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¿Qué he hecho YO para merecer esto!! (1984)
Beautiful, touching and hilarious
This is one of Almodovar's best movie. And honestly one of the most beautiful movies ever made. It's at the same time funny and sad, surrealistic and hyper-realistic. Carmen Maura is a tragic character and she's a fantastic actress. Quirky ideas flow from all sides, strange characters, but none of them are out of place, because they are just humans: petty and sublime. There is no judgment in Almodovar movies. Things are what they are and therefore there is no ridicule. It's always amazing to wonder - what was this movie about? Pretty much nothing, just ordinary life, and yet it's full of events that are out of the ordinary.
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Very dated - and not in a charming way
I was very disappointed with this movie. It's very dated and not in a charming or nostalgic way. The misogyny is rampant and very distasteful. Dean Martin's comments about repealing the 14th & 20th amendments and "making slaves out of women", just doesn't pass muster and I don't think it did at the time. It's just crass and reflects the whole atmosphere of the movie.
Sinatra is his gloomy despising self. I cannot understand how people can find him charming. At least he looked less bony and sickly as in Young At Heart and he doesn't drag down some nice girl next door type into his downward spiral.
The rest of the movie is slow, disjointed, there is basically no caper plot and Akim Tamiroff in the role of Spyros Acebos is a buffoon which makes for un-funny slapstick.
Don't look for class or wit in this movie. The rest of the cast has some nice characters but none of them is developed.
Even Sammy Davis Jr. who, in pure period fashion, gets to play a trash collector in his civilian life. He gets upgraded during the caper to - what else? - a trash and loot collector.
This is the America that was "great", and that some want to go back to in order to be "great again".
Thanks but no thanks.
A rare case where the remake is a much better movie, even if you disregard the social stuff. The new Ocean's 11 is a proper caper movie.
Repo Man (1984)
Beautiful and Poetic, in the best sense
I'm very late to the party as I just watched this movie today (30/31 October 2016) but I have only good things to say about this movie. It's funny, it's deep yet light hearted, it deals with serious issues but doesn't take itself or its characters seriously. And that's why it's touching and moving. I appreciated the "widget" as Hitchcock calls it all the more as I watched Kiss Me Deadly (check it out) with the secret suitcase everyone is after. Sit back and relax, enjoy the ride. The music is also great and non obtrusive by the way. I wanted to stop there but I have to write more. The photography is beautiful, the cast is fantastic. Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez are incredible, but there isn't a bad performance in this movie.
April in Paris (1952)
Painful watch
This is one of the most awful movies I've ever seen. Doris Day is wonderful - obviously it must have been hard for her to not be charming and sing delightfully.
Truthfully, I had to skip ahead constantly to the scenes where I could just see Doris Day, but she keeps being crowded by a complete cast of creeps, not least the two main male characters.
It's one painful French cliché after the other. But nothing is more painful that the "love interest" between Doris Day and Ray Bolger. Brrrrr.
Doris Day must be one of the most badly treated actors in Hollywood, castingwise. It's amazing that she is able to deliver a fresh and spontaneous performance in the midst of that plot, those characters and those costumes.
Skip.
Poirot: Three Act Tragedy (2010)
There is drama, and then there is melodrama
Another awful Poirot episode in the latest series. There is drama, and then there is melodrama. And this is more melo- than anything else. I have not read the original novel but the script to this must have been two pages long since there is way more dramatization of absolutely nothing than dialogue or action. This certainly didn't deserve 1 hour and a half. There was more wit and progression in any of the shorter episodes in Season 1. Here, what would have taken place in 4 minutes stretches to 24 minutes of traveling and counter traveling, dramatic sound effects and a languishing soundtrack. Much ado about not much.
Considering the same director also directed the Appointment with Death train-wreck, it all makes sense.
Poirot: Appointment with Death (2008)
Ghastly and utterly ridiculous
The arrogance and incompetence of those screen writers who dare maim the work of Agatha Christie is staggering.
How can anyone change characters and add some and modify the plot of a novel by such a writer. This series had already damaged Poirot's Christmas with ridiculous substitution, taking a masterpiece and turning it into a farce.
It shouldn't be legal to disfigure a literary work and claim association with the author's name.
This story is also turned into a ridiculous plot.
And by the way, Poirot is now a guardian angel who delivers a rosary and disappears as a pigeon like the Holy Ghost?? How low can this sink???
The Rockford Files: Nice Guys Finish Dead (1979)
"Respighi" not Respighi
Great episode even though the characters of Lance White and Freddie Beamer are annoying to no end, but well that's the joke and it is served by classic dialogue. It's definitely one of the lighter episodes after a string of quite heavy ones preceding.
But when Tom Selleck promises to listen to Respighi - Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) - to calm the nerves and presses the play button on his Teac Reel to Reel, he plays instead the Adagio to Marcello's Oboe Concerto and good for him as it's gorgeous.
Marcello: Oboe Concerto In D Minor - 2. Adagio Alessandro Marcello (1684~1750)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Three Gables (1994)
Horrendous episode - Is it a spoof? (SPOILER)
(SPOILER ALERT - I DON'T TELL THE STORY BUT SOME ELEMENTS CAN BE A SPOILER)
This is possibly the only awful episode in this series. But gosh is it horrible.
The main actors out act beyond what they usually do well past the point of caricature, the dialogues are laughable, the couple is positively revolting but also risible. It's a constant wonder between how could they sink so low in the ridiculous and how could they possibly not have done it on purpose. From the young romantic composing his novel under the rain to Watson flying through a window to Holmes leaving everybody on their own waiting for something to happen. Possibly Conan Doyle's fault there for the lack of inspiration but it's the only story that I have no recollection of, although I read the whole series several times over.
Avoid unless you want to see something rotten.