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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
How much worse could it get?
The movie is banal, juvenile, idiotic and patronises the audience. It's naive of the director and writers to assume that anyone would ever want to watch it. The acting was OK from Caine, and mediocre from Martin. If this were made today it would have gone straight to video.
There is nothing that could spoil it because there's nothing to spoil. The characters are two dimensional, the only redeeming feature is the setting.
Caine does a passable imitation of David Niven, of course, and Martin a passable imitation of Martin. Apart from everything with Adam Sandler in it I can recommend no movie less. Well, apart from The Village, which is one of the worst movies ever made, that is.
La ville dont le prince est un enfant (1997)
It seems odd
The spoiler is not about the plot, but about the ages of the two boys. To me they appeared to be 14 and 9 or so. Add 4 years to each boy's age and you get a more realistic love story within a school.
I was not wholly satisfied with the plot, because it was rather banal, but I can't fault the acting, which was excellent, right down to the glint in Sevrais's eyes when he sees Souplier in the gym I wonder, too, if there was a pun or two in the boys' names: Sevrais "C'est Vrais" (for he told the truth a lot) and "Souplier" perhaps "Supplicant? The final scenes do call into question the entire church hierarchy and its "mastery" of sins of the flesh
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
It ran for 134 minutes. Or so says my theatre.
The underlying story is sad. It could be an awesomely weepy movie. I am sure the story was weepy in the extreme.
I managed one minor emotional moment, and that was because I was determined to.
The scenery was good. The best character for me was sheep number 17,691. An Elk has a sad scene, too.
The makeup was not wonderful. The characters never made more than 2 dimensions. I so wanted to like one, or the other. Neither was likable.
Even the supplementary characters never made it to 3 dimensions. The minor exception was the elder daughter where the actress did her very best with a poor part.
It is not a gay movie, not a straight movie, and regrettably not even a weepy movie. It was a place to pass 134 minutes.
What a shame.
The Edge (1997)
Oh dear.
As far as I can see this should have gone straight to video. The plot is contrived, the characters are not even as well selected for mutual antagonism as the "cast" of "Big Brother" (not Orwell, pap TV!), and you never like any of them enough to even want to follow it through to the end.
We have water, snow, mountains, bears. And wow, three guys survive a plane crash in an icy lake that no-one could actually swim in for more than two minutes with dying of hypothermia!
Great wallpaper if you like Deliverance without the mountain men raping anyone. Wait, I am but half way through! Maybe they turn up as well!