Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.
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Movies about movies are my drug of choice
It is amazing how fast you can get cinephiles to love a loan shark who routinely threatens and beats people just by making him a fellow cinephile. Look at how excited Chili is to meet a stunt man! He knows the dialogue from Touch of Evil by heart! I can’t root against a guy like that.
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This film perfectly embodies its protagonist: John Travolta's Chili Palmer. A mobster who yearns to get into the movie business, it's so charming to watch a hardened guy follow his dreams, while collecting debts at the same time. The scene where he watches Touch of Evil, knowing every word of its cynical climax, distills so much of the character down to his essence. Overall, this is a fun mix of the post-modern wave ala Tarantino and the Hollywood satire, all while still preserving the Elmore Leonard feel. Maybe not as well as Jackie Brown or Out of Sight, but it's competent and breezy enough. A great cable movie.
Frank Reynolds: The Hollywood Years
As far as the run of 90s Elmore Leonard adaptations go it’s hard to say I don’t prefer the soulful romantic weariness at the center of Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (Grier and Forster are both just so moving together) or the sexy suave excitement Soderbergh brought to Out Of Sight, but this is still a perfectly solid and effortlessly charming merging of Hollywood industry satire, gangster crime-thriller and laid-back hangout movie by former Coen brothers cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld and reliable novel adapting screenwriter Scott Frank. The Leonard premise itself of an Italian mob loan shark who spends his days violently hunting people down for the gambling debts might have transferable skills in negotiation and intimidation that would make him a good…
Things I thought while watching GET SHORTY for the first time in years:
-Harry Zimm dresses like SCARFACE era De Palma
-I want that mural of Danny DeVito as a religious figure on my wall
-The Travolta from GET SHORTY is who I always through the Travolta from BLOW OUT would grow up to be
-Hollywood did Rene Russo dirty
-All of Zimm’s movies would be on Shout! Factory special edition Blus by now
-Jesus, the 90s were a great time for Elmore Leonard adaptations
This film tries hard to be fly as a cheeky lampoon of tough guy, gangster tropes, but never quite lifts off the ground. That’s okay though. The real catch here is the endless watchability of our glib, cocky lead. Above the chintzy pastels of Miami greens and pinks, the gaudy Vegas glow of neon bulbs, and the billboard idolatry flanking Sunset Blvd., the smooth suavity of shipshape Travolta soars off the screen.
Arguably at the crest of his second wave (the first wave obviously being his 70s breakout dance hits Saturday Night Fever and Grease), his Hollywood stature would soon precipitously decline from these prime years (unless your an apologist for such bangers as Wild Hogs, Gotti, and The Fanatic).…
When I grow up I want to be Chili Palmer.
sometimes you just know a movie is gonna be a solid 3.5 from the opening few minutes and there’s something deeply comforting about that.
Action!: Three Degrees Of Separation – Between Raimi and The Coens Lies A Sonnenfeld
Elmore Leonard's novels feel so unique, or there's something about them that feels so of their own that directors are required to follow the same trademarks, something that straddles the thin line between the old and the new. Unlike Jackie Brown, which strikes me as a mashup of Hollywood classics and some Tarantino dialogue, Barry's approach feels very in line with his own sense of humor and overall sensibility, though I also saw hints of Guy Ritchie, Soderbergh, and Altman in the way he allows all of these great actors to shine and bring their own uniqueness to the story.
With Travolta still at the height…
A character in this movie references the Universal Studios Miami Vice Action Spectacular stunt show by name AND James Gandolfini plays a stuntman named ‘The Bear.’ The Knott’s Berry Farm stunt show had a character who was a ‘real Hollywood stuntman’ named ‘The Beaumont Bear.’ Why are people saying Dark Side of the Moon syncs up to Wizard of Oz when there’s this plain as day connection to thread about?
Pure cinematic comfort food
