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MichaelB wrote:Casualty was brilliant in the 1980s and early 1990s, when it was intensely politicised to the point where politicians started complaining about it (which, naturally, was what persuaded me to start watching it in the first place). But then the hospital staff climbed down from their soapboxes and started having affairs with each other, whereupon it got a lot less interesting.

In fact, by the 2000s I only bothered watching it because of the expert running commentary from the other sofa - "What do you mean, you'll deliver the baby in A&E? Holby has a fully equipped maternity unit - I've seen it on Holby City. Don't you dare perform an emergency Caesarean - that's grossly unprofessional, and I'd sue if you weren't a made-up hospital full of pretend doctors. And what's a nurse doing operating the ultrasound equipment? I don't remember her taking time off to study for a diploma. And she can't have been any good if she's still working as a nurse. Oh look, she's taken the probe away and the picture on the monitor hasn't budged - there's obviously some conspiracy going on in the hospital to do with fake scans that we're not going to be told about."

Having pretended he was about to amputate a diabetic's foot to scare the youngster into checking his blood sugar levels more regularly, Adam argues, "I'm breaking every rule in the book but it's the only way I know how". And then, as if that excused his actions for ever more, he decides to "help" a sex offender who confesses to the ED doctor that he wishes he were dead...

This movie is beyond stupid. The only thing I can't figure out is which one is MORE stupid -- the movie, or me -- for watching it until the end. What a totally absurd, ridiculous, contrived, mindless mess. I don't even know where to start, so I'll just say this: WARNING...watch this at your own risk. It's 2 hours of your life you'll never get back. This movie looks like it was made by a 10 year old on crack. It's not a great movie with a twist, it's a twisted, slow motion train wreck. AND THE VIEWERS ARE ON THAT TRAIN!

Cheapoh German movie, made for under five hundred thousand dollars, set entirely on a raft on a South American river---it probably had a major influence on Coppola's APOCALYPSE NOW.

The photography is very good, considering the circumstances. And kinksi is ok; he's considered some great actor mostly because he behaved like a scumbag.

A poor horse is thrown off a raft, and into a jungle, maybe to die in real life. And monkeys are shown jumping off the raft and swimming away, with kinski even throwing a monkey into the water----with no director commentary about what happened to them, so it's easy to imagine the worst happened to these animals once their use as movie props were over with.

AMERICA is one great song and dance number. Rita Moreno is fantastic.

Natalie Wood is bland. The opening SHARKS dance is ok, though contemporary kids would certainly make fun of the gang members' sexual persuasion while watching them dance.

Most of this movie is just plain boring---at over 2 hours long! And why not be politically incorrect and note how here it's a Latino girl (gringo Wood) who falls in love with a Gringo boy---when in real life it seems like 99.9 percent of the time it's the other way around, with some gringo girl and latino boy.

Way way back in the 1960s the idea of a modern shakesphere adaption, and inter-racial dating seemed oh so radical, which is the real reason why this junk won 10 oscars.

Nerd Score Sleazy would like everybody to think he actually grew up tough in NYC----though this allegedly autobiographical junk was written by somebody else AND rips off scenes from lots of other movies.

Keitel with his hand over the fire was ripped off from "Lawrence of Arabia," for one thing.

And, Deniro is annoying----a lot of Deniro performances in 70s movies are annoying, which is why he only really became known to a mass audience with his later comedies.

Deniro getting shot at the end is the best part---cause Deniro and his character are so annoying he deserved getting shot in the movie.

This movie was a big influence on Hong Kong action movies, and Hong Kong action movies aren't exactly known for their realism.

For over two hours blonde beach bunny Bobby Redford and his sidekick go chasing after...what? THERE'S NO PAY OFF TO WHAT GOES ON. This movie can't hold up as a story on it's own. It's very much a movie based on a real story----cause it goes nowhere! All the really important news events happened months after the plot of this movie ends!

Movie ends with the blond beach bunny (who didn't even darken his hair to be truthful to dark-haired Bob Woodward) and his sidekick running---like little girls---to Jason Robards, to tell him that their life is in danger....WHEN IT'S OBVIOUS IT WASN'T, SINCE THE MOVIE ENDS RIGHT THERE, WITH EVERYBODY ALIVE AND WELL.

