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Red Dawn (1984)
Guns and God- just not in NE Pakistan
Red Dawn deals with an invasion of America by the Soviets and their lackeys circa 1984. Looking at this film post 9/11 and with an eye on what's happening to us here in Europe every day as the thought police hammer us into thinking our native cultures are worth nothing and multiculturalism ( aka colonisation) is good for us, Red Dawn is more relevant than ever. The film has it's flaws. One minute Jennifer Gray is a scared teenager, the next she's emptying a GPMG from a sexy diagonal lying position. The ease with which six or seven woverines take out the bad guys doesn't wash. There's also some awful dialogue ('it keeps me warm'). On the other hand Swayze delivers a blistering performance as Jed and the cinematography is great. A film I can watch several times. The basic thrust of this film is don't take your comforts and freedom for granted. The Americans sure as hell don't. I envy people in the gun owning Amereican heartland between the coasts who don't put up with any of the left wing garbage that is a daily diet here in Europe.
Flash Gordon (1980)
Pretty Sensational!
Jones made for a perfect Flash.Perfect physique and innocent stance. Dalton's Shakespearian airs perfectly complemented Jone's Quarterback Dynamo. Blessed did what it says on the tin and I prefer Blessed's booming to arty farty acting. The Italian lady who played Aura was sizzling. Topol gave Zharkov a unique understated edge. The Hawkmen boarding the war rocket to the background of Brian May's guitar going into overdrive was fantastic. So was the blastoff music and the football fight.The script was packed with power bombs. 'Forget it Ming, Dale's with me.' 'What do you mean Flash Gordon approaching.' 'Gordon's alive!' 'Freeze you bloody bastards.' This is what Flash Gordon is about, not the rubbish TV show that's just come out.
Robin Hood (2006)
This isn't about the twelfth century. It's about Britain now!
Jonas Armstrong's Hood is possibly the smuggest character I've ever seen on TV drama. Makes me want to root for the sheriff except he's an equally tedious pantomine villain. Richard Armitage who plays Gisborne would have made a far better Hood, both physically and charisma wise. This show also takes a cue from the mediocre Herecules the Legendary Journeys with lukewarm comedy provided by boring buffoon like sidekicks. The biggest difference between this and the mid eighties series Robin of Sherwood is the twenty odd year time gap between them, because Britain has changed enormously in that time. I'm talking about the story lines not the lavishness/ special effects. In 1984 it was still OK to celebrate the indigenous British Saxon/ Celtc culture so you had episodes about the Swords of Weiland( the Mythical Saxon smith) and Herne the Hunter ( from Celtic myth) to the background of a heavily Celtic mystical soundtrack. It was gritty and serious. Fast forward twenty years and you've got Robin quoting the Koran, the English/ Welsh longbow takes a backseat to the 'Saracen' bow and multicultural Britain appears to be up and running in the twelfth century.Also the crusades being snidely linked by the script to the Iraq war. The crusades were a bad thing according to this show which English kids will watch. There's no show telling them that 400 years ago ships from the North African caliphate were raiding British coastal towns for slaves. No shows about the Muslim crusades in Spain and South west Europe. This is brainwashing. If they wanted a happy clappy series which all cultures in Britain can relate to, why not set it in a fantasy world instead of rewriting history.
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Garbage
This is the greatest load of rubbish ever made. What I found most sickening of all was the portrayal of the American Police as SS types. The siege scene was even more pathetic than the same director's posturing symbolism at the end of Blowup. The radicals are smoked out of their house. 'He's got a gun..' Bang! Uh right on man. screw those pigs. And then the hero does a runner after being wrongly framed. He just toyed with the idea of shooting the police so that's alright then. He wanders around LA to the backdrop of 'evil' advertising billboards. What's your alternative Antonoini. A free love commune where everyone is stoned and stinking? Or perhaps the system that was 'thriving' in the USSR back in 69 when this rubbish was being filmed. No doubt the police there were a lot more lovable. They'd only sent you to the gulag if you had a problem with their system. Not like the pig pen our hero endured earlier on. For one thing it would be a lot 'cooler' in every sense of the word. Get the hell out of here you ungrateful left wing bums and take your stinking narcotics with you.