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Slipdream (2005)
Very creative and enjoyable movie
I just saw "Slipdream" at the Mendocino Film Festival (May 2006) and really enjoyed it! The movie is very creative, using multiple media (such as still shots sequenced with streaming video) blended together into a seamless "stream of consciousness" experience. One of the most unusual movies I've ever seen. The acting is good, particularly Zia Harris as "Jack," but everything seems subservient and contributes to the overall psychedelic dream feeling of the movie. Loosely based on the children's "Jack and the Bean Stalk" tale, the story is updated into the modern age. The movie was shot in contemporary LA, which at times resembles a bombed out third world city...both in reality, and in the movie...but very nicely captured in the movie. At the showing, I talked with the producer, Sam Spiegel, who seemed like a very nice guy, and was enjoying the Mendocino Film Festival as much as we were enjoying his film!
The Karate Kid Part III (1989)
One of the worst movies I've ever seen!
This movie is just awful! The story is tired and totally predictable, and the Ralph Maccio character is incredibly annoying! The ONLY reason I watched this movie was to see the parts filmed on the Northern California coast, near Kris Kristofferson's ranch in Elk. The scenery is just stunning, but only about 15 minutes of the film takes place there. Maccio's annoyingly juvenile babbling is at complete odds with the serenity of this beautiful and breathtaking Northern California setting, as it is with the teachings that the late Pat Morita tries in vain to impart to the kid for the third time in this series! Pat Morita is always a pleasure to watch, but everything else about this movie is just excruciatingly annoying and painful to watch.