It was a very slow week for movie watching, and I only saw two new films (both were great in there own ways) so I decided I would right a review for Dr. Strangelove, a film I own on DVD. I think it’s important to realize that the reason someone (or anyone) would read this blog is it’s not reviewing new movies, but good films as I discover them. I think this would be a great time to bring up my background in film. I come from a family that believed (for the greater part of my childhood) that all movies that were not rated G were evil, and who stopped getting TV soon after I finished kindergarten. I’m sure anyone reading this would gasp in horror at my awful sheltered childhood but I don’t resent my parents at all for what they did (though I might have if that hadn’t come around eventually.) Because they insisted on only G films I became mostly uninterested in film and never got any kind of nostalgic attachment to terrible crap from the 80’s and 90’s, so now that my own interest in animation and film making has made me interested again I have been able to plunge in without the prejudices and nostalgic ties of someone who had there parents forcing there own taste in movies on them there whole child hood.
Desert Warrior – (preferably said while mumbling with a hand over your mouth) is an amazing masterpiece of cheap 80’s cinema. With enough characters and plot devises to keep things interesting, but not to many to make you think, and a budget to low to afford anything good keeps the laughs coming. The fights frequent and hilarious, actors dive out of the way when they should fall over dead everything explodes and nobody runs out of bullets. Who would stand for ammo getting in the way of mindless violence, honestly. I really enjoy B-movies but sometimes they can really drag when some writer thinks he actually has a story worth telling but this never happens in Desert Warrior, I highly recommend to lovers of bad cinema, that is if you can find a copy, this is a really rare DVD that seems to only be available at Scarecrow Video in Seattle. 4.5/5 stars |
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Taxi Driver – Taxi Driver is the story of narcoleptic Vietnam vet, Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro). The film starts off nice and slow with Travis getting a night job as a taxi driver. He struggles with his separation and alienation, but cannot connect with the self righteous, or the scum that surround him. Infuriated by the filth that share New York City with him becomes compelled to do something about it as he pushes the bounds of his sanity peaking at the brutal climax of Taxi Driver. Highly recommended 5/5 stars |
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Dr. Strangelove – (I have seen this before and own it on DVD but I have yet to review it) Dr. Strangelove is the war comedy to end all war comedies. I really dislike comedies that are just stories build around setups for jokes, in fact I really hate jokes in comedy (at least in large quantities, there is after all the classic line, “You can’t fight in here gentlemen, this is the war room!”) Instead Strangelove takes the high road with a very dry sense of humor built around the ignorance and prejudice of the characters and the absurdity of the situation which there narrow skewed perspective land them in. Not only is the satire great, but Dr. Strangelove does something very few comedies are able to do, it’s suspenseful, it draws you in, and hangs you by a thread, your enjoying it, it’s funny but you can’t suppress the exhilaration that rises as the film reaches it’s climax, PERFECTION! 6/5 stars |
July 11th, 2008 at 9:21 am
I enjoyed your writing style and I’ve added you to my Reader. Keep these posts coming.
May 18th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
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