We Are FLOORED by "L.A. Confidential" // Manly Movie Monday

[@SeanTanktop]

We get ENGROSSED by this tough guy, Oscar-nominated noir thriller that totally slaps! Check the FULL UNCUT reaction for just $2 at Patreon.com/SeanTanktop. NEXT WEEK WE DO PREDATOR!!!

[@JoJoJoker]

This is a bad ass flick. Check out Frequency you hairy sleeveless bastard.

[@Wulfdon]

My favorite part of this movie is that each of the three heroes are working a case (Bud working Patchett and Lynn, Exely working the Night Owl, Jack working the killed actor story) and not realizing they were all on the same case, just coming at it from different angles until almost the end. And their growth and change from the beginning of the movie to the end. Just an incredible movie, one of my favorites.

[@Amberelyse]

Pete Briggs I forget, what was the connection between the three cases?

[@JebusChrust]

They also represent three tropes in noir films. The slick detective chasing famewho has connections, the detective who brawls his way through issues, and the detective who plays by the books. You'll notice the old school slick detective is the first to go

[@GF_Baltar]

I'm glad this reaction is *not* off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.

[@SeanTanktop]

Dude. DeVITO KILLS IT IN THIS!!

[@CoryGasaway]

Some prestigious critics argue that L.A. Confidential might be a perfectly executed film. I believe Roger Ebert taught a class at U of I on it, as he took the class through the film scene by scene discussing how flawless the film is, from score, editing, acting, cinematography, dialogue, costume design, etc. etc. It would have won the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as other categories, had it not gone up against Titanic. That was a great year for movies, actually.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

I understand the epicness of Titanic but I believe LA Confidential was robbed. It's flawless.

[@forgivemenot1]

Titanic isn't a great film though, it was more a great spectacle that was well acted and very well shot but the story was pretty basic to be honest, L.A. Confidential was all about the story and there was not one minute of wasted scene that didn't serve that story plus it was also well acted and filmed, Titanic was a light snack but L.A. Confidential was gourmet full course banquet.

[@CoryGasaway]

Simple stories can be great films. I, too, prefer L.A. Confidential, but to claim Titanic isn't great is a gross understatement. I mean, the scope of the film was epic for the 1990s (surpassing even Spielberg's creations). Nothing like it had ever truly been captured on camera at that moment. And it was more than just well-acted and well-directed. The cinematography, the score, the editing, the costume design, etc, etc, were all of a superlative quality. There is a reason why it holds a tie for the record for most Oscar wins. Hollywood politics aside, no film had that kind of impact on the zeitgeist and the culture like Titanic did for quite a long time, both before and after. Though I prefer L.A. Confidential, there is no denying Titanic's brilliance.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@CoryGasaway Agreed. Titanic was really well made flick. My only complaint is that the story left a lot to be desired. The story of a girl and guy that falls in love and her "intended" Billy Zane tries to stop it. If only the movie had a great script...! And if it were me, Zane would not have been cartoonishly villaineous. The concepts were rather cliche in that instances. Like rich girl, poor boy and the system that tries to stop their love. Wouldn't it have been better if the man she was going to be marry would be someone likeable, like someone that the audience may like, like a Kevin Costner-type? And the man maybe is missing a leg from the war. So you can have sympathy for him. So when she want to leave him, it breaks her heart cause she doesn't hate him but she doesn't love him. So there's a real price to pay for he actions. Cause real love is selfish and it's not just some pretty innocent thing.

[@jacobjones5269]

The only thing I disagree with you about is I believe Titanic is a really good, possibly great film.. It’s Hollywood on a grand scale, which is always viewed favorably by the Academy.. I think time has shown LA Confidential to possibly be the best film of the decade.. It has a serious argument, along with Schindler’s List..

[@tylerwright7610]

If there’s such a thing as a perfect movie, this would be it.

[@johnr8095]

When Bud lifts the chair with Sid hudgens out of the floor when they are interrogating him that’s why there’s a hole in the floor in the shootout later. They are in he same room. Lots of little details you miss the first time.

[@lerinjohnson2592]

Dude I never paid attention to that before.

[@kevinlaw6185]

I've seen this movie several times, and that detail never once occurred to me. Thanks for posting it.

