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Lawless Range (2018)
Boring predicatble drivel
This film is dull, slow and boring and so predictable. It has no saving features. I will never get that hour and a bit if my life back. I tried to stick with it but turned it off 15 minutes from the end as I simply didnt care what happened any longer and wamted the agony to end. How do films like this even get made? Avoid at all costs.
It Follows (2014)
Utter drivel - don't waste your life on this
This film was absolute garbage. None of it hangs together. Where are all these kids parents? Where are the police? Where are any other adult characters? What on Earth was the point of the opening scene? No development, no tangible plot development, no characters you care about. How films like this get made is beyond me.
Dad's Army (2016)
Indescribably bad.........
Well....I'm speechless...words fail me, Dads Army.....I will never get those two hours of my life back....fatuous unfunny indescribably puerile drivel.....Its an insult to the intelligence and to the men who were in the home guard. The TV series was funny largely because it was satirical and had characters who were totally out of their depth but doing their best.
I remember watching the TV series with my parents, who lived trough those times and loved the show. I know of people who were in the home guard who loved it because they said it was a wonderful exaggeration and parody of the reality and futility of the struggle and the people involved. This film makes them out to be imbeciles.
It is not worth spending time on detailed analysis, but suffice to say the writers understood nothing of what made the original so clever and successful. It really is one the worst films i have ever paid to see.
The Exorcist (1973)
The best horror film ever...
This movie is truly excellent.
I understand where people are coming from who don't find it scary - or even find it amusing (although thats probably just being contrary).
Sadly the shallow World we live in today, and the graphic horrors on our screen in everyday newsreels has made people less imaginative and less prone to actually examining their actual feelings.
Everything happens a warp speed, is noisy and so "in your face" that many people today don't actually realize what it is like to have to "imagine" things and many don't have time to look deeper than the surface of their own emotions.
Some of the scariest stories I ever read are ghost stories by M R James - not fast paced, not gory, but genuinely scary and thought provoking. Sadly modern day living doesn't ask people to think much at all.
I also think that - as a parent - the movie raises disturbing images that wouldn't be appreciated by a younger person or someone without children of their own.
It has become "trendy" to scoff at this film and claim it didn't frighten, but it is a powerful film nonetheless.
I think the power lies in it's subliminal, disturbing message and imagery. It will certainly affect people in different ways - but rest assured those with a real imagination and with an enquring mind will find this film genuinely uncomfortable.
You wouldn't expect it to affect everyone the same, especially from different eras, but the message it puts across is disturbing - perhaps those who don't find it so are just not hearing the message - and thats a shame, and their loss.
First Knight (1995)
A truly dire movie
This is probably one of the worst films I have ever seen.
I watched it at the cinema shortly after it was released and would rather have been at the dentist.
The plot is terrible, Connery is badly miscast and, as usual, does nothing to hide his Scottish accent (shame Arthur was Welsh/ English)Richard Gere is absolutely terrible as Lancelot and, the costumes were totally ridiculous - looked more like a panto than an Arthurian film.....
...and so much more.
I hope the cast are suitably embarrassed at having been associated with such inane rubbish.
Absolutely dreadful - it should never have been made.