malikroberts16 Reviews

MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992)

They don't call him Leo the Lion for nothing...

[8/10 · 9 September 2009]

If you took a good look at this documentary, you'd see why Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is easily my most favorite movie studio ever. I was not born during their empire years, but I sure wish I was sometimes.

I remember imitating Leo the Lion very well. I did what he did and I roared just like he did, but I could never get my roars to be as fierce as Leo's were. Probably 'cause I was a little tyke.

It's amazing that MGM's over 80 years old. It's also amazing that a studio that none of the other ones could hold a candle to could be brought to its knees so slowly and so badly. It's also sad that Sony Pictures is now on MGM's old Culver City property (this was their headquarters from the start until 1986).

My favorite MGM lion is Tanner. He's the one that was used on most of MGM's cartoons and all of their full-color features from the '30s to the mid '50s. To me, he was a symbol of their status in the movie industry. Whenever you saw him on the screen, you knew you were in for a real treat. MGM has used their current lion for 52 years now, but he can't compare to Tanner. I drop by YouTube everyday, sometimes just to see Tanner roar, and he has lots of fans.

I also remember racing to the TV set to watch Tom & Jerry. I tried really hard never to miss the lion at the very start of each episode.

Now, Ted Turner/Warner Bros. juggle three-fourths of MGM's entire catalog (1924-1986). WB owns WAY too much as it is and they'd do well to give at least some of it up. Various companies and businessmen bought and gave away MGM for 2 decades. They couldn't deal with losing their old theater chain (Loews). And as the studio system collapsed, so did MGM (which was the hardest hit). I'm surprised they're not totally a thing of the past already because they are still buried in so much debt, 40 years after they started going broke.

I'd really like to get a taste of MGM's true Lionpower. But in time, I think I will.

Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003)

Where Have All The Good Shows Gone?

[10/10 · 4 July 2009]

As boring as kids' shows are these days, I'm glad to say that "Dexter's Lab" was one of a lot of TV shows that I loved watching when I was a child. It just magically disappeared off Cartoon Network, and Boomerang's probably the only channel in the world that shows it now. "Dexter's Lab" is my kinda TV! A smart-as-hell boy genius that sounds like Peter Lorre to me and a very annoying and picky older sister that loves to mess up all of the genius' stuff! How do you go wrong with that? Easy. Just snatch it off the airwaves, acting like no one gives a damn about it. I watched the show all the time, especially on Saturday mornings. I really miss these kinds of shows. There were some episodes in the show that made me laugh until I cried.

I'd love to get the whole show on DVD someday.

The Dark Knight (2008)

Everyone thinks this movie is such a masterpiece.... except me

[6/10 · 13 June 2009]

There's one thing about "The Dark Knight" that I just don't get... why? Why do so much people make it out to be something that it's not? I don't call it a masterpiece for enough reasons.

1) I didn't find it gripping, and I thought it was schmaltzy as hell, just like all the movies I see these days

2) Sure, it was good, but it's not a masterpiece because I don't call it groundbreaking, despite the fact that it made a helluva lot of money and was the biggest-grossing movie of 2008. Honestly, even I've seen better and I'm almost 17! I don't think it's the kind of movie that leaves a mark on the worldwide consciousness and it doesn't mean much to me personally

3) It was WAY, WAY, over-anticipated.

I honestly don't know if there's any ground left to break, but sure, we can still show audiences that artistry and business shouldn't be two different things. I'd really like to see Hollywood do more stuff like that. Bottom line, what was good back in the Golden Age is still good now. I think both the American people and people all over the world can still handle craftsmanship. I gave the movie 6 stars out of 10 just to be generous.

I'd love to see someone pull it off but I don't know if they'd have the guts.

To call "The Dark Knight" a masterpiece is to say that the viewer clearly has not seen a wide range of films.

You wanna know what a real masterpiece is? Give "2001: A Space Odyssey", the first two "Star Wars" films, "Casablanca", "The Wizard of Oz", or the first two Indiana Jones films a try and think about it.

Watchmen (2009)

Watchmen was such a waste.

[23 April 2009]

It sucked hard. I couldn't even follow the movie. For a bit, I thought I was watching comic-book porn. Saw it with my dad because we both liked the trailer and thought we might give it a try. Well, it just so happens it was a gigantic rip-off. It was somewhere between shameful and inexcusable.