[@OCP74]

This movie gets better every time you watch it.

[@SeanTanktop]

Masterclass script

[@georgechapman9688]

This film is top shelf! Mad to think this kind of quality wasn't so long ago

[@billolsen4360]

Yeah, mostly because we get to look at Kim Bassinger again

[@trecontreras6850]

These guys are constantly talking over some pretty important dialogue. Rollo Tomasi was not a bad cop, Rollo Tomasi was a name Exley made up and gave to the unknown person who killed his father.

[@drlee2]

Finally, someone reacting to a movie that's a true masterpiece. Never in a million years did I think I'd get to see someone react to this great film. Watching your reactions to this movie really reminded me how I felt when I first watched this movie. Everything just comes together and there aren't really any plotholes. Interesting that the reactor on the left praised Basinger because she's the actor that actually won an Oscar for this film. I think because it was a male dominated cast that had like 3 leads in Spacey, Crowe and Pearce, they all kind of cancelled each other out and none of them were even nominated, but Spacey (for American Beauty, 1999) and Crowe (for Gladiator, 2000) ended up winning Best Actor Oscars soon after this movie and Pearce starred in Christopher Nolan's highly acclaimed Memento (2001). I will be SO here for Predator! lol

[@maroda8094]

I don't no what you mean. they already reacted to true masterpieces like "commandos" and "hard target"

[@thezdbailey]

This is a top 5 all time movie for me. I just typed in LA Confidential reaction just hoping someone did something like this. Thank you so much.

[@WyldstaarStudios]

It's a crime against cinema that LA Confidential missed out on the Oscar to Titanic.

[@antoinerossignol9355]

FACTS!!!

[@trottheblackdog]

One of the greatest films ever. Just loaded with intrigue and atmosphere.

[@johnkeenan1829]

"Officer" "Councilman" Also, Bloody Christmas actually happened in the LAPD lockup, and the chief of police in this was an actual historical LA police chief. Ellroy liked to include things like that in his novels. This is one of the most perfect movies ever made.

[@deckofcards87]

One of the best modern crime noirs ever made, got totally robbed at the Oscars in '98.

[@zammmerjammer]

11:09 -- that look between the two cops as Guy Pearce says "Don't kill them." Of course, we figure out later, they were SUPPOSED to kill them. That's why they were there. Something you only notice on a rewatch.

[@SeanTanktop]

Exactly!!!

[@johnr8095]

zammmerjammer dudlies guys!

[@theactualbajmahal833]

I would argue that Cromwell's accent subtly "comes and goes" because the almost comically heavy Irish brogue was part of the dirty Captain's good guy act.

[@ScottKane]

An interesting idea 💡

[@ionacustoyreviews857]

LA confidential is such a great movie. Personally I don’t think it get enough credit for being what it is. An amazing good time movie:”.

[@FeaturingRob]

This was based on a book that the novelist, James Ellroy, specifically wrote to be "unfilmable". That writer-director Curtis Hanson (The River Wild and The Wonder Boys) and Brian Helgeland (A Knight's Tale) were able to craft a screenplay (that won the Oscar) that led to this brilliant gem is a testament to their genius. Kim Basinger was the hands-down favorite to win the Oscar for this, and she just swept ALL the awards for this movie. She was just superb as Lynn Bracken. The casting was top-notch, and that the Aussies Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce beat out EVERY---SINGLE---ACTOR in Los Angeles for these roles is amazing. Every actor in Hollywood if they were even remotely right for the roles was seen. Especially Guy Pearce...his biggest role here in the states was in the Aussie drag-queen comedy 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' with Hugo "Agent Smith" Weaving and Terrence "General Zod" Stamp...all in drag. One wouldn't have thought that he would be right for Ed Exeley. Every time I see this movie, I get more out of it and I love it more.

[@sherrysink3177]

What's interesting to me, too, is that usually the book is always better than the movie because some of the best, most detailed parts of the book get left out which can be frustrating to the readers who love the book and don't want their favorite stuff to get cut. In this case, however, I saw the movie, then I read Ellroy's book, and honestly? I thought the movie was better! Ellroy's book was so complicated and full of 50's details, which is great, but sometimes I felt like it dragged because it was so focused on the history and description of things, whereas the movie took the already-complicated story and made it better paced, and more riveting while keeping the complexity of each character. I just love this movie. Every detail of it is gorgeous, from the music to the lighting to the structure of the story and how it all comes together and all the brilliant acting. Guy, Russell and Kevin were amazing.

