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seattlejohn01

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« Reply #323 on: 09-29-2009 10:02 »
« Last Edit on: 09-29-2009 10:10 »
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Plan 9 From Outer Space
This film is hilariously inept, and at the same time very earnest. Made by legendary low rent film maker Ed Wood, it was shot in 3 weeks and cost about $5,000 to make. And, it shows. From an plane cockpit compartment separator made out of an old shower curtain, to a cop holding a gun on a suspect then scratching his head with the barrel end of his gun, to Ed Wood's Chiropractor pretending to be a vampire (filling in for Bela Lugosi, who died 2 weeks into production) by walking around the movie set with his cape over his face. The plot is nonsensical, the acting (if you can call it that) 2 dimensional & wooden, the dialog written like it was created by monkies pounding on a typewriter, the direction nonexistent. It's so bad that it's good. One of my personal favorites.
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coldangel

DOOP Secretary

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The Pursuit of Happiyness Frustratingly unrealistic in that it depicts a person trying their hardest to achieve success and actually achieving it.
Most unrealistic film based on a true story ever.
Must make my blatantly obvious self-depreciating sarcasm less subtle.
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Tweek

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DOOP Secretary

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Burn After Reading
The first review I heard of this film was fairly negative but I took it with a pinch of salt as the reviewer didn't like "The Big Lebowski" or " Oh Brother Where Art Thou", both of which I really enjoyed, unfortunately he was right this time. If I hadn't read on the DVD box that it was meant to be a comedy I wouldn't have realised for much of the film. A comedy really needs to get a few good laughs in the opening scenes which this sadly lacks, in fact the funniest scene is right at the end when its a bit late to grab the viewer's attention.
The film starts with CIA agent Osbourne Cox quitting the agency when he is demoted. He decides to write his memoirs which leads to trouble when his wife copies his computer files as she thinks they may contain financial information she could use when she divorces him. The disc with the files is lost in a gym and found by two less than intelligent employees who see it as an opportunity to make some money, little knowing that the information on it is fairly low level. Against this spy story we also have Cox's wife having an affair with Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer who is also involved with one of the two gym employees.
The actors did a good enough job as one would expect from such big names, although I thought the best performance came from J.K. Simmons in his small role as an unnamed CIA Superior which provided more laughs than the rest of the film did. Some viewers might be put off by the constant swearing and while it isn't a particularly violent film there is one scene where somebody is shot which is bloody and shocking.
I can't really recommend buying this to anybody who isn't a completist who needs to see every film of a particular actor or the Coen Brothers. It might be worth watching when it is on television if there is nothing better on.
5/10
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DrThunder88

DOOP Secretary

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J.K. Simmons really need his own comedy movie.
He played one of my favorite recurring characters on Law & Order. His more comedic roles have been good too. I don't know if he could support his own movie, but I find myself agreeing with you. Maybe a sitcom.
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DrThunder88

DOOP Secretary

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Peter Sellers movies are always in style.
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Tweek

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DOOP Secretary

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Solaris [1972)
When I sat down to watch this I thought it might be a long haul as I'd read that it was slow paced and two and three quarter hours long; I needn't have worried as the time seemed fly by. It is different just about every other space based science fiction in that there aren't lots of shots of spacecraft travelling through a starlit sky or exotic views of strange planets, most of the film takes place on a space station although you probably wouldn't realise this from most scenes.
Set in the future a scientist on the Solaris space station which is orbiting a distant ocean planet has gone missing and the man who went out looking for him has given a report so utterly fantastical that it must have been an hallucination. Kris Kelvin, a psychiatrist is sent to evaluate the three remaining scientists there. When he arrives he finds that one of them has killed himself and the other two aren't behaving in the most rational of ways. This isn't the strangest thing going on there though; he meets another person there, his ex-wife Hari who had died ten years previously. It appears that she has been created by the planet's ocean which is actually a sentient being.
The film has a very strange feel to it; there is almost no background music and what there is sounds more like noise than music and the picture changes from colour to black and white in a way that seemed strange to me. Perhaps the biggest surprise however was the total lack of overt politics or even flag waving, I'd expected a Soviet film would have the hammer and sickle on show at the very least. The director and his cast did a great job with a story that could easily have been boring if it hadn't been made so well.
These comments are based on watching the film in Russian with English subtitles, not having seen the Hollywood remake I can't compare the two versions.
8/10
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Smarty

Professor

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I recently became almost obsessed with Jackson Pollock, so when I saw this movie on TV I freaked.
Pollock
A great biography of Jackson Pollock, who is played by Ed Harris. He really reflects not only his appearance but his emotions too, especially the scenes where Pollock is drinking. What's even cooler is that Harris actually paints. It really makes you believe that he is Pollock. Overall, it does a great job of following his life as a painter and how he did it with his alcoholism.
5 Stars
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DogDoo8

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« Reply #355 on: 10-06-2009 11:36 »
« Last Edit on: 10-06-2009 11:43 »
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Savage Beach (1989)Ok, so this movie was Pretty much Written, Produced, Directed and probably even Scored by Andy Sidaris. Andy is one of the masters of good old 80's and 90's T+A movies even though he only made about half a dozen. I saw this movie as the first part of a double feature, the second being Return to Savage Beach. I think all the women in his flims are ex Penthouse or Playboys and most of the men are bodybuilders or low key wrestlers. The movie is based on two women who work for US drug enforcement who after delivering some drugs to a hospital around Hawaii are flying back home and crash land on a island they come to call "Savage Beach". This isn't all, the movies main plot involves Gold that was stolen from the Philippians by the Japs during WWII, a few Japanese soldiers ordered to hide the gold are lost in a storm and the gold lost as well. Now the Japanese are making amends by giving the USA who are working with the Philippines info that could find the gold, but there are other parties out there that have other plans. Basically there are Three counties that have at least two different sides each that want the gold be it for good or bad reasons and they all converge on the Savage beach where the gold so conveniently got lost... or did it. And the two girls have to fight, join forces with foes and then fight some more then have sex. Believe me, this movie gets confusing and with the flashing of boob, you tend to forget some things which come up later. I wish I had ten hands, so I could give this movie 10 Thumbs up. Edit: Trailer
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