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Twelve Angry men- A classic
Advantages: excellent acting, script, a classic
Disadvantages: none
This classic 1957 film starring Henry Fonda, has to be one of my favourite films, and one that I respect very highly for several reasons. Firstly it is a sign of masterful film making and directing by Sidney Lumet that such an engrossing, suspenseful and excellent film can be produced when, with a couple of exceptions, every scene is filmed in one single room. The plot in itself is highly simple, not complex or difficult to follow. The film revolves ...
...and the story focuses on a jury deciding on the boy's fate. At the outset the jury seem pretty decided on a guilty verdict, all except for one man (played by Henry Fonda) who votes not guilty. Throughout the film he slowly shows the holes in the prosecutions arguments, and highlights the prejudices and preconceptions of the jury men. Slowly and brilliantly others begin to change their minds also. It sounds rather dull when explained in this fashion, ...
 adamp123 28.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Twelve Angry Men (DVD)
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A Masterpiece
Advantages: All performances and excellent script
Disadvantages: None
...career) as Max Schumacher the network executive and Howard's friend and comes across as the most likeable character here being genuine and sincere. Faye Dunaway plays the scheming, power hungry programming exec vying for Schumacher's job. She is genuinely loathsome and dislikeable. As is Robert Duvall as the loud mouth network head. Beatrice Straight won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Max's long suffering wife. I think this must be the shortest ...
 Nixu1980 17.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Network (DVD)
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ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!
Advantages: Al Pacino
Disadvantages: No oscar
...a bank robbery in 1972, Dog Day Afternoon tells the story of Sonny Wortzik, who, with his partner Salvatore Naturile, holds hostage the employees of a Brooklyn, New York City bank. From the start the film is a work of art, the opening sequence contains the only music used in the film, the Elton John song "Amoreena". The absence of music adds to the sense of the film being a true story.
Al Pacino stars as Sonny, an optimistic loser who decides to ...
...money for his lover Leon's sex-change operation. This film is smart, sharp, complex, witty (and often quotable) dialogue, and superbly acted. This is a must see film!!!!!!!
Some of the fantastic dialogue:
Sonny: Kiss me. Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti: What? Sonny: Kiss me. When I'm being f**ked, I like to get kissed a lot. Sonny: So what country do you want to go to? Sal: Wyoming. Sonny: Sal, Wyoming's not a country. Sal: Sonny? You hear that? Sonny: ...
alexjtear 04.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Dog Day Afternoon (Special Edition) (DVD)
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Photography OK ; Everything Else Stinks
Advantages: Cathy Moriarty, Bonnie Bedelia; Sharon Stone gives her all, as usual. It isn't enough.
Disadvantages: Miscasting celebrated: laughably unmenacing Northam, Scott too nice; dull pacing, annoying kid, forced accents.
...her boyfriend Kevin (Jeremy Northam), Gloria (Sharon Stone) finishes her three-year term in Florida and heads for New York City to get help from the old boyfriend. Just so happens that Kevin and his gang have a six-year-old boy on their hands, since they've just wiped out the boy's entire family that morning, and the boy supposedly has a computer diskette containing a lot of information that will incriminate the city gangsters, cops and politicians ...
...retired, and who once had Gloria as a favourite girlfriend. He's entirely too nice to be believable as an old mobster.
Then there's the boy, Nicky, played by Jean-Luke Figueroa. An obnoxious smarty pants with zero charm and no redeeming traits, he offered no convincing reason for Gloria to care about him in the least. I swear I wanted to slap the little monster in more than a few scenes. It is he, methinks, more than Mssrs Northam and Scott, who ...
 zerbine28 17.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Gloria (DVD)
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One of d best movies I watched in recent times
Advantages: Love Story, Vampire Story
Disadvantages: Slow
...is just awesome........ :) Twilight is the ultimate vampire love story. Director Catherine Harwicke has a done an amazing job of remaking Stephanie Meyer's cult book into something special. Robert Pattinson stars as Edward Cullen, a vampire who's family don't make a habit of dining on human blood. He falls in love with 17-year-old Bella Swan (Stewart) who moves to the small town of Forks, Washington to live with her father. The two are drawn to each ...
vikasmalik22 12.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Twilight
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