I just know Hollywood's better than this. They have been, many times, even in my lifetime. I can't believe Warner Bros. OR Paramount would put out something as unbelievably bad as this.

Dad and I couldn't even sit through the whole thing. We walked out about a half-hour before it was over.

Alien (1979)

It's 30 years old and it's STILL scary.

[9/10 · 12 April 2009]

I remember the first time I ever saw "Alien". It was back in 2003 on Halloween. I took the day off from school and my dad and I went to see it at Union Station in D.C. It scared the hell outta me, especially that chestburster scene, the time where what was then left of the Nostromo crew (Ripley, Parker, and Lambert) find out that Ash was actually a robot, and those couple times when the alien popped out and let out that extra-loud shriek.

It was really scary stuff, but I didn't scream.

I read that people screamed, gasped, shrieked back in '79 when the film was first out. I give it two big thumbs up.

I'm a classics guy. I know lots of classic movies. They're one thing that I've brought myself up on, and when I compare classics like "Alien" to some of the movies I've seen these days, it's pretty hard to enjoy today's movies because most of the time I don't really think they're fun or innovative. I make some exceptions, though.

It'd be great if 20th Century-Fox put the film out again for it's 30th anniversary, but that'd only mean more money for them.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Just when you thought it was okay to be a Star Wars fan again....

[1/10 · 22 August 2008]

....it's not. Saw it in the theaters last night, and I was DISGUSTED. I mean, why? Lucas shoulda just made it another live-action/special effects epic like the rest of the films were. The lightsaber fights was just about the only good thing about it, and they wasn't even that excitin'.

Bottom line: "The Clone Wars" SUCKED!!!!

But Lucas doesn't care 'cause he does it to get frickin' rich. Jabba the Hutt just looked like crap molded together and sculpted. It didn't have much of a plot, either, just "find the renegades and help Jabba's son". I mean, WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT?!!? It's like something you should read in some kinda comic book.

Does this film not wanna make you kick George Lucas in his ass?

The only reason why "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" was so excellent was that Spielberg directed it and he doesn't make crap movies. Lucas just produced it and helped to write it. That's the ONLY reason why that film was good.

John Williams didn't even write a score for the film, and I can see why. He didn't wanna be involved with somethin' this bad.

The script was so full of one-liners and those B-grade catchphrases that it wasn't even a real script. When it was supposed to be funny, it wasn't be. When it was supposed to be exciting, it was boring.

And for all you other die-hard Star Wars fans out there (I'm one of 'em, by the way": DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE! It's a big rip-off!

Fantasia (1940)

The movie that I really wish I could make

[10/10 · 4 August 2008]

It's been almost 70 years since "Fantasia" made its premiere on November 13, 1940. It's Walt at his peak, forget "Snow White". If you've never heard of this one, it's basically "The Twilight Zone" on acid set to classical music.

It's also the movie that I really wish I could make. I think the timing's right, but other people might not. The reason is not even worth explaining.

An amazing thing about Disney is they have changed a lot since then, and they're not the same anymore. "Fantasia" is a damn good movie, and they'll never do anything as good as this again. They ain't even the same Disney that I grew up with and I was born in the early '90s. These days Hollywood just loves to know how much milk they're gonna get out of the cows each and every year. It's so sad to say that most of the time the motion picture is just another way to make money instead of an art form.

Art and business shouldn't be two different things. Children should never be patronized or used as a monetary target.

"Fantasia" is one movie that I wouldn't mind seeing in a theater, especially one that has a huge screen. The timing was anything but right when Walt completed it. I don't think the American moviegoer was mature enough to understand it. That's probably why it almost made Walt bankrupt.

What I would have done is I would have shown it in IMAX with its big surround sound system. I would have done it as a mixed-media art film: hand-drawn backgrounds, digital artwork, hand-drawn animation, different kinds of special effects, stop-motion animation on live sets, etc.

I'm one of those people that doesn't accept the status quo when it comes to movies. But Hollywood still manages to get it right... when they want to, anyway.

Robot Chicken: Star Wars (2007 TV Short)

The funniest damn Star Wars parody I've ever seen since EVER

[10/10 · 2 August 2008]

There's REALLY no words to say here. I'm so glad I saw this, it's just so LOL-hilarious. I ain't NEVER saw nobody make fun of Star Wars this way! I just gotta get this on DVD somehow. The funniest skit was probably the second one with the Vader/Emperor phone call. The Emperor just LOST IT on this dude!!! The 'Yo Momma' fight was great! George Bush's whole skit even the one with his daughter Jenna was OFF-THE-HOOK!!!! The fact that George Lucas actually appears in a skit in here (with his ACTUAL VOICE) was a big plus. That was a cool skit as well.

