Great production, great cast, awfully shitty script
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Fando and Lis 1968
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This is very hard for me to review... the spider scene kind of sums up the movie. Fando looks like a child with a pet, but without a parent nearby to yell at him to stop being an asshole. Although he loves his pet, he just kind of wants to see what happens if he's cruel, as he hasn't fully developed empathy. The pet, being powerless...
Although I love the movie, Fando's cruelty makes me sick. I'm too sad to rate it higher.
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The Creation of the Humanoids 1962
This is what I consider an horror movie, the helplessness of humanity against technology, the pragmatical takes to our shortcomings, full of good intentions, and the snowball effect it generates, and how powerless we are against change... the themes it tackles are way greater than the story it tells, though.
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Paths of Glory 1957
All Quiet on the Eastern Front was thoroughly banned by authoritarian regimes, but the USA turned it into a movie. The Big Parade (1925) might have shown the cruelty of war, and movies like The Roaring Twenties (1939) might even show the bad treatment veterans received after it, but none of them show the insanity of war itself, nor the dangers of egomaniacal military commanders driven by ideology and romantic visions of glory. What I want to say is, it…
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