Miscellaneous Movie Musings

Alex · 05-30-2008, 11:20 AM

Saw two older movies this week:

The Piano - Much that I liked about the movie. Wish they'd not had the Holly Hunter voice over and let her truly be mute through the whole movie. She had conveyed things just fine without the exposition. Didn't care for Sam Neil's performance though, thought he threw the whole endeavor off.

Machine Gun Kelly - Charles Bronson's first leading role (so I read) and the 20th directorial effort from Roger Corman (which is a lot since his first job directing was just three years earlier). Boy howdy did it suck. And not in a good Roger Cormanish campy way. Just suck. But then I've never really seen much evidence that Bronson deserved his film career (but admittedly I haven't seen a lot of it).

05-30-2008, 11:20 AM	#11
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Saw two older movies this week: The Piano - Much that I liked about the movie. Wish they'd not had the Holly Hunter voice over and let her truly be mute through the whole movie. She had conveyed things just fine without the exposition. Didn't care for Sam Neil's performance though, thought he threw the whole endeavor off. Machine Gun Kelly - Charles Bronson's first leading role (so I read) and the 20th directorial effort from Roger Corman (which is a lot since his first job directing was just three years earlier). Boy howdy did it suck. And not in a good Roger Cormanish campy way. Just suck. But then I've never really seen much evidence that Bronson deserved his film career (but admittedly I haven't seen a lot of it).
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