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greennui

A Five Easy Pieces for the postwar generation.

7 years 8 months ago

-1flb2-

Great movie. Shirley MacLaine lights up the screen. Her first Academy Award nomination.

7 years 10 months ago

Some Came Running is an interesting mixture of compelling writing and tedium. MacLaine is certainly the highlight, though she seems so little a part of the story. Her character is mostly just a backboard for Sinatra until the last act. There are a few moments of profound writing, one scene concludes with a man admitting to his mistress "yknow you were 4 years old when I married my wife..." And all the moments of misogyny are definitely viewed critically.

This certainly drags though, at a runtime of nearly two hours. I did not care at all for the romance between Sinatra and the school teacher, which is unfortunately the center of the film. (5/10)

5 months 2 weeks ago

Forzelius

What a fantastic score by Bernstein

1 year 11 months ago

Ebbywebby

This is one of the least deserving films I've seen from TSPDT's top 1000, and this one is even in the top *500*. Incredible. The values of this film are thoroughly archaic. Every woman is a doormat, and every guy's biggest concern is finding the next cigarette and shot of whisky. There's one scene where Sinatra and Martin get a woman so drunk that she literally turns into a walking zombie. Meanwhile, three major plotlines ( spoiler

) end without a resolution. And Sinatra and Martin do not sing, but Maclaine does. Oh yeah, THAT makes sense.

2 years 12 months ago

Siskoid

You know when you watch a movie for Shirley MacLaine and she really isn't in it enough? Well, that's the case with Some Came Running, and it hurts even more because she's the best thing in the film. Maybe even the only thing. She's so natural and sincere. Truth is, this Sinatra-led melodrama feels impossibly dated by its rampant 1950s-style misogyny. I waited and waited for the film to show that it was aware of itself, and maybe at the end, it means to say so, but I'm not sure it does. It's a whole lot of toxic masculinity, men behaving badly towards women and never truly feeling the consequences. The men are such shitbirds, it makes every romantic entanglement feel foolish and undeserved. The women in the picture try to decide their own fates, but the world they live in doesn't want them to, and if the story had been told more from their point of view, the indictment of the patriarchy might have worked. But this is also a story where it is overtly said that "great men" should be forgiven their trespasses. Women are just willing victims, paying for men's sins. So I don't know. It might be trying to only show society and let the audience judge, but it's damn hard to watch.

5 years ago