Unbelievably funny! That's all.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

What's not to like?

[8/10 · 2 July 2008]

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" has gotta be one of the greatest action-adventure films ever made. The mid '70s to the '80s were when Spielberg and Lucas were REALLY on top of the world! When I first saw it, it was kinda boring 'cause there were so many scenes that I really didn't think shoulda been in the film. The scene where the Ark gets opened could be one of the scariest ones ever. Sometimes, I even like to watch the whole thing in B&W 'cause it really helps the movie. It's simple as that.

It's a shame Hollywood don't put out much movies like this these days. Temple of Doom is my all-time Indy favorite, unless or if Indy No. 5 comes out (I know it will 'cause they'd be stupid not to do it!).

John Williams' score is REALLY good. Enough said. This is one of those films that I wish I coulda been old enough to go see.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

What's not to like?

[10/10 · 3 June 2008]

"The Wizard of Oz" is without question one of the best films Hollywood ever cranked out. This was one of two films that inspired me to be a filmmaker (the other was the original "Star Wars"). "The Wizard of Oz" was one of the first movies I ever saw, and even to this day it's one of my favorites.

It's a great example of something that's called escapist entertainment, which means that it sort of "sweeps" you away from the cold, ugly world that we inhabit and into the world of the characters. Even in 1939, with America recovering from a harsh economic depression and with World War II escalating, it was definitely an escape.

I think today's movies can and should be more escapist (and artistic) than they are. Now it's mostly about how much cash all the studios rack in per film, which, to me, is a drag. Most of the films I saw back then were REAL investments. They had lots of really nice stuff.

I really love the shot when the film turns from sepiatone to Technicolor (when Dorothy opened the door in her house beaten and shaken up by a twister in Kansas and saw a gorgeous, full-color place called Munchkinland). That was a breathtaking shot.

Someone else on IMDb said this about the original Star Wars by the way: "A kid's fantasy. An adult's memory." The same thing goes for this one as well. This is another movie that I have never seen in theaters to this day. I'd really like to, though.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Two thumbs way up!!!

[8/10 · 27 May 2008]

If there's one thing I gotta say about No. 4 of Indy's adventures, it's "off-da-hook!" Harrison Ford was great as Dr. Jones, and I hadn't seen him just like that before, but it was as good as "Raiders", ten times better than "Last Crusade". "Temple of Doom" is still my absolute favorite.

I noticed how they put the Lucasfilm logo first, and THEN the Paramount logo, and that's a helluva way to start a Spielberg/Lucas movie, and I never saw somethin' like that before in my life. I also saw how they took out the new, regular Paramount logo and replaced it with the hand-painted one that I saw on the first three films. You can't help but laugh at the fact that it looked just like their logo from the early '70s, AND they took the Gulf+Western tag at the bottom and just put "A Viacom Company" instead.

When I saw the opening credits flash on the screen to Elvis' "Hound Dog", (I'm gonna just go ahead and use this phrase anyway) "shivers went up and down my spine". They really did.

Karen Allen is back FINALLY as Marion Ravenwood, and that kid Shia was all right as Mutt. Cate Blanchett is a SCENE-STEALER as Col. Dr. Spalko. One minute she's Kate Hepburn, the next she's Bob Dylan, and the one after that she's Queen Elizabeth. That's one of the things I really like about her, how she's able to switch roles from movie to movie like that. That's real inspiring.

For any and all Indy fans around the world, this is a MUST-SEE!!! I was lucky enough to see it on its opening weekend, on Memorial Day. SEE THIS MOVIE, before it leaves the houses on ya, or you can wait until it comes to DVD (that's one thing I'm definitely buyin'), and lemme tell ya, it's gonna sell like HOT CAKES!

The Sound of Music (1965)

It's STILL "The Happiest Sound in All the World!"

[9/10 · 6 April 2008]

This is about as classic as it gets when it comes to movie-musicals. Sound of Music is absolutely an "American classic". Julie Andrews is great, and the rest of the von Trapps are just so good. The songs--just like the trailers said they were: Immortal. Especially "My Favorite Things". I still have yet to see it on the big screen or on stage. The cinematography on here, especially the scenic views, are just AMAZING. So sad that it didn't get an Oscar for that.

