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The African Queen (1951)
I didn't love it like I did many years ago, but it's still a solid and entertaining film. I'm not a big Katherine Hepburn fan, but I will say she's a terrific actress, and I always enjoy watching Bogart. They're both very good, but I think the movie would have benefited from having at least one more main character, some kind of rival or villain.
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The Bishop Murder Case (1930)
Murder mystery that's a bit creaky, and not just because it's an early sound picture. Most of the creakiness comes from the not-too-exciting goings on, but the movie is saved by the usual greatness of Basil Rathbone as sleuth/detective Philo Vance. Vance was a popular book character in the 20's-40's, and also popular in films in the same time span. This was the only film where Rathbone played Vance and he did a fine job, seemingly not knowing exactly what was happening but being on top of everything all along, naturally. There is a series of murders around a mansion, where the killer leaves nursery rhymes behind plus a bishop from a chess set, indicating that he/she is ahead of everyone and will win the "game" and get away with the murders. But Vance is on the case so you know he will triumph. The only other person I recognize in the film is Roland Young, who would go on to fame in the "Topper" films. It's a rather slow moving film but keeps you glued as you wait for the denouement.
William Powell played Vance in four films, so I consider him the ultimate player of the character, although Warren William was in two Vance films. I need to see those as I like the character. Anyway, final judgement is it's a good film but one you can watch while you're doing something else and you won't be left in the cold if you jump back in towards the final thirty minutes.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Very good Sam Peckinpah telling of the famous "friendship" of the outlaw William Bonney and eventual lawman Pat Garrett. The movie actually starts with Garrett already being a lawman, with the friendship between him and Bonney talked about in whistful conversations. But make no mistake, this isn't a "talky" type movie; it's blood and guts all the way. James Coburn takes the acting honors as Garrett, who turns out to be quite an ill-tempered cuss, bullying anyone who even knows Billy casually to get to his man. Kris Kristofferson is good in only his fourth movie role. He's not made out to be the good guy or the misunderstood outlaw like in some movies. He'll kill at the drop of a hat, even old friends. In fact, there are no flat-out good guys in this movie. You can expect anyone to throw down on the other at any time and that makes it a good action film. Bob Dylan has third-billing as some character known as "Alias." When asked "Alias what?" he replies "Alias anything you please." He's pretty comical but not the best actor. There is a quite funny scene where Garrett gets the drop on several of Billy's friends in a bar and while he talks to them he makes Alias read all the stock on the shelves. As Garrett talks, you can hear Alias in the background saying things like, "Beans, beans, spinach, Easter plums, beans, beef stew, salmon, pears, spinach, beef stew, Climax tobacco, hmm, AMK Fine Quality Tomatoes, AMK Salmon, hmm, beans, spinach" and on and on. My favorite scene in the movie.
The movie has loads of character actors, some of whom Peckinpah has used before, including L.Q. Jones, Matt Clark, Slim Pickens, Chill Wills, Jason Robards, Barry Sullivan, R.G. Armstrong, Katy Jurado, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Harry Dean Stanton, Charles Martin Smith, Dub Taylor, Paul Fix, Gene Evans, and even Kristofferson's wife/singer Rita Coolidge. But they all play good supporting parts and are not obtrusive, sticking out like "guest stars." This may not be Peckinpah's best, but it's still top drawer and is entertaining all the way.
Murder mystery that's a bit creaky, and not just because it's an early sound picture. Most of the creakiness comes from the not-too-exciting goings on, but the movie is saved by the usual greatness of Basil Rathbone as sleuth/detective Philo Vance. Vance was a popular book character in the 20's-40's, and also popular in films in the same time span. This was the only film where Rathbone played Vance and he did a fine job, seemingly not knowing exactly what was happening but being on top of everything all along, naturally. There is a series of murders around a mansion, where the killer leaves nursery rhymes behind plus a bishop from a chess set, indicating that he/she is ahead of everyone and will win the "game" and get away with the murders. But Vance is on the case so you know he will triumph. The only other person I recognize in the film is Roland Young, who would go on to fame in the "Topper" films. It's a rather slow moving film but keeps you glued as you wait for the denouement.
