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The Day of the Jackal (1973)
This film SUCKS
I was fighting sleep trying to watch this movie, which kept repeating itself. The Jackal hides, the people follow, The Jackal hides some, the people try and follow him some, all leading to an ending that makes me feel like jumping off a bridge "I watched this whole movie for this?" This movie just plain sucked, and should not be regarded as a classic, as it was at the local movie store. When the Jackal dies, it's so boring and uneventful, you feel like killing yourself, or wishing that the Jackal had killed the French President, but nothing happens in the end, just like nothing happens in the rest of the movie, I would rather watch moss grow on the bark of trees than this travesty of a film. If you want to see this story done right, watch the remake, it's a lot more entertaining than this piece of monkey crap.
All the King's Men (2006)
Nail 'Em Up!
If you are a fan of the American classic by Robert Penn Warren, you will be amazed at how accurate this movie stays to this Pulitzer wining novel. This movie not only takes on the dark side of politics aspect of the movie, it also leaves the edge that Warren put into the story, chocked full of poetic lines and deep philosophy. Warren, who was most known as a poet, his lines are visible throughout the film, giving a deeper insight into the life of Willie Stark, who closey resembles Huey Long, the "Kingfish". The movie escalates from humble beginnings with a people orinated Willie Stark, and a handshake with the devil, corruption grows, until Adam Stanton shoots Willie in the Capitol. The only thing brining this film from a ten down to an eight, it's the fact that some of the actor's don't play the time period well, such as Kate Winslet, who seems to be a woman in the 21st century rather than the 30's. Overall, this is a very excellent film to go hand in hand with a very excellent novel. I highly recommend it.
Boiling Point (1993)
Dennis Hopper's biggest disgrace
Chalk this one up with some of Hopper's other "GREATEST FILMS EVER MADE" like Super Marios Brothers and Waterworld. Wow! is all I can say about this movie, which rivals the excitement of an episode of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. I have no idea how this movie made it's way into my home but if we should ever have a rolling blackout in America ever again, I have kindling for a fire. I would have rather this movie been about actual boiling points, like a pot of water boiling, then roll credits than have to go through this travesty of bad acting, where lines and movement are isolated. A line is read, then the character makes a movement, stops, reads another line, just awful.
Disturbia (2007)
Want to stab your eyes out?
Watch Disturbia. If you need to get rid of 7.50 with no benefit to yourself short of donating to charity, go see this movie. I would rather swim with sharks with steaks tied to my legs. This piece of cinema dog crap is not even a scary movie. The killer really doesn't even come into play until the last 20 minutes of the movie where he just goes on a mêlée rampage with a baseball bat out of the blue, totally pointless.. It's cheesy, it's jokes are stupid, and the killer's house is apparently designed by James Bond. He has a secret room, and then inside that secret room is another secret room that leads into a basement, where beneath the floorboards is another secret room. C'mon, a secret room in a secret room in a secret room, that's stupid! I couldn't care less whether or not the kid died, and to be frank, had the neighbor gone on his rampage in the beginning of the movie, it still would've made the exact same sense, which is "Hey, let's put a lot of teenagers in a house, and have a crazed psycho try to kill them!" This is a very original idea, and I think this movie is very "Oscar" worthy. I would have rather watched a two hour documentary on the odor of dog crap. This movie sucked.