Having gone out of my way to watch some legitimately bad Bette Midler movies, I actually found this enjoyable. However, I was disappointed that the newspaper in the oven didn't end up burning down the house.
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The Beyond 1981
The Beyond had me from the prologue, but it lost me in the middle act leading up to the extravagant but pointless acid-pouring scene. The two leads give you somebody interesting to follow from start to finish, but the supernatural gimmick behind the plot is so ludicrous that I can't begin to conceptualize the stakes, and the intervening murders and resurrections are deeply uninteresting as a result. In the meantime, we're meant to feast our eyes on drab settings and…
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Persuasion 1971
I have a lot of patience for these set-bound Granada miniseries. I find it easy to accept the stagy acting style and the tightly controlled camera work, although the spell is broken when the cast ventures out-of-doors to bundle into a carriage. The bouffant hairstyles and flowy garments come straight from the cover of a contemporary bodice-ripper. They seem to have been inspired by the fashions of 1825 rather than those of 1815, but I can forgive that for the…
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Two Weeks Notice 2002
Yeah they saved the community center, but they destroyed its setting which is a blow to its integrity as a historic resource and may impact its eligibility to be listed on the National Register.
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