Woody Allen. Yay or Nay?

[Ellie3]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:20pm

How do you guys feel about Woody Allen? An hilarious genius? Or a sad old has-been? A New York icon? Or an embarassment?

Personally, I think he is one of the best film-makers of all time! I love every single movie he's ever made. Even the dark, dirgey dramatic ones. He never fails to make me laugh.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:22pm

I had to go pick something up from him once, and I prayed he wouldn't shake my hand. He didn't. Thank God.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:22pm

But he's funny!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:23pm

Okay.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:24pm

Your dismissive tone hurts my feelings...

[broadway_star_tomorrow]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:24pm

Ellie, just because someone is funny doesn't mean you want them to touch you.

[Plum]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:25pm

It's hard to just "yay or nay" a person. He's clearly got some...issues, to put it kindly, but he also made Annie Hall.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:26pm

Annie Hall was brilliant, but overall....nay.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:26pm

Aww, Ellie, can't I love you even though Allen makes me want to puke?

[Ellie3]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:27pm

True, true...but what has the world come to if we can't flippantly 'yay' or 'nay' a person with only a moments consideration?

A sorry state of affairs, I tell you, a sorry state of affairs.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:30pm

Aww, of course Rath! Although my feelings toward you remain lukewarm.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:32pm

B*tch.

[Ellie3]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:33pm

Yet again, your dismissive tone hurts my feelings...

[Jon]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:35pm

The last Woody mocvie I saw, "Hollywood Ending", was absolutely AWFUL!!!!!!

[Ellie3]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 3:24pm

But we forgive him his mistakes because of his past glories, right? And Hollywood Ending did have it's funny moments.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:27pm

Woody Allen is a GENIUS, plain and simple. I don't give a toss who he is ****ing.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:35pm

I like nearly every film from Love and Death to Sweet and Lowdown, but his last few films have been awful. Poorly cast, witless and unfunny.

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 5:13pm

I say Yay. He's been slipping lately, but overall, an important and accomplished filmmaker. I've always found him to be funny. I don't know what it is. Maybe his neurotic tendencies remind me a little of myself. As for his personal life and romantic choices, well... truth be told, his involvement with Soon Ye (spelling?) never really bothered me all that much. And they're still together, what, ten years later: longer than most other Hollywood couplings. That said, I can understand Mia's perspective, as well; her being hurt and feeling betrayed. But frankly, she always struck me as a little loopy herself.

Updated On: 3/3/05 at 05:13 PM

[cabarethed]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 5:15pm

Um...Ynay. I have mixed feelings about him.

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 5:21pm

He's very hit and miss. Love some of his work, hate some of it, just don't get a lot of it.

And good grief, sure he was terrible for the whole SoonYi thing, but at least it gave Bobby Lee another character to play on MadTV

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 5:25pm

One can't compare Woody Alan to any other artist. I use the term artist, because he is a master at his craft. I still enjoy watching his old movies as well as his modern ones. My mother and Woody went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn. She wasn't friends with him, but knew him as a very shy person.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 6:27pm

Yay as an artist
Nay as a person

[zippyjen]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 6:29pm

i also think that he is very hit and miss. Annie hall = amazing. Others not so much.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 6:35pm

I've been touched by worse....Hell, I've been.......oh nevermind.

He's funny.....

[bta212]

Posted: 3/3/05 at 6:48pm

I'm surprised at how many people start and stop with Annie Hall--I think the Woodman has made some amazing movies--Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Bway Danny Rose, Mighty Aphrodite, Hannaha and her Sisters, Zelig, Alice--each one has really said something to me. As I get older and watch them again, he has so much to say that speaks to me, perhaps because I'm a slightly(?) neurotic, privilged NYC Jew, perhaps because he really has an artist's insight, I'm not sure. As I find myself examining my own long-term relationship, I recently watched "Husbands and Wives", and was bawling. I'm going with a big Yay.

The whole Soon Yi thing? Well, he has issues.

Updated On: 3/3/05 at 06:48 PM