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FREE STATE OF JONES 2/10 How could this go so wrong? Get the dvd and watch the excellent FIFTEEN MINUTE documentary about the fascinating ,real life events portrayed in the film. Skip the film (i couldn't get thru it) bro
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I Am Legend 6.5/10 Will Smith carries the film well. The environment effects are great, the CGI animals less great and the CGI infected very cartoony looking and a major mistake to use over real actors. The last 20 minutes also fizzles out.
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FREE STATE OF JONES 2/10 How could this go so wrong? Get the dvd and watch the excellent FIFTEEN MINUTE documentary about the fascinating ,real life events portrayed in the film. Skip the film (i couldn't get thru it) bro That bad? Any more detail for why you quit? I don't rate movies I don't see through to the end because you never know then if it could have gotten better. If you go to imdb.com and click on "reviews/hated it" you will get the many reasons it sucked. Summary: badly directed with endless scenes of people walking, sitting around doing nothing, speechifying....just plain dull. And loooooonnnnnnnnng. The film could have been good if it focused on the main plot concerning Confederate soldiers deserting and forming an alliance with farmers to resist the landowners DURING the Civil War> But, it went on and on and on with diminishing returns till i turned it off after the obligatory and predictable lynching scene(s) which take place AFTER the Civil War! "That bad? Any more detail for why you quit? I don't rate movies I don't see through to the end because you never know then if it could have gotten better." No i did watch it to the "end" - it's just that the filmmakers didn't know it was the "end" and kept the film going for another 20 minutes!!!!!! LOL!
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Bride of Frankenstein 7.8/10 Good fun and entertaining. Nice model work in it and lovely sets. Well directed and looks great. They don't hold back on the killing either. A couple of missteps are the mini people and the terrible actor who plays Byron at the start. The film also has more actors rolling their 'R's than I've ever heard before. Karloff is good stuff. Una O'Connor is her usual shrieking self, funny but borderline headache inducing. Amazing that The Bride is only in it for maybe 4 minutes but is such an iconic design. I can't believe the lead actress, Valerie Hobson, playing the to-be Mrs Frankenstein was just 17. She looks about 32. The music is mostly big and great but sometimes felt a bit out of plà ce
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Frankenstein (1931) 8/10 - it's ace! It has about 22 less murders than the sequel but dirches any silly stuff and keeps the lovely sets, design and camera work. Some perfectly blended matte paintings too. Great stuff, though I did miss some score.
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Tomorrow Never Dies 6/10 not bad Bond that's an improvement over goldeneye but missing a famke Janssen. Jonathan Pryce makes a fine Rupert Murdoch. He has one hilarious scene where he types very quickly, that is pure comedy. I like him as an actor and he's decent enough here. Michelle Yeoh is great as the Bond sidekick and is probably the most handy one ever with genuine action film lead abilities. She's good stuff. The big blond henchman is forgettable. Vincent S. has a nice cameo as a torturer. The svore reprises the Bondctheme nicely a few times but drew some groans from our crowd when the "phat beats" were dropped. The action scenes were ok though not particularly memorable. We wondered about all the innocent people murdered by stray bullets. Brosnan does well, looks the part but I still can't warn to him. I did just want him to get shot and The story to follow Yeoh. People were surprised to see a younger Hugh Bonneville on a British destroyer in a small role. I liked seeing one of the Sister's of Murphy from the beer ads, she'd have made a better Bond girl than Teri Hatcher did.
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Force 10 From Navarone 7.8/10 - Great fun. Excellent cast all on good form. Lots of Bond and Star Wars actors in it. I'd like to see the extended adventures of Edward Fox and Carl Weathers. Nice model effects at the end. The score, while rousing, seemed out of place and a bit old fashioned in places. Nice plot twists and upping of the stakes. Good stuff! As a kid I always remembered the disfigured partisans and the reveal that the initial partisans are bad guys by revealing their hats or pinning badges on them. Harrison Ford is decent and Robert Shaw is always ace! Shame he died before it was released!
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LIFE Believe it or not, Thor, I liked it! Yeah, it was overly-familiar, but it was done well, with little nonsense and for a refreshing change, characters you can actually care about that aren't obnoxious. Hey! One of them was even named Rory, though it kind of annoyed me hearing my name constantly repeated in the beginning (very rare anyone being named Rory in movies and TV shows. And, by the way, in this movie, Rory isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the space station. Rory is to blame for almost everything!). When the nasty little alien started getting frisky, the movie got nicely tense and I only fault the film for stopping the tension every so often so sappy, introspective dialogue could be delivered. If I'd made it, I'd have kept the "it's-time-to-shit-your-pants" tension constant, but this movie almost does that. And the conclusion is very PLANET OF THE APESish (you'll see). A good throwback to '50s sci-fi type "B" stuff, but done with slick modern effects and a smart approach. 8.5/10 I recommend it to Joan Hue. This is what PROMETHEUS should have been.
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The Guns of Navarone - 7.8/10 Great stuff! I had forgotten how funny and excellent David Niven was. Made me want to binge watch his films. For some reason his droll wit reminded me of Richard E. Grant. The storm sequence in the film and the shipwreck was really well done. It had lots of actors i remember from films as a kid; Quinn, Quayle, Peck, Niven, J. Robertson Justice. Shame they had to kill the nice-looking not-really-mute-or-tortured lady, but i'm glad the lady with the mustache survived. Now i have to go watch Niven films.
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On TV, a film I'd never seen before : THREE VIOLENT PEOPLE, with Cheston Heston and Anne Baxter in the West just after the Civil War. While driving Ms Baxter to his ranch, Chuck sees that she's impressed by the mountains nearby and states (something like), "You feel that you can talk to God when you're up there..." and I wondered if this was an in-joke after the pair of them had been in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS the previous year. Film was entertaining enough, not bad at all. Music by Walter Scharf was OK, but not particularly memorable.
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Sweeeeet! Even better than the footlocker of soldiers I always coveted as a kid from the backs of the American comics.
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