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The Dark Knight (2008)
Best example of a true villain.
In most 'Super Hero' genre movies, it's the usual action that drives the plot, and the emotion is a reaction, rather than the force. And, up until now, very VERY predictable and formulaic.
In every movie I have ever seen featuring a villain, it has a motive, or a past, or a reason for the villainy. Animal villains don't need a reason unless it is given them by the author or writer/director, as diseased, tampered with or just plain animalistic cravings. The Joker in Dark Knight for the first time is given no back story, no reason, no excuse. He kills
because he does. Sometimes there IS no reason. Michael Caine's character explains it succinctly when he uses a personal story of a jewel thief in a jungle that just threw away the jewels after killing many people in the attempt. No 'rational' explanation. That is what makes The Joker in Dark Knight so disturbing, and memorable in any form of media. He is just...inhuman, or non-animal. Hannibal Lecter was once 'normal', and although there is no real explaining his behavior, he had a past, and we can relate. The Joker here laughs at his own impending death, not expecting saving. Just does not care, because caring would be human, or alive. This Joker is already dead and has become something 'else'. Something not to try to figure out, reason with or investigate. Just simply needs destroying, at all costs. Because this 'bad guy' brings out the actual evil in those he comes across. Even today's terrorists have a reason for killing and destruction. The Dark Knight's Joker has no such minor flaws. He just destroys the same way a virus does. This Joker IS a virus, and just as a phage spreads destruction and chaos to everything it touches, although the death of the host will lead to it's end, so does this Joker. Christian Bale's Bat Man comes to term with this, and must accept into himself the corruption for just having come in contact with it. But survives it, irrevocably changed.
THAT
..is what villainy really is. And what makes The Dark Knight stand out and above all Hero movies that came before.
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968)
Was up late with a fever, and watched this drivel
Unfortunately for me, since I was feeling poorly already, I subjected my eyes and ears to this horrible waste of film.
To say that it was so bad that even monkeys would have brain damage after watching it is an understatement. Peter No one's teeth look like part of Stonehenge, and his acting is just as rock-like.
Holloway's talent was wasted here, and the useless frame after frame after frame after FRAME of the no talent Sarah Caldwell made it VERY clear that the dog had more talent.
Speaking of the dog, any movie that would have greyhound racing as the premise is bad enough, but with this dreck of a script, it astounds me that this movie was made at all. Not to mention this piece of dog poo(greyhound perhaps) of a 'film' gave birth to "A kind of Hush", which I am sure, if played for more than 6 hours to a plant, would make it curl up and die.
I loved the denouement, though. It occurred when the film in the camera ran out, apparently.
This film makes Spice World look like Citizen Kane. I weep for all the guitar picks that weren't made because the film was used on this horrible bit of pig vomit.
It was.............bad.
Rome (2005)
Vacuous, empty and boring
Being a HUGE fan of most HBO series, I find this one, after the first episode, heavy on worthless dialogue, lacking intrigue, non-historical/non-factual on WAY too many points, the greatest being the age of the characters,(seeing how life expectancy was @ 40 at that time, and most male characters/actors are obviously WAY older, not to mention the women). Suspension of disbelief is one thing. Casting actors and actresses over age 45 in most leading roles, while commendable to the acting community, in this case is ridiculous.
This series looks like it was shot in a ditch, with props purchased at the nearest Peir 1 Imports. Too much dialogue, too little action, characters that have NOTHING in relation to the previous characters presented in literature and history. Letters written on perfect paper that looks like it was bought at Walmart, whip marks that look like Heinz poured on, using the no drip spout.....the anachronisms are to many to mention. Which make the whole thing a rotten mess. Not to mention some actor's retain their English accents, some don't.....and btw, it's called Rome! Shouldn't the actor's at least have Italian accents? Was this supposed to be a psuedo_Shakesperian piece? If they spoke in Latin with subtitles, it would have made more sense. Men in the field traveling for weeks, with perfect hair, clean as a whistle.....? Horrible mess! Pity, I was looking forward to it.
Last Plane Out (1983)
Well......I was in this movie
They filmed most of this in Vero Beach, Florida in 1982. I was an extra and made 7 scenes in the film. When they stop to watch the questioning of a line of "Nicaraguans" against this barn/building,I am the guy that tries to walk away and gets yanked back by his hair. Dude actually pulled my dang hair! Yeah, it hurt.
Jan Michael Vincent was VERY coked up during the whole shoot, wiping the white dust off his nose after emerging from his trailer many MANY times. This movie proved to me that I was NEVER going to be a movie actor, because it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO boring and tedious. In one scene, Jan and the Hispanic actress were on horseback riding down a jungle trail(filmed at McKee Jungle Gardens in Vero). Me and another guy step out from behind trees and I say," Abajo".(down). Jan was so doped up, he missed his 2 or 3 lines 75 TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That 20 second scene took 4 hours! 75 takes! Man, it sucked!.
Anyway, the "director", Davey Nelson, brother of Rickey, did about .001% of the actual directing, and the 1st AD did the rest.
It was a fun experience, but boy oh boy, did it stink up the theater.
Best part was, while setting up the scene where the house gets blown up, I see this 20-ish woman reading a Tolkien book. I struck up a conversation with her, and we talked for @ half an hour. Afterwards, the other grunts run up to me and ask "What she like!? What did you talk about?". Turns out it was Mary Crosby, and, never having watched Dallas, had no idea who she was. She probably enjoyed the fact I didn't fall down and worship her.
I still hate Dallas though. :D
I Married a Strange Person! (1997)
Funniest animated movie ever
The freakiest funny animated movie ever. Plympton is whacked. I have seen his shorts, but this takes the cake. What a hoot. It has no redeeming value. It just makes you laugh. Total absurdity at it's finest. If you hate this, feel sorry for your comedic side. You at least have to appreciate the animation. Plot aside, or plot against, just too creative for words. If you like Monty Python's animation, you'll love this.