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One Little Indian. I guess as an adult it rates about a 5, but if I were a wide-eyed kid watching it in 1973, I'd probably have given it a 9. It's exactly what Disney used to do so well for kids before they decided all their actors had to look so pretty and picture-perfect. (Though it does sport a very young and adorable Jodie Foster. She already had her own acting style firmly in place, even that young. Incredible.)
Bought the DVD simply to watch Jerry's score in action and ended up going for the ride. A big Jim Garner fan, too, so maybe I'm a little biased.
Definitely not a great movie by any stretch but I enjoyed it and have decided to keep it on the shelf and not put it in the used, going-out-the-door basket. 
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THE MEPHISTO WALTZ (1971) - 8/10
"A Quinn Martin Production!" - and an almost grreeeaaat film too! It's not really brilliant (it sags in the middle), but for lovers of the bizarre, it's exceedingly watchable. It may go overboard on the weird camera angles and all that, but for me that's part of its charm. And it also boasts one hell of a scary Jerry Goldsmith score.
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Eddie Murphy Raw (1987) 7/10
Blood Song (1982) 4/10 (You haven't lived until you've seen Frankie Avalon portray a crazed killer with mommy issues. LOL hilarity ensues...)
Star Trek (2009) 1/10
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May 23, 2009 - 2:54 PM
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Aliens Vs. Predator: Requeim 2/10
"Aliens in the sewers."
Hey, the nuked the entire town, and all of our family, spouses, girlfrieds, enemies, cop-buddies, etc. were killed. But we survived and so we're happy. Uh-huh, yeah, right.
The film was shot so incredibly dark, plus about halfway through they decided to have it start raining. You could hardly see what was happening.
Stupid questions: how come an Alien and Predator offspring is a Pred-Alien, but an Alien and Human offspring is only an Alien?
Why did the Predator skin the Deputy? According to the producers, he wasn't on a hunt, he was on a clean-up mission.
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May 24, 2009 - 10:06 AM
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Le temps du loup (Time of the Wolf) (2003, D: Michael Haneke) 7/10
Austrian filmmaker Haneke is one of the most original talents working in film today. A French woman and her children struggle to survive after some unnamed societal breakdown.
With most disaster movies (like The Day After Tomorrow), we see the entire cataclysm because the filmmaker shows it to us. The intent of that kind of movie is more of a thrill ride. But in Haneke's film, we are restricted to just the characters in the film, wandering around a mostly deserted countryside. Like the characters in the film, we know something has happened, but we don't know what. As they run into other people, the find the depths that society has fallen to through the actions (or inaction) of the others.
This is a central theme of all of Haneke's work. Haneke keeps the plot and action intimate and immediate. The finale is also ambiguous, as is often the case in most of Haneke's work, allowing the viewers to decide for themselves what is the outcome and meaning.
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The Shuttered Room (1967) 2/10
It! (1965) 5/10
Auto-Focus (2002) 4/10
United 93 (2006) 9/10
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THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973): 4/10
I'm a big fan of horror movies from this era, but LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE is not good at all. In fact, of all the haunted house movies I can think of off-hand, only THE HAUNTING (remake) is less impressive. The women are OK (Pamela Franklin and Gayle Hunnicut) but the blokes are awful (Clive Revill and Roddy McDowall). Mind you, the dialogue is pretty dreadful. Po-faced, dull, unintentionally funny in parts (though not often enough to make it enjoyable) and with a shite ending, THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE gets the thumbs-down from me.
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Drag Me to Hell a solid 10!!!
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