Orgasm Inc. is funny. The best moment is when Liz Canner reveals that the erotic film she’d edited caused almost as many positive reactions in the placebo test group. The drug wasn’t working, but they’d proven that “women like porn.”
Movie Reviews
I love the movie, consider it great… The story’s structure is uncluttered, providing a robust framework for abundant comedic and metaphorical elements. Its heart is gold, often wringing tears of recognition from me and those sitting nearby. I’m talking about satisfying, gratefully bittersweet tears – reinforcing and illustrating the moral.
Jaws was released on June 20, 1975… When Hitchock saw it, he remarked “[Spielberg’s] the first one of us who doesn’t see the proscenium arch.” Watch the movie with that comment in mind – although Spielberg often constructs various frames for his shots (he builds the arch like Frank Capra used to), in many others the camera tracks so wildly through the action you can’t conceive how the blocking was accomplished.
The Sugarland Express has a lot in common with Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967) – both share a rollicking, episodic comedic structure that devolves into tragedy. Both feature a strong woman who drives men to actions they might not otherwise commit. Both feature crowds of “common people” expressing support for outlaws. It seems likely Spielberg was sincerely flattering Penn, although Spielberg can’t resist sentimental touches…
Duel is a fantastic good time. It’s about a truck that terrorizes a hapless car on a two-lane road in the desert. That’s it – you might wonder how the writer and director fill an entire movie; don’t worry.
If you’re thinking about seeing Pitch Perfect 2, consider going with a teenaged girl. As my daughter said later, “It was awesome. The movie was absolute fluff but there was a lot of singing and I knew most of the songs.”
Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron is…well put-together, often impressive and sometimes enjoyable, and it doesn’t linger in the mind or the imagination. It’s movie pulp, entirely appropriate for a comic book adaptation. It seems clear Whedon knows all this, which might make him some kind of subversive genius…The best moments (the parts everybody talks about) are the silly (and inexpensive) ones – affectionate winks at the source material and meta jokes about the ridiculous constructs of a franchise tentpole.
[Amblin’] was shot in 1968, when Spielberg was 21, and is considered his first 35-mm film…Spielberg wrote, directed, and edited the film; it contains recognizable hallmarks (technical and thematic) – someone who didn’t know it was Spielberg’s would probably say it was influenced by him.
Tenth in a series of “throwback” posts. I wrote this during the winter of 1987, which means I’d probably seen the movie a few times already. I regard this as the worst review I’ve ever written…
I love this movie. My high school English teacher played it for us just before Christmas, over three classes. It was one of the most educational moments I remember from that class. It’s about a guy who always sacrifices for everyone else and never realizes how good he is, or how good he’s got it.
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