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and then you're in a room, a big room, which gets dark and quiet, and still, and then...then lights start to happen, lights and sounds, moving on the wall, shaking the room around you, like...like an earthquake, and you're like a kid again, in bed and you're a kid, and lookin up from under your covers, like that, and the lights come faster and faster and brighter and then you can see shapes in the lights, moving shapes, like people you know, or things, or places and then...and then...the room gets small, real small, and that's when it starts...that's when it begins...
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moon's Recent Reviews
Game 6
R
packed with heavy hitting weight in front and behind the camera, this quirky new york piece that looks at living with lowered expectations and failure as a way of life somehow just fails to connect by that much...but still is worth a view.
Kill Cruise
R
it's like watching what used to be abc's movie-of-the-week all over again...with partial nudity. a bit of the old slap-and-tickle tease, then cue the heavy music...what joy. patsy kensit succeeds in eliciting i-wish-she-was-dead emotions.
Santa Fe Trail
Unrated
along w/ the always magnetic flynn and de havilland pairing, and costarring an unforgettable ex-president, this curious pre-ww2 piece about the pre-civil war (or "the wo-ah between the states!" as granny clampett used to quip) days is curiously and definitively southern in politics, altho that in no way detracts from the stirring action. max steiner contributes a rousing score, but raymond massey's john brown is the hot engine that drives this car.
Gidget
Unrated
a real bit of you-had-to-have-been-there americana...the earnest yet perky late sandra dee (doris day, only younger), old school hunky-w/o-the-steroids james darren, and cliff robertson as the big kahuna (yep, this is where that expression enters the american lexicon, baby!), together again for the first time in the 1960's first coming of age beach story starring and starting america's dream infatuation with the girl/midget
Beat the Devil
Unrated
with more fast shuffling than any fred and ginger effort, and much like "the usual suspects" wherein all are guilty until...well, forget about 'em not being guilty is all, and with a wink and a smile tossed in for spice, this is a bankers holiday for all involved and it shows. jennifer jones nearly steals the show and would if there wasn't such stiff competition. not an honest scene in this stew of lovable rogues out for a con.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
R
even tho i heard bad things about this ("how can they remake a classic...it's an OUTRAGE!!!") still i went and enjoyed senor mister's scott's usual blend of fast edits and bouncing camerawork combined with the "you can't handle the truth!" acting styles of senor misters' washington and travolta. why remake when the original was okey-dokey? because it introduces the tale to a new generation, doh, and this is a good intro. maybe some will now want to see the original. as well, forgotten by the critics, is the very intentional love letter to new york the city...and not the big money flash and sparkle, but literally from under the gutter.
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Casablanca
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does she love him, or that other guy...was she for real back then in paris, did she really love him or...or...just who the fuck is victor lazlo anyway? she lets him know, but he is all too human and insists on hearing the stupid words as well...and it's not until he lies to himself that he "gets it", when he says, "it doesn't take much to see that..." when in fact it's taken him, well, since paris to see. we never really KNOW if anyone ever loves us...we have to trust, and this is maybe the only hollywood movie that leaves us with that...making it perfect.
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The Wizard of Oz
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the greatest musical ever made, er, science fiction, er, fantasy, er, romance, er, oh, nevermind, this one's essential americiana for the baby boomer set and it's resonance resonates far more than my poor command of the language can give justice to. let's just do a coupla mushrooms and enjoy!
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The Blues Brothers
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the greatest musical ever made!...and i mean it this time...well, it'll do until one better comes along! unlike the musicals of old in this one nobody looks as if they're trying to get you to like them too hard, and there's the biggest selling point. of course i could mention a cast to die for, music to live for and a car chase so outrageous (in a musical? a car chase? say it ain't so!) you will wear out the rewind button on yer own memory. nobody in this film ever topped this film...EVEN the talented MR. SPIELBERG
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Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Blvd.)
Unrated
bill holden is the new blood of hollywood forced to condescend to entertain one of old hollywood's legends, and lawdy, lawdy, lawdy, how does one tolerate the egotistical ol' shrew? it's the point of view bill wilder only seems to endorse...
wilder's ultimate consideration for killing the younger generation still makes points...hot lead in yer back, punk!
and, but of course, gloria swanson's movie.
