I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Wow! Such a good movie.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I could not watch this on a double bill with 'They Shoot Horses Don't They' even if they do belong together. I'd be wiped out for a week. Both films strip away the California veneer of nostalgia (whether movies or dance marathons) that embalms the depression horrors beneath. Both films are sizzling with great acting, great and memorable set pieces, outrageous and unmitigated despair. Burgess Meredith gave his greatest performance in this film and was nominated for it. Karen Black never looked better or acted better and Donald Sutherland bravely went to the limits with his Homer character. The brat's song making fun of his 'pop eyes' was very brave of him - he had always been self conscious of this feature of his and the rage must have been easy to access! This and 'Horses' were both films by two grim writers who were only 'filmable' in the dark era of the 70's. In this way, both films are both period pieces of the thirties AND the seventies.

I've always relished the irony in the fact that Nathanial 'Pep' West was the brother-in-law of S.J. Perelman in the sense that Sid Perelman was a very successful humorist whilst Pep West was a dramatic writer who couldn't get arrested for the majority of his career and the four novels - A Cool Million, The Dream Life Of Balsno Snell, Miss Lonleyhearts, and The Day Of The Locust sold in the hundreds, if not dozens, rather than the thousands/millions of less gifted novelists. Miss Lonleyhears was arguably the most successful if our yardstick is film adaptations but most admirers will tell you that Locust is the one to beat. Given it's tough to adapt Waldo Salt has made a decent fist of it and Karen Black and Donald Sutherland weighed in with a brace of great performances. Not exactly a date movie but you could do worse than make a date to watch it.

Something prevents me from giving a thumbs down for this classic. This movie got away in being a bad film but it's quite weak if compared to movies with a similar theme that appeared before and after it. It's a confusing and strangely empty film carried with an impressive imagery that slowly dies in front of you, almost a tragedy if we consider the amazing ensemble casting, the screenwriter and the director.Based on the acclaimed novel by Nathanael West, "The Day of the Locust" haunt us back to the inglorious days of the Great Depression, most precisely, the story is situated in the non-stopping factory of dreams called Hollywood and its glamor with its films and stars. There, an variety of empty souls and figures such as an film art director (William Atherton), an actress (Karen Black), her old father (Burgess Meredith), the frustrated accountant Homer Simpson (what an coincidence!) (played by Donald Sutherland) and others try to build a future of their own in this God forsaken place where no kind of values existed, and where the appearances, money, fame count more than love or anything. According to some, here's an work about people's alienation and desperation in trying to get what they want and the things they do to stay on a comfortable position.Movies that work with hyperlinked situations and multiple characters need to introduce instigating moments, to keep us curious right until the ending, and connect everything and everyone in one same context or message. Now, John Schlesinger film even back then in 1975 trying to do something that is most regular now, failed a little in its connections; it doesn't know how to make us interested in this messy portrait. Characters and performances keep on slowly dying in front of our eyes. Atherton, Sutherland, Black, Meredith are all great actors and their characters have great beginnings, they're very promising but after they're established in the movie and what they do, their development until the conclusion gets uninteresting to watch, so numb. Some of the situations are presented without a clear meaning (the cockfight, Karen Black's back and forth relations with men, leaving one for another, then returning) no emotion is given or taken from anyone or anything (part of this is comprehensible because of the movie's theme but sometimes it just doesn't work).The dream-like aspects of this film, the art direction, costumes, electrifying moments such as the disaster on the film set of a Napoleonic war and the shocking ending (ok, it wasn't all that much for me, and by the way, the boy deserved his ending and I know I shouldn't say that but that's what I think), all those moments are magically filmed, brilliantly presented. In the whole, these are the things that count a little for making this a favorable piece to watch. Lately, I've been watching films that are a little bit flawed in creating and giving a message or a purpose but somehow their presentation, their package and visual are interesting to make you at least compensated for the lack of destination. They worth your view and at least are a hundred times better than some recent films. But all I can say was that the same story scheme worked way better in "Ragtime" (1981). 6/10

***SPOILERS*** Based on Nathanael West's 1939 short story "Day of the Locust" the film lives up to all it's hype even though it was hardly a smashing box office success back in 1975 when it was released. The movie starts out with young Harvard educated Tom Hackett, William Atherton, trying to get a job at a big Hollywood studio as one of its graphic and art designers. Living at the San Bernardino Arms Tom runs into a bunch of people who are also looking to make it big in Tinsel Town but keep running into dead ends. It's there where Tom meets aspiring actress Faye Greener, Karen Black, who's trying to break into the movies in her feeling that the grass is greener on the other side, Tensile Town, then where she's now living.Tom in fact does get himself a good paying and prestigious job at Paramount Studios as a graphic designer but is somehow stuck on the part time actress, who's lucky to get cameo roles in the movies, Faye Greener who for some reason doesn't take advantage of Tom's position in getting her better roles. Faye as it turns out is into wild partying with the rough crowd that includes a number of Mexican cock fight enthusiasts which turns the very genteel and sensitive Tom off. In fact Tom himself gets corrupted by Faye's lifestyle in losing himself when he gets drunk and high on pot before a cock fight that gets him so horny and heated up that he almost ends up raping her.There's also Faye's father the washed up vaudevillian song & dance man Harry Greener,Burgess Meredith,who's really pushing his luck, and weak heart, as a door to door snake oil salesman who what seems like hasn't made a single sale during the entire duration he's in the movie. As Harry's luck and heart starts to run out Faye in desperation tries to get him back to health by going to see faith healer Big Moma or Sister, Geraldine Page, at one of her sermons. This in fact does help Harry out a bit but before you know it his heart gives out from all the excitement and he dies halfway through the film.The person who really steals the acting honors as well as the hearts of all of us watching the film is that sad eyed and repressed, in life love and everything else, dufus the homely and knuckle crunching Homer Simpson, Donald Southerland. Homer a transplanted Mid-Westerners has moved to the Sunshine State to live out his last years in peace and quite without expecting much excitement in doing that. it's when Homer runs into Faye who seems to have some feelings for him that his sad & sorry life starts to lighten up a bit. Faye just takes advantage of the sad sack by leading him on in that she's in love with him where at the same time is having it on with almost every man, except Homer & Tom, in the vicinity between San Bernardino to Beverly Hills.The end comes when a very naive and heart sick Homer finds out that his live in companion Faye, who has no sexual relation with him at all, has been cheating and making a complete and total fool of him which causes Homer to have an emotional breakdown. This causes a heart broken Homer to pack up and head for who knows where who then runs into the bratty 12 year old Adore Loomis, Jackie Earl Haley, who's been unmercifully teasing the poor guy since the movie started. It's when Adore pushed the wrong button, by striking him in the head with a rock, that Homer finally lost it and that set the stage for the movies fairy climax. That all happened at the grand primer and opening of Cecil B. DeMill's latest multi million dollar spectacular cinema epic "The Buccaneer". By the time that the movie "Day of the Locust" was finally over it wasn't "The Buccaneer" that everyone remembered but the riot that Adore sparked which in fact ended up burning down all of Tinsel Town!The 144 minute movie kept your interest with a number of weird sub-plots and strange characters thrown into it but that was nothing compared to it's final ten or so minutes when the earth, or Hollywood, caught fire in one of the most shocking and realistic disaster scenes,in what's not considered a disaster movie, in all of motion picture history! And that's without even the used of computer enhanced technology! Director John Schesinger staged the final riot scene much like the real life, and death, notorious April 9th 1948 "Bogotazo" that in a 24 hour period lead to the deaths and injuries of between 3,000 to 5,000 people and burned downtown Bogata Columbia to the ground.