Showing posts with label classic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic. Show all posts
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Friday, August 12, 2005
Fear the Yearling
What were they thinking?
Here we are, mere months out of the horror of the war with the Axis powers, and Hwood decides we need a lesson in the fact that "life is durn hard, Pa"?!?
I know the whole thing is merely a metaphor for growing up gay in the rural south, and hence the need to shoot your "dear" before it starts eating the tubers in the garden, but pleeease.
I mean, metaphor aside, what you end up with is a story about country livin' folks who don't know ass from claw about the consequences of domestication. The deer was the only intelligent creature on all of Baxter's Island (and if it's BAXTER's island, why do they have neighbors on that island - the subtly named "Forresters" - who are older....?) and they shot it.
What next? Is someone going to adapt Steinbeck's bloody awful "Red Pony?"
"Gah"
More Karloff Dammit!
Karloff! But not the monster...
He of giant eyebrows takes a great turn as a moody scientist turned mad in The Invisble Ray. Not to mention that he's working against Bela Lugosi who plays a good guy... But it's truly his turn as the cruel keeper of the insane in Bedlam that proves that Karloff was truly a great actor. How come this guy kept getting cast as monsters?
The Invisble Ray: Eh
Bedlam: Heh
-M.J. Loheed
Sunday, August 07, 2005
He Shoulda Stayed Home
Manhattan Melodrama
Dillinger died for this?!?
The once-promising Gable continues his downward slide with this confused piece of celluloid. Loy and Powell add some life to this turgid, erratic tale of murder, love and friendship as two guttersnipes grow up to face each other over the great legal divide.
A stand up fella could learn alot about standing up for his pals in this crazy mixed up world from this movie - if its sense of ethics didn't ricochet back and forth between the Sophomoric and the Sunday Scholastic.
Here's hoping for better from Loy and Powell's next feature. I fear Gable's best days are behind him.
"Eh"
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