Greetings

Independent Film which have interesting story and moments....

de niro is badass

Pleasantly boring. Some hilarious bits though.

Spotty but often on-target satire of late 60s America holds up surprisingly well, even for this child of the 80s! Performances are uneven across the board, and some sketches do fizzle out, but the film has a liveliness and urgency to it that keeps it afloat. De Niro shows flashes of his later brilliance, but only appears sporadically.

I can appreciate the non-committal tone this film goes for its "story", which is very vignette structured, and I even like and enjoy watching some of these segments. But this film is so clumsy at times, with some particularly haggard editing, and overall does not achieve much with its satirical slant, leaving us with blue balls for any comedy or cultural critique. A disappointing predecessor to its very excellent follow-up Hi, Mom!

Viewed June 23, 2016. Deliberately messy; certain sequences are intended to be endurance tests, straddling the line between humorous and polemical. It is full of ideas, and rarely lets up. It's a very pure look into what De Palma's sharp, analytical mind was like when faced with the hellish political climate of the Vietnam era. It best resembles his later work in the brilliant sequence where De Niro convinces a woman to take her clothes off in front of his camera. It's a strange, volatile movie.

(Viewed on 18/01/12): Greetings channels the French New Wave to mostly dire effect. It's a running commentary on its time, taking satirical swipes at draft dodgers, JFK conspiracies and hippies, but it's not particularly clever. While some of the gags work, there are long, presumably improvised, stretches of utter tedium where literally nothing happens. Deniro's pervy character provides the sole weak link to De Palma's oeuvre, which neither Greetings or Hi, Mom! shed much light on.

I thought this was hilarious. Robert De Niro reading aloud out of a book about peeping toms is priceless.

Focusing on three different characters the movie is completely incohesive, and only one of those characters (Robert De Niro's peeping tom) is slightly interesting. The satiring felt heavily outdated, especially all the ramblings about the JFK conspiracy. In De Niro's character De Palma thematic fixation on voyeurism is already starting to show. To be fair it does have a few moments that show De Palma directing talents like a great upwards-looking fourth wall break.

74.500

Em honra dos 75 anos de Robert De Niro hoje. Esse De Palma está mais particularmente no clima da nouvelle vague européia do que da Nova Hollywood, é divertido e constata plenamente o clima nos EUA da época, mas certamente não está entre as grandes obras do diretor. DVD Lume.

"Greetings, and salutations to a career destined to be pockmarked by provocation." - Eric Henderson

75.000

It's funny. I haven't seen this film for at least 20 years, but I remembered liking it. Watching it now, I not only don't like it, but I actively loath it. It's episodic, and I didn't find the majority of the episodes to be very funny at all. That may not have been a big problem ... but what is a problem is that each segment is clearly improvised and are allowed to go on interminably long ... well past the point where their meager comedic point has been made.

Surprisingly funny satire of America during the Vietnam era. I came into this movie for Robert De Niro, and frankly there isn't much of him at first. However, it seems as though Brian De Palma realized how good he was and just basically had him in every scene towards the end.

Very innovative and original stuff. Cool ideas and really well done. And funny. Kind of a satire of the America of the late 60s. Paranoid conpiracy theorists, "How to not get drafted" tricks, weird dates and unemployed wannabe artists. Not to forget delivery boys and bored housewives. :D