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The Last Picture Show (1971)
Slow moving, boring, bad editing,
I just saw this movie about an hour ago. This movie may have been extreme for it's time, (there is a little nudity, and wife swapping) but viewed today, this film is just dated.
Cybull shipyard is terrible in this movie. Timothy bottoms career died after being in this movie.
Larry mcmurkys writing is absolutely awful. does he drop acid before he writes? A small town in Texas in 1951, and the local teen-agers are having a nude pool party! Just take a look at the actual bathing suits people of the era are wearing. No one was showing any skin back then.
And as for this movie having so many deep meanings and images, you people must be on crack! Ass Crack that is!
Mcmurky doesn't have enough sense to do anything deep and meaningful. He writes western soap operas. and he's not very good at that either. Bigdogovitch may be an OK director, but he also doesn't have the intellect to do a deep piece. Any meanings or images that come out of this movie are accidental and totally inconsequential.
This is just another movie that blinded everyone when it first came out. However, on further examination over the years, the story and the acting gusts falls to pieces.
By the way, What's with all the starring that's going on in this movie? Did they have some extra film they had to use up and thought that starring at each other would be a good filler? The head shots are just as dated. who shoots that way? why Is bigdogovitch trying to draw our attention to the person in the head shot? They really don't have anything to say to advance the plot. The timing of the shots was also off. jumping from season to season without any notice or visual clues just leaves us wondering if the director was smoking the Jamacan Ganja man!
On the stinky scale: I give it four unflushed terds. Stay as far away as possible!
MonkeyMan
Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
Not about Fish, just about Poverty
I saw this propaganda at the Rehoboth Beach Film Festival on November 12, 2005. By the description of the movie in the Film Guide, I thought this would be a movie about how introducing this fish to the lake would change the lives of the people living around the lake.
These people were dirt poor before the fish was ever introduced to the area. the fish are plentiful in the lake, why don't these people catch these fish like they did with other fish years ago?
Actually it looks like the leftover fish heads and guts gave the people something to eat, when they would be starving otherwise.
The problem is the government in that country. They do not take care of their people. The government, not the fisheries, need to do the right thing and make sure their people are fed and educated.
If you want to spend a couple of hours looking at the desolate poor and how they barley scrape by, then this is the movie for you. If you want to see how the introduction of a non-native species effects the world around it, check out the web site for the U.S. Army. They are fighting a constant battle with non-native intrusion. and even though the Army's version is a little dry, it's a lot better than watching those poor bastards in Africa starving and dieing of AIDS.
Along the Way (2007)
not a very good movie
Four friends facing their demons the summer after college graduation. This movie tries to be more than it is. It's characters are one dimensional parody's of what they could be. Situation are contrived.
The writing is hit and miss. mostly miss. Production values are mostly good, although you do see the boom microphone is a couple of scenes.
The acting is just a bit over the top. Something a good director could have fixed.
Bottom line. Save your money and go see something else.
Sunshine State (2002)
This film tries to handle too many situations
This could have been a great film. It could have been a great character study. Instead it tries to handle too many characters and subplots and not really delving into any one too deeply. In the end I really didn't care about any of the characters because I didn't really know any of them that well.
The writing was good. It would have been better to write about just a few of the characters rather than to try and write about the entire population of Florida.
Production values were excellant.
Most of the actors were good.
Bottom line: Only go to see this movie if you don't have anything else planned.
Invincible (2001)
This is a very dull film
This film is based on a true story of a Jewish blacksmith from a small town. He wins a strongman competition in a traveling circus and before you know it, a talent scout from Berlin wants to put him in showbusiness. The blacksmith travels to Berlin where he witness' the rise of Nazi Germany.
He leaves Berlin to travel back to his small town to warn them of the Nazi's.
If only the film were this short!
This is a very dull, slow moving film. The writing is sophomoric and contrived. E. Max Frye, the writer, should consider taking a writing class somewhere. Maybe a local community college could get him started in the right direction.
This whole movie seems like a myth that's been handed down over the generations that someone thought might make a good movie. Wrong! The whole story might take 15 minutes to repeat to someone. Making us sit through over 2 hours of this mess is sadistic.
Tim Roth and Anna Gourari both do a fine job of acting, but Jouko Ahola is wooden and emotionless as the stongman. It supposedly is his first acting job. Lets all hope it his last.