Posted on 11/27/2005 2:39:45 AM PST by goldstategop
You have just described my death scene. Telling some idiot or asking them ("would you please be quiet),
I remembered the "I done see'd" everything from childhood. When we got the tape for our daughter around 1990, it was missing. Great news, if it's back in the DVD. I remember the scene upset me as kid, not because of racial sensitivity ( I didn't understand that the crows were supposed to be Blacks or that their accents were Southern Afro-American), I guess I just identified with Dumbo, and took the ridicule badly.
It did show a "dark side" to Moussad (embodied by Rod Steiger) as the young leader of the hit squad finds it tough to leave the organization.
However, the movie left no doubts that Golda Meier considered it a righteous cause.
One interesting scene: the team is going to blow up one of the Palestinian terrorists in a car rigged to explode, but they keep having to take their finger off the button as a passerby gets near. One of them remarks how the Palestinians are never bounded by such constraints.
Which Chamberlain's nemesis -- not Hitler, which was exactly Chamberlain's problem, getting his nemesis wrong, but Churchill -- famously defined as "the sincere hope that the alligator eats you last."
An ostrich policy, much beloved of Democrats, who live their lives defended and protected by better men, and can therefore dispense with the rigours of manhood.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
"The Fair Jessica and I watched "The Interpreter" with Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman on hotel pay-per-view. This was an absolutely dreadful movie. Slow paced, self-indulgent, stupid dialogue and even stoopider ideas behind them. Sean Penn acted brilliantly in it, but that's because he's a brilliant actor. There was lots and lots of rhetoric about "believing in the UN" and celebrating the idea of the UN even as it turned out that Kidman, the film's protagonist/idealist, was a burnt out red who instinctively resorted to violence.
Anyway, the movie isn't worth discussing at length. But it did help me reach the conclusion that Sidney Pollack isn't a good director anymore. One can argue about how great some of his older movies were. But in recent years he's come out with a string of self-indulgent, slow-paced, awful -- or at least disappointing -- movies (not so much as an executive producer). Random Hearts? Arguably Harrison Ford's worst film. Sabrina? Also arguably Harrison Ford's worst film. Havana? Please.
Now, as for The Firm, this is more controversial, because I know people who liked the movie. I thought it was an OK movie, despite the fact Pollack once again slowed it down. But what drives me crazy is how he rewrote the book so that Tom Cruise would be more heroic if he opted to remain a mob lawyer. All that drek at the end about the law and being a lawyer should be taught in schools as a textbook example of how ethics and morality aren't the same thing.
It's been too long since I've seen out of Africa, but my memory suggests it's long and too indulgent of Streep's accent stuff.
And even Three Days of the Condor, which I love, is really a very slow movie and one directed more than two decades ago.
In the last few years, I've had several experiences with the blurry movie screen and always complained. Now I know the reason why! This is pretty sneaky considering the price of a movie these days. This is another reason why I see only about 3-4 movies a year in an actual theater and choose, instead, to rent them on Netflix - I've got a pretty large screen and can reverse if I miss some dialogue and so on.... I still enjoy the big, big screen but with all the negatives, including price, it's just not worth it anymore.
Man, this guy is good.
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