Favorite Pedro Almodovar Movie

[joeybee12]

Poll question: Favorite Pedro Almodovar Movie

Just finished watching All About My Mother--I liked it better the second time around. I mean, I liked it the first time, but there were soap opera-ish scenes that bothered me then that didn't bother me this time. Anyway, still think I'm going with High Heels, but I'm not sure--I better decide soon.

[RebelOne]

1. Who's he?

[joeybee12]

3. Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi! Are you serious?

A great Spanish director, one of the greatest directors around--in any language.

Many of his films are classics!

[Denver Bear]

2. Definitely High Heels.....

....although All About My Mother is a VERY close second!

Of course, who doesn't just LOVE Ponte Panties!!! ;)

[joeybee12]

4. Welcome Aboard, Denver Bear! I'm from Denver also--God forbid you

might be somebody I know!

I think I should have included "Nasty Habits" in this poll!

[Denver Bear]

7. Thanks, joeybee12!

I personally would have included "The Flower of My Secret" too....another fav!

Did you mean "Dark Habits?" You gotta love Sister Manure!

[joeybee12]

10. You know, I think I've seen it translated as both, but yes, that's the one

I mean.

The Pope must be turning over in his grave over that one!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

5. "All About My Mother" and "Live Flesh"

AAMY is his best I think, and the performance by Celia Roth is fantastic. I liked Live Flesh (Carne Tremula) a lot too. Javier Bardem was in it. :9

[joeybee12]

6. As I watched "As Night Falls" I was wondering where I'd seen Javier before

It hit me a while later.

[SEAburb]

8. Don't you respect Pedro for taking swipes at Spain's

repressive society in his earlier films.

[joeybee12]

9. Yeah, a lot of the early stuff was a reaction to the repressive regime and

society.

Amazing that Spain was fascist not that long ago.

[NightTrain]

11. "What Have I Done To Deserve This?"

One of the funniest fucking movies I have ever seen! Before he hit the big time and wimped out, Almodovar made films that were magnificently outrageous.

[joeybee12]

12. Are you saying he's Spain's Woody Allen?

I don't think he wimped out, he just got older--people change, and therefore their vision and movies are bound to change. His early stuff was the release of everything bottled up during Franco's fascist society.

[NightTrain]

13. I just didn't think "Women on the Verge" and "Tie Me Up" were as...

...good as Almodovar's earlier stuff. The laughs were fewer, farther between, and a lot less edgy. For me, at least.

As for Woody Allen, I think he continues to make good films. I was particularly pleased with 1989's "Crimes and Misdemenaors," in which Allen finally figured out how to successfully merge his wonderful sense of humor with the Bergman-esque existentialism that he admired so much.

[joeybee12]

14. I compared Pedro to Woody because a common complaint is that

people liked his early, funny stuff better.

Wasn't Woody's last movie Curse of the Jade Scorpion? Now that was a dreadful movie! Probably due to the curse of Helen Hunt.

[joeybee12]

15. Kick for more votes

There's gotta be more fans out there!!!!!!!!!!!