I Need a Quick Review

What should I watch tonight. They Won't Forget, a movie starring Claude Rains from 1937 or The Man Who Knew Too Little, a movie starring Bill Murray from 1997.

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They Won't Forget.

Not a great movie, but entertaining for what it is. And while I love The Man Who Knew Too Little, very funny little movie, it's one you can see just about any time, while the Claude Rains/Lana Turner flick is harder to get your hands on.

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That was a good tip Holden. I really enjoyed They Won't Forget. Lana Turner was striking in her first role and she was only 15! Claude Rains was great as usual in a role that could be seen as a prequel to his role a few years later in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Yes I really like Silent Running quite a bit. Like Holden says, it has dated pretty poorly. The hippie-like environmental message, while still applies today with all this save the Earth crap, is a bit forced and comes off as dated. The songs on the soundtrack are MST3K type material, but other than that there's not much wrong with it.

Bruce Dern is a great in it and the movie completely belongs to him as well as the special effects. Bruce Dern has gone on record saying it was one of his most rewarding and relaxing experiences in making a film. The director Douglas Trumbull, was the special effects supervisor on 2001: ASO and it shows in the film that the man has had experience and does quality work. Today the special effects might not impress greatly, but for the time they were great and even look good now, as long as you're not expecting Matrix type stuff.

Like I said Bruce Dern carries the entire weight of the film, acting wise. There's only two of three other actors in it and they are done away with after the first half hour or so. One interesting thing about the movie is the three worker robots that accompanying Bruce Dern as his only contact in the lonely vastness of space. Clearly they were George Lucas' basis for R2-D2 in Star Wars and the way Mark Hamill interacts with the droid is the exact same fashion in which Dern interacts with the robots.

Not a great movie but a true cult classic and underseen gem. It has good moments and bad moments, but well worth anyone's time for a completely unique film experience. Plus Bruce Dern.

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Yes yes yes and yes. If I start typing about it, I won't be able to stop. So I won't start. But do see it, just be careful who you watch it with. While it's no pornographic with the exception of some very minor nudity, the dialogue is a bit pornographic in nature.

How about someone giving me a quick review of Kinji Fukasaku's Blackmail Is My Life?

I was wondering if anyone here has seen Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (d. Pier Paolo Pasolini - 1976)


And if so, would you recommend it?

Yes, I've seen it. And no, I wouldn't recommend it. Other than as a curio and for the sake of being able to say that you've seen it.

But no, don't.

Which film should I watch tonight, The Great White Hype (1996) or Secretary (2002)?

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Secretary. It's not a favorite of mine, but The Great White Hype is just dreadfully unfunny and dull.

Holden...I need your advice!

My husband recently bought a Steve Reeves movie, The White Warrior, and we were reminising about Steve Reeves and his fasination of him when he was a teenager. I want to get him another of his movies...but I can't decide between The Thief of Bagdad (1961) or Hercules (1959). I know they're cheezy....but that's the fun. Have you seen either...and/or which one would your recommend getting?

I can't tell one Steve Reeves movie from another. Aren't they all the same?

Personally, the only difference I see is the loin clothes he wears, but sometimes you guys see different things in movies than us women. I just thought I'd ask. Thanks.

Is The Two Jakes any good? How does it compare to Chinatown? Is it a worthy sequel? Is it worth a blind buy?

I love The Two Jakes.

Is it as good as Chinatown? No, of course not. Nothing really is. The first time you watch it, you find yourself consciously and subconsciously comparing it to the Polanski masterpiece. It isn't at that level. BUT, when you can finally look at it for what it is rather than what it isn't, The Two Jakes is a very good movie, and ultimately a terrific sequel. The only real shame of it all is that Nicholson and Robert Towne had such a falling out over it, and that combined with the horrid reviews and extremely small boxoffice Jakes brought in means we will never, ever see the final installment of the Gittes trilogy Towne had envisioned. And that is too fu*king bad indeed.

But yes, The Two Jakes is quite good and very much worth seeing/owning.

Thanks, Holden. The Two Jakes is really cheap over here so I'll probably buy it soon.

Need review White Noise fast thanks.

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It just came out today. None of us plan to waste our time with it when there are actually good movies in the theaters right now. You tell us tomorrow after you see it. Fast.

You forgot "thanks".

You're welcome!