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Get Out (2017)
Brilliantly original
I won't describe the premise, because it's a surprise, so how can I tell you how original this movie is? Consider how many times hypnotism has been portrayed on film. Well, you've never seen hypnotism portrayed as it is here. Everything about this movie is refreshing.
All you really need to know is that, during the climax, the audience of the packed theater applauded, and a minute later they all laughed. But then, 5 minutes later they applauded AGAIN, and a minute later laughed AGAIN. Such is the impact this gem of a film had in that showing.
Thrillers often employ humor, but it's usually not funny and it's used in inappropriate places. Here the humor is timed perfectly with the thrills so they don't interfere with each other, and it isn't used too often, but when this film is funny it's really funny.
The cast has no major stars, and hardly any recognizable faces, yet the director got Oscar worthy performances out of several of them.
Money Train (1995)
What a huge waste of time
This is the kind of movie that makes you regret watching it, but holds on to you with the false promise that something worthwhile is going to happen eventually.
It was advertised as a heist movie. The heist takes place in the last 30 minutes. Prior to that, there is less than 5 minutes of discussion about the heist, and a lot of nothing about no less than four yawn-inducing subplots. The girl, the bad boss, the mob that wants to collect a debt, and the mugger they chase, and chase. With all the time wasted on those tangents there is very nearly nothing in the way of story development for what is supposed to be the main plot.
Granted the main characters need a motive and the mob provides it, but it shouldn't take literally two-thirds of the movie to establish a motive.
The insidious thing about it is that, when you have to wait so long for the plot to start, you have an incentive to sit through the long prelude only to be disappointed by the most ridiculous, and simply lame, heist in memory.
Skip this garbage. It's the product of some Hollywood hacks with no brains at all who don't have the sense to know when to send a script back for a re-write.
Route 66: This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You (1964)
60's screwball comedy movie condensed into a Route 66 episode
In his review of 1987's Blind Date, Rex Reed said a farce is OK as long as it's logical. This farcical episode is mostly logical, except for the bit about Tod falling for a girl who is not at all his type. I suppose it's OK to step out of character in a comic episode of a dramatic series, and this is the funniest of all the Route 66 comic episodes. It's done in the style of the madcap screwball comedies of the 60's, neatly condensed into a single hour. In fact Blind Date was a throwback to that style, and if this episode was 90 to 120 minutes it would be a pretty good example of that genre. Soupy Sales acquits himself well. He is neither wasted, nor does he overshadow the regulars. I loved the bit where Soupy does something predictable and Glenn Corbett responds with something I didn't expect. Well done.