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Jul 26, 2010 - 12:40 PM
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Michael24
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The Monster Squad - 9/10
I must admit I saw this movie when I was a kid, but it's been almost 20 years, so...
This movie is fun and exciting in The Goonies vein, only with a horror movie angle. Very, very funny and clever and it was quite entertaining. Outstanding script by director Fred Dekker and Shane Black (the latter of whom also was a soldier the same year in Predator). Loved seeing all of the monsters together, even if the actor playing Dracula was not great.
I thought Duncan Regehr did a great job. Definitely one of my favorite screen Draculas. But yeah, the film was a staple of my childhood and I was so glad when it was finally released on DVD a few years back. My old VHS copy was so old and grainy. My brother and I now make a point of watching it every year on Halloween. 
The fact that mrscott has to rely on getting drunk first to watch certain movies should tell you all you need to know about his opinion.
Yeah, no kidding. I have no respect for people who harp on others for liking something they don't. If one doesn't like a film, fine; that's your right. But don't rag on other people for liking it, with such immature responses like "You liked that movie? What, are you crazy?" or "I guess if you like awful movies then it's okay." All it does is make you look like a childish fool. (The notion that box office performance denotes what's a good film and what's a bad film is rather amusing, though. LOL!)
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Jul 26, 2010 - 3:23 PM
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DeputyRiley
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I thought Duncan Regehr did a great job. Definitely one of my favorite screen Draculas. But yeah, the film was a staple of my childhood and I was so glad when it was finally released on DVD a few years back. My old VHS copy was so old and grainy. My brother and I now make a point of watching it every year on Halloween.
Dear Army Guys,
There are monsters come quick! Yeah The Monster Squad was a staple of my childhood too. Although I hadn't seen it in about 15 years before last night, all of my favorite lines came right back to memory and I was surprised by how really funny and clever the script is. I don't think I appreciated the wink-to-the-audience masterstroke of this film but I really found it inspired last night. I really appreciated the dad character too, he had a lot of depth written for his character's relationship to his family. The little sister is hilarious ("C'mon you guys, don't be chickenshit!") and Tom Noonan was so great as Frankenstein. Great score by Bruce Broughton, too. I barely know any of his work, but he really impresses me, especially with this one. Very full-throated, all-out, grand and gothic.
I still think Rudy's cool as hell.
My name...is HORACE!
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OUR DAILY BREAD (USA 1934): 8/10
King Vidor-directed Depression era story. Everybody struggles to make a farm a going concern. Some people have called this naive and simplistic. Maybe it is, but it is also inspiring and very well-shot. I just love that early-'30s Hollywood charm, and this has it in bucketloads. Only quibble is the blonde Betty Boop floozy who seems shoe-horned into the story (and who also shares some of the same attributes as Joan Crawford in the Stella Slag role from Vidor's 1932 film RAIN - such as listening to early jazz to show us she is morally questionable).
Good early Alfred Newman score. The climactic irrigation scene is famous as an example of montage in its own right, but I've also seen it in a film music documentary - can't remember what it was.
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RAY (USA 2004): 7/10
I didn't really intend to watch this (I always found the name "Taylor Hackford" to be resistable) but it was on the telly and had no commercial breaks, so I stuck it until the end. Pretty good overall, although the endless concert recreations had me glancing at my watch. No surprises when I say that Jamie Foxx is tremendously good as Ray Charles. The film on the whole just seems to lack that special something which would elevate it into the "truly memorable" category. It may be a trifle by-the-numbers as it is.
Interesting for film music fans is seeing someone playing Quincy Jones. I wanted to see someone turning up as Lalo Schifrin (THE CINCINATTI KID) but it wasn't to be.
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