The fact that this is STILL the most successful movie-musical ever out ($163 million worldwide, and it replaced Gone with the Wind as the biggest-grossing movie of all time) really says something about it. "Dreamgirls" came pretty close, though. Sound of Music is EVEN the 3rd biggest moneymaker of all time adjusted for inflation (according to Wikipedia)!

Not much to say about the way Robert Wise directed it, and he got a much-deserved Oscar for the direction and Best Picture of the Year.

I don't really understand why it was such a GIANT hit with audiences (literally) and the critics hated it. They panned the songs on here big-time callin' them "sick" and "goody-goody".

Anyway, it's a classic, and it's just a great film!

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

The best of the first 3 Indys.

[10/10 · 24 March 2008]

Temple of Doom was better than Raiders, and ten times better than The Last Crusade. When I first saw Raiders, I thought it was interesting, maybe 'cause I saw it from a different point of view. The teaser and trailers for the film and a documentary I saw on the History Channel about the Ark tell me to rewatch it, and I will. I wonder if Kingdom of the Crystal Skull's gonna be better than this.

I thought Temple of Doom was real fun, and it was thrilling, and it never ever got boring. When it wasn't exciting, it was funny, and I like that. This is one example of things I look for when I watch a film. One scene that I love is where Willie falls off a elephant, cryin' and moans about life in Shanghai. That was really funny. She reminds me of how I used to be before I moved to the Virgin Islands, 'cause I was in for one helluva culture shock. Indy was really good here, and my favorite character is Mola Ram from the Thugee.

"You... don't believe me...? You will, Dr. Jones. You will become... a true believer!"

I thought the content in here was pushin' it a bit, 'cause it was rated PG and the stuff like the human sacrifice was a little over-the-top for young'uns.

Great stuff, Steven and George, so more power to ya!

Hare Trigger (1945)

LOL hilarious!

[10/10 · 24 March 2008]

"Why, ev'rybody knows ME! I'm Yosemite Sam: the meanest, toughest, rip-rawlin'est, Edward Everett Horton-est hombre what ever packed a six-shoota!"

That's one of my most favorite quotes. Another one is where Sam says really calmly...

"Why did you pour ink on my head?"

This legendary cartoon series had some damn good writers, something that tons of toons these days miss terribly. Hopefully, these kind of cartoons will be revived soon 'cause they was some kinda magic. Michael Maltese was probably my favorite Warner Bros. cartoon writer. His stuff was just so funny it'd make a guy cry! Mel Blanc is hilarious; he can do hundreds and thousands of voices and still remember his real one!

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Kubrick at his best

[10/10 · 1 January 2008]

As great as "Dr. Strangelove" and "The Shining" are, "2001" is always gonna be Kubrick's best. When it was first released, some people loved it; some people hated it; some people just didn't get it. It's one of those flicks that's anything but ordinary. It was so robbed at the Oscars for that year; it wasn't even nominated for Best Picture of the Year, but it definitely deserved that award. Nothing like it has been seen before or since, or will be seen ever again. Still, it's something I wouldn't mind seeing in a theater, preferably on a big, curved Cinerama screen or in IMAX 3D, if they ever do it someday. It doesn't look as old as it actually is at all. No CGI of any kind was used for the effects.

The first couple times I saw the movie I couldn't sit through it. The Star Gate stuff at the end scared me to death. I couldn't watch it all. The trailer for the film's nationwide release gave me nightmares just by itself! Another thing about "2001" is it's funny as hell, especially at the part where Dave goes back into the Discovery manually through the emergency airlock because the HAL 9000 wouldn't let him back in through the pod bay doors. HAL realizes that he made Dave mad big-time, so much so that he disconnected him, and HAL even reconsidered Dave to "sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over".

After I saw it with my Dad on New Year's Day 2008, we talked about it for a while, and I decided I had to get this on DVD. 4 months later, I did.

If only movies were this good these days....

Doogal (2006)

There's only one thing to say about this garbage: WTF... ?

[1/10 · 16 June 2007]

One of the most easily forgettable movies ever made. A worthless hour-and-a-half of my life that I will never get back. I don't know anyone that likes it and if you do then something's VERY wrong. Why should anyone MAKE such filth? I have nothing good to say about the ungodly stupid waste of film, time, and money that is Doogal. 15 years from now, all the prints will probably have been permanently disposed of and this shameful excuse of a movie will be erased from history forever, if it hasn't been already.

