"I don't know if you're a detective or a pervert."
"Well that's for me to know and for you to find out."
An interesting blend of film noir and '50s teen comedy, Blue Velvet nonetheless didn't impress me as much as I expected it to. It's good, don't get me wrong, very good at times, and Lynch is a master of his craft, but I agree with a lot of what Roger Ebert had to say about the film.
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"If it takes a watermelon five minutes to water, how long does it take a sweetpea to pee? As long as it takes a pair of dice to crap."
The second best film about gambling from 1974. I didn't expect it to be better than The Gambler, and it wasn't, but my God did California Split come close
"I'm putting this dress on, these rings, and I'm going crazy" - Denzel Washington on his role in Gladiator II
I'm definitely being mean here, because realistically this is probably a 2.5/5 at least, but I just don't know why this exists. It's practically a one for one re-tread of Gladiator 1, but worse. The plot is almost identical, with the opening fight scene followed by a gladiator match in North Africa followed by a transfer to Rome with a…
"Forwards is back, tis all the same. God will find all, as easy over a card table as swinging from a tree."
The English Civil War saw a world turned upside down as every facet of social, political, cultural and religious life was questioned and, in many cases, overturned. This film is a mere snapshot, almost in real time, of 5 men experiencing such upheavals, forced on them both externally and internally. At times maybe experimental to a fault, this…
