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In Reply to: Am I the only one here who finds "Casablanca" boring and generally poorly made? posted by Victor Khomenko on November 07, 2002 at 08:05:57:
Victor, are you sure you weren't just in a bad mood when watching (the cat had just knocked over a bottle of Sam Smith's or something)?Casablanca is one of my favorites (although if I met someone like Ingrid's character in real life, I'd say she deserves a good smacking!). Tell me this, then - how would you compare this film to, say, The Maltese Falcon (seeing how this is another widely-praised Bogart vehicle)?
I gave at the office!
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Casablanca is a truly great American film. He's got some ideological grind that prevents him from experiencing what's really good about this country.
Remember - that was last night, therefore - AFTER the elections, meaning I was in most definitely good mood. It is AuPh who's been pissed.I haven't seen the Falcon in many years, but I don't recall being touched by it either.
Pretty cold and unappealling fish.
In this order:
Treasure of Sierra Madre
Caine Mutiny
Key Largo
African Queenmp
Didn't get into Maltese or casablanca, but I understand why they are so popular. Casablanca as both a warfilm, and as a love story, was not too sappy. I have seen many forgetable, ridiculously sappy and gushy war/love stories from that time period. Casablanca was different.mp
Agree these are all excellent flics. Not to be missed.You are wasting your time on VK, he's got a lot of baggage to deal with before he can understand America.
was that I was shocked that Casablanca was so much better than the Maltese Falcon, after watching the two close together. Although Bogart was excellent in both. He was also in another of my favorites - The African Queen.On an unrelated note - It's funny how your favorites are formed isn't it? Just mentally going through films that are my favorites, they don't have a lot in common, just sort of stick with you.
I gave at the office!
Casablanca is for saps.I mean, what sort of stupid bitch would leave a man like Rick standing in the rain......and for what ? What a slut- marrying some coward she wasn't even in love with. Having betrayed Rick- she then betrays her husband with her silence about her love for Rick- what a slut.
The Maltese Falcon is a very funny film- if you don't see the comedy in it then you are a sap. Dialog fired from a trench broom in a noir orgy of caricatures. The stuff dreams are made of - except for saps, they dream of Casablanca.
"When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it"- Sam Spade a bona fide non- sap of a man.
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