William Powell played Vance in four films, so I consider him the ultimate player of the character, although Warren William was in two Vance films. I need to see those as I like the character. Anyway, final judgement is it's a good film but one you can watch while you're doing something else and you won't be left in the cold if you jump back in towards the final thirty minutes.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Very good Sam Peckinpah telling of the famous "friendship" of the outlaw William Bonney and eventual lawman Pat Garrett. The movie actually starts with Garrett already being a lawman, with the friendship between him and Bonney talked about in whistful conversations. But make no mistake, this isn't a "talky" type movie; it's blood and guts all the way. James Coburn takes the acting honors as Garrett, who turns out to be quite an ill-tempered cuss, bullying anyone who even knows Billy casually to get to his man. Kris Kristofferson is good in only his fourth movie role. He's not made out to be the good guy or the misunderstood outlaw like in some movies. He'll kill at the drop of a hat, even old friends. In fact, there are no flat-out good guys in this movie. You can expect anyone to throw down on the other at any time and that makes it a good action film. Bob Dylan has third-billing as some character known as "Alias." When asked "Alias what?" he replies "Alias anything you please." He's pretty comical but not the best actor. There is a quite funny scene where Garrett gets the drop on several of Billy's friends in a bar and while he talks to them he makes Alias read all the stock on the shelves. As Garrett talks, you can hear Alias in the background saying things like, "Beans, beans, spinach, Easter plums, beans, beef stew, salmon, pears, spinach, beef stew, Climax tobacco, hmm, AMK Fine Quality Tomatoes, AMK Salmon, hmm, beans, spinach" and on and on. My favorite scene in the movie.
The movie has loads of character actors, some of whom Peckinpah has used before, including L.Q. Jones, Matt Clark, Slim Pickens, Chill Wills, Jason Robards, Barry Sullivan, R.G. Armstrong, Katy Jurado, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Harry Dean Stanton, Charles Martin Smith, Dub Taylor, Paul Fix, Gene Evans, and even Kristofferson's wife/singer Rita Coolidge. But they all play good supporting parts and are not obtrusive, sticking out like "guest stars." This may not be Peckinpah's best, but it's still top drawer and is entertaining all the way.
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The Seventh Seal (1957)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
The Woman Chaser (1999)
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Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
The Woman Chaser (1999)
In the Electric Mist (2009)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
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A normal man? For me, a normal man is one who turns his head to see a beautiful woman's bottom. The point is not just to turn your head. There are five or six reasons. And he is glad to find people who are like him, his equals. That's why he likes crowded beaches, football, the bar downtown...
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Ben-Hur (1959) - 10/10 - I can see why this is labeled a classic masterpiece/epic, with fantastic acting, story, setting, costumes, VFX (for the time), sound, and music! Highly recommended! Hopefully, the upcoming version this summer will be half as good.
All of Tarantino's filmography. Those films have violence that is justified and emphasized not too much, just a few bursts here and there for entertainment or tension. In The Hateful Eight, I felt like the gore and hateful attitude was there for the sake of being gory and hateful. It's basically the entire main attraction, and I did not enjoy it as much as I hoped.
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Concussion
I will start by saying that I enjoyed this movie but Will Smith did not deserve a nomination for this. He was good in the movie but nothing that stood out to me as spectacular, Michael B Jordan should have been nominated over Smith. I liked how this was not so much a sports movie but more of the medical side of things and the repercussions of head trauma. As I am from Australia we don't have NFL but we do have AFL and Rugby League which could potentially have the same outcome. It is baffling that this was not picked up sooner and why more players where not committing suicide because of this issue. The supporting actors was also good and I cared for the outcome even it is was predetermined. It just goes to show that major corporations will try to brush things aside if it effects their profit margins.
4/5 Stars
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Batman vs Superman
Eh. It was really long and poorly paced and kind of stupid and boring. Ben Affleck was great at the beginning, but he didn't get to act after the first hour. Wonder Woman was great. She was the only fun part of the movie-and yes, dark movies can be fun. This just wasn't enjoyable. The Dark Knight was dark, but it was enjoyable. Jessie Eisenberg is TERRIBLE. Give the man a Razzie. Snyder needs to stop the zoom cinematography. The part where they actually get around to fighting is good. The resolution to that fight is terrible. The E-Mail was embarrassing. Whoever wrote that should be ashamed.
Eh. It was really long and poorly paced and kind of stupid and boring. Ben Affleck was great at the beginning, but he didn't get to act after the first hour. Wonder Woman was great. She was the only fun part of the movie-and yes, dark movies can be fun. This just wasn't enjoyable. The Dark Knight was dark, but it was enjoyable. Jessie Eisenberg is TERRIBLE. Give the man a Razzie. Snyder needs to stop the zoom cinematography. The part where they actually get around to fighting is good. The resolution to that fight is terrible. The E-Mail was embarrassing. Whoever wrote that should be ashamed.
