tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post396399906153929905..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: The ExecutionersEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-18895221222416519402008-01-08T20:19:00.000-08:002008-01-08T20:19:00.000-08:00The Scorcese remake is essentially THE EXECUTIONER...The Scorcese remake is essentially THE EXECUTIONERS rewritten today -- Cady is so over the top that he comes close to parody, the Nick Nolte character is ineffectual as hero and family man, some of the action is 007-style physically implausible (Cady hangs on to the underside of Nolte's vehicle on the drive all the way to the coast??),and the Juliette Lewis teenage daughter is a space cadet who sort of wants to get molested. DeNiro is impossible to accept at face value as a backwoods swamp rat: Nolte actually might have been more intrinsically believable in the role.Fred Blosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07307848103704970189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-59443071413335118362008-01-08T18:41:00.000-08:002008-01-08T18:41:00.000-08:00I agree about the excellence of this one, and coun...I agree about the excellence of this one, and count me in on liking the parts about the sociology of time and place. I'm the right age to like that kind of thing, too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-87649240167394264222008-01-08T18:11:00.000-08:002008-01-08T18:11:00.000-08:00Patti, you need to read it. It beats the hell out ...Patti, you need to read it. It beats the hell out of CAPE FEAR the first film the way the first towers over CF the remake...and I won't even agree it's slow (though I haven't reread it in a decade plus--I'll take your word on cutesy early on), so much as just right as the decent couple, as you note, Ed, don't turn into the jellyfish of the films but come to realize, very early on, that they have to do what they have to do, however little they like it--and however damned hard it is, in every suspenseful way. Pity Mitchum wasn't able to star in a faithful adaptation. Still my favorite MacDonald.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-38250354464653763112008-01-08T17:10:00.000-08:002008-01-08T17:10:00.000-08:00Never read the book although I like him very much,...Never read the book although I like him very much, but it was maybe the scariest movie I've ever seen. He radiates evil. Nobody did it better. Not DeNiro either.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com