Comments on: Body Heat (1981)

By: Greg Roberson

Greg Roberson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:05:29 +0000

I agree with Mike. I would really like to see a sequel to this great movie. Revenge is best…

By: Mike Bondi

Mike Bondi — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:17:18 +0000

I was wondering why Kasdan has not taken advantage of years gone by and written a clever sequel to Body Heat where the William Hurt character is released from jail and seeks revenge. There could be younger characters in the mix as Hurt tangles with Turner. What do you think?

By: Joe Valdez

Joe Valdez — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:44:39 +0000

Alan: That’s the best possible comment anyone in my blogroll could pay me. I hope your wife enjoys the movie. Body Heat is definitely a great one to watch as a couple. Chuck: The reason Body Heat or Bull Durham are so ideal to watch in the company of the "little lady" is their intense level of eroticism, as well as humor. This is a really funny movie in spots. Movies with that kind of appeal are way more stimulating to me than something like 9 1/2 Weeks, which is pure titillation. I will say this for Mickey Rourke, you're right, he does steal this movie. When I watch him in some of these early roles, I think he should have had Bruce Willis' career. He would have been gold in Die Hard.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:34:57 +0000

Nice work Joe. I’ve been meaning to re-watch this terrific picture for quite some time: it’s a lean, elegant noir with possibly Turner and Hurt’s best work, and Rourke steals every scene that he’s in. This is an electric, erotic movie, and perfect to see with the little lady with V Day rolling around.

By: Burbanked

Burbanked — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:38:14 +0000

Well, Joe, if blogging is ever meant to move people to demonstrable action, you’ve achieved it twice in the course of this one post!

First of all, you’ve inspired me to add Body Heat to my Netflix queue. I haven’t seen it in years and the wife’s never watched it, so I’m looking forward to revisiting the film soon.

And secondly, I’ve linked to your post from my From the brains of other bloggers box in my sidebar. That’s the bit in which I take a particularly good sentence you’ve written – or, in this case, a particularly inspirational one – and cram it, context-free, into my site and link it back to yours.

Thanks on both accounts!