Looking For Mr. Goodbar

What an odd way to start a movie. We get three and a half minutes of the above… but with about 20 seconds worth of excerpts for various songs. Not even artfully mixed together, but just faded in and then faded out.

Very strange.

Anyway, I’m watching this because Hazel Flagg mentioned it… but it’s certainly a name I’ve seen a gazillion times before. It became, like, a zeitgeisty thing, right? But like with many 70s movies, I’ve never seen it before.

Oh, the 70s.

Heh heh, that’s some set.

Does this count as a “New Hollywood” movie? I mean, it looks like one (i.e., more naturalish lighting and more grainy etc), but:

Richard Brooks certainly is a veteran director (and this is on the tail end of his career)… (And he never did anything substantial after this movie, so whatever was left of his career was tanked by this movie.)

*gasp*

Sex n drugs n porn!

The mix of fantasy and reality is a lot of fun.

Hey! Richard Gere!

Right, this is like his second movie…

I like this movie… but it is a bit of a mess. It’s like it tries to cram All The Issues into one movie: You’ve got abortions, Catholicism, orgies, racism, deaf children, drugs, feminism, poverty… every new scene is an opportunity to cover a new Issue…

That is whatsisface, right? But… how… I thought he was younger? Or is it his older brother or something?

I’m constantly interpreting scenes as being obviously fantasy… but then they turn out not to be. I guess that’s something done on purpose, but… these are some pretty absurd scenes.