cabbageboy Posted April 30, 2005 Report Posted April 30, 2005 I picked up a cheap DVD of Bonfire of the Vanities the other day. I remembered seeing it on HBO years ago and thinking it was really good, yet the movie was getting trashed horribly by almost every critic (Maltin gives it a BOMB in his book for instance). Am I the only one who thinks this movie is highly underrated?
Taker666 Posted April 30, 2005 Report Posted April 30, 2005 Am I the only one who thinks this movie is highly underrated? probably, sence I never heard of it.
cabbageboy Posted April 30, 2005 Author Report Posted April 30, 2005 It's a movie based on Tom Wolfe's novel, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith. It's a satire of 80s NYC, with a big time stockbroker (Hanks) and his mistress (Griffith) accidentally running down a black dude in the Bronx, and the media outcry and eventual trial of Hanks. Bruce Willis is a reporter who breaks the story and later tries to find out the truth.
MDH257 Posted May 1, 2005 Report Posted May 1, 2005 People seem to hate it since the quality dropoff from book to movie was steeper than usual. There's a book about the making of the movie called The Devil's Candy by Julie Salamon. It's basically about how the studio thought that the movie of a blockbuster book was a sure thing since they had a big director and big stars, but they ended up watering down everthing that made the book great and miscast the leads.
Fuzzy Dunlop Posted May 1, 2005 Report Posted May 1, 2005 The best parts of the book were the internal monologues, and the ten-page chats about nothing. In the movie, the characters were just one-dimensional.
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