robinson, apparently tired, punched fairly well and rocked jake right to his heels. come on, ray. a director and actor finds a story at the right time and the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. it s like watching an animal. i think raging bull is a great title. and the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all of the black-and-white gore, the violence of the flash bulbs going off. when he designed the movie, marty, he purposefully didn t put a clutch on the film. there s no clutch. hey, ray, you never went down, ray. you never got me down, ray. raging bull is a boxing movie for people who don t like boxing movies, but it s really not about that. it s about this man, jake, based on a real person, who s really at war with himself. come on. harder. harder. i didn t really understand boxing, but the character was interesting. he was just so contr
you had these brilliant performances by all of them, and then rob put it all together and made it sing. people didn t know what we were doing. they thought it was a real documentary. when we first previewed it, people saw it and said, why would you make a movie about a band that nobody ever heard of? and one that s so bad? working on a sex farm plowing through your baby field let s say you look at a prospective movie and it s a square. rob reiner has a way of turning it sideways, looking at it differently, and finding a way to enjoy it in a completely nonconventional way. he didn t fall? inconceivable. you keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means. the princess bride is a blend between romance, satire, adventure, swashbuckling. i mean, it s all mixed in and it s a very strange mixture, hard to capture.