Top 100 Movies: No. 80 - The Untouchables (1987)
Posted on November 9, 2007
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We end the week in 1920’s prohibition-era Chicago with The Untouchables. This flick features several stellar performances, but two stand about the rest - Sean Connery, who won an Oscar for his supporting role as one of the Untouchables, Jimmy Malone, and Robert De Niro as infamous crime boss and tax evader Al Capone.
Not to take anything away from Sean Connery (like I could anyway), but Robert De Niro is fantastic in this film. I forget that it is De Niro playing Capone when I watch this flick. Granted, he put on a lot of weight for the role, but it still takes a great actor to so totally consume and live as a character, especially in a biographical film, to make you forget who they are. Hey, Jack Nicholson was great as The Joker in Batman, a role for which he wore a lot of makeup and changed his appearance, but I never forget that it is Jack playing the ghoulish clown sociopath.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Kevin Costner, who gives a solid performance as Eliot Ness. For all the crap Costner gets now, he sure was in some great flicks in the mid-to-late 80’s and early 90’s.
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Top 100 Movies: No. 87 - Backdraft (1991)
Posted on October 24, 2007
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Backdraft is not Ron Howard’s best work and it did have a contrived plot, but it also had Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Scott Glenn, Kurt Russell and some great fire/action sequences. Not to mention, it’s a tribute to firefighters. How can you go wrong with that?
Backdraft is also in my “if I find it on TV I’m watching it” list. And yes, you will see that list in the future.
I wasn’t able to find a trailer for Backdraft, but i did find a pretty cool video featuring the score by Hans Zimmer. It’s long, but worth a look (and those looking will see spoilers).
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Tags: backdraft, donald sutherland, firefighters, hans zimmer, kurt russel, robert de niro, ron howard, score, scott glenn, top 100 movies, tribute
