Thursday, February 20, 2025

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Streamers (1983)

Cokes: Hey, hey. Why is he crying?
Roger: He's crying because he's a queer.
Cokes: You a queer, boy?
Richie: Yes, Sergeant.
Cokes: How long you been a queer?
Richie: I don't know.
Roger: All of his fucking life.
Cokes: Don't be talking mean at him. Ain't two months ago, 
maybe even yesterday, I called a kid who was a queer a lot 
of awful names. Now I just want to be figuring things out.
Richie: I don't know what's hurting in me. 
I don't know what's hurting in me.
Cokes: Oh, no, no, boy. You listen to me.
You're going to be okay. There's a lot
of worse things than being a queer in this world. 
I mean, you could have leukemia. That's worse.

The king Robert Altman was born 100 years ago today!
Tell me your five favorite Altman movies in the comments.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nashville, The Player, M*A*S*H, Short Cuts, Gosford Park (not necessarily in this order)

Anonymous said...

3 Women!

Anonymous said...

Top 3:
Nashville -- really is that great
The Long Goodbye -- incredible movie
Gosford Park -- In addition to many fine qualities it has my two favorite lines of all time: "Difficult color, green. Very tricky." and "But none of US are going to see it." (RIP Maggie Smith)

Ater that: McCabe & Mrs Miller, California Split, Thieves Like Us, M*A*S*H

bdog said...

Nashville-a fucking masterpiece
Short Cuts
Gosford Park
The Long Goodbye
Three Women

Anonymous said...

Agree with all of those mentioned, but Streamers, Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, A Wedding and Images are also recommended viewing.