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Space Men (1960)
Italian extravaganza
As in "spaghettti-western", the italian sci-fi films test the limits of common sense and good taste; and this particular movie is a turkey: woody acting, silly scripting and extravagant use of codes and acronyms to identify people, places and ships. All this in a 1960 set complete with "duck-tail" hairdos!
You will need stamina to endure more than one hour of following the mishaps of spaceship BZ88 with its equally cryptic crew.
This one is a real treat for fans of bad films!
One out of five stars for this one: extremely bad.
Earth (1998)
Disappointing experience
This is one of the those few awful flicks I haven't had the heart to finish - What on earth were they thinking about?
{pardon the pun}
Beautiful cinematography can't compensate for a "Bollywood-style" performance by the lead actress (N. Das), nor the pseudo-techno-sitar music is well suited for a movie set in the 1940's.
One scene had me in stitches: Ms. Das wrapped in a luxuriant "sari". Seems production didn't realise the weather was *hot* and when Ms. Das raises her arm... er... well... quite disgusting anyway.
2 out of 5 for this turkey
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)
Wicked!
Last night i had the chance to see this excellent piece of animation and I truly enjoyed it. For all those interested in clay/latex animation (Aardman style) the s/fx are awesome.
As for the storytelling: absolutely wicked ! One of the best adaptations of a nursery tale I've seen, with somber dystopia tones: think Aldous Huxley and Brothers Grimm meet Chicken Run.
Fantastic flick !
Instinct (1999)
Boo, boo, boo
This sad piece of celluloid shows most 'clichés' used when baking a "quick movie":
-Hideous incidental music to emphasize "achievements"
-Prisoner blinks when coming out of smelly cell and looks up to the sky. In the next scene, Prisoner is bothered by alarms and knocks down a couple of dozen guards (after being in jail for oh-so-long-time). Prisoner is knocked down when he stares a microsecond at wife.
-Colleague-pupil uses hero to advance his own personal career. Sadly this lad does not have the guts to stand seeing blood or violence. Or acting decently.
-Hero appears in several shots "dropping" his instruments of civilisation in jungle. Thus we can see binoculars and a camera dangling from a branch of a tree. Hero is happy in his time-regression. This is meant to tell us the incredible, mighty, gigantic internal confrontation between the man of science and the ape man.
I wonder how Anthony Hopkins accepted the role after reading the script...The first hour is barely decent, but the second one is traumatic!