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A crack team of thieves.
A plan that cant fail.
Our choices span several decades and arent all in English most are thrillers, although a few are comedies.
In some, our anti-heroes prevail other times, everything goes terribly wrong.
But what connects them all is that primal rush of landing the big score.
Dont try any of this at home.
And how do you not admire a Boston crime movie where they attempt to rob Fenway Park?
(Worse than Jack Clark.)
As for that ending, its the king of the cliffhangers.
The movie wasnt a hit, but it absolutely should have been.
And lord help us, Daniel Craig is amazing in this movie.
Its not for nothing that Soderbergh lists him as Introducing Daniel Craig in the credits.
His name isJoe Bang, for crying out loud.
(The movie really should have just been calledMacGuffin.
In later movies, hed perfect the dollhouse-precise production design and funny/sad tonal balance.
Even with the carnage that turns up, if you needed a big job done, youd hire them.
Michael Palins Ken knows the score too, even if he cant get anyone to understand him.
The only question is whos going to survive with her.
Remember: Aristotle was not Belgian.
The central message of Buddhism is not Every man for himself.
And the London Underground is not a political movement.
Those are all mistakes, Otto.
She looked them up.
13.Dog Day Afternoon(1975) (available to rent onAmazon)
Sonny doesnt want any trouble.
You should revisit this.
If that were our plane, itd be crashing.
Tarantino wears his influences on his sleeve in his debut maybe too much?
and its too talky and self-absorbed … wow, what talk and self-absorption!
And never forget: Steven Wright as the DJ!
He wouldnt be that disciplined in his later films.
Whether or not you think thats a good thing is your own personal taste.
But Tarantinos career was never the same after this, for better or for worse.
I eventually realized that heist films are usually unemotional, hesaid at the time.
They tend to be glamorous and deliberately superficial.
And the sequels are better than theyve been given credit.
Noise is an enemy.)
They may be exquisite thieves, but theyre deeply flawed human beings.
(Screenwriters David Newman and Robert Benton were hugely influenced by GodardsBreathless.)
After all, the perfect crime needs perfect planning.
A racetrack will be the scene of the crime, and Johnnys plan seems foolproof what could go wrong?
