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Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang

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...Bang! Well thats the plot dealt with. Want more info? Hmmm...well ok, let me try to think...Well we have a movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood along with the woman in his life at the time Sandra Locke. Clint plays a washed up Phoenix cop who looks like he has been sleeping in the same clothes for about a month and who has a drink problem. He opens the door of his car and out pours a stream of bottles, cans etc. Of course, this means that ...
...witness across country to the courthouse in which she is to testify. This witness is Sandra Locke, a prostitute(why does clint always have his wives girlfriends etc. cast as hookers, or molested in some way...hmm) who has more intelligence in her handbag than our dumbass hero has in his whole body. Everyone is out to get them but dear old Clint's character can't see this...well not until the first preposterous action scene. Ths movie excells in presposterous ...

wampyrii 05.11.2001 · Read full review
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Review of The Gauntlet (DVD)

Bogart and Bacal Sizzle

Advantages: Performances excellent, as is the dialogue
Disadvantages: Plot is convoluted and confusing

From the outset let me just be clear - this film is bafflingly confusing but wonderful at the same time. Plot explanations would be long winded and confused. In a nut shell: the film is based on a Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe novel. Humphrey Bogart plays the cynical private eye Philip Marlowe and is hired by General Sternwood Marlowe to investigate a blackmail plot on his naive childlike daughter Carmen (Martha Vickers). Marlowe encounters Carmen’s ...
...various complications along the way including a murder of a dealer in pornography. The plot is generally confusing owing to many editorial cuts when released to emphasise Bacall's part. this doesn't really overshadow what is a great film noir as the performances and chemistry from Bogart and Bacall are electric. I can't think we've seen anything like this since. The greatest strength is the dialogue performed with precision timing by the leads. It ...

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Review of The Big Sleep (DVD)

Captain Ahab's Revenge

Advantages: somegood acting, good story
Disadvantages: Bad and cheap effects

This for me is quite a strange film choice as it is not my kind of story but I was talked into watching it by hubby as it does star Patrick Stewart and am a fan of his. This is a DVD but is if of the 2 part feature which was shown on the BBC some years back now. The story starts with Ishmael who is a teacher but he turns up in Nantucket on a stormy night in search of adventure as he feels he needs some in his life. He finds a room at a local inn ...
...is in for a shock when he meets his room mate, a massive and tattooed Polynesian Harpooner called, Queequeg. Ishmael soon learns that appearances can be deceptive as quietude turns out to be a good man and befriends him. The following morning to two men set off to try and get work on the Pequod, the latest whaling boat to be leaving the dock. It is down to Queequeg that Ishmael gets work on the boat as well. As the pair start to settle into the boat ...

sewbizzie 02.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moby Dick (DVD)

Watch your back, James!!!

Advantages: Beautiful camera work
Disadvantages: Not very flamboyant - dull in places

The Spy Who Loved Me is the third film starring Roger Moore as James Bond and the tenth film of the franchise. It examines the tensions during the detente period of the Cold War by partnering a Russian Major with Bond for the purposes of stopping an international catastrophe. It also features a change in director. Guy Hamilton leaves after four films at the helm and is replaced here by Lewis Gilbert, who returns to the Bond director's chair 10 years ...
...Shortly after escaping the attack of a number of Russian agents, James Bond is forced to team up with Major Anya Amasova, Russian officer, in order to halt the actions of villain Karl Stromberg, who is plotting to create an underwater world and destroying civilisation as we know it. Posing as a scientist and his wife, Bond and Anya infiltrate Stromberg supertanker, the Liparus, but are chased by Stromberg right hand man, the fearsome Jaws, a man ...

pmcds 20.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Spy Who Loved Me (DVD)

All those feathers and he still can't fly!

Advantages: Grand scale fun
Disadvantages: Might be a bit fantastical for some

...fly!" The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth entry in the James Bond franchise and the third to feature Roger Moore in the lead role. The film is one of the most famous and pivotal in the series and is generally regarded to be the one that established Moore as 007. The Spy Who Loved Me marked a return to the epic extravaganza Bond pictures of the sixties like Thunderball and You Only Live Twice, with incredible fantastical sets by Ken Adam and lavish ...
...was brought in to handle the most ambitious and complicated film yet attempted in the series. The Spy Who Loved Me cost twice as much as any previous Bond and the money is right there on the screen. It feels like a really big and ambitious film compared to many previous - and subsequent -Bond entries. Producer Cubby Broccoli built the largest soundstage in the world at Pinewood and spared no expense with the special-effects and spectacular locations, ...

arthurpringle 21.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Spy Who Loved Me (Ultimate Edition) (DVD)