You know how people always complain when a movie doesn't resemble the work it's based on? I wonder what Edgar Allen Poe would think of The Raven...
Once upon a midnight groovy as I sat to watch a movie
Somewhat scary, mostly goofy, one I had not seen before
As I watched it not rewinding, suddenly I heard behind me
Someone coughing. “Please don’t mind me, but I sneaked in through your door!”
Who’s this visitor I muttered, who had…
In light of recent controversies, I decided to watch a Coppola film to see if it was as good as a Marvel movie. While The Godfather Part II has its moments, there are certainly many things that could have been done to fit more in line with the MCU aesthetic. First, while Marvel movies have lots of explosions, GF2 only has a grenade go off during the Cuba sequence. Instead of an overabundance of CGI, GF2 has meticulous production design,…
Always nice when a movie I've never seen before that's hailed as an all-time classic lives up to its reputation. The hitchhiking scene was hilarious.
Jack Webb is primarily known for playing Sgt. Joe Friday in the radio and TV versions of Dragnet, but he also directed several features, including Pete Kelly's Blues, an adaptation of a radio show of the same name which also starred Webb. He plays the title character, a cornet player and leader of a jazz combo in 1920's Kansas City who runs afoul of gangsters.
The jazz music is pretty good, especially when Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee are singing…
Things I noticed this time around:
Every significant event in George's life involves water, like multiple baptisms. He jumps in the frozen lake to save his brother. He falls into the swimming pool when he meets Mary for the first time as an adult. Water pours into his house on the night of his wedding. He jumps into the river above the falls to save Clarence. And when he confesses that he wants to live again, it starts snowing.
Completely unrelated to the above, I also never saw until tonight that Potter has a skull on his desk.
Surely one of the best directorial debuts of all time, Mel Gibson's 1993 film comes across like Dead Poets Society or The Karate Kid but if written by Flannery O'Connor. Instead of a wise-cracking rebel like Robin Williams' teacher we get a bitter and lonely man who has become an outcast after an accident deformed one side of his face. And instead of likeable, charming Daniel LaRusso we have Nick Stahl's character Chuck, a twelve-year old boy who pretends to…
