Hunter, if you think this was only a middling effort you need to watch some films.
(And stop watching Fight Club. Great though it was, at the time).

James

what was the name of the song playing during the mickey rourke/lisa bonet love scene in angel heart, who was singing?

Angel heart is one of my favorite movies. How you could possibly watch that movie and think of it as a middling effort is beyond me. Its a very under rated movie.

@Hunter,

Thanks for the response.

I wouldn't put 9 1/2 Weeks in the erotic thriller category (emphasis on thriller), but yeah, I acknowledge that people remember it, albeit for the striptease with the fedora and the food eating scene, not for the fact that it's a good movie, because it really isn't (and the internet agrees with me... I'm joking, but see the scores I included above)

Rourke is fine in Angel Heart though the movie belongs to DeNiro (it's fun to compare his performance to Pacino's absurd take in The Devil's Advocate). And
I guess I just think that making a Fight Club comparison is inappropriate given that it clearly precedes it, though the movie is certainly very much a genre movie playing on all sorts of traditions and other movies.

That said, I think that the movie is remembered just as much for DeNiro's performance and the remarkably bleak final act than for the sex scene.

And I was absolutely not implying that Angel Heart is better than The Pope of Greenwich Village. That's why I didn't mention Pope.

I definitely don't mean to wave a critic's review around a "proof" of a point, but check out Ebert's very positive take on the film when it came out:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...

@Anonymous

To each his own, but...

In the genre of erotic thrillers, 9 1/2 Weeks is considered a classic and set the, um, bar for all the entries that followed, including other films by Adrian Lyne like Fatal Attraction, the cheesier Indecent Proposal, and Unfaithful---entries that crossed three decades. The film also made Mickey Rourke an American sex icon, as well as Kim Basinger; and strawberries and kitchens are probably thankful as well. Rourke's performance (no pun) is better in 9 1/2 Weeks, he even admits to half-assing it in Angel Heart (even though Rourke is pretty solid in the film). And I'm not sure if you're implying that Angel Heart is better than The Pope of Greenwich Village, but I'll assume you're smarter than that.

I wasn't implying that Angel Heart or the novel came after Fight Club. I said the ending was "Fight Club-like," not a "Fight Club rip off" and even so, the "it was him all along oooh la la" ending/twist is really hard to pull-off and Angel Heart stumbles with it. This is why I have to compare it to Fight Club; and why Fight Club's twist was never compared to Angel Heart's. Pop culture doesn't lock onto Angel Heart's ending; the Lisa Bonet sex scenes are what the flick's remembered for and for good reason.

Yeah yeah, "it's Louis Cyphre." Lucifer is evidently a fan of Seymour Butts (and since he's Satan, he was privy to Seymour Butts's pornos before Seymour Butts was).

Thanks for commenting. These are relevant talking points.

Mmmm. Chicken Blood...

Angel Heart, I can say without any sarcasm, is pure awesomeness.

I love the pacing, the twist ending, Bonet (she was my celeb crush when I was a teen), and Rouke's performance. In fact, if you were to put anyone else in the role, I think the movie would've lost at least half of its greatness. Easily,one of my top 10 movies.

I LOVE ANGEL HEART.

Please god no.

Way to cite sources Anon! You're right...9 1/2 Weeks isn't really some kind of classic really. It's slick and pretty sex-laden, but the plot can be summed up in about 5-10 words.

Man, Mickey Rourke was cool in those movies though...damn.

I don't mean to be nitpicky, but ...

"Unlike The Pope of Greenwich Village and 9 1/2 Weeks, 1987's Angle heart was a middling effort... "

Certainly it was well known for the Lisa Bonet sex scene, but it's not like 9 1/2 Weeks was a drastically better received movie. I know that citing Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB user ratings isn't a complete argument, but Rotten Tomatoes has Angel Heart at a decent 76% to 9 1/2 Weeks' 62%. And the IMDB rating has Angel Heart at 7.2 to 9 1/2 Weeks at 5.3.

"The plot is weighed down by a slapdash Fight Club-like twist ending..."

The book came out in 1978 and the movie in 1987. Let's not call it a "Fight Club-like twist ending."



And it was Louis Cyphre.

the failboat has reached maximum occupancy

No more remakes

No remake necessary...that's for sure...as usual.

DeNiro is wonderfully creepy in the original. Wait til you see him bite into an egg. Both freaky and confusing all at once.

Get Lisa Bonet to do the sex scenes again. She still looks hot.