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August: Osage County (2013)
So full of itself ...
...and why on earth would Chris Cooper's character ever be married to that Nightingale actress' character ? Ugh???
Anyway ...everyone is awful in this ...
The scenery chewing by all is so cringeworthy...the dialog is unbelievably "oh so clever"...
There are SO many better dysfunctional family films ...think "Picnic", "The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs", "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolff?", on and on and on...
Ok..I need to find 183 more characters dammit ...
I haven't read All of the reviews here but glancing through most of them I see blind adoration for this puddle of cinematic crap ...hey ...the emperor had no clothes ..wake up .
Pieces of Her (2022)
..wanted to like it...but
...on 2nd episode and after 3 stupid things (maybe more that I missed):
-cops don't notice broken glass/door at moms house
-when you leave the storage you should CLOSE and LOCK the damn door!
-target practicing near a bar parking lot ?!? And trying to shoot beer bottles on TOP of your CAR?!!?
That's enough for me I'm done with it...stupid things like that break the narrative.
The Hustler (1961)
Bobby Darin...
...Paul Newman was tied to another film...the filmmakers then signed Bobby Darin to the role...before production however, Newman was able to fix his film schedule to fit The Hustler in.
Underwater! (1955)
...oops....not that I was looking for this, but..
...about 10 minutes before the end of this fun movie, the lead actors are struggling underwater, when all of a sudden Richard Egan (..or his stunt double) reaches across the front of Jane Russell (..or HER stunt double) to free her from some impeding disaster, and as he pulls away his hand he pulls down her bathing suit ever so briefly and exposes the right nipple...
THIS is what HDTV wide screen technology can do..stuff that got by the editors years ago is now there for detailed and easy to see review.....DVDs make it even easier, but you have to catch UNDERWATER on cable..(..of course you can Tivo it and freeze frame whatever...)
ABC Stage 67: Rodgers & Hart Today (1967)
Odd but entertaining period piece.
Television in 1967 had two distinct masters to serve, and bridging the generation gap often resulted in strange bedfellows (talk about mixing metaphors!)..think Frank Sinatra doing the Twist..stuff like that. Anyway, ABC used their Stage 67 anthology series to present this tribute to the music of Rodgers and Hart, featuring Bobby Darin as host/performer, and sharing this non-stop variety show included The Mamas and The Papas, The Supremes, Petula Clark, Count Basie, Peter Gennaro and the Doodletown Pipers (I have never typed "Doodletown Pipers" till now...). Music of "the parents era" performed by somewhat "contemporary" artists so as to appeal to "the teens" as well as Mom and Dad. A thrill for Darin fans to see Bobby as front man, doing a number with Diana Ross and the girls.
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Vanilla Smug ...or....Cocktail Meets Donnie Darko
..sorry..just can't get past Tom Cruise..it's hard not to bail out of this one during the first hour or so, when every line of dialog is smug, contrived, and designed solely to prop up Cruises character as God's gift to women...oh hell..to ALL of us mere mortals..he's SO good looking..SO clever..SO smart..SO Tom Cruise.
The movie DOES get more interesting in an other-worldly/ Donnie Darko kinda way, except then you have to deal with Cruise chewing up the scenery in an over-acting tour de force.
See where I'm going here?? This would have been a better movie without Tom Cruise...in my humble opinion, "understating" always beats "overacting", something beyond Cruises comprehension, based on his body of work. Tom Cruise is a generally lousy actor who is ALWAYS playing "Tom Cruise" on and off the camera, and to give him his props, he is a very successful "personality" (but so too is Paris Hilton...). ....gotta go..renting COCKTAIL again tonite..kinda like a bad car crash, you just can't look away...poor Tom Cruise-as-COCKTAIL bartender, he just CAN'T even wander into a 7-11 without every member of the female gender-clerks, shoppers, vendors, nuns, whatever... shimmying out of their panty hose!!! Men commit suicide!! Lesbians IMMEDIATELY become straight! HE"S JUST THAT GOOD LOOKING!!!! REALLY!!!ASK HIM!!!HE IS!!!!