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The Ridiculous 6 (2015)
A very clever movie
A very enjoyable and clever movie. I don't like Adam Sandler; I never have but I enjoyed every bit of this movie. It's fun. Lots and lots of fun. Yeah, maybe it's kind of big on being too post- modern. You need to understand westerns, especially the Italian ones, and like Clint Eastwood and Tarantino at the same time. And hopefully you have seen Blazing Saddles as well. Although I didn't think the Blazing Saddle references were as big as others are saying. But add in a dash of Monty Python and you are on your way to enjoying this one. It is absurd in many scenes and I think modern society has forgotten how funny absurd can be.
Overall, I saw it more as a homage / parody of the great spaghetti westerns, and a humorous take on being politically correct in modern western society, with a sweet footnote that it will all work out all right if we stick together. Nice.
And don't worry too much about Adam Sandler being in this. He doesn't dominate, and the movie is better than the man. As far as his acting goes this is probably his best movie. He does his best at being Clint Eastwood suddenly finding himself in "Dancing with the Wolves."
Yeah, it is that kind of post-post-modern movie thing, but if you get it, it will be highly enjoyable and you'll get some great laughs as well. It's very clever if you like this sort of thing.
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
A terribly over the top movie
I saw this movie 20 years ago and thought it was way over-acted. I saw it again tonight and enjoyed it a bit more. I still think that Lancaster is miss-cast and that Booth's acting is way over the top.
Rather than being the story of a recovering alcoholic I saw it as the story of a woman who irritated everyone - even her own parents - with her child-like imbecility. The fact that her husband could stay off the drink for a full year while living with such a woman is remarkable. Surely the only reason the husband didn't leave was that his own self-esteem had been completely negated by marrying such a woman in the first place.
Booth's acting is so melodramatic that it makes you cringe time after time. Not a movie for a modern audience.