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Public Enemies
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The Big Town
by Veronique"the big town" appears like a hommage to paul newman's 1961 "the hustler", an archetyped prodigal son tale people always enjoy to hear: a smug small-town boy with one special talent who hit big to the metropolitan city in his pursuit of fame and wealth, the essence of american dream, then he would bump into a lovely dame of maternal heart as well as the femme fatale who devours him alive with extreme sensuality. inevitably, he would sink into either booze or sex, or, both of them altogether. disillusioned, so he hits the road again to his home town with a broken heart. either he retracks to where he started or devastated by his presistant pursuit of dream. corny, right? but you just cannot quit it! whether it's the big-cocked dirk diggler in "boogie night", or billard master paul newman in "the hustler"...what counts is how the story is presented.
"the big town" is predicable in every scenario but it's rendered so elaborately that you accept it with adoration anyway, especially when the fresh-faced matt dillion, who was one of the promising supernovella who's got sex appeal, charisma and most of all, genius of his fluent naturalistic actings which resurrect the remants of james dean, marlon brando and paul newman in their days of rebellious outrage, and dillion had the edge to pull them off in pratically any material about troubled youth, such as his "rumble fish"...he simply looks so damned attractive with a cigarette burning in his mouth, throwing a dice recklessly as if he's gonna win, he's got "the cool" to swoon you.
it's a pleasant peep at the young, even more voluptuous diane lane as the femme fatale, and the sex scenes are surely a nice treat with elvis' "fever" in the background every time they mate. bruce dern as the obnoxious blind gambler boss and tommy lee jones as the tough-assed criminal, they're the villians alongside our prodigal charm-boy. every actor just fits into his/her part so seamlessly that makes this predictable story worth seeing. it's a compelling reminiscence of the hipster 50s with the best soundtrack of those songs which once hit the top notch of national sales. the process of viewing it is just one word to describe: smooth.
paul newman's hustler has received the ruminations of his tragic flaw: excessive ego as his fingers are smashed and his sweetheart commits suicide for humiliation that leads him into finding his true self, "hustler" is more of a think-piece to tell you the doctrine that everything you gain easy has a price to pay. but dillion's dice-thrower just slides across the path of easy dough in the poise without harsh retribution as you wish for him. so "the big town" is more of a crowd-pleasing feel-piece without grits in a well-groomed nostalgic aura so all you've got to do is to flow along with protagonist like a 109 mins of hashish fantasy.after viewing this, i've found elvis' "fever" is such a cool right song to play in lovemaking(jk)..ha..diane lan was even hotter with fuller bossom, rounder hips and a cuter face of slight baby fats..suddenly i think i almost forgot how cool and handsome matt dillion used to be in those 80s movies, considering the crappy pieces he's involved in recent years.
"the big town" is a nice tribute to the hipster 50s. the director ben dolt is in the television branch of re-made "twilight zone". so "the big town" may seem sort of melodramatic but in a nice way.
here's "fever":posted 1 day ago -
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Other Men's Women (The Steel Highway)
by Veronique"other men's women" is one of those experimental pieces of works in the early sound movie stage. even it's directed by the maverick who created the legend of james cagney's "public enemy", william a wellman, but inevitably it's raw and primitive, in need of more polishing mellowness since cienma then still had its tiny span to adapt into the sound to emulate popcorn noises in theater. it also features fresh-looking enormously pretty mary astor with innocent wide eyes and lips of cheery blossom. most of all, it has young jimmy cagney before he hit big as the tough bootlegging gangster.
the flick is upon the absurd melodrama of threesome romance among the railroad coal-refilling workers whose code of buddy language is "have a little chew on me"(a sign of exchaning pop-gum), tiptoeing upon the freight train, leading a freewheeling proteriat lifestyle of hard-labour, booze and easy dame after work. somehow the sceneries do have a touch of americanistic realism which could compete with italian neo-realism despite its occasional backfires of overly deliberate melodrama. and the descriptive viewpoint is entirely male-centered, and mainly on the struggle of brotherhood and the illicit passion which is suppressed and un-fulfilled except a brief kiss without further developments. the rest of the story is relentlessly mushy about the manly principle of never crossing your pal's wife even you desire her to death...blah blah blah.
