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Clash of the Titans (1981)
Cheesy but fun
I like mythology and so I enjoyed this movie, it is cheesy but enjoyable. A lot of scenes featured choppy and primitive animation, but at the time Clash was made it was state of the art, I'm sure. As a child I also was terrified of the many beasts and monsters Clash offered. The scene with Medusa is pretty cool, and I love the Krakon. Now that I am older and more schooled in Greek history and in the ways of the world, however, I must confess that I detect and odd homoerotic quality to this film, especially in the relationship between Perseus and Ammon. Perseus spends a lot of time bare-chested, is all I'm saying. I'm not gay, by the way, and I don't think this is a manifestation of a repressed homosexual lust for Harry Hamlin.
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
fine film all around
Watched this movie for the first time last night, loved it! Man alive, Natalie Wood is smoking hot, no doubt about it. I'm straight, but Robert Redford doesn't look half bad himself. Great chemistry, the characters in the town are not well developed but they don't really need to be, and Owen's character isn't too much underdeveloped, b/c the movie really is all about Alva. Good depiction of the Depression-era South, too.
Some people complain about the ending, and I agree that it is abrupt, but I don't think it is entirely insufficient. It stands to reason that Alva comes to no good end before she dies, and since it is vaguely insinuated that her mother is a prostitute herself (the way the men at the boarding house treat her, always slapping her backside), I wondered myself if this is not where she was headed when she ran out of the apartment into the rain, hysterical with shame & guilt. I hope her mother felt good that she was able to keep her daughter from becoming a better person than herself, even if that meant destroying her.
A simple, pleasant old film with good acting and two very attractive leads. Worth watching.