[@nickmitsialis]

just so you know, the Bud White character lived in an abusive household; his father beat his mother, eventually to death. I think Bud was even chained to her corpse. So, as a cop, domestic violence against wymmyn is an 'instant trigger' for Bud.

[@SeanTanktop]

Big time

[@jp3813]

Just so you know, they reacted to that story at 16:22.

[@Elerad]

One of my all-time favorites. Top 5. One of the very, very few films I would say is pretty much perfect. I love that it has so many plot threads, with different crimes and different character motivations, that all come together in the end in a way you never would have expected when the film started.

[@Qualimar]

Just a wonderful movie, one of my favourites ever and great to see a reaction to it! I know Kevin Spacey is a terrible person in real in real life but damn was he great in this and Jack's response to Ed's 'why did you become a cop?' (17:47) is just amazing and kind of heartbreaking.

[@SeanTanktop]

Yeah! Monsters can do great work and he does great in a lot of his early films and definitely here.

[@LobsterSpecial]

Might be my favorite film. It fits a very complex plot together seamlessly, and make it look and sound good to boot.

[@IvanPolyansky]

one of the best films ever made hands down.

[@ShaunRF]

This movie blew me away when I first watched it in my late teens or early twenties. Its not the kind of movie I expected to like, but it quickly became one of my favorite movies of all time.

[@suk6323]

Some folk have said that this is a 1990s Chinatown. Chinatown has one of the best original screenplays ever; LA Confidential has a very good adapted screenplay indeed. Also, some of the same issues regarding masculinity and the abused 'femme fatale'.

[@bugvswindshield]

Back in the day...little known fact..... A person of Irish decent...who's parents or grandparents were from the old country, people would casually slip into their native ascent to say "something from the old country" . As people still do today lol

[@toti26]

I think that Curtis Hanson made a really perfect movie. It's a real shame that due to the succes and noise of Titanic (also well deserved, i'm not hating here), L. A. Confidential never has had the recognition in the popular culture that it could have. Or may be is a blessing that now is an obscure cult movie to show to those who don't know it.

[@cathleencooks748]

Like I shared with my oldest grandson a couple of years ago when he was 17. He is now a devotee of this movie.

[@Kasino80]

It's a much better movie than Titanic.

[@43nostromo]

The music was composed by the legendary Jerry Goldsmith, who was nominated for best original score. In his distinguished career, he was nominated for a total of 18 Academy Awards, and one win for "The Omen" (1976). It's no surprise as he composed the earlier score for "Chinatown" (1974), often regarded as one of the greatest scores of all time. For "Chinatown" he composed the music in only two weeks after the prior composer was fired. Nobody does LA film noir like Goldsmith. No one.

[@themoviedealers]

I actually lived in the building where a lot of this was shot. The Pacific Electric Building, 600 N. Main Street, downtown LA. It was turned into apartments in 2005. A lot of the police office scenes happened in there. The Nite Owl Cafe was right across the street, it's still a little lunch place but doesn't look like that. You can use that actual bathroom though.

[@SeanTanktop]

oh wow! Nice!

[@gregmattson2238]

awesome reaction although I think you should put in ONE thing. Namely, the talk between exley and the execs at the end. Its the one time he tells the whole truth and how he uses that truth to leverage himself to become a 'hero' yet again. I used to watch that scene over and over, it was just a brilliant power play on top of all power plays.

[@redviper6805]

Best cop movie ever! Loved the Rollo Tomasi part!

[@nates9029]

This is such a great movie! One of my all-time favorites.

[@notabritperse]

Great reaction! "Sexy curtain" is now in the lexicon. Re: Cromwell's accent, I think there's some authenticity there. A mid-20th century Irish cop, probably born at the end of the 19th century. He was probably either born in Ireland or, at least, raised by and among recent immigrants.

