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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 1987
Awful.
Thank God we don't have to sit through all of Richard Lester's "gags". Most the actors do good work here (at least watching Hackman, Reeves & Kidder is fun), but the storytelling is so dire. What is all this shit with Hackman cutting up pieces of fabric for Nuclear Man's costume? And 49 years of comics to choose from and they invent "Nuclear Man" for this film? What a joke.
It's a shame that Golan & Globus cut the budget so…
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Superman III 1983
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Abysmal
***spoilers***
(I guess- can you spoil this turd?)This is what happens when you remove a director with vision and respect for source material and replace them with someone more interested in chaos and gags. Richard Lester is a pretty great fit for The Beatles, but none of his shtick really works here. The prolonged (so long) opening sequence with all the "gags" is alarmingly unfunny. Pryor is wasted here (although, I'm not entirely sure how you would make…
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The Long Good Friday 1980
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The sheer audacity and confidence to end your film on a looooong take close-up on Bob Hoskins utterly killing it with a performance that epitomizes "oh shit, I fucked up" while his eyes dart about like a wounded bull-dog pacing back-and-forth - and then cut back to the youngest Pierce Brosnan ever pointing a gun at him - AND THEN: cut back to another loooong take close-up on Hoskins as he slowly accepts his fate. It's just a straight-up, standing-ovation ending. All played over that amazing score by Francis Monkman. Assured filmmaking.
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Lilies of the Field 1963
I keep thinking about this film.
I've always liked Sidney Poitier, but in films like In The Heat Of The Night, or The Defiant Ones or even Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - movies that had an edge to them, often where race is a major factor to the story. Lillies, for some unknown reason, always seemed liked it was this weird gentle film, so it never really appealled to me. I was wrong about that. It's a pretty great…
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