Night Moves is shit. Deconstruct shit and it's still shit.
Indeed. You can appreciate its workmanlike use of clichés that every other movie detective movie employs.
Detective whose personal life is crumbling due to his career? Rogue's gallery of two-bit, two-time losers? A central "accident" that's really a murder? Annoying supporting player who speaks in epigrams? The funky Price is Right-style score?
Don't forget how every woman in the movie - young, old, and everywhere in between - basically walks up to the guy and spreads their legs and says PLEASE FUCK ME. Seems like a boy's fantasy, but had me rolling my eyes throughout. Is there a single female character whose goal in life isn't to fuck the detective?
If I remember right every unattached woman in it was to some degree sexually/emotionally fucked up, when you guys get on in years you'll see how many of these really fucked up babes there really are in the world. It's a question of time on the planet. It's a different world when you are unattached and in your twenties and hanging around with your peers.
So you are saying that when I get old fat and bald there will be women dropping their pants like flies for me? Woohoo, I have something to look forward to
And btw cj, the women are not all unattached. The woman in Florida who tells Hackman the bullshit story about the shit-eating alligators and her nipples staying hard for half an hour, she is married. And Melanie Griffith has a boyfriend (James Woods) yet neither of them like keeping their clothes on when Hackman is around. Not the old movie starlet, not the teenager, not the wife. No one. Not even Hackman's wife who looks like a man in that awful 70's haircut.