[@TheTrueObelus]

A minus??! It was a perfect movie. They don’t get better

[@bugvswindshield]

oh and REMEMBER THE TIME. EVERYONE IN THE PD JUST GOT BACK FROM WW2

[@fester2306]

Some friendly suggestions: Heat, Collateral, Inception, Zodiac, Insomnia, Sicario, Sicario 2, Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, The Prestige, No Country For Old Men, Baby Driver, Jarhead, Black Hawk Down, Team America: World Police, and The Martian.

[@kenmarshall4483]

The late 90s was the beginning of the Australian invasion of great actors like Crowe, Pierce, Kidman, Watts, Blanchett, and some joker named Ledger.

[@MsAppeljack]

She won her Oscar for this.

[@MsAppeljack]

One of my all time favorites. Great reactions guys :)

[@PaginGirl1]

Another movie in my top 10! The story superior & nothing predictable. Despite the sexy 'curtain'- LOL! Character driven and to this day still holds up as top notch. I saw this when it 1st came out & agree with others here that it should have won best picture that year. Love this movie. 😻

[@BrunoOliveira-kl5sx]

You guys should watch No country for old men

[@fester2306]

And Sicario.

[@twokingz04]

This is just another reminder that I'm getting old because you guys are just watching this film for the 1st time.. Lol

[@SeanTanktop]

I saw it when it came out, but the other guys just missed it when it was released

[@chaysemorrow6213]

THIS..... is what I need right now.

[@vectorshaman338]

Movie for the suggestion box, "Way of the Gun" w/ Benicio Del Toro. Amazing action flick that really flew under the radar.

[@SeanTanktop]

We watched it but didn't record! We all had a real good time with it! Great old school Benicio in that one!

[@ScottKane]

WE HAVE ACTUALLY SEEN THAT ONE but I think it was off camera. It was a wild film. Like a savvier better made Boondock Saints.

[@gabrieltorres2882]

McQuarrie's follow up to The Usual Suspects...

[@pablom-f8762]

Benicio has some neat gun moves in that one.

[@wendellbunn10]

One of my all time favorite movies.

[@NifferGal]

Completely forgot about this awesome movie! I even saw it in theatre. Thanks guys! 😁

[@isabelsilva62023]

Sean Tank Top The highlight of the film is the film itself. You all seemed to have missed the subplot of how much the lives of actors and celebrities were haunted/destroyed by the gutter press.

[@auntdeen6314]

I kept yelling at you guys to pause the damn movie because you were talking over some of the best dialogue!

[@notlobparrot3057]

New Series Idea: "Chicago Lawyer Reacts to Interrogation Scenes from TV and Movies"

[@steveclevenger5826]

Wow, I almost totally forgot about this movie. It really is A GREAT FUCKING MOVIE, as you all remarked several times.

[@SeanTanktop]

It was heralded in its day, but time and social circumstances have let it fall by the wayside! A true testament to the craft!

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

One of my favorite films - film noir with a capital F, for "FUCK YEAH!!!" We'll never forget you, Curtis Hanson!

[@ylvasonder4856]

Great film. Every time I watch it I'm reminded all over again at just how...perfect...it is. Great book, too. Read it, and your admiration for this adaptation will be even greater.

[@SeanTanktop]

Everybody keeps saying I gotta check this fuckin book!! I guess I’ll have too!!

[@RamblingRose08]

That was a great reaction! I have always loved this movie. This and The Usual Suspects were two of my favorite movies growing up. I'm so glad that this reaction brought me to your channel. You guys are great and I look forward to more reactions in the future. Thank you.

[@SeanTanktop]

Appreciate it! We got a bunch of others we've done! Glad you like em and thanks for stopping by!

[@ScottKane]

Hey, thank you!

[@shainewhite2781]

I'm glad you guys are doing Predator next week! That's one of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies! Number 1 on my list! Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😉

[@nluna75]

Equilibrium is a must watch.

[@garyglaser4998]

Scorsese probably would have ruined this movie with too much realism. This movie is brilliant because it's form pays homage to the era it represents. Hanson struck just the right tone.

[@susanmaggiora4800]

Predator? Oh yes....😏 Edit: Totally agree with your Predator 2 take. People love to shit on it but I always thought it was pretty entertaining, plus any movie that has Gary Busey chewing up the scenery is generally going to be time well spent.

[@Hiraghm]

$50 in 1950 would be over a week's pay for most people. Maybe half a week's pay for a craftsman.

