SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Discussion Group
Added 2026-02-12 19:30:54 +0000 UTC
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Great reaction Coby! The Apartment and Some Like it Hot are must-watch Billy Wilder follow-ups!
JM63
2026-02-14 18:09:01 +0000 UTCWatched this one for the first time a few months back. It's like a cool time capsule for earlier Hollywood. I guess Swansen was one of the actual big silent stars in real life...and the Butler actual directed her in real life too. The movie she showed in her house was actually a real movie of hers. Think Wilder asked a bunch of silent stars. Sent me on YouTube vortex of silent era movies. Buster Keaton had a cameo in this too. I'm really just getting started on Wilder myself he hasn't missed for me. Some Like It Hot is wonderful. Double Idemnity is great BABY lol. Sabrina was ok but Ace In The Hole is damn prophetic. The Apartment is probably his most famous. Think those are all the ones I've seen. He is great...enjoy the Wilder rabbit hole.
Daniel John
2026-02-14 05:17:39 +0000 UTCI saw this reaction when you had it on Criminal Content. One great movie Gloria Swanson was amazing in this movie, but also very creepy. hahaha
John A
2026-02-14 03:42:10 +0000 UTCWilder is one of Hollywood's greatest directors. Some of his other films include "Some Like it Hot," Marilyn Monroe in what is probably his most famous movie and is considered Monroe's finest, "The Seven Year Itch," another Monroe movie and the one with the famous subway grating scene, the air lifting up her skirt, "Sabrina," Audrey Hepburn this time. "The Apartment," another classic, "Double Indemnity." There is also a film from 1942 I absolutely love though it's not as well known, "The Major and the Minor," about a 30ish broke woman (Ginger Rogers) who pretends she's a child to gain half fare for a train trip. Hilarity ensues when she meets a military school headmaster on the train and falls for him.
Jim Lent
2026-02-14 00:09:21 +0000 UTCGreat reaction to one of the best films of all time, Coby! Billy Wilder was a prolific director, a genius really, and I'm sure you'll enjoy many more of his films! As others have pointed out already, "Mulholland Drive" is a logical next step here, as it is kind of a mirror of "Sunset Boulevard", and peak David Lynch.
FermatSim
2026-02-13 18:40:00 +0000 UTCDavid Lynch named his character for Twin Peaks, Gordon Cole.
Mark Pitta
2026-02-13 03:30:56 +0000 UTCWhat a wonderful surprise. I’m watching your reaction now. Billy Wilder is one of the greatest directors of film history. You would love “The Apartment,” Wilder’s most critically acclaimed film. And, yes that was Cecil B. DeMille himself.
Larry
2026-02-13 02:47:27 +0000 UTCThey say "find what you love and let it kill you"... 🍕 seems a lot healthier choice than the Madam
Et x
2026-02-13 01:56:59 +0000 UTCOne of David Lynch's favorite movies - you can see it's influence on him through lots of his work. Mulholland Dr. is basically the doppelgänger of this film.
BullydogBear
2026-02-12 21:38:43 +0000 UTCA relationship that is just a tad bit toxic.
Reggie
2026-02-12 20:11:28 +0000 UTC
