Author Topic: Cool Hand Luke (Read 556 times)

JB73 · « **on:** July 11, 2005, 02:31:19 PM »

i have seen some here and there over the years, just never got around to watching the full movie until this past weekend....

it was so-so overall. did i miss something that makes this movie a "classic"?

JBA · « **Reply #1 on:** July 11, 2005, 02:44:01 PM »

"What we have here is a failure to communicate"

rpm · « **Reply #2 on:** July 11, 2005, 03:04:14 PM »

Let's see... Car wash girl, 50 boiled eggs, failure to communicate, Paul Newman's lack of respect for authority...

Yeah, you must have missed something.

midnight Target · « **Reply #3 on:** July 11, 2005, 03:08:54 PM »

Don't know about "classic" but that scene with the blonde washing her car....

That made for many a sleepless night as a young man.

JB73 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 11, 2005, 03:20:07 PM »

rpm im not saying it was a bad movie, just not as "powerful" as say papillon as far as prision movies go.

i guess the hype over stated the movie.

and yes the car wash girl was rockin!

FiLtH · « **Reply #5 on:** July 11, 2005, 03:27:37 PM »

Ya the car wash girl was the best. Another favorite scene was when he was shaking the bush, just before another escape attempt.

All those suds just slidin down her body....man oh man.

rpm · « **Reply #6 on:** July 11, 2005, 03:28:22 PM »

I'd rank it up there with Papillon. Maybe because Papillon was based on a true story it is harder hitting to you.

I've always considered Luke to be one of Newman's finest performances, right behind Hud.

Blooz · « **Reply #7 on:** July 11, 2005, 04:31:35 PM »

Lucille........

Anything look that good got to be named...Lucille....

RightF00T · « **Reply #8 on:** July 11, 2005, 05:51:41 PM »

Shut up you motherheads...

cpxxx · « **Reply #9 on:** July 12, 2005, 01:17:42 AM »

Try watching it again with a couple of beers. I always find that most movies make a lot more sense when you have a couple of beers inside you.

I think it's a classic and I generally hate prison movies. (I must have been a prisoner in a past life!)

Leslie · « **Reply #10 on:** July 12, 2005, 05:16:24 AM »

Love that movie.

Les

Eagler · « **Reply #11 on:** July 12, 2005, 08:01:52 AM »

the pepper and the bloodhounds...

shakin the bush boss, I'm shaking it..

shoveling the sand onto the road in breakneck speed ...

too many more moments to type out here ..

maybe you need to watch it again ... in about 10 years

and Papillon the book was 1000x better than the movie

Leslie · « **Reply #12 on:** July 12, 2005, 08:17:52 AM »

When my dad went to sea, their ship sailed past Devil's Island at night. That was when Papillon was there (1937). Salud Islands (Health Islands) off the coast of French Guyana on the way to Brazil.

He said life at sea was lonely, and couldn't sleep on deck at night (it was so hot) due to vampire bats that would come out to sea several miles. At least they were advised to not sleep on deck at night in that area.

Les