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Fedya

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  1. Tentacles (1977).

    Something's killing people off the coast of California.  Journalist John Huston thinks Henry Fonda's company has something to do with it.  Oceanographer Bo Hopkins investigates.  It turns out that something is a giant octopus.  Shelley Winters plays Huston's wife; Cesare Danova is Fonda's flunkie, and Claude Akins is the sheriff.

    This is the sort of movie you watch with a bunch of friends and a big bowl of popcorn, laughing at the ludicrousness of it all.  Poor Fonda is underused; Huston isn't directing so he doesn't get to be self-indulgent; and Winters is in typical later career mode.  Winters is also the subject of the film's best lines.  At one point her young son (too young for her; Winters was 56 at the time she made the movie and the kid was 10) and his friend are signing up for the junior regatta, and Winters says she wishes she could be on the boat with them.  The friend replies, "Then we'd need a tornado to move the boat!"  :lol:

    5/10.  Not as bad as most reviews would have you believe, but something you watch because it's so dumb.

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  2. 8 hours ago, Dargo said:

    I mean REALLY Michael ol' boy, "Jaws: The Revenge"???...REALLY?!...c'mon now, your gambling debts couldn't have been THAT large, now could THEY???!!!

    From the horse's mouth: I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.

  3. 1 hour ago, calvinnme said:

    How do the agents trace the shipment? They inject a radioactive compound into it. It rather makes you wonder about the morality of feeding drug addicts radioactive compounds, rather like the feds poisoning alcohol stolen by bootleggers during Prohibition with deadly consequences.

    They also put acetaminophen in Vicodin so that people would die of liver poisoning before ODing.

    When will the UN do a movie on how the blue helmets rape children?

  4. 7 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

    I can just imagine the cigarette dangling from his lip as he asks for his ”blanky.”

    You should watch the early 30s Joe E. Brown movie Broadminded.  The opening scene is of a "baby party", in which the participants dressed up as and acted like babies.  Joe E. Brown is in a carriage asking for his bottle.

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  5. Millie (1931).

    Helen Twelvetrees stars in this thoroughly unmodern movie as a woman who flits from one lover to the next, leaving each time when she finds the guy is cheating on her.  She got married to the first lover and had a daughter by him before divorcing him and letting his rich family bring up the girl.

    Time passes, and the daughter (Anita Louise) is now 16 years old.  One of the former lovers (not the girl's Dad) decides he's going to start going to church so he can perv on Millie's daughter!  When Millie finds out, she shoots the guy!  I'd say shades of Madame X, except that the daughter knows it's Mom who shot him.  Mom doesn't want to reveal what really happened at the trial, however.

    Twelvetrees does her best with the idiotic material.  Frank McHugh and Joan Blondell have early supporting roles.  5/10.

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