[@thomasbrown9402]

Damn you, Sean, for riffing over the Rollo Tomassi backstory!

[@SeanTanktop]

We got it though!!! We realized the twist!! P

[@Rmlohner]

To truly appreciate this film, read the book. It only has about a third of the story, but still hangs together perfectly logically on its own. The crew actually wrote out every plot point on index cards so they could try to rearrange what was left after they took something out, until it made sense again.

[@SeanTanktop]

You know what, I've not read the book! I gotta check it out! Reading the Good Lord Bird right now!

[@Rmlohner]

@@SeanTanktop It's actually part three of a four part series. They can all kind of be read on their own, but reading the whole thing together does make things a lot richer. The others are The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz.

[@ericmarley7060]

"That's why her mother couldn't ID her. Jesus fucking Christ..." "No Mr. White, Pierce Moorehouse Patchet."

[@auntdeen6314]

Ed never knew the name of the man who killed his father. The guy got away. Ed made up the name “Rollo Tomasi” to just “give him some personality. It was a made-up name, so Dudley couldn’t find anything in the records AND Ed knew that Dudley could not have heard the name from anyone but Jack. In the last seconds of his life, Jack Vincennes killed his own murderer.

[@pigpiggypigbigpig681]

My favorite film noir. What a great movie.

[@tommyt1971]

That scene where White finds the body under the house made me jump outta my seat the first time I saw it! It’s so well done you can practically smell the stench coming off the corpse!

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

Question during a Bud White rampage: "Who is this guy?" Answer: he's LAPD, especially in 1953. The LAPD has a long history of corruption and the film is inspired by that history. (Several of the plot points are loosely fictionalized versions of actual events, like the shooting of Bugsy Segal in his livingroom.) There was a reason why LA didn't have as much of mob presence as some other major US cities like NY and Chicago. Why, because some members of the LAPD were the mob! During prohibition in the 1920`s, members of the department ran speakeasies, one of which, on Main Street was refurbished and re-opened up as a privately owned bar within the last 20 years. www.ladowntownnews.com/news/downtowns-prohibition-history/article_73350d22-3c82-11ea-9ecc-37888bcc24a6.html

[@ScottKane]

This is super interesting. Thank you. 👌🏻

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

@@ScottKane You're welcome! LA Confidential is one of the best films from a decade crowded with fantastic theatrical films!

[@jodi2847]

The only bad acting you'll ever see from Kevin Spacey, is when he's trying to convince you he's attracted to the very attractive woman he's supposed to be attracted to.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

Such a great movie! Russel Crowe, his intensity was amazing, his gaze pierces the screen, may be my favorite role of his. When I watched the movie I remember being confused that the case was closed over the black kidnapers being killed. I did not understand what was the link between this and the bar slaughter. I just view it as this is something that happens with cops sometime where they are so into what they are doing and are not seeing the big picture. I thought this was a real good choice you guys picked cause LA Confidential without being a typical male action pick, is a really good "bro" or "guy" movie. Three or two guys sticking together against the World done right.

[@ScottKane]

This guy gets it.

[@Scotty_Does_Know]

Whats really cool about the movie is that its based on true events and places like the formosa still exist, which was awesome to visit. Really cool film.

[@Assisi4]

Sean creates new word combining "fucking" & "front" and created "frunkin" Love it! I think I may have done this too. 😂

[@shainewhite2781]

2:23, he hates wife beaters, and wanted to become a cop to get even.

[@ScottKane]

Interesting!

[@davidmorgan6896]

Aw c'mon, the cinematography is fabulous! The colour palette is both beautiful and evokes the period perfectly. The direction is superb too - four leads, each with their own arc, and yet the pacing doesn't drop or grow annoying and the story is very clear at all times. The acting is excellent, the writing too, but so is everything.

[@SeanTanktop]

I think it's competent and classically shot, just not overtly stylish or super cinematically muscular like a Fincher or a Scorsese would be, was more the point I wanted to get across! It's what the Brit greats do best imo!!!

[@davidmorgan6896]

@@SeanTanktop "Brit greats" like Powell & Pressburger, Lean, Scott? None of those known for distinctive, eye-catching cinamatography. We're going to have to disagree on this as I think both direction and cinamatography are excellent. The cinamatographer, Spinotti, worked on Manhunter, far better than Silence of the Lambs IMO; less gothic. He also made Heat, which is a masterclass. The guy had pedigree.