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I thought the was minimal violence in this one, only really the ending was there a fair bit. Did you not like the score as I thought it was excellent.
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Summer with Monika (1953)
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Decent Bergman film in which a couple of teens meet, fall in love, spend the summer together, and then face typical issues. It's done well and it looks good, but I don't think it'll make a lasting impact with me like some of the director's other films.
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Who the hell wants to watch a movie about Kurt Russell wearing an eye patch?
Who the hell wants to watch a movie about Kurt Russell wearing an eye patch?
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Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
***SPOILER WARNING***
Not simply a follow up story of MAN OF STEEL (2013), BvS: DOJ is more of a DC's formal first take to introduce its cinematic universe by finally bringing DCs 2 most beloved & 'World's finest' superheroes together on the screen for the very first time. The stake was high but the wait was long due...
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First of all, let me put the things that I liked & really enjoyed about this movie. Though I was one of those Batfleck haters but kudos to Ben Affleck for giving his best efforts to portray a credible Bruce Wayne & Batman here. Most of the action scenes lead by the Batsy were awesome; particularly the BvS epic fight, Warehouse rescue and the chase after the Krypotine stone were really well done. Loved Jeremy Irons' portrayal of Alfred also, even some of his style of dialog delivery & voice work highly reminded me of the greatest horror movie icon of all time...Sir Boris Karloff! And lastly the way Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman steals the show in the final battle (I wish I could kiss her in thigh!
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Now about the bad stuffs...
1) Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: I really didn't get why they treated one of the most iconic DC villains and Superman's prime foe Lex Luthor in this terrible fashion by making him some wort of JOKER-ish maniac!?! Luthos is a 'smart ass billionaire evil genius', his characterization doesn't need to look like smarter or more devilish than what he already is in the comics or animated series. Eisenberg tried too hard here and I think the responsibility for making him like a "Lex-Joker-Luthor" mostly goes to the writers. DC own the JOKER, they don't need another villain acting crazy most of the time to justify his evil plans or character.
2) Too many plot elements: After getting & done influenced by Frank Miller's epic THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS then adding Doomsday story arc at the end was clearly a rush move for the very first film of DCCU & the prequel story of JUSTICE LEAGUE; as if DC is running out of time to tell all the great stories at once & catch up with the MARVEL(!). As a whole, this ending was too much off beat & comes so early in the series. Sup's death here was less convincing, felt simply staged (as JL is yet to form) and thus failed to deliver the appeal of really losing a great hero like him like the way that original Doomsday story delivered at that point. Moreover, the whole Doomsday creation theory here was kinda lame...like one of those 60s & 70s Hammer's Dracula & Frankenstein story arcs…where sometime a drop of blood was enough to "create or resurrect pure evil"! They are doing too much with Zod's wrecked ship, IMO. What that ship actually is? an alien zoo or a genetic research facility? Though it kinda make sense that after the destruction of planet Krypton they had to take & carry lots of their technological & historical stuffs with them to carry on Krypton's legacy in the universe.
3) Treatment & planning for the Batman & Superman: I think it won't be too much exaggerating to say that BvS is kind of an anti-Superman flick; where they left his character almost off-guard throughout the whole movie. He's frustrated as almost everywhere he showed up either that ended up with a controversy, defeat, humiliation & even this over-stuffed story cost his 'Death' at the end! From a movie with a title like this, I expected at least an equal standing & treatment for both Batman & Superman where they would become friends & take the initiative to form the JL together at the end.
Snyder in a recent interview already said, "one of the big things I wanted to make sure of was that as we went into Justice League, Bruce Wayne was the one who was gathering the Justice League. I thought it was really important to have Bruce Wayne be the samurai who goes and finds the other samurai, that to me was important. And with Superman around it’s kinda hard..."...why it would be so hard or wrong to see both Sup & the bat recruit the others & form JL together?! The thing is they are actually caring more about the Batsy and so they treated & I'm afraid they are going to treat further Sup as a plot device rather than giving him more time & space to develop as a strong & leader quality character that we see in the comics. Over the years, DC & WB only trusted & get benefited by BATMAN as their only potential character to make more money from. So I think that's why they're putting BATMAN in the front for the JL and kicked the Sup out of the picture for a time being.
