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Our Hospitality

Set in 1830, this silent Buster Keaton epic is about a guy who returns to the home town of his father only to discover his family and the Cadfields are part of a generation-spanning feud and that old man Cadfield and his two sons are after him - and he discovers the girl he fell for on the train ride there is the Cadfield daughter -ANNND he ends up at the Cadfield house for dinner when the girl invites him in! (He's not a complete idiot: he didn't know she was a Cadfield at this point in the story)

The thing is that the Cadfield's code of hospitality dictates that they can't kill Buster so long as he's a guest in the house, and when Buster gets wind of this he ends up having to figure out how to never leave the place. And there's a dog, and a long chase, and elaborate stunt sequences, and early 1800s versions of locomotives and bicycles, and it's pretty great.

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Week 4
Day 28, Review 28 - I'm SO glad this was good...i was beginning to get really exasperated with the crappier films

Day 29, Review 29 - and we're back to a world of crap...this movie's BORING

Day 30, Review 30 - I REALLY wanted to like at least two of the gill-man movies...but this is crappy too

Day 31 - AWESOME!

Day 32 - if you don't love this movie, then I don't love you

Day 33

It's over. Which means I can get back to Godzilla movie reviews and the four lingering "requests" I have - Full Metal Jacket, Teeth, Malevolence, and Rob Zombie's Halloween films which means I'll be likely taking a trip through the ENTIRE Halloween series.

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Sherlock Jr.

Another Keaton film- in this one he gets so inventive he must have blown audiences minds in the 1920's! He plays a movie projectionist who dreams himself into the movie he's projecting as the world's greatest detective: Sherlock Jr.

He is subject to violent scene changes (like sitting on a chair only for the scene to cut to the middle of a city street, thus causing him to fall on his butt and then quickly avoid oncoming traffic), expoding billiard balls, runaway motorcyles, he walks through mirrors, jumps into a suitcase, ect.

The people who made the Looney Tunes years later must have been watching this.

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Jitterbugs

Later era Laurel and Hrady film, after they had lost their creative freedom and were doing pretty standard comedies that didn't really suit the characters they had crafted - still, not a very bad film: while there are less laughs the boys end up playing multiple rolls and really show that they do possess acting chops.

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Black Dynamite


Brings the FUNNY back to spoofs in a way I can't recall since Airplane! , after this recent spate of worthless and talentless Wayans wannabe movies like EPIC movie DATE movie DISASTER movie, and the rest of that idiotic ilk....and the Wayans movies weren't all that hot to begin with either.

Black Dynamite, though.... Great performances, with actors working hard to appear like bad actors reading their lines with complete earnestness, instead of winking at the camera, which is death to movies like this.

GREAT attention to detail...costumes, sets and set decorations, cinematography, technical goofs.... and music! All of them work hard to never take you out of the time period. I think the graphics and credits work TOO hard though, and end up just having the look of a graphic artist working overtime to emulate that period, in reality the credits would have looked very badly done. Minor complaint, though.

The movie hits the mark MOST of the time, and it's nice to see a comedy where you can genuinely LAUGH.

"Fiendish Doctor Wu, you done f****d up now! "

"Your knowledge of scientific biological transmogrification is only outmatched by your zest for kung-fu treachery! "

Patricia Nixon: "You're so righteous."
Black Dynamite: "This is also true."

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The last movies I watched were:

Sick Girl - Absolute crap about a young girl that goes on a murder spree. Really bad and not in a "so bad it's good" way.

Criminally Insane - 70's sleaze about a 300+ woman named Ethel who gets out of a mental hospital and goes to live with her grandmother. When grandmother attempts to put her on a diet Ethel goes bonkers and kills her, which is the first in a series of murders that she commits. This movie is funny as hell and a great example of b-movie fun.

Carnival Of Blood - Another 70's b-movie about a killer who's stalking annoying women at the Coney Island Carnival. Low-budget, twisted fun in the spirit of Hershel Gordon Lewis.

New York, I Love You - A collection of short stories about love in NYC, I enjoyed it and found most of the stories to be interesting and engaging. Lots of familiar actors in this.



Ricky

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2012

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Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

Loved every bit of this movie!

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Chinatown

Still one of my all-time favorites.

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Kurosawa night on TCM last night: Ikiru, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress

I don't think I need to tell you guys how great these are.

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