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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Iconic actors playing iconic roles. Redford’s pretty cool. Newman’s a good-looking guy, but he mumbles. But as anti-heroes, they’re are not very redeeming, making us unsympathetic observers. In the Bonnie and Clyde-like final scene, there’s certainly no sympathy for them. The story is quite slow and filled with awkwardness and…
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Never Say Never Again (1983)
Kind of silly, with the usual Bond schlock and cheesy fight scenes. Returning to the role after an absence of 12 years, Connery’s getting old at this point, though they sort of address this in the plot. It works. I think a movie showing Bond’s retirement would be cool. Maybe…
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Stakeout (1987)
Nothing special. Standard fare for the late 80’s. Dreyfuss is always fun. Stowe’s not bad in her debut.
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Elysium (2013)
Blomkamp’s a visionary and a true talent with special effects. He proved that in District 9 and proved it again here with a much bigger budget. The story’s good but runs a bit long. Why did the code messenger have to die? Was Carlyle, the original carrier of the message,…
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Paradise Alley (1978)
Were all movies from the late 70’s boring and unfunny as a rule? A lame effort to reproduce some of Stallone’s magic with Rocky. Stallone does OK. He’s quite a chatterbox in this one and really belts out the opening theme. Lee Canalito looks like a young Brando.
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
The usual Bond schlock, though this one is sillier than most. Some very awkward writing for a couple of gay characters. The convoluted plot is pretty damn boring. Goofy humor, dated effects in the intro sequence, and some really bad dubbing typical of movies in the period. Amazing that it…
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Dredd (2012)
Gloriously violent, a great shoot-em-up movie. The action is action is visually good, though cheapened by constant ambient techno music. Effects, especially the slo-mo, are great. Urban’s pretty good, and he sounds just like Clint Eastwood. But the character’s a little robotic, and like Bane in The Dark Knight Rises,…
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Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Even with a different director, they captured the same humor and feel as the first. Having much of the same cast certainly helped.
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Battleship (2012)
Berg took a few pages out of the Michael Bay playbook. Basically, this is Transformers at sea. Ridiculous caricatures, a constant veneer of sweat on every actor, polished photography, bad jokes, classic rock, and masturbatory obsession with military machismo. Using the tsunami buoys to channel the board game was a…
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