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Skinwalkers Review.
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Skinwalkers Review.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #12532 in Movie
- Released on: 2007-11-27
- Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Running time: 92 minutes
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Werewolves will never be as popular as vampires. They’re not pretty, seductive or eerie — instead they’re hairy, messy and presumably smelly.
Despite that, there was still plenty of potential for a cool werewolf action movie… until “Skinwalkers” actually came out. Instead, we get a sketchy, paper-thin plot about bikers who happen to be werewolves, and who (of course) have to kill the foretold Chosen One.
Said Chosen One is a boy who will turn thirteen, around the time that a red moon rises — apparently this will decurse all lycanthropes, for no reason except that it’s prophecied. But Varek (Jason Behr) and his vicious biker gang don’t WANT to give up the perks of being werewolves, so they’re prowling around to find the child and kill him before his big birthday rolls around.
Tim (Matthew Knight) is unaware of the danger he’s in. Fortunately, relatives and friends surrounding him know exactly what he is, and hope to be cured of their affliction. But to keep Tim safe, they will have to battle Varek and his big bad gang, despite vowing never to commit any acts of werewolfen violence.
Yeah, it’s pretty much the script for any derivative fantasy story — there’s a lazily-explained prophecy about the Big Savior (nobody ever explains where these prophecies come from), evil people who want to kill him, and good people who are keeping him safe. You’ll find all this in “Skinwalkers,” and not a lot more.
Instead, we get a lot of werewolves acting crazy and very, very evil. Gore. Bad editing during a rape scene. More gore. Shots of the moon. Shooting, lots of long tangled hair, motorcycles, and sexy women wearing leather.
In fact, that’s basically all “Skinwalkers” has going for it — what little plot there is is incomprehensible, and usually not very well explained or scripted (“I am not human! I am better than that!”). Apparently due to the dearth of plot, the writers tried to throw a curveball late in the film — all I can say is, I kept expecting the “Star Wars” theme to play.
And the actors do as well as can be expected, given the paper-thin depth of their characters — Behr does a decent job growling and overacting, but Knight is embarrassingly bad, even for a child actor. The others… well, I have a bit of trouble recalling them, because few of them got to do much.
“Skinwalkers” suffers from a massive overdose of C-movie cheeze, with little plot and even less acting. Not too impressive, unless you just LOVE the idea of biker werewolves.
Skinwalkers review.
What a great twist on a werewolf movie! Two tribes of werewolves are at war with one another. One group wants a cure for their full moon ‘curse’, but another clan is perfectly happy having the power that comes with being a meat eating werewolf, running with the pack and howling at the moon. The aggressive clan takes on the more peaceful group and a young boy may be the only hope for the werewolves desperate to end the madness.
Chrissy K. McVay – Author
Nothing to see here, folks
Evil biker werewolves plan to murder a 13 year old boy reputed to be the ‘savior’ of the good werewolves who will cure/end lycanthropy. The bad guys kill and torture people and the good guys struggle to protect and hide the chosen one.
I admit I love werewolf movies, but there needs to be some plot and something more to watch than just people being tortured and killed in awful ways. I admit I couldn’t finish this film. It was really that bad.
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“Because you are fond of fairy tales,” Beatrix Potter wrote to one of her current children in 1901, “I have made you a anecdote all for yourself, a modern one that nobody has read before.”
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Now, a century later, “Miss Potter” (directed by Chris Noonan, starring Rene Zellweger) has a current legend to say, and quite a fairy fable it is, too, with all the scrumptious magic of one of Beatrix Potter’s occupy stories: winsome characters, enjoyable settings, strong period details. I was charmed by this film (viewed on DVD, with all the extras), and spent an enchanted evening watching it. As a movie, it is dazzling family entertainment–something that’s hard to approach by, these days.
But the film has been widely billed as a biopic, and if you were looking for a epic that’s legal to Beatrix’s life, this one might mislead you. Richard Maltby (who wrote the script and spent some 10 years trying to bag it produced) and Chris Noonan have teamed up to give us a heavenly fairy chronicle, but one that is based on some fairly fundamental misrepresentations of Beatrix’s staunch life.
