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Feb 29, 2024LWonser rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I have a complicated relationship with this one. I love Elliot Gould, but it is hard to accept this adaptation of my favorite bittersweet Marlowe story. A lot of this film works and is fun, but the book is just so good that I have a high…
Nov 06, 2023
(1973) ar7.5r: Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder.
Jun 06, 2023BarbRey rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Yeah, Elliott Gould...NOT Marlowe
Oct 20, 2022
This is a thoroughly enjoyable detective film. Elliott Gould is excellent in the leading role.
Jul 23, 2022eusebius rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The casting isn't perfect, but that's no matter. This is an almost perfect meeting of director and story, and with great performances by Gould, van Pallandt, Johnson and especially Hayden as the washed up writer. I make sure to watch it at…
Mar 05, 2021jimg2000 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Watched this Robert Altman's neo-noir a long time ago but my comment and quotes disappeared from bibliocommons web. Anyway, I remember the film just as Nursebob's Jun 12, 2017 excellent review. Slow and steady as the hard-boiled P.I.…
Oct 12, 2020colony13 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Convoluted story (like The Big Sleep) that didn't seem to hold together. However, the ending was satisfying, in a weird way. Sound quality is odd (lots of obvious looping), pacing is odd, but classic Altman in the way that people talk…
Jan 08, 2020Bubba_Louie rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
IMO - 1973's "The Long Goodbye" (which had "Made-For-TV" written all over it) was pretty dreadful viewing (for the most part). Yep. It sure was. If you are someone who actually saw this picture way back when it was first released, then,…
Jan 07, 2020
Yes, truly a terrible movie, EXCEPT for the first 5 minutes where the cat turns in a mesmerizing performance. Stop watching the movie when the cat leaves.
Dec 10, 2019NeoNoir rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Incompetently directed by Robert Altman - "The Long Goodbye" (from 1973) is a truly terrible attempt at trying to update the Philip Marlowe (P.I.) character who was created way back in the 1940s by American novelist of fictional-crime,…
Dec 01, 2018cmarie20 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Made in 1973 - really dated. Must have been Arnold Schwartzenegger's first on screen appearance - no lines - but he did take his shirt off and his pants. Did not expect the ending. An old fashioned whodunnit with terrible acting.
Sep 04, 2018
Awful acting. Convoluted story. Skip the movie. Read the book.
Jan 22, 2018rationallady rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I read three of Raymond Chandler's books. "The Big Sleep" was made into a great movie. "Farewell, My Lovely" was made into a good movie. Unfortunately, "The Long Goodbye," while an excellent book, was made into a poor movie.
Jun 12, 2017RoyalJellyIII rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Robert Altman's labyrinthine take on the Raymond Chandler classic is noir unburdened by a straight narrative - it's a triumph of atmosphere and attitude, a swiftly unfolding whodunit punctuated by subversive absurdities and shattering acts…
Jun 12, 2017Nursebob rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Exactly why this send-up of Film Noir conventions—adapted from Raymond Chandler’s novel by sci-fi great Leigh Brackett—wound up on so many “best of” lists is beyond me. As a policier it’s about as engrossing as an old rerun of "Barnaby…
Jun 04, 2017
Of note is the excellent cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond (1930-2016; Hungarian) who in 1973 won the "National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography" for his work in this film. He also was cinematographer for "The Deer…
Mar 15, 2017KatherineHere rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Possibly the worst acting ever, except for maybe "The Trial of Billy Jack."
Oct 06, 2016eiknarf rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I also didn't like Gould's portrayal of Marlowe, or the way the movie turned out on the whole. Altman has done some great work, of which I wouldn't consider this to be more than a footnote. There were some cool things about the film, and…
Apr 25, 2016Ron@Ottawa rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I like Altman as a director but didn't like this film much. First off, the film is old and the video quality of this disc is poor. Second, the image of a chain-smoking Gould started to get onto my nerves after a while. The plot was OK,…
Oct 29, 2015JackPurcell rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A good, old-time detective story in its own right but also worth watching the bit-part characters. Arnold gov of california wossname is there, Tom Berringer and a number of others.
Marinetti
Aug 17, 2015Marinetti rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Great Robert Altman film based on a Philip Marlowe story.
7duffy
Apr 03, 20157duffy rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Elliott Gould was not my favorite Phillip Marlowe. Amazing how many cigarettes he smokes.......even running down the street. Just an OK effort. Even Sterling Hayden was a non-factor. Dick Powell is still the best Marlowe I have seen. …
Dec 29, 2014Mr_Bounds48 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
The ending of this puzzle was shocking,but i was so bored by this extreme cigarette promotional that i didn't care by the time the detective finally found out the truth about his friend's status.
voisjoe1
Nov 19, 2013voisjoe1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The 1973 film, “The Long Goodbye,” is very loosely based upon the 1953 Raymond Chandler novel of the same name, but Robert Altman places the novel in 1973, but does replicate some of the 1953 atmosphere by having Marlowe drive a 1953 type…