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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (Patreon)

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2025-06-06 15:31:16
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Poll winner! And #33 on the AFI list!

I am still processing this one. What a movie.

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Ames

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

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RFK Fan

Where do you even start with this one? Launched a dozen careers including Brad Doriff, Christopher Lloyd, Louise Fletcher and Danny Devito. Also launched Michael Douglas as a producer and put Milos Forman on Hollywood's A list who would later go on to direct the Amazing AMADEUS. Great backstory to this movie. Originally optioned by Kirk Douglas who was going to star in the lead role but financing continued to fall through until his son Michael came onboard and due to his success on the TV show the Streets of San Francisco was able to finance this film as an independent feature on a very low budget. Went on to win several Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor. Nicolson was already A lister by this time and this performance solidified his status. His next film? THE SHINING... "Come to CANADA!" -Ames😂😂😂

Richard B

Louise Fletcher, Oscar winning performance as sadistic Nurse Ratched. “All I can say is I've loved being hated by you.”💀

Teemu Laitinen

This is such a sad and depressing masterpiece. There is of course the state of mental health treatment at the time, but I think there is actual evil in here. I think that Nurse Ratched in one of the best baddies of all time. Some might think that she is just doing what she thinks is right and what was standard at the time, but I think that Billy proves that wrong. Ratched can't be that obtuse that she doesn't get what she is doing to Billy by bringing his mother up all the time. It's so sad that Billy got some confidence and didn't stammer after his night with Candy. One mention of his mother by Ratched brings him back down so fast. Chief really did McMurphy a favor with what he did. Life back then after what they did during a lobotomy at the time was certainly not worth living. Performance wise this movie is just full of amazing performances. Literally everyone does a fantastic job. Especially the Oscar, Golden Globes and BAFTA winners Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Oscar nominee and BAFTA and Golden Globes winner Brad Dourif. Dourif is always great in any role. Forman also deservedly won awards. He didn't direct that many films, but he definitely did two all time classics with this and Amadeus. Glad you finally saw this Ames.

Hold Down A

You guys! I’ll have to do a write up! I was in an audition this am and yesterday! Hahha I left some rambles at the end of my video! How do I even begin to dissect this movie! I tried hahah

MrDust

I cry every single time Chief realizes what they did to MacMurphy before he breaks out

Reggie

The revealing of McMurphy's fate is one of the saddest things I have ever seen in a movie. The great irony was that as much of a bad influence as he was considered to be by the hospital staff, he had a much more positive impact on the mental well-being of the patients he befriended than any of the people who worked there. The callous and humorless Nurse Ratchet is an example of how there are ill-tempered people who enter careers as care-givers for all the wrong reasons. I would consider this to be the finest performance of Jack Nicholson's career. Louise Fletcher was stellar as one film's greatest villains. The rest of cast were also brilliant. Great reaction Ames! I really enjoyed it.

Toc

Teemu Laitinen
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I respect your reasoning. If we get Dog Day Afternoon I won't complain, but there are some movies that I'd rather see. Here are some of them. What about Gandhi (1982)? A masterpiece of a film about a truly great person and not a single reaction to it yet. Winner of eight Oscars. It's not that serious that I'd fast until we get a reaction, but wouldn't it be great for Ames to check out this classic? Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is certainly one of the best legal dramas ever and only two reactions to it at the moment. Isn't that illegal Your Honor? Or perhaps the seven Oscar winner Patton (1970). One of the best biopics around with an Oscar winning scrreenplay by none other than Francis Ford Coppola and worth watching for George C. Scott alone. Doesn't that bastard deserve some love? Bonnie & Clyde (1967) deserves some love too doesn't it? I mean Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Gene Hackman. Only one reaction to it at the moment. If that doesn't make you want to rob a bank then I don't know what is. The Cheap Detective (1978) since Ames has seen Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. There isn't a single reaction to it yet. It would be best to check it out while Ames still remembers what happened in the movies it spoofs. Of course I'd love to see Das Boot too, but there are now plenty of reactions to it so I'm not in a hurry. In fact I'm more interested in seeing a reaction to Downfall (2004) if were are talking aobut German films. These are just some films I'd like to see and the list of movies I'd like Ames to check out is endless, but here are just a few of them.

Hollis Hamilton

To add a little more to the backstory shared by RFK Fan, Kirk Douglas optioned the film rights for Ken Kesey's 1962 novel, and as he stated, he wanted to star as McMurphy. However, by the time the film was being shot, he was nearly 60 and considered too old for the role. His son Michael, ended up being the co-producer along with Saul Zaentz, a bay area record executive. Most of his money came from the ownership of Fantasy records, which owned the rights to Creedence Clearwater Revivals music. (An exceptionally bad contract for the band which was litigated for years between Zaentz and the songwriter of the band's hits, John Fogerty). Zaentz became a big Hollywood producer after this film, also winning best picture for Amadeus and The English Patient. He produced other notable films like The Mosquito Coast and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. He also owned the film rights to the Lord of the Rings and produced an animated version in 1978. The rights were sold after his death and after much more litigation resulted in the live action films directed by Peter Jackson. If you are interested in the legal wrangling that goes into music or film rights, both are fascinating rabbit holes to explore. I do recommend reading the novel, which is told from the Chief's point of view.

RFK Fan
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Agreed! The novel is amazing.. thank you for mentioning Saul Zaentz! His film legacy was amazing

Michael T

I'm sorry to say that overall mental health care has not really improved much since the 1960s. If anything, it's arguably gotten worse since the budget cuts of the 90s that continue until today. :(