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Take that justify Christmas party, for instance, in a festooned Potter mansion. This dramatically pivotal event could never have happened, for Rupert and Helen Potter were Dissenters who did not celebrate Christmas–much to Beatrix’s disappointment, as a child longing for a tree and the trimmings. (In life, both the Potters seem to have been grand more dour people than their on-screen representations.)
Or grasp those childhood visits to the Lake Districts, which never happened either. The Potters holidayed in Scotland until Beatrix was 16. Which means that she could not have met Willie Heelis, who was nearly five years younger than Beatrix, anyway (not older, as the film portrays him) . Oh, and Willie was the son of a rector and the Heelis family belonged to quite a different social class from the one in which Willie is placed in the film. More misrepresentation (although the on-screen Willie is a loyal charmer.)
But the most heart-broken distortion of all is the decision to collapse the eight years it took for Beatrix to become independent enough to leave her parents. The film portrayed Norman’s death as the lever that pried her from the Potters’ buy. Not so. Beatrix bought Hill Top a few months after Norman died in 1905, but did not leave her parents until 1913, when she married Willie. For eight long, difficult years, Beatrix commuted from her parents’ home or holiday site to Sawrey. During that time, she could score away only five or six times a year, sometimes for a few days, sometimes for as considerable as a fortnight. Norman’s death was indeed the prod she needed to compose a change, but it wasn’t until Willie offered her another choice that she was finally able to free herself. Compressing this long-running family conflict into a matter of months and hinging the whole thing on Norman’s death distorts Beatrix’s character and makes her seem more decisively “new” than she was in actual life.
As a novelist engaged in creating historical fictions (some of them featuring Beatrix Potter), I am always aware of the challenges of representing right people in fictional contexts, and difficulty when proper lives are seriously distorted to create a myth more animated. I enjoyed this film as a film, and give it five stars for its entertainment value. As a biopic, I’d give it a two, three to be reliable. Putting the two together, a four-minus.
Oh, and for the sincere sage of Beatrix’s life, you’ll want to read Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear.
Susan Wittig Albert is the author of The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter: The Account of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter), The Epic of Holly How, The Anecdote of Cuckoo Brow Wood (Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mysteries), The Yarn of Hawthorn House: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and four other forthcoming novels in the series.
I saw this elegant film this past week in Chicago at a preview showing and was simply gay by it. Only five years ago this would have been a Miramax film, but following the messy departure of the Weinsteins from Miramax to gain their gain production company, they are distributing this joint production. State in the early decades of the twentieth century, in a sort of extended Edwardian age, the film possesses a fabulous period feel and leer. Like the best of the Miramax films, it feels like a time capsule more than a contemporary production.
With only some shame I have to admit to shiny very itsy-bitsy about Beatrix Potter. To inject some autobiography, I was not read Potter as a child and though after my divorce I raised my daughter, reading to her constantly, there was an agreement that on her periodic visits to her mother she would be allowed to read her Beatrix Potter (because of a Potter obsession by her occupy godmother) and Laura Ingalls Wilder. I read my daughter every other children’s’ writer, but was forbidden to dip into either of those. So I saw this biopic smart next to nothing about her. The film seemed to me to give a pleasant impression of who she was. She emerges in the film as a sort of timorous feminist, not a activist, but quietly insisting on taking her contain path. Though there are flashbacks to her childhood and the final quarter of the film focuses on her piquant to the Lake District, most of the film deals with the period of partnership and eventually romance between her and her publisher, Norman Warne. One suspects that of necessity a gigantic deal is left out, but as it exists it is compelling. I did a bit of checking on the Internet and discovered that she was not 32 in 1903, so the film obviously fudges some numbers, but as presented the film unruffled provided a exquisite portrait.
