Besides the amazing computer graphics, this movie is one of my all-time anti-favorites. In fact, it is so bad that after a while it became enjoyable simply to poke fun at it. Now, I have always wondered about movies that are this bad because, as in this case, it took a lot of creativity to get it to be so. For example, at every opportunity for a time worn cliché (and there were plenty) the best groaner was always picked. Not the second best, not just an ordinary groaner, but the very best one. Now that takes a deep knowledge of bad lines, a good memory to save them all, and a flawless retrieval system to have one ready for nearly every line spoken. The writers were so good at being bad, that the film seemed like a well-engineered spoof. Though improbable, it still has me wondering.
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Stargate
(1994)
Very bad movie, and I bought it too!
2 September 2006
Warning: Spoilers
This is one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen. Too bad too, since visually it was really terrific and the acting wasn't bad either. I am a Kurt Russel fan and I don't think his talents were well used here at all. But two things made this movie almost unwatchable. The main thing was the utterly dopey story. The dopiest movie I have ever seen. I mean SciFi does have some rules, after all, but this story was so dopey, that it interfered with my enjoyment of it. I know what you're thinking, it is a movie after all, but this one went too far. The second thing that bothered me is really a little thing, but it is a pet peeve of mine. You know how when armed men move in on their target, how they always cock their guns? A lot of noise effects from that very threatening click-clack of metal on metal? Not that anyone would ever do that in real life, and it's only a movie, I know, and I can take some cocking of guns at inappropriate moments, if that's what's needed to convey an imminent fire fight. But I have never heard so much cocking of guns in any movie before. I felt embarrassed for the actors. It just went on and on. It even interfered with the dialog. OK, here is this soldier moving in on a target with great stealth until he catches his foe unaware, but still quiet though. Then right before he shoots, he shatters the silence by cocking his gun. I mean, gimme a break.
Tulsa
(1949)
A hidden gem of a movie from a period when they were rare.
1 July 2006
I recently bought a huge (300 films) collection of old movies on DVD. Plowing through them, I was struck by how bad most of those period movies were. I saw many of them when they were first released, but I don't remember that they were mostly junk.
But every so often, one comes along which is really quite good, indeed, even excellent. "Tulsa" is one of those. I was really pleasantly surprised. Moreover, I had completely forgotten how outstanding Susan Hayward was. To see her again was a real pleasure. She not only acts superbly, but she is some knockout in the looks department. Really outstanding. The rest of the acting was also of very high caliber This movie is certainly worth seeing.
But every so often, one comes along which is really quite good, indeed, even excellent. "Tulsa" is one of those. I was really pleasantly surprised. Moreover, I had completely forgotten how outstanding Susan Hayward was. To see her again was a real pleasure. She not only acts superbly, but she is some knockout in the looks department. Really outstanding. The rest of the acting was also of very high caliber This movie is certainly worth seeing.
Watched!
(1974)
The worst movie of its era, without doubt.
19 February 2006
This movie is all about cocaine, and I mean ALL about cocaine. For example, not only is this story about cocaine, but it is reputed to have been made under the influence of cocaine. Such story line as it has is so dull, that only being on cocaine could improve it, and I doubt even that. The main character, the good guy, is a drugged-out drug lawyer who is persecuted by the law solely for being too good at his job. That really annoys his persecutors, the bad guys, so they have a beef which causes them to bend the rules a little so as to nail the lawyer on a trumped up drug charge. This fact is presented as it it were some new kind of world class injustice, ranking right up there with Hitler and Stalin. But so what? The story is based on the experiences of a real person, a drug lawyer named Michael Metzger, who appears just for a moment, stoned in a crowd scene. This might have become a cult movie but it won't because there are too few people like this crowd to make a cult. Moreover,their lifestyles are so self-destructive, that not many of them could have survived long enough to produce living offspring.
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