Comments on: Shoot the Moon (1982)

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:57:44 +0000

Perhaps one day I will give this a re-view. I remember this being real bad too, despite Finney & Keaton. Parker really sucked.. Sorry for that.

By: maurice grizzard

maurice grizzard — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:26:43 +0000

I was a kid when this came out, remember not being crazy about it, in spite of all the great reviews. Now I understand why: the movie isn’t the slightest bit interested in why George and Faith split up. All it does is pull the string of giving George a younger woman to leave Faith for, and we’re supposed to accept that this is the way things are: present an older guy with a younger woman, and he’ll leave his wife. Then there are all the predictable fireworks which feel very much like a screenwriter’s contrivances. George smashes his way into the house and assaults one of his children, then we have a series of implausible scenes which occur as though George hadn’t smashed his way in and assaulted one of his children. The smashing and assaulting bit occurs out of synch with what comes after it: I’d get a restraining order against the guy, but the movie goes on from there with George attending his father-in-law’s funeral as Faith’s guest and so on and so forth. George is a bastard and Faith is an idiot, therefore there’s no one to sympathize with.

By: Maximus

Maximus — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:04:54 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing this movie!

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:46:46 +0000

Turns out Weld was indeed the first consideration. Followed by Karen Black (not so sure about that choice) I just found that out. And DANNY THOMAS (!!!) as Don Corleone (along with Carlo Ponti) The sheer perverseness of a performer with such a clean-cut, family man persona as Thomas taking on the Godfather tells me it would have been worth a risky shot. His Lebanese dark looks — let alone his underappreciated professional rigor — would have been a plus. Still love Brando first BUT . . .

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:25:40 +0000

PS Albert Finney, already moving away from his 1960s pretty-boy days, ain’t half bad either 😉 Thanls!

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:17:23 +0000

Never a huge Keaton fan it is undeniable that this and LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR rank up there as some of her finest work. I never understood her being cast in the GODFATHER films. To me, given the time period which it presents, Michael Corleone would have predictably gone for a ‘Tippi” Hedren blonde ice queen “capture” who, appreciative of his essential vulnerability, willingly (if privately) thawed enough to actually love him. (What tuesday Weld showed us in Leone’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA tells me she would have been the perfect choice) Instead, Keaton’s odd, quasi-matronly “WASP with the sniffles” is what we got. That preceived by me miscasting is the only glaring blight for me on those first two parts. Other than her wonderfully comic output with Woody Allen it’s these darker hued vehicles where her gifts really shone. Thanks for making this available.