Renée Zellweger is unbelievable in the title role. I have seen photographs of Beatrix Potter and there does not seem to be distinguished of a resemblance between the two. To the film’s credit, they do a tremendous deal to de-emphasize Zellweger’s loveliness. She isn’t exactly humdrum, but she isn’t as sparkling as usual. But she brings a delectable simplicity to her role. Ewan McGregor is elegant in his role, but unlike their wretched film DOWN WITH Like, his role is not equal to hers in this one. He manages to be everything he needs to be. Emily Watson plays his sister. There are movie stars and there are actresses, and she is an actress. I have always been amazed at great her various roles can differ from one another. A lot of actresses, unfortunately, as they approach the age of forty, have probably reached cessation to the demolish of their career. Watson is so fine, however, and those gigantic eyes so expressive, that you sense that she probably hasn’t reached half of her eventual film resume. I’m determined we’ll be seeing her in roles thirty-five years from now. It was grand to peep Bill Paterson as Beatrix’s father. He has always been one of my well-liked supporting actors and for my money we have always seen far too small of him. Mature British actress Barbara Flynn is estimable as well as Beatrix’s mother.
Chris Noonan directed the film. The last time we encountered him as a director was in one of the most delectable films of the nineties, BABE. I have absolutely no notion what he has been up to the past decade, but this film has some of the same lush scrutinize that BABE did. Interestingly, animals feature prominently in both films.
The last piece of the film, that centers on the beginning of the final chapter of Potter’s life as a farmer in the Lake District, features some of the most pleasing landscapes you can ever hope to witness in a movie. The kill of the film indicates that Miss Potter left 4,000 acres of Lake District property to the National Trust. I hope that some of those scenes were filmed on some of that property.
Finally, I want to add that while I’ve never been one to be on the lookout for “family” (which to me usually are synonymous with “plain” or “bland”), this film, which could easily receive a “G” rating, is a film that any parent could feel comfortable showing any child. Younger children might regain it a bit plain, but any fan of Beatrix Potter, whether young or stale, will surely devour this film. Indeed, as someone who cannot count himself among her fans (entirely through a complete lack of acquaintance), I can attest that those irregular with her work will like the film as well.
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The DVD treatment of this film is also the scheme a classic should be treated. Disney pulled out all the stops for the DVD’s in their fresh “Vault Disney Collection” which has 4 different releases as of 1/29/03. I have always loved this movie, and you can read all the enormous things about the film itslef from other reviewers and from the vhs reviews. I want to talk about the DVD treatment. First and most importantly it’s WIDESCREEN, maybe for the first time outside of a theatre. What a incompatibility it makes, the film is pleasing in its scope as it was originally intended.
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EXTRAS!! Read all about it!
There are about 3 hours worth of wonderful extra material here. To score all of the extras is not easy, so construct clear you inch around and push on every icon (especially arrows) you can and be determined to even pursue the items that do not sound provocative to you since they can in turn lead to yet another submenu of goodies.
The 2 disc area has mighty more than is listed here or even on the packaging itself. One of the best bonus features is a complete vintage episode of the Walt Disney television prove from 1957, the episode called, “Best Doggone Dog in the West”. It has half the episode devoted to a late the scenes promotion of the film, featuring Dorothy McGuire as our narrator. The other half had a huge outmoded featurette called “Arizona Sheepdog”, that ran in theatres in 1955 before a main feature. (TRIVIA not on this residence – this episode was altered in 1961 for its rerun, and the Ancient Yeller segment was replaced with a 101 Dalmations segment.)
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Several featurettes and archive Galleries with studio fan cards, costume construct sketches, lobby cards, invitations, film production letterhead, posters, magazine ads, screenplay, and the complete exhibitors campaign book; Audio features with production photos and leisurely the scenes shots with the sounds of Radio Spots from the fresh release, two songs, a foley sound effects demonstration, and 2 interactive “Sound Studio” demonstrations. Also more production archives; included is the fan letters sent to Gibson the author; a news yarn from TV about the unveiling of the memorial to Former Yeller in Gibsons home town, which Disney studio participated in; a documeentary on the writer; a short unusual video called “Dogs” ; modern interviews with cast members;
My celebrated, a nice featurette giving us a first ever rare peer of the illustrious “Golden Oak Movie Ranch” owned by Disney where this film and so many others were filmed. I had always wanted to behold it and my wish finally came upright. Another feature is the 1961 Disney Studio Album which is a photo album/video showcasing everything the Disney Studio created in 1957 from Parks, to TV, to film. A really well-organized extra is the right complete recording of the modern “Former Yeller” storybook LP album released as merchandising, narrated by Fess Parker. Next there is yet another documentary on the making of the film.