I don't know what the hell I was thinking but I sure won't go to anything like this again.

For a kids' movie, this stinks. No, it sucks. No, Doogal = EPIC FAIL.

Toy Story (1995)

Revolutionary. A fierce work of genius.

[10/10 · 6 June 2007]

I don't necessarily like G-rated movies, but I make this one an exception. This movie is just great (it was the biggest moneymaker of 1995, and rightly so). I think that "Toy Story" appeals to kids and adults alike 'cause it's so funny, fast, and exhilarating. No one had done anything like this before; it was such a huge earthquake in the movie industry. It was also the world's first completely CG-animated movie. I can especially identify with Rex 'cause we're both nervous at times (except it's not from an inferiority complex), and we both like video games. This is easily one of my most favorite movies. "An instant classic for all ages".

E.T. (1982)

One Of The Most Personal Movies I Have Ever Seen

[10/10 · 9 May 2007]

I think Spielberg's "E.T." is one of the greatest stories ever told on screen because of the plot, the character's developments, and the humor. There is a lot of humor in the movie, and that's one thing I like about it. I like all the characters in the movie, but I love E.T. I also loved the effects like the flying bikes, I would love to ride a bike in midair.

Another thing I loved was the writing. I liked the dialogue that was going on between Elliott and E.T.

I was a 10-year-old in school, and my mom happened to hear of a domestic re-release of the movie and she had thought I would have liked it, and we went to see it at a movie theater. I had loved the movie from then and I still do.

Steven Spielberg has got to be the greatest director alive, and he is on my imaginary list of people I would be honored to shake hands with.

The Color Purple (1985)

Four stars just aren't enough....

[10/10 · 11 November 2006]

Like I said at the top, four stars just aren't enough. It's one of the best films I've ever seen in my almost 17 years of life. For the people that don't really like it or understand it, you must not have a real appreciation for art or you might have a short attention span.

Even if I haven't seen all his films yet, I'd have to say that this is Spielberg at his peak. It's pretty sad to see that movies as great as "The Color Purple" don't come along too often 'cause I think all of us are in desperate need of first-class motion picture entertainment in these hard times.

Movies like this are more than just movies; they're pieces of art that need to be appreciated more.

The idea that it was nominated for 11 Oscars (even Best Picture of the Year) and didn't get one trophy is a sign of how blind and stupid Hollywood can be sometimes. Spielberg wasn't even nominated for Best Director! It should have swept the Oscars that year.

The film clearly shows you how unfair life is for some people.

If only movies were still this good....

Click (2006)

'07 Oscars-sure

[10/10 · 8 July 2006]

This is probably by far one of the best movies I've seen this summer. If I actually had the prop remote from the movie, I'd fast forward to the 2007 Academy Awards to see what movies are nominated for what category. I think this movie is so good, that it will, or should, be nominated for at least 5 Oscars. Here is a list of the 5 nominations:

• Best Actor In A Leading Role: Adam Sandler

• Best Actor In A Supporting Role: Christopher Walken

• Best Actress In A Supporting Role: Kate Beckinsale

• Best Art Direction-Set Decoration: Alan Au, Jeffrey Mossa, Gary Fettis

• Best Effects, Special Visual Effects: John C. Hartigan, Patrick Clancey, Robert Antonini, Jim Rygiel, David Taritiero

I saw this movie twice in its national theatrical run: the first by myself, and the last with a few friends after we all went out to dinner. I thought that, in the future sequences of the movie, the settings and effects were just totally, visually stunning, so I think that this should AT LEAST win 2 Oscars out of the 5 nominations, if not more.

Proof that this will win something at the Academy Awards next year, is the part when Kevin O'Doyle (Cameron Monaghan) and Adam Sandler's son (Joseph Castanon) are playing what O'Doyle calls "drop" instead of catch because Adam Sandler's son hasn't caught a single ball. So what he does is he pauses right as Joseph Castanon is throwing the ball. Sandler goes up to O'Doyle to lower his arm, presses play on his remote, and the ball hits O'Doyle's head and he ends up on the ground.

I also loved the script for the movie because it was a fusion of every movie genre that I love: comedy, drama, and fantasy.

