Neither as bad nor as good(in a bad way) as you might want it to be. The teenage hero singing to his bikinied girlfriend is no worse than many scenes in Elvis' movies (apart from the singing)but the dune buggy bits are pure filler. Obviously made with very little money but I couldn't stop watching. The pool party at the end is hilarious. Members of the band just stop playing and give their guitars to other guys who seem to miraculously know the songs! Then the original guys start fighting almost instantly. Brilliant! Unfortunately the police arrive in the world's fakest police car and ruin everything. Oh,yeah and the monster has paper-mache heads as friends or family or whatever.
Reviews
4 Reviews
Lord of War
(2005)
No-one seems to age
20 February 2006
A very enjoyable way to pass a couple of hours although over the space of twenty screen years nobody seems to age. The cinematography is fantastic,especially in Africa(some great open landscapes). The most jarring thing for me was a couple of (you can see them coming from a mile away)VERY obvious deaths. The first five minutes are superb, a mini-movie that could be called 'The life of a Bullet'. The soundtrack is also superior to your usual Hollywood movie. Strangely Nicholas Cage should be the 'Bad Guy' but isn't portrayed as such.By the same token Ethan Hawke is a fairly unsympathetic 'good guy'. And are they really his teeth?
Blackpool
(2004)
Forget the Dennis Potter Comparisons
10 January 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Very,very good. Forget the Dennis Potter comparisons as this is very different. Hard to believe when people suddenly start singing and dancing, but "Blackpool" feels very real to me. Potter is art,this is entertainment. No-one in this show is perfect and that just makes it better (and certainly more surprising). Ripley Holden is a violent bully who treats his wife like dirt BUT he is incredibly funny. DI Carlisle starts off as the typical scruffy copper who will eventually get his man but he starts to compromise more and more. And Natalie is the perfect wife, mother and charity worker who has an affair. I love 'Blackpool' for it's music, humour, and its complex relationships. The only flaw seems to be that Danny is shown as a suicidal drug dealer who almost beats his future brother-in-law to death (with a brick!) and is the murderer BUT inherits the arcade and goes unpunished. But perhaps that is the point. Like father, like son.
Brilliant but difficult
8 September 2004
A brilliant film but probably not for the easily distracted. I think a lot of previous knowledge of Sellers is required. After the film my wife and I were in a cafe discussing the movie when the waiter asked us about it. He had no idea who Peter Sellers was. This lack of interest has probably lead to the film going straight to TV(!!!!!)in the US. The performances are all superb (esp.Rush,Theron,and Lithgow)and the the film makes the 1960's actually look like the 1960's not some half-remembered psychedelic Beatles magazine article.
This is not an 'easy' film to watch (Sellers is not someone you warm to and the narrative is not linear) but that just means it will increase in greatness as the years go by.
This is not an 'easy' film to watch (Sellers is not someone you warm to and the narrative is not linear) but that just means it will increase in greatness as the years go by.
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