Other People's Money with the same font as the movie. I wonder if he's a legit big fan of it or if rappers are reduced to mostly forgotten Danny DeVito vehicles when looking for money-focused movies to reference.

nobody involved with the Fiddler on the Roof movie wanted Zero for it, including the Broadway team, who in addition to finding hin "too big" was angry about the shtick he incorporated onstage regularly.

The mystery/plot in Heat of the Night is basically crap, but it really is one of Steiger's best lead performances. In the scene quoted in thread title, you really believe him when he says "I don't know" to the old bigot's question.

but it's a respectable movie and often rather good

Yeah, it really is. It's most famous moment--"They call me..."--is a little over the top. Much better is Poitier slapping the old guy. Almost 50 years later, I can see how it still jolts students whenever I play it.

I only saw Moonstruck once, when it came out. It may win this, but it didn't make much of an impression on me.

that long low-key conversation scene btwn Steiger and Poitier is excellent... and network TV of course used to cut it for time.

found Moonstruck way too cute, cept for when Olympia D met up with John Mahoney.

when Olympia D met up with John Mahoney

prob my favorite scene

but moonstruck also in the running for my top 5 nic cage performances

My parents took my sister and I along with them to see Moonstruck when it was new, and even though I we were only like 8 and 9, I don't remember there being anything too "adult" or over-my-head about it (very much unlike a far less successful outing to see Raising Arizona around the same time). I haven't seen Moonstruck since--hell, I didn't even know that John Mahoney was in the film until just now!

More perversely, I remember watching Agnes of God with my grandparents when it was newish to VHS, though I imagine this was a case of them renting it for themselves and my simply refusing to go to bed when they watched it.

Not sure what I'd vote for here, to be honest. Was kind of underwhelmed by ItHotN the one and only time I watched it, I think for the same reason Morbs cited (the mystery plot is meh).

Two of the best Doris Day comedies right up there near the top.

Rollerball is fascinating though, and politically astute.

i don't think i've seen those DDs, need to.

The Russians Are Coming has a sterling film debut from Alan Arkin, even tho the plot and resolution is rather corny Cold War stuff (also with Jonathan Winters and Paul Ford doing their thing).

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the music in "and justice for all" is absolutely bizarrely mismatched

well tbf the whole thing is bizarrely mismatched

i think i laughed at all the wrong parts but that freeze ending and musical queue is the gag of this year in my house

yeah always thought metallica were a weird choice to score that