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Hawk the Slayer (1980)
Funny Funny Funny - but not meant to be
Please - I beg of you - do not watch this film unless you are willing to laugh. The acting is wooden, the dialogue so poorly contrived that it might have been written by a ten-year-old, the backdrops sometimes like a school pantomime, and it is all fantastic! This is one of those wonderful films that is so very bad, it is good.
I have seen it six or seven times, and I marvel each time as to how it was ever released. It takes "The Lord of the Rings", "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves", "The Princess Bride" and " Willow" and rolls them all into one, with dreadful special effects, unmitigatedly awful stop-go cinematography, and poor editing. It is a classic, whose whole is most definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Watch it and laugh.
High Society (1956)
A real joy - why don't they make good musicals any more?
Truly a great musical. The duet of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra singing What A Swell Party... is worth buying the DVD alone.
Yes, the dialogue pales a little when compared with The Philadelphia Story, but you have to remember this is a musical, and the story is really a framework around which the music is woven. Here are three (Bing, Frank and Grace) at the height of their powers, giving great performances.
Bing steals the show - just - but there isn't a dull moment. The rivalry between the two main characters is always beautifully crafted, the superb score is a classic of its genre, and really great use is made of a surprisingly limited number of sets. This is a very accurate conversion from Broadway to Hollywood.
Watch it, watch it, watch it!