altec18 Reviews

Endless Love (1981)

Is this movie for real?

[1/10 · 15 July 2007]

I can't believe this movie got made. It's so awful, and it's not awful in the typical way. It's just messed up. It's not messed up because the family is hippie-ish and whatnot, it's messed up because the characters in it do not act in any rational way whatsoever. The mother watches her fifteen year old daughter have sex and she enjoys it, the boyfriend lights the family house on fire after seeing the girl hold hands with another person, the mother comes onto the daughter's boyfriend, the father has this bizarre over-attachment to his daughter (he seems jealous about the daughter having a boyfriend). It's sick, twisted, and wrong.

It may have been based on a good book, but you can't tell from watching it.

Babes in Toyland (1961)

A Favorite of Children

[19 October 2004]

So, this movie isn't the best movie ever made. Frankly, it does not come close to even being considered the best movie ever made. Heck, it's a bit of a stretch to call it a good movie, but I say, it was one of my favorites when I was a child. My mother had a tape of it from when it played on Wonderful World of Disney, and my sisters and I would stop everything and be completely engrossed in it. The songs were fabulous, it had bright colors, and you really did want everything to work out in the end, which, it being a Disney movie, was inevitable. So, we would watch it over and over again if we could, and we would never tire of it -- the same way we would watch Darby O'Gill and the Little People, The Three Lives of Thomasina, The Happiest Millionaire, Summer Magic, The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band, and other Disney favorites. How any child can survive without the magical world Walt Disney created is beyond me, and I hope that every child has the chance to see this beloved, family favorite.

Destino (2003)

Words fail to describe it

[7/10 · 26 March 2004]

There is no other way to visually match the haunting and lyrical piece, Destino. Utilizing a stunning array of Dali's most iconic pieces, this short tells a very emotional tale. It has left me without words to describe it. Simply, it is beautiful, breath-taking, stunning, and almost lyrical in the fluid change of the figures and icons.

The melody will haunt you for days as you struggle to fully grasp this masterpiece.

However, it is at times too Fantasia-like, too Disney, and not enough Dali. It can be taken as a superficial composition, but I like to think of it as more, as though Dali knew something that we do not and this short serves to inform us of his secret.

Gaslight (1944)

Terrific movie filled with suspense!

[11 March 2003]

Gaslight, filled with suspense, keeps you on the edge of your seat. Ingrid Bergman is perfect in this glorious film. Angela Lansbury makes her first appearance, which gave her an academy award nomination, as a convincing cockney tart. The cast alone is great enough reason to see this film. This film shows the greatness of a film era lost to modern technology, lackluster plots, and bad acting. Shot in glorious black and white, this movie is truly a work of greatness.