Reviews

Casting myself back 50 years and re-living this was a thrill... all the suspense, all the emotion, having my 11 month old son in my lap as Armstrong stepped off the ladder, and telling him, "Andrew, look at this. This is history; and you can do the same."

Has anyone considered that the cheesy "back projection" in the riding scenes may have been on purpose ? And another thing... could it be that Cooper's melodious "Melody Jones" (who sang his own songs) was a jab at John Wayne's "Singing Sandy" (all dubbed, all the time, and badly too). I liked the inclusion of a top-break revolver, also... there was lots of interesting weaponry back then, not all of it made by Colt. The graphic gore was unusual for a time when the newly departed would either throw their hands up, or clutch their clean shirts, and flop over. Did you notice that when Cherry aimed and fired at Melody's hat, she had such control that the bullet went in the front and STAYED IN THE HAT ! An intelligent side-kick, a powerful woman, and a humorous script. I liked it.

My god... it's late 2006, and I've just now seen "Enter The Dragon". After all these years wearing out my VHS copy of "Kentucky Fried Movie", fast-forwarding to Evan C. Kim's hilarious "A Fistful of Yen" segment, I can now fully appreciate the satire. Bruce Lee is amazing... the real thing, with a philosophy to back up the action, spawning a whole new world of film. It brings to mind the late-model "Kill Bill" duo from Quentin Tarantino, produced the same way: on-site with local talent. A trivia item (but not trivial to me): can anyone identify the warships in the background during the water-taxi rides of Williams, Roper, and Lee out to Han's ship ? I'm going to go back to the DVD and pause my way through that sequence.