Also included here as a astronomical bonus is the modern theatrical Pluto cartoon “Bone Distress” released along with the Outmoded Yeller in 1957, so you can study it the procedure you did attend when. Point To the kids the contrivance it musty to be, when you went to the movies and you saw more fun stuff than unbiased commercials before the main feature.
I challenge anyone to contemplate this without getting caught up in the sage, or to preserve from singing the enormous title song. All ages truly treasure this family film. The book that the myth is based on by Gibson will long be remembered as a classic. Disney respected the book in their film, and made a movie that is many immense things.
Thank you!, whoever at Disney pushed to treat this DVD like this. The extras have caused me to rave about the Vault Disney series to everyone I know and recall extra copies for my loved ones as Christmas presents. I hope all Disney fans hold tons of these so Disney understands it is worth putting the extra work into a DVD. If I could give it 10 stars I would, well worth the label!
I first saw this as a kid and nearly never saw another movie again. Especially one with an animal in it. For anyone who has ever bonded with an animal (especially a dog), “Veteran Yeller” strikes a nerve or two. The was also the first time I ever heard the phrase “It’s only a movie!” after I saw “Worn Yeller” because I cried so hard. This is probably one of the finest family films ever made by the Walt Disney people. It’s a simple sage of a frontier boy who bonds with a stray dog (that more than proves it’s loyalty) and the boy’s final realization that he has to grow up. Dorothy McGuire is the steadfast mother and Tommy Kirk is the boy who must invent a gut-wrenching decision that will commence him on the road to maturity. I hated this movie for years but as an adult I more than peek the beauty of it now and highly recommend it all round. But preserve those kleenex handy because if you’re like me, you’ll need ‘em.
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The Narrows Review.
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The Narrows Review.
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The Narrows Description:
- Amazon Sales Rank: #12166 in Movie
- Released on: 2009-11-16
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Running time: 107 minutes
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Vincent D’Onofrio performances
This man is incredible. I have been a fan for a long time and he transforms himself into any character he chooses. I will never understand why this actor has been so under rewarded for his work. He says he doesn’t want the leading role parts, but I think he is a leading man and would be wonderful as a romantic lead. He has only gotten better looking and deeper as an actor and he deserves better. This movie was well done and shows how easily one can be drawn into a frightening situation for a means to an end. The supporting cast was also very convincing without being overdone with the Italian ethnicity side of things. The language was very strong and that is not alway pleasing to the ear, but I enjoyed this movie anyway.
Great little story, good BD
I am a fan of D’Onofrio and was hoping to see something different for Zegers than those last two dark outings in Gardens of the Night and Normal – and was pleasantly surprised by the time the credits rolled.
The story follows our twentysomething (Zegers) as he lives with his crippled dad (D’Onofrio) in Brooklyn while working for a car service run by a small-time mobster. The only significant difference between this and the Heart of the Old Country (The Narrows) would be he has the added aspiration of being a photographer, which in itself sets the style of film making. That being lots of picture work being still-shot into the storyline and multiple lens colorings/scene changes, including black & white, sepia, chroma, yellow and a few others. The line follows his struggles with his dad, being owned by the mob, finding love, finding his art in photography – and staying alive.
The BD quality is excellent at times, mediocre in other sequences, but that lens change and digital camera feel were on purpose so I do not fault it with a lower rating. The opening CGI sequence of shifting from a bullet to a football looked pristine – nice reference point right off. The DTS worked fine but gets used very little to the outer channels. The amount of clarity degradations would normally make me rate this Blu lower, but it all serves a purpose and the majority of sequences show NY in excellent 1080. The supplements are thorough for a character film and include:
* 43 minute interview with the director and writer. Gives you some good insight into how this came to be – nice connection between the screenwriter and the book author (went to writing school together).
