Comments on: WWTW Rewind: ‘Cape Fear’ (1991)

By: UT

UT — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:28:03 +0000

I remember watching this movie and needing to take a shower afterward. It was ugly and disgusting on all levels for me. To each his own, I guess.

By: Mycroft

Mycroft — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:30:30 +0000

My wife and I saw this movie at the theater with another couple when it first came out. Discussing the movie afterwards, none of us enjoyed the experience and would have left if we’d not seen it in a group.
The movie was professionally top notch. The problem is that not one character in the entire movie was sympathetic. Nolte, Lange, and De Niro were all horrible people and Lewis was such a brat that I have trouble enjoying any of her performances to this day.
The closest the film comes to a sympathetic character is the female lawyer that De Niro brutalizes and she had been trying to get Nolte to have an affair.

By: K

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:38:44 +0000

Add: I’m not interested in condemning the movie, I just think it should be noted that a sucker punch awaits if you find Christian bashing annoying.

By: K

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:01:08 +0000

See Michael Medved’s “Hollywood vs America” pgs 66-67.

By: cftoto

cftoto — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:50:17 +0000

K … interesting. Did Scorsese mention that specifically?

I think sometimes Christian bashing flies past me … I’ve become numb to it … but if you have specific examples write back and I’ll do my best to amend the review.

By: K

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:08:16 +0000

As one of the very few conservative critics, I would be obliged if you would warn your readers about possible offensive “gotchchas” in these films. The Christian cross tat on the psycho character’s (De Niro) back was a direct slap at the religious protesters of Scorsese’s “The Last Temtpation …” and was forerunner for numerous later Chirstian bashing scenes.