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
Montgomery cliff or john wayne without their shirt on? it is not essential to their images as actors. it would be ridiculous for me to play something and it would be crazy for dustin hoffman to try to be commando or conan or rambo. it doesn t work. the people only accept you for certain things. there is a lot of ideas of returning to traditional notions of masculinity after the sensitive 70s but these things go in cycles and by the late 80s we were ready for an action hero who was a little more sensitive. do you think you have a chance against us mr. cowboy? yip py ky yay [bleep]. die hard is as perfect a movie as casablanca. it is a heist movie where the heist makes sense. you have john mcclain who is not a superhero. a regular new york cop.