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Lord Love a Duck (1966)
Lord help us.
I see other reviews calling this"brilliant satire." If "brilliant" means a disjointed, rambling script, bad casting, ugly fake rock'n roll and a serious lack of wit, then you've got "brilliant."
Random thoughts:
Color would have helped, particularly regarding the sweaters, but studios made movies they knew were going to be clunkers in black and white.
Ruth Gordon is 72. What a coincidence! So were all the mothers of all my high school friends.
Roddy McDowell was 38. Slightly old, but English which was important in 1966.
Tuesday Weld was beautiful. Probably still is.
Martin Gable made me laugh once near the end. I appreciated that although I wondered why I was still watching.
A little more effort could have saved it. With all the aspiring rock bands around then, surely somebody would have prostituted themselves for money and added a recognizable tune.
Don't watch it. Just don't
House of Cards: Chapter 51 (2016)
A Shiver of Sharks
There is always blood in the water when you watch House of Cards but for a different reason this time.
Shark #1. The "terrorists" are blonde Tennessee boys.
Really? REALLY???
House of Cards has been so well done I think the fact that these Underwood snakes are Democrats was beginning to bleed over into the real world and they needed to do an extra hit on flyover country in time for the 2016 election. Maybe they should have just made the terrorists sharks so they could jump over them in full view of God and everybody and be done with it.
Shark #2. The family of an opposing candidate would come spend the night in the White House? During a campaign? Really? Really?? I laughed and laughed when FLOTUS-wannabe gave that dreamy love speech to the Claire. Give me a break.
Shark #3. A member of the mainstream media is going to do something to hurt a Democrat candidate? I laughed until I cried.
These three sharks are all swarming around the previous shark: Claire running for VP.
This episode was a HUGE disappointment and far below what I expect from the series.
Lewis (2006)
People with causes really are no different from people with religion.
Be honest, please. 1) It's never wrong to love. Okay. So love. 2) If you are gay don't go to a straightening meeting for "couples therapy." WHAT? How stupid ARE these people? Go to a gay bar and talk to the bartender instead. The outcome will be better. I really really really didn't get that part. 3) If nobody is forcing you to go to this meeting, don't kill the people who are leading it. They're entitled to their opinion. Everybody is. If your cause is just, people will catch on. 4) Is this supposed to engender sympathy for gays? It didn't. It made them look pitiful and stupid and hateful and crazy. The religious folks came off as shallow stereotypes. Did those religious people torture the gay people? No. Did the gays torture AND kill the religious people? Yes. 5) Isn't using a woman in the role of a trans-gendered man the same as putting a white actor in black face?
Inspector Lewis is my only reason for giving this ANY points when he gives the only honest line of the entire show. He points out that people with causes really are no different from people with religion.
This was a poorly written episode. Plot points were stretched to the point of breaking and the end was an overly dramatic bit of exploitative filler one would expect from a lesser series.