* 11 minute interview with Zegers. Seems like a good kid with a heart in this.
* 21 minute interview with Sophia Bush.
* 7 minute interview with D’Onofrio. Would have expected a longer cut but I realize he is all about the work speaking for itself.
* 7 minute interview with McGloughlin (author). Not his best location interview.
* Commentary with writer and director. ESL for Francois but he provides a decent narration.
All of the supplements are lodef and play individually (no play all).
Four stars for the film content and clarity, one for the supplements. Hope you enjoy a solid performance piece from everyone involved.
Definitely add this one to your D’Onofrio collection!
Got this film because I’m a huge Vincent D’Onofrio fan. The movie stays amazingly true to the book “Heart of the Old Country.” All of the actors turn in solid performances and the story has a good twist. Kevin Zegers carries off his part as a young man searching for something more in life. The father-son relationship is well played. D’Onofrio once again brings a third dimension to his role. Good movie. Great Vincent.
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- Released on: 2009-09-17
- Running time: 93 minutes
“Because you are fond of fairy tales . . . “
“Because you are fond of fairy tales,” Beatrix Potter wrote to one of her favorite children in 1901, “I have made you a story all for yourself, a new one that nobody has read before.”
Now, a century later, “Miss Potter” (directed by Chris Noonan, starring Rene Zellweger) has a new story to tell, and quite a fairy tale it is, too, with all the delightful magic of one of Beatrix Potter’s own stories: winsome characters, luscious settings, strong period details. I was charmed by this film (viewed on DVD, with all the extras), and spent an enchanted evening watching it. As a movie, it is fine family entertainment–something that’s hard to come by, these days.
But the film has been widely billed as a biopic, and if you were looking for a story that’s true to Beatrix’s life, this one might mislead you. Richard Maltby (who wrote the script and spent some 10 years trying to get it produced) and Chris Noonan have teamed up to give us a lovely fairy tale, but one that is based on some fairly fundamental misrepresentations of Beatrix’s real life.
Take that elaborate Christmas party, for instance, in a festooned Potter mansion. This dramatically pivotal event could never have happened, for Rupert and Helen Potter were Dissenters who did not celebrate Christmas–much to Beatrix’s disappointment, as a child longing for a tree and the trimmings. (In life, both the Potters seem to have been much more dour people than their on-screen representations.)
Or take those childhood visits to the Lake Districts, which never happened either. The Potters holidayed in Scotland until Beatrix was 16. Which means that she could not have met Willie Heelis, who was nearly five years younger than Beatrix, anyway (not older, as the film portrays him). Oh, and Willie was the son of a rector and the Heelis family belonged to quite a different social class from the one in which Willie is placed in the film. More misrepresentation (although the on-screen Willie is a real charmer.)
But the most unfortunate distortion of all is the decision to collapse the eight years it took for Beatrix to become independent enough to leave her parents. The film portrayed Norman’s death as the lever that pried her from the Potters’ grasp. Not so. Beatrix bought Hill Top a few months after Norman died in 1905, but did not leave her parents until 1913, when she married Willie. For eight long, difficult years, Beatrix commuted from her parents’ home or holiday residence to Sawrey. During that time, she could get away only five or six times a year, sometimes for a few days, sometimes for as much as a fortnight. Norman’s death was indeed the prod she needed to make a change, but it wasn’t until Willie offered her another choice that she was finally able to free herself. Compressing this long-running family conflict into a matter of months and hinging the whole thing on Norman’s death distorts Beatrix’s character and makes her seem more decisively “modern” than she was in real life.
As a novelist engaged in creating historical fictions (some of them featuring Beatrix Potter), I am always aware of the challenges of representing real people in fictional contexts, and worry when real lives are seriously distorted to make a story more entertaining. I enjoyed this film as a film, and give it five stars for its entertainment value. As a biopic, I’d give it a two, three to be generous. Putting the two together, a four-minus.
