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CHARRO 1969 Fairly dire Elvis the pelvis western which gets more contrived and sillier and corny as it goes on. 1 character - the brother of the main villain - was particularly annoying, OTT and shouty and i was hoping he was gonna get killed early doors but didnt happen. Adequate score by Montenegro, not his best. 4.5 out of 10.
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Mar 28, 2020 - 12:03 PM
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The Dictator 8/10 Sacha Baron Cohen is the last standing dictator in the Middle East, splashing oil money on palaces, supercars, wine, women, song and women. His people hate him and he employs doubles whose job is getting shot in the head. His uncle (Ben Kingsley) was the rightful heir to the kingdom and is acting as his major domo while he bides his time. The plot takes them all to New York and leads to the expected clash of cultures. I laughed out loud on several occasions, and as usual with SBC there are jokes, cringey situations and some fairly obvious swipes at easy targets; pretension, ignorance and racism. That can be forgiven as long as it doesn’t forget about the jokes, and The Dictator has those in spades. Many people won’t like this film. I did.
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Mar 28, 2020 - 12:50 PM
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The Last Man On Earth (1964) 5/10 I Am Legend on the cheap in Spain or italy with Vincent Price. Price is good, there are a few nice shots of interesting buildings. The script is very confused, the infected are vampires but act like zombies and for some reason can't unhook a mirror or garlic off a door. It feels very low-rent and the "action" is laughably bad and the ending is very rushed. But it's not awful, and watching it in the current climate gave it more poignancy. The Gentlemen 5.5/10 So Gut Ritchie it's like a Guy Ritchie parody. It's a bit of a chore to sit through. The usual Guy Ritchie moments, geezers, and humour, the dialogue isn't as good as it thinks it is. The word "cunt" appears every 5 minutes because it's what idiots think is cool now. It's just very tired in this case. Charlie Hunnam is a terrible actor. Hugh Grant is at least a lot of fun as an effete, sleazy private eye. Colin Farrell also does a nice turn and comes across as a bit Bob Hoskins. The film actually steals the end of crime drama Mina Lisa, but not for the ending. If the moment isn't a reference then i'd be shocked. The House That Dripped Blood 5.5/10 Very dated, it probably didn't look good in 1971 when it came out, but i had a lot of fun watching it. A portmanteau of 4 very slight and just about entertaining stories. Nice to see Cushing, Lee, Pertwee and Pitt.
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Pitt was the best thing in that xeb. And she gets the cop too!
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THE LAST RAMPAGE 2017 Another heap of garbage. I fast forwarded most of it and it was still shit. 4 out of 10
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Mar 29, 2020 - 2:40 AM
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MusicMad
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3:10 to Yuma (2007) ... 3-/10 The original 1957 film is one of my favourite films of this genre and I recall eagerly awaiting the DVD of the remake (no chance of seeing it at the cinema) ...and how disappointed I was when I did watch it. So much so that I recycled (sold!) the DVD without delay ... I wasn't going to waste my time watching it again. But 11 years on I thought - perhaps - I'd been a little harsh. I know the film has its fans on this forum. But, no, it was as bad as I'd remembered. The original has great actors portraying their roles in a slow-moving, almost mundane story with wonderful atmosphere ... the tension is palpable when Wade/Ford is goading Evans/Heflin in the hotel room, whilst Prince/Jaeckel is prowling outside; the hopelessness of attempting to farm in the bone dry land and its toll on Evans/Heflin and family; the brief romance between Wade/Ford and Emmy/Farr, limited by the censorship of the day, highly charged. These elements/scenes are recreated and carry the atmosphere of a damp, musty room ... the sooner you leave the better. Okay, Crowe is pretty good even if he hasn't Ford's calibre but Bale is so utterly bad in the Heflin role that I had no compassion for his character. I don't follow mainline actors as I did back in my youth but his name in the credits is, these days, a definite turn-off. Stupid action sequences pad the running time with the final roof-top chase being the director's message to the audience: Okay, we all know I've messed this up so might as well go out with a bang ... And music, well some of Beltrami's themes are attractive and I'm aware that the 1950s' style of melodic scoring has long gone, and certainly the overlaid vocal is no more ... but George Duning's score for the original is a masterpiece. Not as bad as the remake of The Magnificent Seven (my favourite western) ... if that's any comfort. Mitch
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Mar 30, 2020 - 11:08 PM
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THE ADDICTION (1995) - 7/10 For those wondering what new takes there can be on the vampire film, there is THE ADDICTION. An NYU grad student in philosophy (Lili Taylor) is pulled into an alley on her way home from class one night and bitten by a female vampire (Annabella Sciorra). After considerable anguish, she becomes one of the undead herself, and as her school work suffers, she proceeds to "convert" her best friend (Edie Falco), classmate (Kathryn Erbe), professor (Paul Calderon), cabbies, random men, you name it. This is all interspersed with quotes from the great philosophers which she explores in an attempt to come to terms with what has happened to her. Her addiction to blood is also contrasted with the drug addictions of the street people whom she encounters every day. She has finally accepted her new lifestyle, when she comes across a urbane vampire (Christopher Walken) who has learned to function in the world as a near human, and who shows her that, compared to him, she is next to worthless. Can she find a reason for her existence in philosophy? Abel Ferrara directed this offbeat film, which was shot in black-and-white on location in New York. At a brisk 82 minutes, Ferrara doesn't drag out the film longer than its admittedly bizarre concept can sustain. The film is worth a look for those seeking something different. But I wouldn't go as far as film critic Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian, who placed the film at #1 in his top ten films of all time (as submitted for the 2002 Sight & Sound Poll). Audiences tended to disagree, as the film grossed only $300,000.
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Mar 31, 2020 - 3:14 PM
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Midnight In Paris, the last Woody Allen film I really like. Owen Wilson plays a screenwriter on holiday in Paris (& plays him just like a younger Woody Allen, speech patterns, walk, everything), he's with his fiancée & her awful rich parents. He's not that happy & goes for a walk in the evening, sits down in a side street & at midnight a big old car comes along & invites him in & they go on to a party, & it gradually dawns on him that he's now in Paris in the 1920s & all the people he meets are famous & idols of his: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso & tons of others. When he leaves the party he's back in the modern day. He goes back to the same place the next day & the same thing happens (a lot of stuff happens, but see the film). It's a really good & sweet film. The message is that today may seem boring, & to go back 50, 100, 150 years would be magical, but the people living then are just as bored with their today as we are, or to put it another way...Today is the yesterday that people of the future would like to go back to.
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