as the notorious grapefruit scene in "public enemy" suggests, director wellman may have an obvious reluctance to deal with women in his movies, when a guy's showed off by a dame, he doesn't know or not willing to cope with that but smash a bundle of grapefruit to her face then takes off since misogynism is primarily due to man's fright to confront the womanly menace. (ha)..there's rarely a place to deepen into a woman in "other men's women" since its two female roles are either disposable waitress(joan bondell) you swoon on monday and ditch by tuesday when you're lonely and miserable or the demure angelic wife (mary astor) who remains passive without actions, the object of desire, something you want greatly but could never have. then a whole long-winding story on brotherhood and the code of manhood.
but un-deniably, the fun of "other men's women" is its naturalistic shooting of proteriat lives within the inland states of america, just like a fragment of past coming into reality which you cannot resist appreciating and life was so simple when you could just climb upon the ladder of a freight train to do your own petite illegal drifting without costing a cent."other men's women" is the work of maverick director william a wellman who made cagney's public enemy. pre-code flick, but nothing too controversial or immoral about it. it showcases the naturalistic side of old america of inland states that you may appreciate if you endure its melodramaticity.
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Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone) (One Against All)
by DimitrisMore than a sequel to the butcher's short in Carne,Nahon methodically shares with us fears and loathings in a Miserere of illusions.Perhaps the downwardness of it all.
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Watchmen
by DimitrisAnarchy's drastic "genitalia" was rarely shown as a stupefied emotion in mainstream productions and Snyder's crematory is not to be taken for granted!So we fill our bellies with top notch trampolines,Matrix remnants,sex scenes like kitchen tapestry and the soundtrack comes and goes from Mozart to Dylan.
Moore must immediately ban all studios from ever adapting (again) a creation of his on the big screen.For what it's worth,I won't neglect the well-portrayed characters of Comedian and Rorschach.sorry for the ones who liked it but:
A: read Alan Moore and
B: it's as stupid as the adaptions of Constantine and V for Vendetta...
seriously,what's with all this messing around of great comic books?huh?????
but who am i to judge the millions who loved it...
Snyder should start eating his own semen..please mr Snyder,don't show us ur ego too much...at least McTiernan knew how to embrace action and detail...posted 2 days ago -
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Merrily We Go to Hell
by Veronique"marrily we go to hell" is a pre-code celebration of reckless brass toward hedonism as well as some possible suggestive content of marital promiscuity. sylvia sidney is still typecasted as the virtuous good girl who sticks to her beau even he may be a drunk wimp who cannot just make up his mind whom he truly loves, incurred with a very shakespearan issue "to be or not to be", absolute melodrama. besides that, you could take a peep at young gay cary grant who seductively tosses his champagne while leering the dame next to him.
so sidney is enormously rich but well-behaved nice dame who's got attracted to a handsome alcoholic who has a strange sort of quibing cuteness to charm the lady of silks into the slave of love. so she's determined to love him and wed him even he's abscent in their engagement party, forgot to bring along his matrimony ring in the ceremony and mostly he still possesses a self-contradictory crush to a broadway prima donna of blonde hair. gorgeous sidney of brunette hair still tolerates that since her beau always says "you're the swellest dame i've ever met" without any assured announcement of L. O. V. E. later she descends along with him while he's hanging over the blonde on the other hand, so merrily they go to hell in booze and decadence despite our swell dame still looks helplessly chaste in decay. would good sydney win the man she deliriously loves?
the best pleasure of pre-code movies is its indulgence of thorough melodrama without the moralistic hindrance for better light of doctrine. somehow sylvia sydney, whose mostly reputed work remained today is still hitchcock's "sabotage", shimmers in her adorable ingenune naivete whether it's pre-code or post-code, unlike norma sheer who conducts like man-hunting tramp before code but stingy mama after code. but i do harbor a private wish to see sylvia sydney act sluttish just like loretta young in pre-code "midnight mary" to gratify male audience's voyeuristic covet, but it ain't goody sydney. (lol.)it's a rare pre-code movie which is nearly lost. pre-code flicks have the best of melodrama without the moralistic redemption i disdain. sylvia sydney, the grief-stricken wife in hitchcock's "sabotage", is now in the arms of fredric march to merrily go to hell. (i simply love the title!)
