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Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Travolta used to be cool. I think they should have had a better looking girl for the lead opposite Travolta. Did they think she was pretty at the time? A film with style. What happened to the shot I have seen with Travolta in his white suit doing his finger-pointing…
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Star Wars (1977)
No wonder it’s a trilogy. The ending seemed like it was only the beginning. The entire two hours of this movie seemed like it could have been the first half hour of any other movie. What happens in the film? Not a whole lot. Lucas seems more interested in creating…
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Ceddo (1977)
Pretty long, pretty boring. A tolerable beginning, but once the music stops and the slow camera shots take over, I lost interest. The fast-paced disco soundtrack for the action was nice. Contains an interesting quote: “A dead man would be happy to accept what a sick man refuses.”
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The Deer Hunter (1978)
The story-telling is a bit clunky, typical of movies from this time period. Best Picture? Really? Russian roulette is always dramatic. I wonder how dramatic this would have been without that scene. De Niro is intense, as expected. Walken was pretty good. Streep actually used to be pretty hot. Cazale…
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Foul Play (1978)
OK, what is it, a romance? Action? Suspense? Mystery? Horror? Thriller? Comedy? Film noir? It doesn’t work as a combination. If they had picked one and gone with it, it might have been good. Chevy in a dramatic role doesn’t work. He just needs to be goofy. It could have…
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Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)
The story’s not very interesting. As is often the case with Asian cinema, an ultimate power, force, or technique is revered by the worthless, stupid, cartoonish peasant masses. Godzilla uses the same formula. The whole film is silly and cartoonish, like a lot of French films I have seen. Chan…
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Some of the artistic license in this film is nice, but I think that some of the film is over-embellished. A good story, but more straight-forward drama would have made it more absorbing. The death scene at the end is heart-wrenching, a nice addition to the Cattle Mutilation Club. But…
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The Black Hole (1979)
Like Tron, this came out during Disney’s “dark phase”, that weird pre-Renaissance era before the company found its footing again in the late ’80s. It’s fascinating to imagine a film like this being released today. It would make approximately $0. Made in the days when sci-fi didn’t have to be…
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Dracula (1979)
If Langella’s eyes weren’t vibrating, he would have been OK. Did he have some kind of problem? Was he on speed? I wish I had his effect on women. Langella kinda looks like Mike Kazen. Unfortunately, you never see him really biting into someone’s neck. He never even gets vampire…
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The Frisco Kid (1979)
Was this supposed to be a comedy? There is one, maybe two, decent lines in the whole movie. Shitty effects, shitty editing, shitty story. I like Gene Wilder, and I like Harrison Ford, but the movie sucked.
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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 2,375 reviews now. This makes me cool or a complete dork, depending on your perspective.
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