ianmacdcoleman
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I have enjoyed and in fact loved many movies, but Dr. Strangelove is the only movie that I have seen over and over without eventually noticing flaws. George C. Scott delivers what I consider to be the finest comic performance in a movie (rivaled only by Lee Marvin, in Cat Ballou).
This movie is a satire, but even so the dialogue, ridiculous as it always is, is utterly, realistically human. When General Buck Turgidson (Scott) is explaining to the President what he considers to be the wisdom ofa first nuclear strike on the Soviets, for example, you can easily imagine a real general laying out the same arguments, using the same euphemisms. ("Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. I am saying, no more than ten or twenty Americans killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.") Or Major Kong (played by Slim Pickens) giving his bomber crew a brief pep talk. ("I reckon you wouldn't even by human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong feelin's about nuclear combat.")
I have adopted some of Major Kong's expressions as my own. For example, "I'm going' to get them doors open if it harelips everybody on Bear Creek." Or, "I've been to a picnic, one world's fair and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I've every heard come over a set of earphones."
Dr. Strangelove is the only movie I can name thatcontains no superfluous scenes. Every minute of this movie contributes to the story. You couldn't cut anything from it without lessening its effect, which is simultaneously horrifying and hilarious.
A great movie, and my choice for the best movie ever made.
This movie is a satire, but even so the dialogue, ridiculous as it always is, is utterly, realistically human. When General Buck Turgidson (Scott) is explaining to the President what he considers to be the wisdom ofa first nuclear strike on the Soviets, for example, you can easily imagine a real general laying out the same arguments, using the same euphemisms. ("Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. I am saying, no more than ten or twenty Americans killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.") Or Major Kong (played by Slim Pickens) giving his bomber crew a brief pep talk. ("I reckon you wouldn't even by human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong feelin's about nuclear combat.")
I have adopted some of Major Kong's expressions as my own. For example, "I'm going' to get them doors open if it harelips everybody on Bear Creek." Or, "I've been to a picnic, one world's fair and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I've every heard come over a set of earphones."
Dr. Strangelove is the only movie I can name thatcontains no superfluous scenes. Every minute of this movie contributes to the story. You couldn't cut anything from it without lessening its effect, which is simultaneously horrifying and hilarious.
A great movie, and my choice for the best movie ever made.
The French love Emmanuelle. Apparently Emmanuelle is the most popular movie ever shown in France. Yet another reason to doubt the taste of the French, if you ask me.
I like me a good naked lady movie as much as the next guy, but even so Emmanuelle annoys me plenty. It's dreary, plot less, pretentious and more than a little sick.
What Emmanuelle does have is Sylvia Kristel, who was 21 when it was made. Kristel is a Dutchwoman who is said to have an I.Q. of 160. This actually could be true. I've seen her in television interviews, and she speaks perfectly grammatical English, with only a slight accent. Emmanuelle was shot in French, and apparently Kristel's French is virtually flawless too. She can't act any better than Daniel Day-Lewis's right foot, but she's certainly a gifted linguist.
And beautiful? Forget about it. Take the beauty quotients of Geena Davis and Demi Moore, add them together, and multiply by 5. Plus, she's sort of childlike, which is wierdly appealing in the star of a sex movie.
I like me a good naked lady movie as much as the next guy, but even so Emmanuelle annoys me plenty. It's dreary, plot less, pretentious and more than a little sick.
What Emmanuelle does have is Sylvia Kristel, who was 21 when it was made. Kristel is a Dutchwoman who is said to have an I.Q. of 160. This actually could be true. I've seen her in television interviews, and she speaks perfectly grammatical English, with only a slight accent. Emmanuelle was shot in French, and apparently Kristel's French is virtually flawless too. She can't act any better than Daniel Day-Lewis's right foot, but she's certainly a gifted linguist.
And beautiful? Forget about it. Take the beauty quotients of Geena Davis and Demi Moore, add them together, and multiply by 5. Plus, she's sort of childlike, which is wierdly appealing in the star of a sex movie.