4) Other future members of the JL: I agree with the complain about that "e-mail" thing, that was indeed a silly idea. They all (specially Flash & Aquaman, I don't much care about the Cyborg) deserved a much better intro. I was expecting to see them with their own point of view regarding what's happening in the world on Superman issue as well as when Doomsday appears as the new threat and started his show of destruction or at least when the world is mourning on Sup's death. Particularly, I was expecting Aquaman would appear from that pit of water or anywhere (or even the Flash at the site as when Superman brought the Spear out from the pit & too weak to carry it & finish the job) with the kryptonite spear and finish the job and later all of them going to have a special meeting somewhere else other than a shawarma restaurant
and decide to form the League for any future threat like this.
That dream sequence was fun and specially, Flash's appearance hints kind of their intention to adapt Flashpoint story arc in a future JL movie (most probably in the JL 2); where it will be interesting to see Jeffrey Morgan's Thomas Wayne playing Flashpoint version of Batman & Lauren Cohan as Martha Wayne turned Joker!!
Overall, Snyder's BvS has its flaws and though it comes with an untimely gloomy ending but at least this time it wasn't as heavily chaotic as the ending of MAN OF STEEL; surely it could have been a pure epic extravaganza and it's almost like a dream come true movie for the BATMAN fans (which made the movie worth to watch & highly entertaining at times) but again they did kinda INJUSTICE in other areas as I mentioned above.
***SPOILER WARNING***
Not simply a follow up story of MAN OF STEEL (2013), BvS: DOJ is more of a DC's formal first take to introduce its cinematic universe by finally bringing DCs 2 most beloved & 'World's finest' superheroes together on the screen for the very first time. The stake was high but the wait was long due...
First of all, let me put the things that I liked & really enjoyed about this movie. Though I was one of those Batfleck haters but kudos to Ben Affleck for giving his best efforts to portray a credible Bruce Wayne & Batman here. Most of the action scenes lead by the Batsy were awesome; particularly the BvS epic fight, Warehouse rescue and the chase after the Krypotine stone were really well done. Loved Jeremy Irons' portrayal of Alfred also, even some of his style of dialog delivery & voice work highly reminded me of the greatest horror movie icon of all time...Sir Boris Karloff! And lastly the way Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman steals the show in the final battle (I wish I could kiss her in thigh!
Now about the bad stuffs...
1) Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: I really didn't get why they treated one of the most iconic DC villains and Superman's prime foe Lex Luthor in this terrible fashion by making him some wort of JOKER-ish maniac!?! Luthos is a 'smart ass billionaire evil genius', his characterization doesn't need to look like smarter or more devilish than what he already is in the comics or animated series. Eisenberg tried too hard here and I think the responsibility for making him like a "Lex-Joker-Luthor" mostly goes to the writers. DC own the JOKER, they don't need another villain acting crazy most of the time to justify his evil plans or character.
2) Too many plot elements: After getting & done influenced by Frank Miller's epic THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS then adding Doomsday story arc at the end was clearly a rush move for the very first film of DCCU & the prequel story of JUSTICE LEAGUE; as if DC is running out of time to tell all the great stories at once & catch up with the MARVEL(!). As a whole, this ending was too much off beat & comes so early in the series. Sup's death here was less convincing, felt simply staged (as JL is yet to form) and thus failed to deliver the appeal of really losing a great hero like him like the way that original Doomsday story delivered at that point. Moreover, the whole Doomsday creation theory here was kinda lame...like one of those 60s & 70s Hammer's Dracula & Frankenstein story arcs…where sometime a drop of blood was enough to "create or resurrect pure evil"! They are doing too much with Zod's wrecked ship, IMO. What that ship actually is? an alien zoo or a genetic research facility? Though it kinda make sense that after the destruction of planet Krypton they had to take & carry lots of their technological & historical stuffs with them to carry on Krypton's legacy in the universe.
3) Treatment & planning for the Batman & Superman: I think it won't be too much exaggerating to say that BvS is kind of an anti-Superman flick; where they left his character almost off-guard throughout the whole movie. He's frustrated as almost everywhere he showed up either that ended up with a controversy, defeat, humiliation & even this over-stuffed story cost his 'Death' at the end! From a movie with a title like this, I expected at least an equal standing & treatment for both Batman & Superman where they would become friends & take the initiative to form the JL together at the end.
