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Dirty Harry (1971)
Dirty Harry: One great Cop Movie
This was a feel good movie for Americans who have seen the criminals and law breakers thumb their noses (Or give a middle finger) to the police and those that abide by the law as they continue to walk away from their rightful place behind bars or capital punishment. Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry is the inspector,Judge and Jury in this first of the "Dirty Harry" films and is one of the best as he fights to stop a madman from killing more innocent people in San Francisco. Armed with his .44 magnum and showing he is a tough handsome dude with lots of hair and several cool sports jackets he proceeds to do the right things a cop should do while making his boss and the mayor (John Vernon Mad ;who would show up again in a few years as Dean Wormer in "Animal House".) During one of the opening scenes Clint goes into a corner hamburger shop for lunch and the camera shows a movie house on the side street next to the lunch shop. On the theater marquee is one of Eastwood's first films :"Play Misty for Me". It goes by fast so you need to be looking to see it. Wish Hollywood would make a few more good movies like "Dirty Harry".
Boogie Nights (1997)
Boogie Nights :
I viewed BOOGIE NIGHTS recently (Feb.2005) and thought during the DVD that the film would have been banned everywhere including Korea,several years ago. Mainstream Hollywood movies could not show a man and a woman in bed together and if they did , both actors had to have one foot on the floor during the scene. The words such as "Pregnant" and words referring to a woman's breasts or a man's penis were never allowed so this film means Hollywood has moved farther OR sunken deeper in trying to find what the public wants to see and spend it's money on. Burt Reynolds was the first man to appear in a nude centerfold picture in the woman's PLAYGIRL magazine and played a woman chasing Senator in the movie STRIPTEASE, so he is right to play the Porno film director in this movie that tries to show the way pornographic films were made during the 1970's to 1980's. Mark Wahlberg(later in the Planet of the Apes remake?)plays the young stud that Burt finds to star next in his porno flicks. Julianne Moore,Heather Graham(Austin Powers)and actual porno Star Nina Hartley("Head Nurse",etc....) have parts in the film.
In a scale of one to ten with ten the best, I give Boogie Nights a
five.
Jackson County Jail (1976)
Good film with powerful jail scene
I thought the film was good with fine acting coming from the stars : Yvette Mimieux and Tommy Lee Jones. Jones is in his first major movie of his career and performed well. The jail house rape of Yvette is very graphic and I doubt if any other movie will show such a powerful scene unless you see "Two Women" again where the Italian Star is similarly abused.Perhaps the scenes showing Jones in a gun battle with the local police was not too realistic as it might have been but overall I believe the story rang fairly true to life and regret that it had to be placed in the area that presented the law as having such men who would take advantage of a good looking blond woman in distress. The truth is that such things do happen and if nothing else the movie reminds us all that while it is good to try to help strangers in need,it is not wise to pick up hitchhikers.