rm-hess Reviews

Test Pilot (1938)

Go to TCM site and vote to have this released on DVD

[7/10 · 27 April 2013]

Don't whine about it. Do something. Go to TCM's website and vote to have TEST PILOT released on DVD. There were only 1260 votes when I was there. Tell all your friends. Spread the word people. Vote for something that will actually make a difference. I didn't see the need to add a spoiler but I have to write 10 lines of text so; the scene at the ball park where Loy ridicules the opposing team's second baseman for being fooled on a hit and run play is priceless. The other reviewer who said this was out of character for Loy doesn't know baseball. This is what separates casual baseball fans from those who appreciate the game within the game. My guess was that Loy was not a casual fan and let it all hang out here. GO TO TCM AND VOTE FOR TEST PILOT.

Justified (2010–2015)

Top Notch

[10/10 · 2 October 2011]

The stories, the casting, the acting, nothing on this TV series is second rate. They won't let me be succinct so I will add: this is probably my favorite TV series, ever, even better than Dharma and Greg. I miss Jenna Elfman's laugh. but i digress. Might we see Marshall Sisco in the third season? Maybe the one played by MS Lopez. Newly released MS Lopez. Although, that may be too much of a good thing. It really is about the casting on Justifed. Kudos. Elmore Leonard's writing is replicated accurately, dialog and tempo both. Leonard may have not grown up on and still inhabit "the streets" but it sounds like it. Part of the cast I'm unfamiliar with so I won't compare them to the one's I am. Not a single deadbeat among them. Seems I'm not allowed to shout in this review so i'll strongly ask, Where Is Season III ? I looked the other day and it said Early 2012? Whaaa...? Surely Raylan didn't get that transfer he asked for...! Is this ten lines of text yet Mr Reviewer? Watch Justified.

Man of La Mancha (1972)

I like this movie

[9/10 · 20 March 2011]

Many decry the dubbing of voices but this is not Oklahoma or the Sound of Music. This is Don Quixote. The presentation has been changed and though shortened, the story is the same. An aged man of some means, who believes in honor, courage and love. He has lived this way in the hope others would emulate him. Near the end of his time his studies show him he will only find the life he desires in fiction. He determines to become part of that fiction, so much does reality depress him. Astride a magnificent stallion, resplendent in armor; he seeks the monsters that inhabit the universe. He must do something to make a change. To find the core of evil and destroy it, so life will be more humane for all. This is his quest. I don't think anybody can do desperate better than Peter O'Toole. I don't think I've seen Sophia Loren earthier. Their lack of singing skills should have no matter. This is a story punctuated with the emotion of song; not reliant on it. Check it out.