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Wild Bunch (1969)
Neat beginning. You can see how the film influnced Tarantino, with the crazy shooting scenes (which were pretty cool) and the walking at the end. Nice to see El Guapo again. One of the bunch looked like Robert Patrick, only he had a Texan accent. Is it me or does…
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
About as good a sequel as you could make to the classic original. Crummy story, pretty much the same thing all over again. The telepathics are goofy, the religious imagery is a bit much, and the last few minutes didn’t have enough impact for an end-of-the-world scenario. The final statement…
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The Great White Hope (1970)
Nothing special. The beginning is a copy of The Set-Up or Body and Soul, I don’t remember which. The “slimy, two-bit, no-dick mother-grabber” line takes the cake. Wife-beating scenes don’t come very often. That silent, failed hero ending was pretty common in the 60’s. Didn’t care much for any of…
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There’s a Girl in My Soup (1970)
An older, simpler comedy. Sellers is great with expressions and has a fantastic voice. Hawn is pretty good. We get to see her young bum.
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Definitely interesting. It’s the sterility of Kubrick’s films which make them so scary. He sure does love sex, and he sure does love classical music.
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The Devils (1971)
Holy shit. This is one pretty fucked up movie. I mean, this movie is fucking nasty. So crazy and grotesque that it’s scary, nauseating, and funny at the same time. Bad date movie. I can see how, with quite a bit of toning down, it might have led to The…
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Earthquake (1971)
Cheese Louise. It’s funnier than it is scary. The characters are such losers in this movie, except for the cop, who was pretty cool. Decent effects (except for that red splattering), and a helluva bike stunt. That police car chase looked oddly like “Police Squad”. One girl had no tits,…
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
A film about the degradation of Jewish tradition by more modern ideals. A very Jewish film. The long take with the fiddler with the title graphics was pretty cool, and so were those freeze frame and distanced conversations with himself. The whole “why is God playing bad jokes on me”…
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Deliverance (1972)
Spooky. A horror movie in a way, and one of the better horror movies of it’s time. A truly humbling experience. The “Duelling Banjos” scene was great. I like banjos! That inbred kid was really damn freaky. And the tension in the rape scene was really great, too. Voight was…
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Fritz the Cat (1972)
It gets its rating for being different, like The Devils. It’s refreshing to see movies like this once in a while. Made by an NYU student (wouldn’t this have made a great thesis film?) who went on to direct feature films. Amazing. Amazingly political, with blatant and brave depictions of…
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I'm a photographer, web developer, travel enthusiast, and movie buff living in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.In the summer of 1993, I started writing reviews for every movie I saw and haven't looked back. I'm up to 2,388 reviews now. This makes me cool or a complete dork, depending on your perspective.
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