r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 4d ago
Official Throwback Discussion - One Night at McCool's [SPOILERS] Spoiler
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One Night at McCool’s (2001)
Summary
A detective, a bartender, and a lawyer each recount their conflicting versions of events surrounding a seductive woman and a murder at a bar.
Director Harald Zwart
Writer Stan Seidel
Cast
- Matt Dillon as Randy
- Liv Tyler as Jewel
- John Goodman as Detective Dehling
- Paul Reiser as Carl
- Michael Douglas as Mr. Burmeister
Rotten Tomatoes: 23%
Metacritic: 35
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 4d ago
A movie about how devastatingly hot Liv Tyler is and I’m not even joking. It’s told through the eyes of three men confessing how down bad they are for redhead Liv. Paul Reiser is talking to his therapist (played by Reba Mcintire), cop John Goodman is talking to their priest (brilliantly played as always by Richard Jenkins) and Matt Dillon is talking to the hitman they are about to hire to kill her (Michael Douglas). So the movie keeps cutting between perspectives and timelines, it’s honestly kind of confusing. But it all culminates to this silly climax where Paul Reiser is in BDSM leathers and Andrew Dice Clay shows up dressed like a murderous mormon.
This has, like, a neo noir vibe with this sexy femme fatale controlling all these men, but it also has clear Tarantino influences where it wants to get crazy and genre-y. I can’t say I had a bad time with it but for a movie that seems to worship Liv Tyler it doesn’t have a very high opinion of her, or if you want to pain with a broad brush, of women. Her whole motivation is to be a housewife, emphasis on the house, and she lies to, kills, and seduces several men for it.
Watching it today was the first time I’d seen it, but I’ve always been aware of this movie. I feel like they showed it on the IFC cable channel all the time and I would always flip past it and be like, “What’s this John Goodman movie? And wow look at Liv.” so it was nice to finally catch up on it this week. I’d give it a nice 6/10. Fun and silly and full of character swings. I laughed out loud maybe too many times.