Some parts, mostly towards the end of the movie where a young Michael Newman (Sandler) sees his future self just totally annoying his dad (Henry Winkler) just as he is mainly dropping by to look at his son. Also, when Michael's wife, Donna (Kate Beckinsale) sees her ex-husband in rehab after collapsing at his son Ben's wedding. After a few minutes, when Ben and Michael's daughter, Samantha, drop in to look at their dying father who has cancer, a guard forces them out of the room only because he said they've spent enough time there. Soon afterward, Michael manages to escape the whole building altogether, running after his offspring. Then, he falls on the floor, as Ben hears his father screaming his name. Next, Ben, Sam, and Donna all race to Michael to, unsuccessfully, comfort him. Before Michael dies, he weakly says to his grief-stricken wife, "will...you...still.....love...me....tomorrow?" Donna starts sobbing and says, "Forever and ever, babe". And then, he dies.

I think that Revolution Studios just might turn over a new leaf as they discover that they have a huge-hit movie after all.

Network (1976)

It's so prophetic it's scary

[10/10 · 25 June 2006]

Now, here is a film that everyone needs to see, especially today.

Children should be raised on the truth instead of fiction.

Television seduces, entertains, divides, desensitizes, and corrupts not just kids but adults as well. It's gotten so bad over the years it's like some kind of a disease now. Most people believe everything they see, read, and hear. Fortunately for me, I'm not most people. There are things that I question and there are things that I know are very wrong. Lying to the American people in every possible way is very, very wrong.

I've never seen anyone open up their window and stick out their head and yell that they're as mad as hell and they're not gonna take this anymore. I've never seen anyone say that they were a human being and that their life had value. We're so screwed up in the head we don't even deserve to be called human beings. We're like pre-programmed, numbered, clones enslaved from the cradle to the grave; clones that are programmed and structured to obey authority of all kinds.

"Network" deserved the Best Picture Oscar for '76, but it lost to "Rocky". How the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences allowed that to happen is beyond me.

That's all I have to say about that.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

One of the COOLEST films I've ever seen.

[10/10 · 10 September 2005]

The only thing that gets me about this film was that I wasn't even alive in 1977. Sometimes, I really wish I had seen it in theaters, ESPECIALLY in 70mm on the larger-than-life big screen and full stereophonic surround sound. That REALLY would've been a experience to remember. Even though I saw it 100,000 some-odd times I never got bored by it. I owned it on VHS and I own it now on DVD.

I first saw the film on VHS (yes, folks, VHS) when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I started to like it, so I saw more of it as years went on. This was THE film that inspired me to wanna be a filmmaker. Too bad when it was re-released in '97, I didn't go and see it. I used to be scared of seeing films in theaters 'cause the sound was too loud and it was just too much.

I have NEVER seen the original "Star Wars" in theaters to this day.

This will always be the best film of the original SW trilogy. The second trilogy (not counting Episodes I & III; TPM was okay, though) and that "Clone Wars" piece of celluloid crap made by the jackass I call "George Lucas No. 2" make the whole franchise look real stupid.

Special effects, no words to say about 'em. Back in the '70s, special effects like those and the ones you saw in "2001"; they was just unmatched. Now, when you compare those effects to the effects you see in films today, it looks kinda cheesy, but it was still state-of-the art, and the old-fashioned special effects are the ones I prefer, actually. Industrial Light & Magic has obviously come a long, long way since then.

John Williams' score for the film is definitely one of the best ever written and one of the best ones I've ever heard. The theme song for the film is one that's gonna be loved and remembered for decades to come.

The acting is awesome. The three leads are great, and the thing they all have going' on in the movie and the way they are is what makes it funny. The relationship between 3PO and R2 is another great comedy touch. And Darth Vader. The only thing I can say about him is he's the ULTIMATE bad guy.

Another funny thing was that this made more money than ANY MOVIE IN HISTORY up until that point. I didn't know that.

Great movie from a ex-great filmmaker from a great year.

Mouse Into Space (1962)

Probably the best T&J short of the Deitch era

[8/10 · 10 September 2005]

I love the drawings, even if they are low in quality. The film starts off horridly when we see Jerry reading about the Astro-Mouse program and Tom sneaks up, a gun in his hand, and he fires right at Jerry's head. I saw this cartoon yesterday, and it is indeed a fine one. I love the part when Jerry is launched into space, the rest of the rocket blows off and all that is left is Jerry in his capsule. The story is very predictable, as all "toon stories are". The sound effects are very low-res and out of style. I like this title because it is involved in a genre I am obsessed with: an animated science-fiction short.

***=Good