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MatthewBrooklyn
Reviews
Z.P.G. (1972)
Awful Awful Awful
I wrote the plot description for this on IMDb a million years ago. I tried to demonstrate how horrible this movie was with my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek, while giving an accurate description, and not making it a review. Some comments compared ZPG to Logan's Run???? Logan's Run is brilliant and a frightening "what if" scenario for the human race. How about comparing it to 2001: A Space Oddyssy or even Citizen Kane while you are at it? And Soylent Green, though not brilliant, SG is a far better movie than this one, and a more plausible future. This movie should have been featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000--only on that show would it have been worth watching. Avoid this film like the plague!
Doctor Who (1996)
The TARDIS does not bring people back to life.
As a huge fan of the series, I was very disappointed by this film.
What all the previous comments seem not to mention, was the huge flaw that I hated the most. Towards the end of the film, at least one character dies. With the corpse(s?) in the TARDIS (where time doesn't change), they go back in time and viola, the person(people?) comes back to life. (I don't remember the details just that it happened). For some reason that offended me more than the other continuity and changes the producers of this film made. It was like a betrayal of the original.
One this is clear to me: the producers of (Star Trek prequel TV series) Enterprise, would like this movie, because, like here, they essentially trashed the original show to create a new version of it.
Camp (2003)
Utter Cop-out
In the year 2003 it should be okay to have gay characters who are actually well rounded, which includes them being sexual. Here we have a camp full of gay kids, but the only character who is fully realized is the one straight boy. The performances are fun and well done (which makes the film watchable) and the same footage could have been edited into a better film, but over all it gets a 5 for being very "blah" in terms of being another gay movie with non-threatening non-sexual gay characters to keep straight audience members from going "ewwww." (No, I don't think there should have been gay sex scenes, but how two of the dozen or so gay boys at the camp holding hands, or somehow indicating affection?) Oddly enough, the film starts off with the main gay character and ends with him, but in the middle it's the straight one who's by far the central character. It's almost as if the gay character was the protagonist in the script, but a decision was made during the editing to make the hetero character central, to make the film more palatable. This film shows that the gay rights movement still has a long way to go.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Benny Hill
Like most of the other people who made comments, I also loved this movie as a child and still do.
One thing that I always thought was interesting was that Benny Hill, who is almost exclusively known for his raunchy skirt-chasing-dirty-old-man comedy show, is charming in the role of the toymaker in a land with no children. This film shows that he truly was a talented man capable of being funny without resorting to low-brow humour (not that there isn't a place for that sort of thing, mind you).
And the idea that this film has a forgettable is ridiculous. I haven't seen the film in years, but I distinctly remember both the title song and the song Truly Scrumptious.
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Most Over-Rated Movie of the Decade
My expectations were understandably high from the hype. I paid >$9.50 (the going rate here) and couldn't have been more >disappointed. It's not scary. OK the last 2 minutes are mildly scary, but not even grab the arm rest scary. The acting is bad. They don't seem like real people. It's not believable. I can suspend disbelief, but the things the characters do are unrealistic. It's boring! It goes from incredibly boring (during the days) to just plain boring (at night), etc., ad nauseam. I wanted to leave, but was hoping for an old fashioned slasher movie ending where theses annoying characters were butchered. It's horribly shot. It does not look like a real documentary student film. I've known film students and seen student films. The camera is way too shaky. Real documentaries and student films do not look like this. It should have been a 7 minute short on Saturday Night Live and then it would only have been fair. 1:20 or however long it was (it seemed like I was in the theater the as long as they were in those woods) was much too long. That night I went to a bar and told everyone I spoke to not to see it. Most of them already had, and didn't like it (only one did).