John Travolta Best movies!

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What would you say your best John Travolta is? my has to be Face off but i dont really think he done a lot of great movies? Grease and Saturday Night Fever were a bit hit. They were also very enjoyley but they were made in the 70s which was years ago since then he only did one good movie. Very overated actor sorry to say.
 
I am not sure how many people liked it but I loved Travolta in Broken Arrow. Very silly and contrived film but loved him it. Really liked his character.
 
There's so many, love Travolta films but mine would be Pulp Fiction, The Generals Daughter, Basic, A Civil Action, Mad City, Michael and The Taking Of Pelham 123.
 
I love Blow Out, it's a criminally underrated movie.

It is indeed based on Blow Up, or rather heavily inspired by it. Only in this movie the central theme revolves around sound rather than picture, with Travolta's character playing a movie soundman who witnesses and recorRAB a car accident, which proves to have sinister undertones.

Though what looks initially like an accident, the characters trained ears hear what sounRAB like a gunshot blowing out the tyres. He rescues a girl from the flooding car, but the driver dies. When the driver turns out to be a senator, and the girl in his car plainly not his wife but a call girl, a conspiracy theme starts to emerge.

There are some great in-jokes too, because Travolta's character works as a soundman for a cheap, tatty producer who makes dreadful, cheap horror movies...which are hilarious!

Then you have an early role for John Lithgow as a psychotic killer, and a wonderfully seedy turn from Dennis Franz (NYPD Blue) as a scruffy pimp.

What really grates with me is that this whole movie is based on the concept of sound, it is central to the core of the movie. Yet almost every video and dvd release of the movie has been poorly inadequate, with tatty old 2 channel stereo or even mono sound mixes. And the picture is no great shakes either, and this being a Di Palma movie there are many great widescreen tracking shots to savour.

Would love to see a blu ray restoration of this movie.
 
Haven't seen Pelham 123 yet but as I've seen the two others I'm not sure there's much that Travolta can add to that movie anyway.

Phenomenon's one of my fave's of his along with Face Off and The General's Daughter.
 
Mine too! It was on a few weeks ago and I had to watch it! I thought Travolta was brilliant in Face Off. The way he absorbs Nic Cage's character is brilliant. Mad City always makes me cry. I have seen it so many times but always hope for a happy ending. Grease is just an untouchable classic. I'd have to go with Face Off as my favourite.
 
It has been slated, I have never seen it. Is it any good? For so many years, I thought it was a video game. One for a boring afternoon I reckon.
 
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