Oh, and for the real story of Beatrix’s life, you’ll want to read Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear.
Susan Wittig Albert is the author of The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter), The Tale of Holly How, The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood (Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mysteries), The Tale of Hawthorn House: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and four other forthcoming novels in the series.
A marvelous period film in the best Weinstein tradition
I saw this lovely film this past week in Chicago at a preview showing and was simply delighted by it. Only five years ago this would have been a Miramax film, but following the messy departure of the Weinsteins from Miramax to form their own production company, they are distributing this joint production. Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, in a sort of extended Edwardian age, the film possesses a wonderful period feel and look. Like the best of the Miramax films, it feels like a time capsule more than a contemporary production.
With only some shame I have to admit to knowing very little about Beatrix Potter. To inject some autobiography, I was not read Potter as a child and though after my divorce I raised my daughter, reading to her constantly, there was an agreement that on her periodic visits to her mother she would be allowed to read her Beatrix Potter (because of a Potter obsession by her own godmother) and Laura Ingalls Wilder. I read my daughter every other children’s’ writer, but was forbidden to dip into either of those. So I saw this biopic knowing next to nothing about her. The film seemed to me to give a good impression of who she was. She emerges in the film as a sort of timid feminist, not a activist, but quietly insisting on taking her own path. Though there are flashbacks to her childhood and the final quarter of the film focuses on her moving to the Lake District, most of the film deals with the period of partnership and eventually romance between her and her publisher, Norman Warne. One suspects that of necessity a great deal is left out, but as it exists it is compelling. I did a bit of checking on the Internet and discovered that she was not 32 in 1903, so the film obviously fudges some numbers, but as presented the film still provided a delightful portrait.
Renée Zellweger is wonderful in the title role. I have seen photographs of Beatrix Potter and there does not seem to be much of a resemblance between the two. To the film’s credit, they do a great deal to de-emphasize Zellweger’s loveliness. She isn’t exactly plain, but she isn’t as beautiful as usual. But she brings a delightful simplicity to her role. Ewan McGregor is fine in his role, but unlike their unfortunate film DOWN WITH LOVE, his role is not equal to hers in this one. He manages to be everything he needs to be. Emily Watson plays his sister. There are movie stars and there are actresses, and she is an actress. I have always been amazed at much her various roles can differ from one another. A lot of actresses, unfortunately, as they near the age of forty, have probably reached close to the end of their career. Watson is so splendid, however, and those huge eyes so expressive, that you sense that she probably hasn’t reached half of her eventual film resume. I’m certain we’ll be seeing her in roles thirty-five years from now. It was good to see Bill Paterson as Beatrix’s father. He has always been one of my favorite supporting actors and for my money we have always seen far too little of him. Veteran British actress Barbara Flynn is excellent as well as Beatrix’s mother.
Chris Noonan directed the film. The last time we encountered him as a director was in one of the most delightful films of the nineties, BABE. I have absolutely no idea what he has been up to the past decade, but this film has some of the same lush look that BABE did. Interestingly, animals feature prominently in both films.
The last part of the film, that centers on the beginning of the final chapter of Potter’s life as a farmer in the Lake District, features some of the most stunning landscapes you can ever hope to see in a movie. The end of the film indicates that Miss Potter left 4,000 acres of Lake District property to the National Trust. I hope that some of those scenes were filmed on some of that property.
Finally, I want to add that while I’ve never been one to be on the lookout for “family” (which to me usually are synonymous with “boring” or “bland”), this film, which could easily receive a “G” rating, is a film that any parent could feel comfortable showing any child. Younger children might find it a bit slow, but any fan of Beatrix Potter, whether young or old, will surely enjoy this film. Indeed, as someone who cannot count himself among her fans (entirely through a complete lack of acquaintance), I can attest that those unfamiliar with her work will love the film as well.
Wonderful Movie
I saw “Miss Potter” at the cinema and thoroughly enjoyed it. With beautiful scenery, moments to laugh out loud, times to cry, and a few delightful animations, “Miss Potter” takes us through the joys and frustrations of being a talented female author and illustrator in London at the turn of the century but being unrecognized as such by her own mother. I would heartily recommend this film!
