andyred-1 Reviews

Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)

Uneven Over 9 Years, Solid at its Core

[21 April 2006]

A well-written show with some definite episodes within "genres" (broad comedies, moral choices, adventure, family values, religion). As far as a complete body of work, the seasons best hold together in the first four years, ending with "I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away" (you can believe that the family had faced issues and had to move as they moved previously, in the spirit of the books and the time period)...adding additional cast and bringing back characters afterward added some confusion and some continuity problems that are well documented. The last season of episodes and the last TV movies are often lambasted as not true to style, or by having substitute families, and while this is true to a point, the new characters often were used to tell similar stories.

King Kong (1933)

There is no denying....

[3 July 2005]

...the dreamy fantastic quality of Kong, despite its dated qualities....

Even the lighting when the gas bomb knocked out the Stegosaurus was otherworldy...

The fact that love killed the beast just put a new point on a dream that viewers didn't want to end but knew in any time would...

The fact that this movie inspired good and bad in the genre is almost a testament to what it meant to a huge variety of sensibilities...

And the stilted dialog made it a parable, totally in keeping with its impact...

I love everything from "Philadelphia Story" to "Of Human Bondage" but by hell, this film deals with more in a seemingly fantasy context...