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Cry of the City (1948)
Cry, what a pity.
The consensus on here is that this is a much overlooked and underrated movie, but there is an excellent reason for that. It's not a particularly good movie. Siodmak has the renown equated with film noir and this movie does look great. The lighting and direction are perfect. Sadly, that's where the excellence ends. The plot is dull and unimaginative and the script is ponderous and repetitive, and in places quite juvenile. Disappointingly, not the great addition I was expecting, to my collection of classic movies.
Morning Glory (2010)
Mourning Comedy.
Rachel McAdams must be the most annoyingly irritating actress in movies; ergo her character is irritatingly unlikeable.
The panto style over acting by McAdams and most of the cast is cringeworthy. Every minute is filled with someone rolling their eyes gormlessly, waving their arms frantically, gurning and grimacing endlessly and screeching, squealing and squawking the poorly written lines. If that makes you laugh, you're in for a treat, but if you find humour in sharply written and witty dialogue, look elsewhere.
Dark Waters (2019)
Dark Falters
An important and unforgettable story told in an inconsequential and mediocre movie.
The DVD box claims this movie to be a 'gripping thriller'. It is not.
Rather, it is a dull, plodding and overlong misfire that fails to supply the drama and tension that this story truly deserves. Watch Erin Brockovich to see how it should have been done.
Night Boat to Dublin (1946)
Night Boat To Dozing!
This is a typical Edgar Wallace style 50 minute B movie, minus the decent storyline, believable characters and any tension or excitement, and extended to 90 dreary minutes.
Even the great Newton couldn't supply any gravity to this lightweight nonsense.
King Solomon's Treasure (1979)
King Solomon's Dungheap!!
This movie is awful in every way. I can only infer that the Foley Artist was drunk because, although the lip synch is fine, the sound effects are inordinately out of time. But correcting this would merely have been stecoration of an already mammoth pile of fecal matter.
And Then There Were None (1945)
Immensely overrated tosh.
The awful comic atmosphere combined with the buffoonish portrayal of the characters is laughable and removes any suspense that should have been evident. By far, one of the worst Christie adaptations and simply a poor movie overall, despite the star cast.
Daredevil (2015)
Tediously slow.
This series is so painfully slow! Hitchcock once said: "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." I think someone got it the wrong way around here. There is a scene, lasting almost six minutes into the episode that consists of a woman coming home, having a drink, having a shower, going to bed, having a dream, waking up, getting dressed and going to work!!! Padding anybody. We see a similar and lengthy scene of Wilson - if I talk really slowly we can drag this out to a full season - Fisk getting up and, dressed and eating breakfast. Yeah, riveting stuff guys!! As for our "Action Hero" This is a guy who, apparently, has been training in Martial Arts and honing his "powers" since he was a child. yet somehow manages to drag out every fight into an interminably boring, darkly orange lit nightmare in which, most of the time, he gets his butt kicked almost to death by nearly every crook he comes across. But that's okay because, though it's never mentioned, he has the recuperative powers of Wolverine. The character - should that be cartoon character - of Foggy is the most annoying moron one could meet. He is there to carry more script padding as hardly anything he ever says contributes in any way to what little story there is. As a two hour movie sans all the padding, this could have been OK. But trying to stretch that to 13 hours - of which Daredevil appears for probably less than an hour - has left us with a tediously monotonous pile of garbage that everybody thinks is great. But as we know, popularity rarely equates to quality. The number of people using the internet while watching television is on the rise, with a new study showing that 40 per cent of 18-24 year old's browse social networking sites while watching TV. Consequently, program makers are producing many shows that can be viewed this way without any loss to enjoyment. Daredevil is a perfect example. Just look up for the loud bits!! :)
House of Bamboo (1955)
House of Boo.
In spite of the consensus of the reviews here, this is not a dark, broody, atmospheric picture about the seedy Tokyo underworld, but plays more like the comic book style of the early serials.
This film looks like it was made by someone who had never seen a film noir but instead had one described to them by a 10 year old.
And this,it seems, is what the film's dialogue was based on.
Childish and naive in the extreme - even the great Robert Ryan couldn't be bothered to try - and monotonously slow and boring, with each scene interminably longer than it needed to be.
Very disappointed that this wasn't the great addition I thought it would be, to my huge collection of 40's and 50's classics!
Pygmalion (1938)
Cor blimey, don't 'e go on!!
The character of Professor Higgins is a pompous, arrogant, thoughtless. selfish and completely unlikable character and it beggars belief that anyone could find anything about him worth caring about. And what is worse, he never redeems himself. George Bernard Shaw is far too enamoured with the sound of his own words to have been allowed to write the screenplay. There is good writing here no doubt, but most of the scenes are interminably long and verbose and continue long after the point has been made. Wendy Hiller is an absolute joy both to watch and listen to. Her performance is outstanding, but sadly not enough to save the movie from the endlessly annoying droning of Professor Higgins.