The character of Deep Throat also comes off as fake, despite him showing up on the news decades later---it's safe to hang out in dark parking decks but not safe to talk on pay phones or some other phone..? And, for anybody born after this movie, it's never explained in the movie where the nickname Deep Throat came from!

for decades, critics have parroted the official line of how this movie looks soooo much like a documentary, with the cliche, too, of no documentary footage was used in this movie.

truth is: this movie has the very professional look of an I LOVE LUCY episode, complete with 3-camera type direction and editing.

the movie goes nowhere, there is no satisfactory ending to the movie.

one of those many movies that critics love for its politics, and not because it's an actually---enjoyable movie.

supposedly, when this movie was first shown, back in the crazy 1960s, movie goers would cheer when the terrorists/freedom fighters blew up french civilians.

this movie played at night---in dubbed english---on channel 3, kyw, in philadelphia; but only arabic version with subtitles is now available.

this movie was directed by an italian marxist---but according to marlon brando, who acted in the director's movie, BURN, this marxist director was a racist, making sure his italian crew ate better than the 3rd world actors, during the making of BURN.

LOOKS LIKE AN OLD STAG MOVIE

This is, basically, a silent movie---a couple years after THE JAZZ SINGER.

HORROR OF DRACULA, from terrance fisher, is a million times better, though fisher isn't the respectable celebrity like the director of this junk that pretentious movie fans admire.

The only reason this swinging london movie is in black and white is because all the much more fun james bond movies are in color----near the end, richard burton even says most spies are...homosexuals (though he says it in a non-politically correct way).

Burton goes from swinging london to dreary east germany----and it all looks alike, thanks to the black and white photography. It wasn't until the 70s with THE GODFATHER that film makers knew how to make different color films.

Most of the film is talk, talk, talk, though the last 20 minutes does have the twists and turns of RED ROCKS WEST and SLEUTH.

This is kinda like a black and white, no explosions, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE----old geezer Burton even has a hippy chick (with a peace sign on one of her posters) chase after

colinr0380 wrote:It must be for Enter The Void!

Despite some great musical numbers, I find The Pirate is hard movie to like. The plot is wafer thin and poorly structured, but worst of all, the movie's sets are incredibly fake and cheap to the extent that it's hard to ignore.

And, for anybody born after this movie, it's never explained in the movie where the nickname Deep Throat came from!

Brian C wrote:

colinr0380 wrote:It must be for Enter The Void!

He said two hours, though.

MichaelB wrote:I particularly loved this bit:

And, for anybody born after this movie, it's never explained in the movie where the nickname Deep Throat came from!

...not least because I've just finished writing the booklet essay for Arrow's upcoming Ashes and Diamonds Blu-ray, during which I attempt to make some sense of the complex politics of 1945 Poland, of which the film assumes a considerable amount of prior knowledge. If only Andrzej Wajda had decided to cater for people not yet born (and foreigners) at the time of writing the script!

In fact, now that I come to think of it, Wajda's style is irritatingly allusive and metaphorical throughout - couldn't he at least have made it clear that the Commies were the bad guys?

With a German Jewish grandmother, this genre of film has always been of interest to me. The Jewish side of my family almost all perished during the Holocaust! However, this film was mainly about 2 lads doing heavy breathing in some woods. The historical wardrobe - their coats - was also hardly correct.

The director of this film did not do a very professional job. I actually believe it is a fine example of where a director is given too much license. It is the product of a very spoilt man who listens to all his previous positive criticism & as such believes that he is infalliable.

Do not waste your money as I did on this utter rubbush.

It is the product of a very spoilt man who listens to all his previous positive criticism & as such believes that he is infalliable.

this film was mainly about 2 lads doing heavy breathing in some woods

He wants everything to be given to him.

"Sexuality should not be deemed a dangerous aspect of ourselves in need of control. Rather, it should be embraced and encouraged to flourish. Genuine openness with our minds, bodies and experiences leads only to growth and maturity, NOT self-deprecation and disempowerment."

To speak words to that effect is to lose all credibility or respect for or in anything one is writing or speaking about, or any subject that even tangentially touches upon it.

Outside of libertine, [un]-"ethical slut" whoredom, that is or, the white upper middle class especially, in other words - which, sadly, often corresponds with lower academia and even higher academia in the social disciplines, if that itself - "high academia" and "social 'science'" in the same sentence - isn't a contradiction in terms.

But I'm an anti-natalist asexual, what do I know?