Reviews
Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel) (1975)
Delightful short film
10 April 1999 - 2 out of 2 users found this review helpful.
This is a marvelous short subject on the life of the Victorian inventor Izembard Kingdom Brunel. Charming, witty and full of affection for its subject, Great is a delight. I wish I owned a copy.
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Striptease (1996)
A dreadful job from a terrific book.
23 January 1999 - 7 out of 19 users found this review helpful.
Yes, I know that books aren't movies, and that faithful adaptations are not always possible or desirable. But Hiaasen's book is eminently filmable: lots of plot, eccentric characters, blacker than black humor and very imaginative violence.
Instead of filming *that,* this was a vehicle for the sexy-as-day-old-bread Demi Moore. She's built, but as an actor ... she's built. Ving Rhames and the marvelous Burt Reynolds are seldom seen, Demi preens and prances, and the comic violence which drives the book is almost all excised. A pointless bore.
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