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Reviews
Under Pressure (2000)
Most motivating film I have ever seen!
I am watching "Escape Under Pressure" right now - this very minute in the United Kingdom. Channel Five.
At the same time, I am struggling with the writing of a film script of my own. What a boost this film has given me! "Escape Under Pressure" has given me new hope! Not even I can be that bad!
That was really all I wanted to say. The script is appalling. Rob Lowe quit West Wing because in his opinion he was worth so much more! The producers wouldn't give it to him - maybe because they saw this! Pretty as in pretty stupid! Have I reached ten lines yet?
But the only really stupid guy is me - I'm watching it! And I'm still watching it - so painfully bad! At least there's only fifteen minutes more to go! Don't ask me how it ended ... I'm just grateful it did!
MIKE NEWMAN
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)
Saturday Morning Matinée
Right now, this is running in the UK - and literally right now I am watching Tales of Innocence. I have seen many of them and I think they are outstanding ENTERTAINMENTS. Yes, there are clips from other action films - so what; the plots, being 'history', are predictable. Though yesterday "Daredevil of The Desert" was great fun. As absurd as it may sound, I have learnt interesting 'facts' - where they ARE facts - around the period of WW1. And which, I believe, is especially important these days when it seems that so many young people know so little and are more easily fed by comic films. Apart from fun, if the kids are watching this, that's a bonus! It's good photography, film work as well as being history and geography and politics. I am not someone who would care to bisect a butterfly just because you can't milk it! Mike Newman