I just sat though 'Cuckoos Nest' twice this evening....

[Richardo]

Chief is just now throwing the water-thingy through the window.

What a great flick - I remember seeing it in the theater and it winning all 4 major Oscars for 1975.

That movie is as quotable as any:

"The mental defective league - In formation!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/ for more quotes.

[MonkeyFunk]

1. ah

I haven't seen that in years. But what a cast!

Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Scatman Crothers, Danny Devito, Vincent Schiavelli, Christopher Lloyd...


One of only two movies to win Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Screenplay.

[Richardo]

2. After the subj line, I thought your post would say "Juicy Fruit"

:D

[MonkeyFunk]

3. that would've been a better response

[pokerfan]

7. There are at least three films...

The movie was the first to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director, Screenplay) since It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991, by The Silence of the Lambs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_%28film%29

[Joe Fields]

4. I watched it this evening, right after Easy Rider.

I hadn't seen Cuckoos Nest in a generation. What a great pleasure it was to watch it again.

[Skittles]

5. my favorite movie of all time

despite the fact that the only women in it are bitches and 'ho's :o

[begin_within]

6. The book is 1000 times better, though.

When they made the film they completely missed the points of the book. The entire story is an allegory where the nurse represents the Establishment, with the full power of authority, and McMurphy represents the individual, whose only power is his own will. The narrator of the book is the Indian, Chief Broom, and his progress from paranoid schizophrenic at the beginning of the book to fully sane and free individual at the end is evident in his narration. Both of these points are essential and fundamental aspects of the book, which were lost when the film was made. The film is really just a cartoonization of the book. Ken Kesey, the author of the book, hated the film. The only good thing about the film is that it may lead people to read the book.

[ellisonz]

8. What Bob said.

[Neoma]

9. It's a good book too.

[trof]

10. Got so much more out of it now than I did in '75.

I'm 66.
I was 34 when I saw it as a new release.
Back then I thought it was a funny story with a sad ending.
Wasn't much into symbolism and 'deep' thinking back then.

Now I see so much more in it.
Plus it's fun to see all those actors when they were so young.
Especially Danny Devito with hair.

And Christopher Lloyd plays such a great nutcase years before Rev. Jim on 'Taxi'.

Miz t. wouldn't watch it because it has (for her) an unhappy ending.
Didn't like seeing McMurphy with the lobotomy scars.
She won't watch anything with an unhappy ending.
;-)