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Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
long and with out a point. (Spoilers)
!!!Warning: Major Spoilers but reading this review instead of seeing this completely boring film will save you 159 minutes!!!
This movie could have been good. It had the amazing Jimmy Stewart. It also had that great sound track provided by Duke Ellington. But never the less I couldn't help but feeling kind of board. Maybe it was because the film was completely the opposite of what I expected. With a title like, "Anatomy of a Murder", and Jimmy Stewart, (Star of many Hitchcock classics) I thought it was show us, well, A MURDER. Instead the film picks up a few days after the event it self and is just a trial movie from start to finish. This still could have been the makings of a good movie. Stewart defending an innocent man with huge amounts of evidence stacked against him would have been a good way to go, even if not a very original trial movie. Instead they have a some sleazy Jerk named Manion, who lives in a mobile home and is unkind and unappreciative of his gorgeous wife. Manion shot a bar owner with a dozen witnesses, because the guy had raped his wife. This was obviously not a good thing of the bar owner to do, but Manion kills the bar owner hours after the event because he says, "I have the unwritten law on my side." So he thought he could do it in cold blood and get off scot free. So Jimmy tells Manion he can only get of if he actually committed the murder while insane.
So Manion fabricates a lie that he went temporarily insane. Manion goes to see an army psychiatrist to add some weight his lie. He lies to the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist says Manion had an "unavoidable urge" to kill the man. The rest of this overly long movie is the trial. In which Jimmy calls up a bunch of witnesses in order make the jury somehow thing that this dirt bag deserves to not be punished for his crime. Then at the end of the movie (160 of the longest and most boring minutes of my life later) Manion is declared "Not Guilty" by a jury that has been lied to immensely.
Then Masion Repays Jimmy Stewart by.............Driving off in his Mobile home with his wife with out paying Stewart a dime. He leaves' Stewart a note: "I had an unavoidable urge' to leave." Masion may have Committed a felony by lying under oath during his trail, but at least he can joke about it. Besides, what is the reason they made this film? To teach us that you can abuse the legal system in order to not be punished for your crimes? All and all the movie is pretty slow and boring and pointless. if you like Jimmy Stewart and want to see him in a movie were a your actually get to SEE a murder, instead of just hearing about it for two hours and 40 minutes, see the brilliant Hitchcock film Rope'.
David Frost Presents: How to Irritate People (1969)
50% of Python's members at their best
This film from 1968, a year before Python did its first show, is hilarious. It was done by John Cleese, Connie Booth, Graham Chapman, and Michael Palin, all From Monty Python's flying Circus. There Python Genius for comedy shines in this film. Additional material was provided by the hugely funny Marty Feldman. Wile a few of the Sketches are a little slow, many are some of the funniest ever recorded. Some Particularly good sketches are the ones with the old women, the airline one ("The wings are not on fire"), and the last sketch on the tape, to name few. Defiantly worth a look for any Python Fan, or for any one looking for a good laugh.
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
If only those from the end pigeons would have pecked out my eyes!
No matter how you feel about Jim Carry you should thank him for making the Grinch, because up until that came out M:I2 had been the highest grossing movie of 2000. Which would have been quite awful way to begin the new millennium. Or end the last one, depending on how annoying you are about that issue. Do not see this movie even if Tom Cruise rings your doorbell and threatens to wave his long hair in slow motion as he did so often in film if you don't view it. It has absolutely no redeeming qualities about it at all. The tape inside the film's video cassette is to thick to use as dental floss, To long to work as a belt. Also This movie is not only awful, it is a total knock off of Notorious by the incredible director Alfred Hitchcock. The following parts of Notorious were completely stolen and screwed up by Tom: Cary Grant and Ingrid meeting at the race track and her boy friend becoming suspicious of them. Cary seducing Bergman and then using her in his spy work. Ingrid having to go under cover and marry the bad guy, who is in love with her. Tom, if your going to make a movie that sucks, please don't try and tarnish a perfectly good Hitchcock in the process.
Chicken Run (2000)
(Insert an egg pun of your choice here.)
This movie is great and most of the reviews have already established that so you don't need me to tell you again. The only reason I wrote this was to say how funny the theatrical trailer was. The won that showed in front of Mission Impossible 2 (Such an awful movie it gives me stomach pains to remember it.) But The Trailer was so great C:R-1! This trailer alone would have made ANY movie besides M:I-2 worth seeing. But don't think about M:I-2. Just go rent chicken run, immediately.
Rope (1948)
Hitchcock is brilliant.
Warning: (the long version)I don't think this review contains any spoilers, but that message that put at the beginning of the reviewing section now really scared me so I am going to say it contains spoilers any way so I don't get put on the blacklist.
Warning: (the short version.) May Contain spoilers.
Alfred Hitchcock is likely to be the best director that ever breathed. Every film I have seen of is brilliantly done. In this film he adds so many subtle things which all work together to make this a master work of suspense. The first brilliant thing he did was to film this in color. Don't get me wrong, I love movies that are in Black and White and get really mad When Ted Turner colors them. But here the color adds to the film immensely. It makes it seem like the plot in unfolding in your own house. The second brilliant thing Hitchcock did in the film was to do it all in a one shot. First off I would like to say how incredibly cool this is. The camera never cuts. This again adds to the film by making it seem like a live play. It makes the movie flow like a continuous rush of Hitchcock.. As the camera follows the actors around makes you feel like a part of the action. the story all happens in real time' which also adds to the real life effect and makes it seem more ominous. This also means we get to see the really cool sun set on the New York sky line as the movie progresses. I will stop listing Hitchcock's works of genius in this film at this point because they come by the dozens ever minute. The movie is also cast perfect. Especially John Dall as Brandon Shaw he seems classy enough to know all these people but also twisted enough to have killed one. All in all this is a really great movie. This is probably my second favorite Hitchcock movie (below only Psycho). Though it is tough to say because he made so many incredibly great ones.
Journey Into Your Imagination (1999)
A great ride, Eric Idle is funny
This ride the update version of "Journey into Imagination" (the original ride at this location in Epcot) is great. Eric Idle (also co-star of the laboring "Honey I Shrunk the Audience) does a fantastic job narrating you though different experiments on your Imagination. The ride also feature one of my favorite Disney characters. Figment (purple dragon guy.) A great ride for all ages both the adults and the 2 year old a rode on it with thought it was fantastic. Usually little to no wait in line for it all times of the day. A great break from the chaos of running around Disney World.
Multiplicity (1996)
this movie is so funny!
This movie is one of the funniest movies I saw in the 90's
Michael Keaton is great playing all four parts. #4 is so funny the scene in the resturant is halarious. The scene with all the mirrors in the bathroom must have been very hard to splice. Michael Keaton is a comic genius. See this film!