Pacific Heights (1990) - Review & Commentary

[Mister Obvious]

WARNING: SPOILERS. HAPPENING. BELOW. DON'T READ IT IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Heights_(film)

Now OF COURSE we know Michael Keaton is VERY good looking, very sexy. But I have read he's a bit of an asshole. Who knows, really... can't believe everything you read, right?

0:20 agh it starts out with these abhorrent windmills, I have some pretty hardcore feelings about those things. Those look better than the ones they use today though. Atrocious no matter how you cut the cards.

So this movie is apparently a nightmare scenario regarding being a landlord. A lot of reviews state that it makes you really think twice about the concept of renting out a property or a room.

With Michael Keaton playing the role of a psycho, I really don't see how this could be disappointing.

Of course one of Michael Keaton's most famous roles was Beetlejuice.

3:09 "I'm whatever works" well thank God, because I'm not into gentle.

5:25 SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY FUCKING GRANNNNDDDDDDDD??

5:35 I really do not like Melanie Griffith that much.

8:00 OMG, psycho dude's gonna kill this cat isn't he? I can see it coming already.

8:35 TBH, her husband's pretty hot dude... Matthew Modine.

9:00 agh man I dunno what it is, but Melanie Griffith seriously fucking bothers me. I think it's got something to do with the way she talks.

10:50 ugh my God... I'd rather have a total psycho weirdo living with me than to have to deal with that fucking kid.

12:45 ugh my God, it would suck to have to deal with this fucking bullshit. They're making this whole thing seem like a fucking nightmare, even the halfway normal shit.

13:20 and she's like unperturbed somehow, LMAO.

13:33 is somebody pregnant??

15:08 mmm, my God. Michael fucking Keaton though, I mean... VERY good looking. VERY sexy.

16:48 "...on me" ROFLMFAOOOO I like this guy! He's goooooood!

21:20 LMFAO oh dear Lord. This scene. LMFAO. Ahahaha. Dude's pretty damn hot though. I love those Bruce Lee-esque asian dudes... makes me wanna bang super hard.

22:10 wonder what all those books are about??

23:06 LMFAO Michael Keaton just LOOKS kinda evil and has this evil sorta atmosphere about him, I fucking LOOOOOOOVE it.

25:38 oooooo, this guy's hot as fuck! Luca Bercovici!

26:39 agh, what a nightmare.

27:51 WHAT THE FUCK, HER HUSBAND WAS THERE AND HE MADE HER GO AND FLIP THE SWITCHES?! LMFAOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

28:08 LMAO what the hell is this creepster doing??

29:34 "Cuz we're smarter" LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO. That was a good one!

31:10 what the fuck are they doing to that apartment??

31:50 what the fuck are they doing??

33:00 why does the house look like a tub of mint chocolate chip?? Did they do this on purpose to trigger me??

34:48 WRONGGGGGGG. The correct response would have been "It's okay, Mr. Hayes, would you like to have sex?"

38:28 "And I don't have to be pregnant"... what a nasty, disgusting, fucking trashy thing to say. Totally unnatural. Even retarded people have better parental instincts than that.

38:50 if that's how she feels about it, I say she should make herself useful and take up the world's oldest profession to earn them some money.

39:14 wow, I get that husband bro is mad and all, but what an idiot. LOL!

39:30 they're totally gonna kill the cat too, I just know it.

39:37 see I fucking told you.

39:49 wow that guy does NOT look happy.

40:36 oh my God what a fuckin' nightmare.

You know, this movie is OKAY, but it's really not fun or sexy. And I have seen it before. I don't really remember it but I know I've definitely seen it.

I'm gonna have to turn up the speed to 1.5 or so... it's just not exciting enough. I would say so far this movie is undeserving of its good rating.

47:44 "You're drunk" wow this bitch is just too much. 

52:30 well I mean, if they're alone with him in the house now I don't see why they can't get freaky as hell and drive HIS ass out. What do they really have to lose?

54:55 dude I fucking hate this guy's wife.

55:45 But you didn't "have to be" pregnant, remember? Stupid bitch. Fucking hatable character TBH. She's annoying as fuck. Pretty shit movie so far if I'm being honest.

57:28 and her husband is soooooo fucking stupid, taking this guy's bait EVERY single time. These two people just aren't smart... they are absolute morons and they're not likable enough to even care what happens to them.

This movie just ensures that you're on the side of the evil tenant.

Moral of the story? Don't buy a $750,000 house.

1:01:36 ooo! Is it finally gonna get more exciting? Probably not huh?

1:02:38 this guy's living a way happier life now, you know what, just let him be... and take this opportunity to get some strange.

1:03:40 God... she should have just left him alone and handled it like a big girl. What a stupid bitch. It's all gamez. These two are so... fucking amateur. 

1:09:00 what're they trying to shame them for imaginary racism now or something??? LOL, this movie is fucking garbage.

1:13:22 a postcard, LMAO.

Watching it on 2x speed now.

1:20:34 oh my God wow, just when I thought she couldn't be anymore fucking retarded and unlikable. What the fuck is with them making all these unlikable main characters in movies that you can't sympathize with or feel bad for?? What kinda tactic is that??

1:31:10 uh oh, this must be where the cat GETS IT!!!

Did this dumb ho really think there wasn't gonna be any kind of retribution??

1:31:33 wow is he gonna straight up murder that guy?!

1:32:38 ah come on lady, just let it happen, this is the most potentially exciting thing that's happened in this entire fucking movie... you damn scrooge.

I'm so glad that I can change the speed of these damn videos... thank God. It was so much faster watching this total piece of crap.

2/10 stars... 1.5 of those stars are due to Michael Keaton's looks. Pure shit otherwise there were zero redeeming qualities.

[Guest]

mo do you really sleep in your car ?

like how do you wake up feeling refreshed and ready to take on the day ?

I would need a shower every day , sorry darling

[Mister Obvious]

EVERY day!?

[Guest]

Griffith's best film was Something Wild. She played a MPDG to good effect, which you might find surprising if you haven't seen it. Ray Liotta played her possessive psycho boyfriend, and Jeff Daniels the normie who falls for her.


She wasn't bad in The Bonfire of the Vanities, but that faux Southern accent annoyed me. It may have been her voice in particular; or the daft lines they gave her, rife with excessive absurdly mangled English and American idioms; or both; or it may have been that I don't care for Hollywood faux Southern period.


But yeah, she's generally annoying for some reason.


As much as I love Beetlejuice and (let's face it) everything else Keaton has done, I will always consider Keaton to be the "real" Bat-Man, just as Kilmer is the real Doc Holliday to me.


Pacific Heights is definitely up there with my favorites. All of the performances were convincing, and, when you consider the worst neighbors or housemates you've ever had, the director's toying with the audience's natural trepidation at letting strange new people into their homes made the plot completely plausible.

[Mister Obvious]

Michael Keaton ABSOLUTELY is the "real" Batman. At least as it pertains to the hollywood film version of Batman.

[Mister Obvious]

I read a review somewhere which called Michael Keaton an "underrated" actor...

I was like, on what planet??? LOL!!!

There is no way Keaton can be considered an "underrated" actor...

He was very popular back then and the progression of time doesn't negate that popularity which once existed.

He's never been underrated.

[Guest]

My interwebz are acting up. Hope this isn't a double post.


Keaton always turned up in roles I never dreamed he'd be in. When I hear Keaton will play so-and-so in an upcoming film, I'm like, "nah, that's not a good role for him." But then he fucking nails it, every time. People accept it as normal for him to step into any role and own it, without considering how insanely talented he must be to pull it off.