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Spellbinder (1988)
A gem of an underrated horror movie
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This movie will make you feel kinda uneasy, since it has to do with a satanic cult. Most horror movies like this are the best, because they contain a lot of creepy, scary goings on. You can show me a slasher flick and i won't be so disturbed, but the type of horror movie that gets me on edge is supernatural horror. Anything to do with ghosts, witches, goblins, demons, and Satan herself will be just what to watch at midnight with all the lights in the house off (and maybe a howling wind outside for added bonus). Check this movie out. It will leave you begging for more. It's even got Mrs. Roper from "Three's Company" in it, as a satanist. She was hiliarious in that show, and she's quite creepy and evil in this movie. The ending will really shock you, because it's a twist that you really didn't see coming. This movie is really underrated, but you'll enjoy it if you like your horror movies with inverted pentagrams, and hooded figures chanting around a campfire, ready to plunge a dagger into an innocent victim's chest and rip out their heart.
Santa and the Three Bears (1970)
What beautiful childhood memories i had watching this
This was a great cartoon i watched as a kid. It remains my favorite Christmas cartoon. Better the Rudolph! Better than Grinch, too! Just total innocence in this one. There's two little bears that are told about Christmas by the park ranger, and then they want to celebrate Christmas, like humans do. They're excited. The only problem is that it's wintertime, and mama bear wants them to hibernate for the winter. Then, confronted by mama bear, Mr. Ranger tells her about the legend of Santa Claus, and agrees to help the little bears experience Christmas so that they will go to sleep. The ending of this little Christmas cartoon will tug at your heartstrings, as the joy of Christmas is experienced by the little family of bears. I converted the VHS tape copy i have to DVD, so it will always be preserved. I will watch this every Christmastime that i'm living.
I find that there is only one problem with this movie. It's a line i just cannot agree with. Mama bear tells the cubs, "I'm afraid Christmas is just for humans, not bears." I believe that the animal world celebrates Christmas with all the joy, love and excitement that humans celebrate it with. Animals of all types know very well about Christmas. God created them, as well as humans. I am certain that the animals know about God's love for humanity, because God also loves his animals. God loves all his creation.
RED (2010)
What a delightful film of top actors and actress coming together!
I think this film is excellent. I am not a big time movie goer, who looks for certain things in a movie to determine if it legitimately is a great movie, like a Roger Ebert. I am just an average joe who loves a great movie, and this is it! Frank Moses, played by Bruce Willis, is a retired-CIA agent. He has pretty darn good skills in fighting, and he will need those skills in this movie. He kept on calling Sarah Ross, played by Mary Louise Parker, who works at the CIA to be just a normal, everyday lady who replaces lost checks that did not get mailed to the retired agents. Bruce just wanted to talk to her all the time, because every time he called about a check he didn't receive, he had actually tore the check up. He's always had the hots for her, and she's quite a pretty lady, so he has great taste in women. So one day, he gets a visit from some guys who look like they wanna kill him, or at least do him some harm. He kills them with the special skills he has. He soon discovers that he's on a hit list of people the vice-president of the United States wants killed, because as a soldier, he wiped out a whole town of people in Guatamala years ago, and he wants people that were there DEAD DEAD DEAD! He doesn't want them telling any tales, because he's about to run for President of the United States. So Frank gets some of his fellow retired operatives to help him out. Boy, do they have a ball getting the goods on the V.P.! If only Cheney could have been taken down like the V.P. in this film!!
Now, for those who have seen the movie, i am a bit confused about agent Cooper. When he called Moses' character "Grandpa", and actually helped Moses at the end, was it all planned like that all along? Were they really just pretending to take each other down, or did Cooper finally realize that the V.P. was really trying to get rid of Moses, along with the others on the hit list, and he knew that Moses was a good guy, and helped him out? The ending had a classic twist to it, if that is the case. It all came together quite nicely.
A very great movie!! I plan on watching it again!
Batman Returns (1992)
Enjoyable sequel to the first!
