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Family Plot (1976)
Perfect
Just a perfect movie.
All these surprising twists, everybody is cheating everybody. Emphasize the human nature, being greedy, lie to survive, Blanch is Comedy, drama, thriller altogether.
A thrilling drama mixed with bits of humor, smooth screenplay, which despite being virtually impossible makes sense.
Great play by Barbara Harris as Kate Blanch surprised to find herself as a true medium by the end, after being considered as a fake medium.
Happy end.
Did I say Perfect ?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Nod bad, interesting but maybe a bit overrated
Well I enjoyed this film, its interesting and wasn't boring. But it doesn't have the depths I mean nothing to think about later, Nicholson is great and so in nurse witched, just doing their jobs, I didn't see wickensy or evil in the nurse she just did her duty. Nicholson is an actor you can't dislike, he brings life into that poor environment, but maybe he should have been more 'bad'.
This isn't a perfect movie, the chief 'suddenly' begins to respond, its too easy to escape from this place, the fishing scene might be unnecessary and unrealistic, maybe was shot due to the nice views, but there are many nice scenes. Maybe time also reduces the hype over the movie. I missed some love scene between Rutched and Jack.
Not bad but not so great.
American Beauty (1999)
Bad movie, and why did people like it
Well, people liked the movie because they can identify with the characters, they're all messed with their boring life. Actors (Spacey and Benning) are great, and the movie is done proffessionally.
But.....
Main thing about the movie is the script. It is indeed boring, artificial, retarded ideas, over overrated, also depressing imo, geez why kill a man just cause he's looking for himself. There are no depths to think about the movie after its done.
Better watch this movie in more criticizing manner and not just drifted with the public opinion. Very bad and disappointing movie, gave it 6 maybe should have been lesser.
Fast Food Fast Women (2000)
Not heavy, not too convincing
For someone who downloads his movies through the net I had fun. But maybe going out to the cinema would bring me to a more disappointing conclusion.
It seems director Kolek is speaking through his heart, telling us "age is not an issue" in life. Well, it is. The affair of that taxi driver with that 66 yrs old woman which speaks in her first date against fetishists that meet older women, is unrealistic. So is the winning of the waitress in that heritage. or many other coincidences. All the porno that sexy Anna Thompson providing us is just an excuse to wash our eyes, cheap erotics. Not that I didn't enjoy. Yes it demonstrates us very well the loneliness of big town.
But again, many untied lines and irrelevant episodes keep this movie far from being a good, worthy one. Anyhow personally I don't have big demands so I enjoyed.