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Ghostbusters III
by DimitrisWhat a sell-out..."who you gonna call"???Certainly NOT the old-timers Bill and Dan.Ramis' directorial career was long buried underground before his acting was....and I'm still chattering about this movie,somebody stop me!!!
hey,hey,it's my non-recommendation!!!
pathetic,i feel pity for the ones who will pay for this..
i however won't even bother downloading this...sheesh..posted 4 days ago -
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The Wild One
by NicolaďToday you see allot of these kind of films where motorcyle gangs ruin a town but non of them is as good as The wild one. Marlon Brando has a great performance together with Lee Marvin, the story and screenplay where both great, also the directing was. The best thing in the movie must be Marlon Brando's rebbelious character which he performances very natural, he hasnt allot of lines but you can tell by looking at his face how he feels.
Hey, you should really see this!
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
by KevinQuite simply one of the best Woody Allen films I have ever set my eyes on! Thats saying alot,the guy is a movie legend. I would rank this up there with Annie Hall,which is often regarded as his best film.
First off I love how the movie opens up. The scene in the resurtant when Javier Bardem's character suggests that Vicky( Rebecca Hall) and Christina( Scarlett Johanson) should fly to Spain with him and perhaps going site seeing and afterwords "make love" I love how he was so causal about the whole situation and how appualed Vicky was by the suggestion. At the same time Christa embrasses the opportunity. That scene says so much about all three characters and sets up the story perfectly. You can defentitly tell that Allen has complete control over this film.
From there on you see the relationship unfold. It has a very seductive feel to it. So incredibly sexy and provocative these scenes are.Spain was the damn near perfect place to set this film,it really does a great job and seduces the viewer,very effective! It plays this very thin line on relationships. Just how long can a relationship last? How do you know if its meant to be? Can love be free or must it be contained. These are some very important and controversial issues that the film adresses.
As for the performances,well one might say that Penelope Cruz steals the movie. And you know what I think she does,however I was surprised that she didnt come into the movie until the fifty minute mark. It was also nice to see Javier Bardem play a more sane character. He has so much range in this film,through his facial expression one could tell that he had seduced these young girls. Scarlett Johansson didnt wow in this film,probualy the weakest link. Rebecca Hall though,she was in her element. With this and Frost Nixon she has had quite the breakout year.
Overall you cant go wrong with this sophisticated love story. For all you guys out there who might not give this film a chance because its a " chick flick",well shame on you.
Juan Antonio: Maria Elena used to say that only unfulfilled love can be romantic.Check out this sophisticated love story,with jaw droping performances.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
by JensThis film is terribly bad on many levels. It's not even the fact that there isn't much of a plot, it's the dialoges, that make you squirm in embarrassment at times. It's also the fact that all Transformers except Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and the Twins (the JarJar Binks of this film) are nothing but cannon fodder, appearing and disappearing somewhat randomly. The characters are cardboards, relying on what we learned about them in the first film and sticking to just that. The actors are doing the best they can with that. LaBeouf is once again running and screaming his ass off, doing a decent job as leading man haunted by alien writings. His mum and John Torturro deliver the funnier jokes in a movie that can't decide how serious it takes itself. And Megan Fox? Is not even all that hot somehow. This film plays in a world where all college students are beautiful, all soldiers noble and brave and the (entirely unnecessary) US military easily kicks alien robot's asses (unlike in part 1). The somewhat naive sweetness of the first film is entirely missing. But the thing is, in every scene that doesn't insult your intellect, you are so entertained that you forget about the bad parts. Thought the showdown of the predecessor was huge, long and epic? Well, this one is bigger. The special effects are top notch, the cinematography delivers beautiful images. In the end you get what you expected: a larger than life film in which alien robots kick the shit out of each other. If you know that, you should have fun.
Just like I said about the (slightly better) first one: with a little more care for lines and (robot) characters, this could have been an instant action classic. As it is: Loud, dumb, larger than life popcorn entertainment.Hey, you should really see this if you liked the first. You get what you expect: loud, dumb, larger than life popcorn entertainment.
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