Change Your Image
thoms_shane-1
Reviews
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
DumbEmbarrassing
"Dumb" adjective
1. lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted. 2. lacking the power of speech (often offensive when applied to humans): a dumb animal. 3. temporarily unable to speak: dumb with astonishment. 4. refraining from any or much speech; silent. 5. lacking some usual property, characteristic, etc. 6. Crocodile Dundee 2
See Also
"Embarrassment" - noun
1. the state of being embarrassed; disconcertment; abashment. 2. an act or instance of embarrassing. 3. something that embarrasses. 4. an overwhelmingly excessive amount; overabundance: an embarrassment of riches. 5. Crocodile Dundee 2
In the Winter Dark (1998)
A failure
Its as if the script writer attempted to portray how inner demons can cause an outer hysteria. These glum characters all suffer from apparent psychological torments from their past and present which they choose not to acknowledge. This repression causes a manifestation of their inner fears into a supposed creature that is killing their livestock. Its a mask for their inner fears and its easier to look outer rather than inner.
With this film, far too much time has been spent on creating a "haunting atmosphere"...this time could have been spent on script revision and character building. Miranda Otto is capable of so much more and is quite a talented actress....however in this particular performance we only see an anxious character with violent dialog and no direction as to where, why or how ??.....The token old man narrative voice overs are seemingly placed randomly and fall flat every time. There can be no comparison to "Picnic at Hanging Rock"with this film. Not even Brenda Blethyn could come to the rescue. Overall a big disappointment, very boring and an attempt to build something up to a pointless nothing (it didn't even have any metaphorical value).
The Fountain (2006)
Discover the metaphors for yourself...spoilers in here
From a personal perspective, I interpreted The Fountain as "the mortal acceptance/non acceptance of death". Its a very difficult idea to develop as a watchable narrative/screenplay because we live in a world of man made religions with so many different after life ideas. This probably subconsciously upsets people because it tampers with their own systems of belief or, for others, terrifies them because they realise that every human, including themselves, will inevitably die (its surprising how many humans actually feel that they are immortal). The film involves Tomas, a doctor/scientist who's wife is dying of a brain tumor. He cannot accept the fact that she is dying and is certain that he can find a cure for her tumor. At first, his wife is frightened at the fact that she is dying, so she begins writing a book about a search for the tree of life and the fountain of youth (a metaphor for her husbands search for a cure for her tumor). Accepting her death, she gives the book to Tomas and asks him to finish writing the story. There are so many metaphors in this film (the loss of his wedding ring, the planting of the seed at his wife's grave, his tattoos), to be interpreted by ones own inquiring mind. I thought it was beautiful nonetheless, both visually and audial. As another reviewer stated, if you are frightened of dying, then perhaps give this one a miss. If you are comfortable with questioning your existence and your mortality, give it a go and enjoy this amazing film. I didn't exist before I was born...so I've been there before...there's nothing scary about going back to it....whatever it is.
Jeffrey (1995)
Annoying, agitating, dumb and tacky
Have to say that I felt sick after watching this film.....one big fat fluffy mess. Its just jumping on the band wagon of the caring 90's "fad" of political correctness. Not even Sigourney Weaver could save this celluloid abomination. What a waste of time. It was disturbing to see elderly parents discussing gay saunas with their son....Im not a puritan at all....but it was just stupid and not even funny. The actor playing jeffrey...whoa..... was one of the worst performance I've ever seen !....I was told by a friend who is HIV positive that he actually walked out of this film at a screening 15 minutes into it because it was so agitating. I decided to hire it and see for myself why so many people, mostly gay, say that this is the worst movie they have ever seen.....now I know. Watch "The boys in the Band" (not really AIDS related) and "The Band Played On" (AIDS related) if you want to see something thats decent and at least watchable. Avoid this one....Im sure the director gets embarrassed when he looks back and realises what a mess this stupid film was.
Demented (1980)
I don't like anything smelly....
As the many other reviews have stated...this is a bad movie....really bad. However, it's become a personal cult classic favourite and stands proud in my B Grade VHS horror movie collection. I used to take this movie (and still do) to friends houses to play jokes on them. I would tell them that I rented an awesome movie thats so intensely moving and brilliant that you just have to see it....after 5 minutes of play time....the reactions from my agonised friends would put me on the floor in a state of orgasmic laughter. There's some classic dialogue in this film...."I don't like bad food...especially meat IT STINKS....I don't like anything smelly" and...."Were you raped last week, last moth, last year...WERE YOU EVER RAPED". Also some hilariously bad camera work...perhaps best noted during the dinner scene (by the way....is that Kate Bush playing Linda's sister Annie ? - I seriously doubt it...but the similarity is scary !). Sallee Elyses voice is shockingly high pitched and annoying and Bruce Gilchrist should have stayed in the porn industry !!!!.....Watch only for a joke cos its so bad that its hilarious.
Howling III (1987)
Pathetic
I think this has got to be one of the worst films to ever have been produced in Australia.... Imagine almost every Australian 70's/80's soap star celebrity thrown into one big silly mess of a script that isn't even scary or thrilling....Bad effects, bad acting and an embarrassing anticipation which emanates from the actors that they may perhaps have been starring in a huge blockbuster horror....think again. The soundtrack was bad (just think of those pointless old synth pop 80's flip sides) ....as were the costumes. The wolves looked like paper mache puppets made by pre-school children. Avoid this stinker....its not even funny in a cheesy way...its just a waste of time.