The Andromeda Strain Review.
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The Andromeda Strain Review.
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The Andromeda Strain Description:
- Amazon Sales Rank: #10513 in Movie
- Released on: 2009-06-30
- Rating: G (General Audience)
- Running time: 132 minutes
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Stands the Test of Time
“Andromeda Strain” is one of my favorite movies because it stands the test of time. Although made in the early 1970′s, the technology shown,
including the computers still looks up-to-date, with the main difference being that today, the graphical displays of the data would be much more colorful. However, the techniques used to analyze the “Andromeda” organism would be the same ones used today. Of course, much of the suspense of the movie is created by a stuck sliver of paper, and that would not occur today, but 99% of what is shown (including the threat to mankind for terrestrial biological warfare or extra-terrestrial organisms) is still very relevant. In fact, the society in which the film takes place is more “future-oriented” than our current one because reference is made to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston which processed the samples returned from the Moon by the Apollo astronauts, and which has since been idled by the loss of the spirit of exploration in our current society, so the makers of the film were able to do more futuristic thinking and make a story and laboratory that looks contemporary even decades later. Finally, the actors, led by Arthur Hill (one of my favorites) are all “cool, intellectual” types, and although there are differences of opinion between them, they all submerge their egos to get their vital work done. It is sad that films of this type are not made any more. Get it and see what I mean!
A Thrilling Sci-Fi Suspense from Michael Crichton
“The Andromeda Strain” was the first of many films produced from novels written by the author Michael Crichton, whose novels-turned-film include “Westworld” (1973), “Coma” (1978), “Jurassic Park” (1993) and “Twister” (1996). Filmed in 1971, “The Andromeda Strain” may seem dated to some, but sci-fi aficionados have long enjoyed the film for its suspense and questions that it raised that may be more valid today than they were three decades ago.
The story begins in a small, isolated town in the desert where a satellite that re-entered earth’s atmosphere crashed. Shortly after the crash, most of the town’s residents mysteriously die. The government calls in four scientists to determine what killed the townsfolk. The scientists are Dr. Jeremy Stone (Arthur Hill), Dr. Charles Dutton (David Wayne, known for his portrayal of inspector Ellery Queen in 1975 TV series of the same name), Dr. Mark Hall (James Olsen) and Dr. Ruth Leavitt (Kate Reid, known also for her role in the 1977 film “Equus”). They are taken to a top-secret government facility code-named Wildfire, an underground laboratory, to search for the cause of death and why two townspeople remained unaffected. Their quest leads to a very exciting discovery, but also several grave questions.
Special effects used in “The Andromeda Strain” were very good for the early 1970′s. The design of the Wildfire facility, which earned “The Andromeda Strain” an Oscar nomination for Best Set Decoration, is somewhat reminiscent of interior designs used in “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Director Robert Wise (who also directed “The Day The Earth Stood Still” (1951), “West Side Story” (1961) and “The Sound of Music” in 1965) did a brilliant job escalating the suspense and fear throughout the film. The film also received an Oscar nomination for Best Editing. Other notable characters include Nurse Karen Anson (Paula Kelly, who also starred in “Sweet Charity” in 1969 and “Soylent Green” in 1973) and Peter ‘Gramps’ Jackson (George Mitchell).
Overall, I rate “The Andromeda Strain” with 4.5 stars out of 5, rounded up to 5 stars. If you choose not to purchase the film, you might want to consider renting it so that you can see it at least once.
A true suspense film.
This movie is of a microbiological Armageddon which unfolds with such perfectly metered suspense that no matter how many times you watch it, you find yourself riveted to your couch. Not wanting to miss even a minute, even though you already know.