[@patrickb4750]

@@SeanTanktop I have to completely disagree too. The cinematography and production design are phenomenal, timeless and possibly the best examples out there. It feels authentic, where Fincher's stylized tone creates separation between the audience and the film, here it pulls you in as there's a believability to it, like you could literally walk right into the scene. I believe this film will age more gracefully than anything Fincher has done.

[@shainewhite2781]

25:00, the climax is my favorite part of the movie.

[@mattd687]

This is one of my favorite movies of all time

[@oakraidergrl4lif]

LA Confidential is a good ass movie

[@SeanTanktop]

So good!

[@richardkovacs2006]

Shout out loud , don't just whisper: KEVIN SPACEY!!! He is a MASTERFUL actor. Just that tiny scene where he's killed and dies is chilling. I haven't seeen anyone exectuing the moment of death this perfectly on film. But in fact he is perfect in every scene. His cool attitude as Hollywood Jack, his change of mind and attitude with Matt Reynolds' death and Ed's story of Rollo Tomasi. ... Spacey was brilliant in this.

[@redviper6805]

That’s the movie that should have won most of those Oscars in 1997, NOT stupid Titanic!

[@carolannelabellekarlin440]

Great reaction to one of my favorite movies of all time!! Thanks for an entertaining video!😎

[@anyname7878]

"Eskimo Bros"!! Love It!

[@zvimur]

20:00 Dudes, when somebody asks if you told anyone else what you just told him, RUN.

[@ste.6026]

Don't see this film mentioned too much but for me it's up there with 'Shawshank'... It truly is a class movie...

[@SeanTanktop]

one of THEE best

[@cassandramcbride7007]

My favourite part is when Bud attacks Lynn, because we can see how Bud struggle is. trying not to become what his father was. The way he was ready to puch her, yet, he stopped and look at her, realizing he was going to do what he tried to stop others doing during the movie. Bud become an abusive man, and that even made him more angry against Exley. The way Lynn was waiting for him, looking sad because she had betray him. But she didnt had other choice....

[@Hiraghm]

"This is insane behavior" No... this is the world before it went insane.

[@shainewhite2781]

Nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture. Too bad it lost to TITANIC.

[@steveclevenger5826]

And it is SO superior to Titantic, IMHO.

[@brendanfoehr5086]

Titanic was not perfect but it was an excellent popcorn film, like The Mummy '99. It's well done and it's fun and impactful. However, it should NEVER have beaten L.A. Confidential, but Titanic mania in 1997-98? For those too young to remember... it was fucking madness. Actual fucking madness.

[@RevanHorner]

Well the police riot actually happened in 1951. It was called the Bloody Christmas, and it was police assaulting a group that was mostly made up of Mexicans. It was a horror.

[@lizd2943]

Also there was a real Johnny Stampanato who was Mickey Cohen's bodyguard and actually did date Lana Turner. He got violent and Turner's niece killed him.

[@maximcypher3109]

@@lizd2943 No, it was her daughter.

[@Vanska0]

Helll yes!! Best cop movie along with "Dirty Harry" for sure !

[@SeanTanktop]

This flick fucking rules

[@drlee2]

Yeah, LA Confidential and Dirty Harry might be my Top 2 cop movies also.

[@SeanTanktop]

drlee2 I would say throw in French Connection and you got a hot lil’ trifecta right there

[@drlee2]

@@SeanTanktop Sorry, I don't like French Connection. I think that one is overrated. That movie came out same year as Dirty Harry, 1971 and I think Dirty Harry holds up much better and is the better film, even though French Connection won Best Picture. Speaking of, LA Confidential should have won Best Picture, not Titanic.

[@SeanTanktop]

@@drlee2 agree to disagree. I think French Connection is better for how kinda plain spoke and unpolished it is, just cause I'm a sucker for true-crime stuff, but to each his own. Dirty Harry is fantastic too!

[@JoJoJoker]

LA Confidential is one of the very best movies of the 1990s if not all time. Possibly Russell Crowe’s best role which everyone forgets. Kevin Spacey plays yet another oddly foretelling character.

