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They All Laughed (1981)
Should have been titled "They Couldn't Act"
Never cast models and Playboy bunnies in your films! Bob Fosse's "Star 80" about Dorothy Stratten, of whom Bogdanovich was obsessed enough to have married her SISTER after her murder at the hands of her low-life husband, is a zillion times more interesting than Dorothy herself on the silver screen. Patty Hansen is no actress either..I expected to see some sort of lost masterpiece a la Orson Welles but instead got Audrey Hepburn cavorting in jeans and a god-awful "poodlesque" hair-do....Very disappointing...."Paper Moon" and "The Last Picture Show" I could watch again and again. This clunker I could barely sit through once. This movie was reputedly not released because of the brouhaha surrounding Ms. Stratten's tawdry death; I think the real reason was because it was so bad!
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The added 49 minutes of "Apocalypse Now Redux"
The added scenes in "Apocalypse Now Redux" GREATLY enhance one of the best movies ever made. Those of you who think the additions make an already "unwatchable" movie way too long should go back to your MTV..........
Bully (2001)
Larry Clark mix of teen flesh and moral (and cranial) emptiness.
Despite some unintentionally hilarious dialogue and appallingly bad acting (e.g. Rachel Miner as Lisa) this was a thoroughly enjoyable movie. Set in the empty 'burbs of South Florida, these still-living-at-home teens have a lot of free time on their hands; time to strip at gay clubs, run a phone sex business and plan a murder! I swear I was watching an early John Waters flick at some points. Brad Renfro is set to be the next Teen Hunk star; the chick who played Heather looks like a baby Veruschka (a famous sixties fashion model, kids). And if you've ever wondered about Eminem's fan base, look no further!