Even though this movie is over 2 decades old, and the computer equipment at the Wildfire laboratory shows its age, this is a perfect change-of-pace film for any movie monster fan. Instead of the usual radioactive mutated towering apparition that flattens cities and topples skyscrapers, the monster in “The Andromeda Strain” is so tiny, it takes powerful electron microscopes to see it. Though tiny in size, Andromeda has the potential to wreak more havoc than your typical Godzilla. The average movie monster can only cause damage wherever he can stomp, smash or exhale a blast of fiery breath. Andromeda has the potential to be carried to every corner of the world by the winds, where it could conceivably wipe out all life. Try to top THAT, Godzilla! Even worse, it seems to feed on nuclear radiation.
The real star of the film is Wildfire itself. A government facility located safely away from populated areas, it bristles with everything a microbiologist needs to avert a biological disaster. . .or does it?
Seeking an unprecedented realism, director Robert Wise insisted that everything on the set be real, from the computer terminals to the electron microscopes. The Wildfire set is every microbiologist’s dream come true.
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It was with sizable anticipation that I viewed The Third Man recently. I had last seen it nearly 25 years earlier. At the earlier viewing I was impressed with the atmospheric treatment of Vienna and the mystery surrounding Joseph Cotton’s search for the truth about his friend Harry (Orson Wells) . However, though I then plan of it as a very magnificent movie, I did not deem it would depraved in my top 20. Now I discover what I missed as a younger person. I can also leer why this film would nefarious as number one on a British list of greatest films of the 20th century.
The film is a surreal examination of the tension between loyalty, cherish, and friendship on the one hand, and truth and justice on the other. The Viennese are suffused with the cynicism of a destroyed continent and damaged culture. The British know only about the truth and justice side of the equation. The American writer of simple westerns detached is naïve enough to care about friendship and truth, and follows both wherever they lead. At the same time, Carol Reed scarcely shoots a scene in which there are just angles. Nearly everything is tilted. Close-ups of faces exaggerate their features. The shaded and white of the film emphasizes the gloomy nature of the sage and its legal underpinnings.
At first Holly Martins (Cotton) thinks he is helping his best friend, Harry Lime (Wells) . At the same time he becomes Harry’s rival for the woman, Anna. When Harry realizes that Holly has discovered his suitable rotten way, Harry has a chance to slay Holly and acquire it discover like an accident. What stops him? Friendship? And why does Harry pick up Holly’s invitation to meet? In the penultimate scene in the underground sewer tunnels, does Holly fire the final and fatal shot, or does Harry destroy himself?
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This magnificently filmed and wonderfully acted masterpiece has remained in my mind for days after seeing it. If you are a lover of cinema and not merely of movies, please regain this classic. It richly deserves its reputation. Highly recommended.
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Who was Harry Lime (Orson Welles)? An cross man, devil in the flesh who was responsible for the unspeakable crimes, yet colorful, gratified and charismatic. His most noted words, a short speech written by Welles himself, say a lot about his character and motivations:
“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgies they had warfare, dismay, execute, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly worship – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that make? The cuckoo clock.”
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No wonder, we like him, even though we know what he’d done…
It has been said thousands of times about the greatest movie entrance ever – but what about his ‘exit’ – the fingers on the street? I deem it is one of the greatest, too…
A ravishing mysterious girl with tragic past was in fancy with him and the unforgettable ending, so anti-Hollywood, so good to the film – was about her cherish that goes beyond the grave. I read that both Selznick (the producer) and author Graham Greene had initially argued for something more upbeat (Holly and Anna walking off arm-in-arm), but Reed disagreed. I am so joyful that Reed won (I am determined millions of fans are, too) . That was the procedure to enact the movie and form it noteworthy more than impartial typical noir. Makes the viewer judge about admire, friendship, betrayal, loyalty, the label one pays for them.
Amazing film – perfectly shot; almost flawless. It looks and feels like Welles himself could’ve made it. The influence of Citizen Kane is undeniable. The only pickle I had – the music. I like it but it was very weird to hear it in the film like The Third Man. Maybe that was a purpose – instead of somber, irritable, and ominous music that would be expected for the noir film, something completely different and out of spot – pleased but unfortunate in the same time…
Criterion DVD is astonishing – the restored version of the film shines. There are two openings of the film available – British and American, and a lot of extras.
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