[@rubixqoob8601]

Love this movie. Great review.

[@JANDERSO5554]

@17:03 Ah, the laugh of a man who has seen the film before. Mwuhahahahahahahaha!!!

[@rollyro71]

Great Fu@/

[@whedonobsessed]

We watched this movie in highschool, it has a lot to teach about a really well constructed film!

[@J_C_CH]

I love the part where Jack tricks Smith into giving himself away to Exley with the "Rolo Tomassi" name. Jack may have only considered himself good for show business, but in truth he was a damn good detective in the end.

[@SeanTanktop]

Truly fantastic twist

[@garwinbonefield2739]

I have a suggestion for your Manly Movie Monday. Shoot 'Em Up (2007). Stars: Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti . You MUST see it, soon!

[@keithhammond7478]

In the montage where two man shooter crews are rubbing out Mickey Cohen lieutenants, a briefcase of powder is taken. That's the 25lbs of heroin & the crew is Dick Stenzlen & Buzz Meeks.

[@Kujobu]

Gotta rewatch. And dang, how many of these do you have in the can?

[@SeanTanktop]

13 of em! It was Patron exclusive series till the world took a shit and its one way to keep the content rolling.

[@SeanTanktop]

we shot this in 2018! lol

[@zevroman]

This was a fun reaction.. i like it. :)

[@robgeach8105]

the reason it's stylized in a "native film" look is because it's the only non-grainy colorized way to callback to detective noir films of the era without stepping over the actors, plot, effects, stages, etc. imagine if they had some weird fincher or aronofsky cliche shots placed in the middle of the rest of the film, or alternatively some sort of "sin city lite" aesthetic across the entire film. it would've pulled you out of an engrossing film.

[@SeanTanktop]

I do think it’s cleaner, classic palette works to its advantage for sure!

[@tommyt1971]

THIS is the movie that should’ve won Best Pic for 1997 - Titanic had NOTHING on this except the billion it earned at the box ofc.

[@DerOberfeldwebel]

'This is a procedural nightmare' Gentlemen, these are the cowboy years of police work.

[@johnr8095]

This is one movie that outdid the book. The book had a meandering plot that also introduced a serial killer. It also took scenes from the book and changed them around. The shootout at the end actually took place in the beginning with different characters. This was actually the second book of a series. And the previous books main character was actually Buzz Meeks. (the bodyguard who bud white found under the house. In the original book he took money from Dudley smith, and they have a shootout in the beginning of the book. Buzz Meeks is killed. Before he does though Dudley says says “do you have a valediction, boyo?” Almost the same thing he asks jack Vincennes in this movie after he shoots him. The rollo romassey bit was made up for the movie. And is in fact one of the best things in the movie actually. That he tellls the name to Ed exley who instantly recognizes that Dudley is crooked and had something to do with Jack Vincennes death is one of the best scenes in the movie. The movie takes a meandering book jettisons the side plot (which, if I remember correctly, was actually similar to the plot of the blue dahlia movie with josh hartnett with the serial killer in Hollywood) and hones it into a fine diamond. They also take scenes from the book but rearrange them and have different characters involved. A very strange adaption of a book. But one where the do better than the book itself. I actually really like the author a lot. But this time they outdid the book. One of the few times you can say that about a movie. Also, the movie and book blend in a lot of historical characters and events in with the story. For example, Jonny stompanato (the guy who’s balls Bud white puts in. Vice to demand info from) is actually a real guy. And the incident at the police station where the cops who are drinking and get told that some Mexicans who had previously beaten up some cops (which was the rumor) is based on an actual scandal that took place called Bloody Christmas. The tabloid rag that Sid hudegens writes for is actually based on a paper called “confidential” written at the time and the tv show that Vincennes works for is actually tailored after the tv show “dragnet”. Of course the author uses the people in fictitional settings. But he does this sort of stuff a lot in his books.

[@o0pinkdino0o]

One of the best movies ever made. Superbly crafted, perfectly cast (Crowe and Pearce were unknown), fabulous pacing and very smart. You guys should try Copland if you like this - James (Logan) Mangold with Stallone actually acting (his best role) with Ray Liotta, Harvey Kietel, Robert de Nero, Robert (T2) Patrick and John (West Wing) Spencer. Another really clever 90s flick.