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Cover Girl (1944)
It hasn't aged well
Of course Riya Hayworth looks gorgeous and this has some interesting period pieces (Phil Silvers wartime song about rationing), some great dancing (Gene Kelly's dance with himself) but in between some dreadful hammy acting by all , lame attempts at comedy and a swathe of very ordinary songs with one exception Long Ago and Far Away - hard to believe they come from the Gershwins and Jerome Kern. Search out those handful of scenes and skip through the test.
Gran Casino (1947)
Not great but enjoyable
This surprised me at how well the actual performance of the actors and the plot stood up in amongst the musical numbers which are pleasant enough but in reality add little to the movie apart from the reappearing trio which was a nice touch.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Those giving this pretentious rubbish two stars are being generoud
I love movies and I can happily enjoy slow as well as fast - I can even cope with a plot that could be written in three sentences - it gets 1 star because there are a couple of interesting scenes but it is a painful waste of a couple of hours when you could watch something so much better.
The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
Worst movie ever
1 is an exageration - what a pretentious dreadfully written and acted piece of xxxx..I love movies and have watched thousands, good and bad, but this sets a new low in cinema
Passchendaele (2008)
Terrible film
This is a load of pretentious overblown rubbish with a ridiculous and totally absurd plot. The characters are caricatures, the direction is leaden. As others have commented- the battle scene at the end is well done - unfortunately you have to put up with the rest - wasting 90 minutes of your life
The Revenant (2015)
Tom Hardy is indecipherable !
This movie would score higher if it wasn't for the fact that one of the key characters did not appear to be speaking English throughout the film (ironic given his heritage). Someone please give Tom Hardy a voice coach - he rivals the eternally mumbling Casey Affleck in this otherwise overly long but worthwhile film. The cinematography is excellent throughout and the special effects (with the notable exception of the infamous dead horse scene) are extremely well done. It looks quite seamless when the hero hears a rumbling sound and we see from his perspective a distant avalanche that helps create the sense of place and isolation in the film. It is fair criticism that some of the scenes are basically unbelievable but that misses the point of cinema - it is about taking you somewhere interesting but necessarily believing it!