'Body Heat' or 'The Last Seduction'?

Body Heat is the better film, but Fiorentino gives the better performance (though both are excellent and my respective runners-up).

pacinoyes rant:

Fiorentino is one of my favorite femme fatales ever - she is on Jean Gillie's level in Decoy - no one has ever mentioned that movie on MAR afaik btw- and that includes a pretty big film noir contigent here - all of whom are totally breaking my f'n heart and making me crave bourbon .........

NOBODY voted for her as villain of 1946 - nobody (except me) - everybody voted for Lionel Barrymore - GTFO - which makes me think nobody ever saw Gillie or doesn't understand what a villain actually is..........a low point for MAR that poll was.......who did he ever kill? Overrated - particularly for noir loving sociopaths ..........

anyway .........like Gillie she transcends her movie - I could watch her every day and want her twice a day at least .......whereas Body Heat is more of just recreation of style............. When I watch Body Heat I wish I was watch something closer to the heart of noir than it really is

Interesting tidbit - my favorite scene in Body Heat is where Turner says something dirty to Hurt as an example of how he might "take her passionately" or something - and Hurt says (funnily - mostly to himself) something like "I don't talk like that" .....when we think he might this time ........and Bridget hates being called "Bitchit" even though we think she should be called it more often.....there's an element of "what people are saying, or what they would say if they knew ......and what actually is true" that makes the 2 movies more similar that you might think and not just as a Turner-Fiorentino comparison but across the characters too .....a good double feature.....

Is that a pool cue in your hand or are you just happy to see her?

I think Body Heat is a much better film but I'll give the performance edge to Fiorentino.