{"id":78,"date":"2006-03-11T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T17:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=78"},"modified":"2021-01-28T20:19:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T03:19:50","slug":"last-night-at-the-alamo-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Last Night at the Alamo (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;So, anyway, this is what that son-of-a-bitch did&#8230;&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Poster-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Poster-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA group of regulars meet at the Alamo bar in Texas on the night before it closes. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Character Studies<\/li>\n<li>Get Togethers and Reunions<\/li>\n<li>Masculinity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this unusual little sleeper is &#8220;observant, atmospheric, [and] different.&#8221; The Alamo&#8217;s pathetic barflies &#8212; &#8220;inconsequential little men&#8221; during the day &#8212; &#8220;have made the bar their personal [nighttime] domain, where they can strut their false machismo and stroke their fragile egos&#8221;. Each male character reveals his own worst side during the final night at the Alamo, with the &#8220;legendary&#8221; Cowboy (Sonny Davis) especially humbled; as Peary notes, this film is indeed a &#8220;swift kick in the rear to men who hang around bars bragging about their success with women&#8221; when in fact it is the women who ultimately &#8220;realize that these men are inadequate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A realistic portrayal of men desperately trying to stroke their own &#8220;fragile egos&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Still-1024x647.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-47052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Still-1024x647.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Still-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Still-128x81.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Still-768x485.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Still-1536x971.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Still.png 1549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lou Perryman as Claude, a blubbering drunk who&#8217;s in perpetual trouble with his wife<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Perryman.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Perryman-1024x673.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-47053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Perryman-1024x673.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Perryman-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Perryman-128x84.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Perryman-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Last-Night-at-the-Alamo-Perryman.png 1487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See?<\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s worth seeking out.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0085821\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/07\/03\/movies\/last-night-in-a-houston-hangout.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So, anyway, this is what that son-of-a-bitch did&#8230;&#8221; Synopsis: A group of regulars meet at the Alamo bar in Texas on the night before it closes. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Character Studies Get Togethers and Reunions Masculinity Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary notes, this unusual little sleeper is &#8220;observant, atmospheric, [and] different.&#8221; The Alamo&#8217;s pathetic barflies &#8212; &#8220;inconsequential little men&#8221; during the day &#8212; &#8220;have made the bar their personal [nighttime] domain, where they can strut their false&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=78\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66600,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/66600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}