I liked this one better than the first. With Michael Keaton returning in the starring role, this one is a hit. Danny DeVito plays a mean, krusty ol Penguin. Christopher Walken, always a treat to see in movies, is in this as shrewd businessman Max Shreck. Lovely Michelle Phiffer plays the sexy feline Catwoman. All three, but not all together and in different pairings, get together to bring down the Dark Knight, but Batman perserveres, and ultimately wins out. I haven't seen "Batman Begins" yet, but I did see "Batman Forever" and "Batman and Robin". IMHO, "Batman and Robin" failed miserably, even with top box office draws George Clooney, playing the winged good guy, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, playing badguy Mr. Freeze. I also think "Batman Forever" was really good, with Jim Carrey playing the great dual role of Edward E. Nigma/The Riddler. Tommy Lee Jones was also great as Two Face. I still wish Michael Keaton would have reprised his role as the Caped Crusader in "Batman Forever", but Val Kilmer performed well in his place. I think this one, and "Batman Forever", are both tied as my favorite Batman movies. Like i said, i have yet to see Christian Bale, who put on the cowl for "Batman Begins", but it seems that lots of people think he plays the best Batman. If only Adam West were still young.
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Very Good Movie! (contains a spoiler or two)
I really liked this movie when i first saw it. It's almost 3 hours long, but that doesn't take a thing away from it. It's an interesting plot - death falling in love with a human being. Of course they had to get Brad Pitt to play that one thing that we humans will never escape. If they Danny Bonaduce play the lead part, it wouldn't have been such a winner, IMHO. Claire Forlani, who plays Susan Parrish, has the most beautiful pair of eyes in moviedom! I am awestruck by them, and can't get enough seeing her in movies so i can get another view of them. The rest of her is very beautiful, too. Anthony Hopkins (Bill Parrish) gave a great performance in this role of the communications tycoon who gets a few last days to enjoy himself on earth. It's a pretty good flick, with some funny parts mixed in. One of the oddball parts of the movie is Death's love for peanut butter. Certain scenes show him with a spoon sticking out of his mouth.
There is one part of the movie which confused me from the get go. Death inherited the body of Pitt's initial character, who is a patron of a coffee shop. After that character met Susan Parrish, and the two hit it off immediately, he gets flustered enough by her beautiful eyes and body to be stopped in the middle of the street, looking at her as she leaves the scene. Well, who hasn't been in that situation, your eyes and ears not paying attention to your surroundings because of a beautiful person who happened to catch your eye, and before you know it, you walk into something, or someone. Well, in this case, a car slams into the guy, killing him. Death inherits his body, and that's how he got around in the movie. Well, at the end of the movie, the person from the accident scene returns from the dead. He is seen talking to Susan, and seems confused how he had gotten where they were. I am just wondering why the director threw that part in there. Why did they choose to bring back a character from the dead? So we romantics would get teary-eyed, knowing that those two characters would be together again? OR, maybe that Death may let some of us escape, just when it seems as though our goose is cooked? It was interesting that they chose that ending, to say the least. Anyway, this movie is highly recommended!
Midnight Offerings (1981)
oooh! How scary!!
I remember this movie. I was always a fan of TV horror movies. This one takes the cake. Melissa Sue Anderson, who played Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura, daughter of Charles, on "Little House on the Prairie". She was sooo innocent in that TV show. Then, later, TV execs hired her on to play Vivian Sotherland in this movie. She played the part soo well! NOT so innocent anynmore! Downright evil! A very satanic, wicked witch, with a black cat, and reciting spells and incantations in Latin at the beginning of the movie. While she's conjuring evil spirits, and casting spells, we see a car driving down the street. It suddenly crashes and bursts into flames. The driver dies. Vivian got the powers from her mother, originally. Her mother doesn't use them anymore. She wants Vivian to relinquish the powers, and be a normal girl. Vivian won't have any part of that.
A new girl has settled into the town, and is going to the high school attended by Vivian and her boyfriend Dave. Her name is Robin Prentiss, who played Erin Walton on "The Waltons." She was goody two shoes in that TV show, like Mary Ingalls. Well, she doesn't wander far from home in this movie. She's got powers. She's a good witch, but doesn't really realize it until later in the movie. She's trying to protect herself from Vivian. She makes boats move through the water, makes it really windy, and does other harmless things, just to practice her witchcraft. Vivian knows the powers Robin has. She also knows the hold Robin has on her boyfriend, Dave. Jealousy has lead to death threats against Robin. Vivian has given Robin two days to leave town, or she's dead. With the help of the mystical Emily Moore, who played Marion Cunningham on "Happy Days", Robin realizes her special abilities, and masters them, somewhat. They are no way as powerful as Vivian's, but they do protect her from harm half-way through the movie.
In an exciting cliffhanger, we see who wins at the end. This was a pretty good movie back in the day. I remember it like it was yesterday, and have a taped copy from the sci-fi channel.