The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

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" Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss. The Bonfire of the Vanities, which is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe, is considered to not only to be a box office turkey, but a critical one "

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" Director: Brian De Palma His 19th Movie My 12th movie watched from the director De Palma was trying something here... from an impressive long shot (overshadowed by "Goodfellas" released this same year) and a series of not-so-serious characters in a satire that never really lands. Nonetheless Hanks carries the ensemble of soon-to-be-well-known character actors in what is a fairly satisfying ending. Added to Lists: Big Casts Before They Were Bigger Stars The Longest Long Shots __________ "

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“What the heck was wrong with The Bonfire of the Vanities? To start with, everything about this flick doesn't feel right from the beginning to the cast”

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"My rating: 6/10"

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" Director: Brian De Palma His 19th Movie My 12th movie watched from the director De Palma was trying something here... from an impressive long shot (overshadowed by "Goodfellas" released this same year) and a series of not-so-serious characters in a satire that never really lands. Nonetheless Hanks carries the ensemble of soon-to-be-well-known character actors in what is a fairly satisfying ending. Added to Lists: Big Casts Before They Were Bigger Stars The Longest Long Shots __________ "

An average movie

“Even though this movie had a rather lousy reputation, since I always had a weak spot for Brian De Palma’s work, I still wanted to check it out. Basically, the whole thing was some kind of really misguided book adaptation and it was at the time a major critical and commercial flop. To be honest, I have to admit that I have never read the book itself but it was a massive best-seller and many argued that it was even one of the best books released in the 80’s so there was definitely some great potential with this material. The main issue is that, since it was such a famous book, of course, the studio wanted to make some profit out of it but the problem was that the material was too dark and cynical for a mainstream feature so they tried to compromise but the end-result turned to be terribl” read more

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