RIP, Ray Liotta

[Hardbopjazz]

Actor Ray Liotta has died. He was 67. RIP.

 

[Holy Ghost]

Just got the news, very sad, loooved him in Goodfellas.

[Gheorghe]

Oh that´s bad news. I saw some films with him when he was younger. He often played a bad guy.

Wasnt´there a film where he was a police man who stalked a married woman ? 

And there was another film where a young and married businessman is seduced by a blonde woman and her friend is a quite dubious character played by Liotta ? I don´t remember the titles of the films....

 

[Holy Ghost]

5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Oh that´s bad news. I saw some films with him when he was younger. He often played a bad guy.

Wasnt´there a film where he was a police man who stalked a married woman ? 

And there was another film where a young and married businessman is seduced by a blonde woman and her friend is a quite dubious character played by Liotta ? I don´t remember the titles of the films....

 

Cannot forget when Hannibal scalped Ray's head and was having breakfast with him (if you will) lols. 

[Dan Gould]

2 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Cannot forget when Hannibal scalped Ray's head and was having breakfast with him (if you will) lols. 

That was the moment I said "this is a garbage movie, disgusting for disgusting's sake."  

Liotta's breakthrough in Something Wild was extremely impressive, IMO. But I am a little biased, it was filmed partially in Tallahassee when I was an undergrad, and I remember watching it in a theater, and the audience reaction to the first recognizable Tallahassee location (the restaurant where he runs out on the check). Plus a favorite Poli-Sci professor, Glenn Parker, was an extra in the reunion scene - very visible in a theater, on a TV not so much.

Simple fact is Liotta had charisma and screen presence to spare, right from the start.

Edited May 27, 2022 by Dan Gould

[felser]

He'll always be Shoeless Joe Jackson to me.  RIP.

[Larry Kart]

Excellent movie. Saw it at a pre-release screening with no hint of what was going to be going on and was blown away. Perfectly cast throughout. Jonathan Demme at his best.

[Holy Ghost]

Sorry, Goodfellas, ladies and gentlemen. 

[Holy Ghost]

Think everyone is thinking Field of Dreams. Liotta. Ed Harris, Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones.   

Edited May 28, 2022 by Holy Ghost

[felser]

20 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Think everyone is thinking Field of Dreams. Liotta. Ed Harris, Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones.   

That was intentional on my part.  That's what I'll always think of when I hear Liotta's name.

[Holy Ghost]

17 hours ago, felser said:

That was intentional on my part.  That's what I'll always think of when I hear Liotta's name.

I'm just messing around. I get this movie and The Natural confused all the time; two totally different actors!

[felser]

2 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

I'm just messing around. I get this movie and The Natural confused all the time; two totally different actors!

The Natural was an abomination for anyone who read the Bernard Malamud book.  They utterly destroyed the total meaning of the book by so drastically changing the last part of the story.  So much for the concept of the "antihero".

[medjuck]

24 minutes ago, felser said:

The Natural was an abomination for anyone who read the Bernard Malamud book.  They utterly destroyed the total meaning of the book by so drastically changing the last part of the story.  So much for the concept of the "antihero".

Yah, but I like that Randy Newman (Copeland-like) score. 

[Larry Kart]

That would be Copland-like.

[T.D.]

4 hours ago, felser said:

The Natural was an abomination for anyone who read the Bernard Malamud book.  They utterly destroyed the total meaning of the book by so drastically changing the last part of the story.  So much for the concept of the "antihero".

Very true. 

(Off-topic) That's not unusual for Hollywood. For instance, Winston Groom's novel Forrest Gump (which I read long before the movie was made) is much darker than the Hollywood adaptation.

[Holy Ghost]

Well if we're going to weigh in manuscripts/books v. movies, my first big let-down started with Copulas' adaption of Hinton's "The Outsiders;" couldn't stand it. Hated the cast, acting (can't stand Ralph Machio, Matt Dillon) clearly the director (Nick Cage's uncle) I was 12 when that crap was released. 

[gmonahan]

On 5/29/2022 at 11:32 AM, medjuck said:

Yah, but I like that Randy Newman (Copeland-like) score. 

Me too, regardless of how it's spelled!

 

 

 

gregmo

[Holy Ghost]

In the midst of all this, I stumbled across this movie while I was out of town on tv (among HBO's usual run of movies, that I've been watching since I was 10 (Clash of the Titans, Ghostbusters, Alien...,) The Many Saints of Newark (2021) maybe was his last movie, but it's another version of the young Soprano, a good fella like approach to the gang life like Goodfellas was about. I only watched about a half hour of it, then we had plans to do something, but it looked really good. Anyone no what I'm talking about?

[Gheorghe]

Now I know what movies we had seen on TV:

"Something wild"

" Unlawful entry "