ARosser14 Reviews

Red Line 7000 (1965)

The racing was great. The rest....eh....

[4/10 · 10 April 2013]

As a die-hard racing fan and a lover of the sport's history, not to mention early-mid 1960s vintage, I thoroughly looked forward to watching this film. And it first, it was quite good. The opening scenes at the Daytona International Speedway, highlighted by the kind of horrific, fiery accident that was all-too-commonplace during that era are well done. So are the rest of the racing scenes, save for one rather ridiculous bit of action at Daytona later in the film.

Unfortunately, once the characters get away from the track, the movie starts to go downhill. The dialogue is uncomfortable and often downright bad, and the whole soap opera plays out rather disappointingly. Like most racing films, it shows great promise, but winds up well off the pace.

I rate it 4 out of 10 thanks to the great racing scenes and the performance of James Caan. The rest, unfortunately, is all very forgettable.

Batman Forever (1995)

It is What it Is

[7/10 · 13 November 2006]

When you ignore what Batman Forever COULD have been and just look at what it is, it's not that bad of a film. Granted, it falls off a bit when thoughts of a not-so-corny dialogue and (most importantly to me, as he's my favorite villain of any kind) a more developed and more serious and sinister Two-Face.

The film as it is was good, albeit with an occasional painfully corny line. Its much lighter than its immediate predecessor, Batman Returns, both in tone and literal appearance. A lot of neon and colored lighting, most notably on the redesigned Batmobile (which was somewhat unneeded but to an eight and a half year old boy, utterly cool), replaced the relatively black and white (so to speak) look in Batman Returns.

All in all, when you take the movie for what it is instead of saying "This could've been different and this could have been different," it's pretty good. Like I said, when you start thinking about changes, it drops from good to average for me and probably lower for most, but I take things for what they are, and taking Batman Forever for what it is, it's pretty good.