1973 Review Blog
Enter the Dragon
Grade: C+ 11/04/2011
In these days of the Matrix, Kill Bill, and Zhang Yimou films, this film just feels incredibly cheesy to me. I know now where Balls of Fury got its source material. This feels like a third rate Bond film, and the “hi-yah” feels really silly.
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Grade: C+ 11/04/2011
In these days of the Matrix, Kill Bill, and Zhang Yimou films, this film just feels incredibly cheesy to me. I know now where Balls of Fury got its source material. This feels like a third rate Bond film, and the “hi-yah” feels really silly.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
The Spirit of the Beehive
Grade: B 06/02/2010
It took me a bit after this film was over to really understand what it was about. I was confused because it seemed to be just a young girl, who saw the original Frankenstein movie, who has been told by her sister that the monster's spirit lives in a small farmhouse out in the wilderness. I watched the film as if that was all it was about, and I was a bit bored. It wasn't until post-film reflection that I realized it was kind of a PAN'S LABYRINTH film...only this little girl's horrors that she is trying to escape were not war. I realized this when I remembered how her father was filmed with ominous camera angles and she imagined her father as the monster himself. When it all came together in my brain...it was quite haunting.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
Grade: B 06/02/2010
It took me a bit after this film was over to really understand what it was about. I was confused because it seemed to be just a young girl, who saw the original Frankenstein movie, who has been told by her sister that the monster's spirit lives in a small farmhouse out in the wilderness. I watched the film as if that was all it was about, and I was a bit bored. It wasn't until post-film reflection that I realized it was kind of a PAN'S LABYRINTH film...only this little girl's horrors that she is trying to escape were not war. I realized this when I remembered how her father was filmed with ominous camera angles and she imagined her father as the monster himself. When it all came together in my brain...it was quite haunting.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
The Sting
Grade: B 10/11/2008
THE STING is not too different from George Clooney's OCEAN'S 11 movies. It has a big cast, a big con, and most of the movie is concerned with just looking great. But what the sting has going for it is it's stars...Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the con men, Robert Shaw as the mark. I especially liked the Norman Rockwell-esque interludes with "The Entertainer" constantly playing as the soundtrack. Fun heist movie with some of Hollywood's biggest legends.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
Grade: B 10/11/2008
THE STING is not too different from George Clooney's OCEAN'S 11 movies. It has a big cast, a big con, and most of the movie is concerned with just looking great. But what the sting has going for it is it's stars...Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the con men, Robert Shaw as the mark. I especially liked the Norman Rockwell-esque interludes with "The Entertainer" constantly playing as the soundtrack. Fun heist movie with some of Hollywood's biggest legends.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die