Reviews
City of Angels (1998)
Drippy rubbish
This film is complete cobblers. Deeply unsatisfying, un-original premise, and extremely detached "acting" by Ryan and Cage. If watching this film makes you feel like you've learned something new or gained some kind of spiritual insight, you don't get out much!
Ganheddo (1989)
Total, utter, mind-stultefyingly awful waste of 97 minutes.
This film is abysmal.
Maybe it's lost something in the translation. Perhaps it's just plain rubbish.
I bought this video because I thought it was Manga Anime. Unfortunately it's the most unbelievably poorly acted euro-nippon trash I've ever seen. It's actually so bad I've had to watch it about four times to try and work out what the plot is. I still don't think it has one.
Why anybody would seriously want to watch this is beyond me.
Zardoz (1974)
Not bad.
This film ISN'T bad! It's good! ;)
Look, if you think that watching a brutish Connery wandering about a claustrophobic village in his pants for an hour and half is boring, try watching Solaris. You'll be back, chum.
Anyway, Zardoz is one of those films that's so pretentious that it's cute. Like Barbarella. Or The Wicker Man. It dated very quickly, due in part to the costumes and the nasty furniture, but mostly because of the outdated ideas about dystopian future. Sex is fun. Who'd say otherwise?
I can't quite work out what side I'm arguing for here. Is it good? Is it bad? Well it probably is bad, so bad it's intriguing. Worth watching anyway. Probably. Kudos to Boorman for Excalibur anyway.
Keep the faith, supertroupers.
The Wicker Man (1973)
Crispy!
It was in a drunken stupor that I turned the telly on and watched The Wicker Man in the early hours of the morning. When it finished I wasn't really as drunk as when I'd started, but I did feel a bit peculiar. I went to bed and had freaky dreams.
Edward Woodward does well as the lonely outsider. You really feel for him in the alien environment of the island. It's the spooky little kids singing about sex and death while running round a maypole that freak me out. All in a wonderfully kitsch sorta way. Gotta love that Wicker Man. How did they get planning permission for that?