Snyder in a recent interview already said, "one of the big things I wanted to make sure of was that as we went into Justice League, Bruce Wayne was the one who was gathering the Justice League. I thought it was really important to have Bruce Wayne be the samurai who goes and finds the other samurai, that to me was important. And with Superman around it’s kinda hard..."...why it would be so hard or wrong to see both Sup & the bat recruit the others & form JL together?! The thing is they are actually caring more about the Batsy and so they treated & I'm afraid they are going to treat further Sup as a plot device rather than giving him more time & space to develop as a strong & leader quality character that we see in the comics. Over the years, DC & WB only trusted & get benefited by BATMAN as their only potential character to make more money from. So I think that's why they're putting BATMAN in the front for the JL and kicked the Sup out of the picture for a time being.
4) Other future members of the JL: I agree with the complain about that "e-mail" thing, that was indeed a silly idea. They all (specially Flash & Aquaman, I don't much care about the Cyborg) deserved a much better intro. I was expecting to see them with their own point of view regarding what's happening in the world on Superman issue as well as when Doomsday appears as the new threat and started his show of destruction or at least when the world is mourning on Sup's death. Particularly, I was expecting Aquaman would appear from that pit of water or anywhere (or even the Flash at the site as when Superman brought the Spear out from the pit & too weak to carry it & finish the job) with the kryptonite spear and finish the job and later all of them going to have a special meeting somewhere else other than a shawarma restaurant
and decide to form the League for any future threat like this. That dream sequence was fun and specially, Flash's appearance hints kind of their intention to adapt Flashpoint story arc in a future JL movie (most probably in the JL 2); where it will be interesting to see Jeffrey Morgan's Thomas Wayne playing Flashpoint version of Batman & Lauren Cohan as Martha Wayne turned Joker!!
Overall, Snyder's BvS has its flaws and though it comes with an untimely gloomy ending but at least this time it wasn't as heavily chaotic as the ending of MAN OF STEEL; surely it could have been a pure epic extravaganza and it's almost like a dream come true movie for the BATMAN fans (which made the movie worth to watch & highly entertaining at times) but again they did kinda INJUSTICE in other areas as I mentioned above.
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Thunderbolt -
In my experience, Jackie Chan has never made a completely dull movie, but this one about stock cars comes extremely close.
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I don't know what it is with this movie. I've seen it twice now and despite being a high quality movie, i just can't get into it as much as i want to.
Ice Age 2 (Carlos Saldanha, 2006) - +
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Both movies (or the filmmakers) suffer from sequelities: They don't have a interesting story to tell, they can't capture the charme of the first movie and instead they add spectacle and stupid jokes.
I don't know what it is with this movie. I've seen it twice now and despite being a high quality movie, i just can't get into it as much as i want to.
Ice Age 2 (Carlos Saldanha, 2006) - +
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Both movies (or the filmmakers) suffer from sequelities: They don't have a interesting story to tell, they can't capture the charme of the first movie and instead they add spectacle and stupid jokes.
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Neon Maniacs (1986)
I saw this a long long time ago, forgot about it entirely until about a month ago when I started to track this bitch down. Finally I got a hold of it and settled in with a couple strong beer to let the majesty unfold.
I don't know if it was the beer or the movie, but the film was sort of all over the place, and never really gave me time to enjoy or root for the "protagonists". But at the same time this was effective with the antagonists, because not really getting much time to understand motive and having no clear goal other than murder and mayhem, it works. There are a few scenes that stand out, but it wasn't exactly what I remembered it, I think nostalgia clouded my judgement on this.
The maniacs were actually kind of a neat villain, I liked how there was everything from an armoured dude with a noose, a samurai, a native warrior, a modern soldier, surgeon, werebeast, Clown and the list goes on! The final 30 minutes of the movie is basically set at what kind of looks like a Rick Springfield cover band/Motley Crue cover band at a local high school battle of the bands. The thing about this movie that just killed me though, was that I thought I was watching the sons of the Wicked Witch of the West rise to take revenge for their mother. Water was an effective weapon against a witch in 1939, you'd figure over the next 47 years they'd have figured out some sort of system to deal with this, but nope.
I chose to give this a 3 because it's actually a fun movie if you don't really analyze it too much. Movies like this are best watched when you can sort of just turn yourself off and take what comes with a grain of salt, just like a lot of the mid-late 80's schlock I love so much. And although I do not believe it to be an essential watch, it's still something that genre fans will probably enjoy at least on some level.
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