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Sicilian Vampire (2015)
Not Good
There is no way this movie should be an 8.8!!! Scarface, Goodfellas, Casino, Godfather this is NOT. Not even close. Mildly entertaining, and hey, I like cheesy stuff at times. But this just didn't fit the bill. Supertroopers is a cult classic worth its weight in gold, not this spoofish attempt at combining gangster with vampire. Somewhat entertaining but don't expect 8.8 performance, which this was when I reviewed this. I was reading some of the reviews and the more I read the positive ones, the more fake they looked. Proceed with caution. Needs work, but has some pretty darn good actors in it who are not near their best. James Caan was believable but he must have been laughing to himself the whole time at the cheese in the dialogue. Maybe they should have went one way or the other because it seems to be trapped in limbo between cheese and serious. More like Meatballs 2 meets dusk till dawn 6, if there was one.
Oh, and Eric Roberts' dialogue was so bad, it was obvious they put him and his partner in the show as cops just to try to be "realistic". What I mean to say is, obviously there must be cops around since the main characters are gangsters. But whoever wrote his lines and scenes, it was so awkward!
Oh and if you don't think the reviews are fake, look at how many times the negative reviews were found "helpful". Any negative review has about 700 not helpful votes and about 12 helpful votes. Look at other movies and you will see this isn't the case. A group of people connected to this movie somehow are going thru and ummm, "voting". Ahem. Also, the positive reviews seem pretty similar in format, always a 9 or maybe an 8 trying to look like a real review by not giving it a 10, sometimes a weak attempt in the write-up to give a small con, kinda like a job interviewer attempting to give one small weakness to make him/her look good.....sad.
In Search of... (1977)
In Search of Music (Boards of Canada)
I love the "In Search Of" series. One reason is the ghostly music in the background that gave the already strange topics an extra eerie quality. The music is very similar to a newer electronic group called "Boards of Canada". If you enjoyed this series because of the music, purchase some "Boards of Canada" (BOC) and you may get a kick out of it. I recommend the album "Music Has the Right To Children". Boards of Canada also has a new release called "Geogaddi". I have heard some of it and it also has a ghostly quality to it. Other groups that may have the same sound lie in the "Trip-Hop" genre of electronic music. Groups such as Waldek, Goldfrapp, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Air and Zero 7 sound similar but nothing seems to be as close to the original "In Search Of" music like BOC, especially since BOC relies almost entirely on instruments and not many vocals. ~ Jim Faulkner