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The Secret Village (2013)
Don't waste your time. This movie should have been a short.
I guess this was released in October under the idea that ANY horror movie will do well on the Halloween weekend. By the time word of mouth gets out about how truly bad this movie is, the Halloween rush will be over. The movie moves e x t r e m l y s l o w l y. And I fully expected the "twist". There are only two positive reviews, both of those reviewer just joined IMDb in October 2013 and have only reviewed one movie. Coincidence? I think not. I saw this movie for free and STILL feel like I overpaid. I'll never get that hour and a half of my life back. Yes, it's THAT BAD.
Getting back to those two "positive" reviews, one of them talks about non-linear storytelling. Non-linear. It was a mess. And the other talks about the acting! I've never heard of any of these actors or seen any of the other "movies" they've been in. The cinematography looks like it was filmed on a cell phone. That's cell phone, not smart phone. That might have been watchable. How many times can you pan the trees and move really slowly and suddenly have someone appear.Really? Do yourself a favor. Go see Shaun of the Dead or World War Z again.
Casanova (2005)
At least it put a lot of people to work.
Heath Ledger was pretty as always (well, except as the Joker)but the movie was a very long sit-com. Very, very long. If I had been in a theater watching it, I would never have made it through in one sitting. This is the kind of movie you watch on DVD, pause and come back to later. May I suggest a better interpretation of it--the TV miniseries starring David Tennant (yes, Doctor Who) as the young Casanova and Peter O'Toole as Old Casanova, reliving his memories. I don't know how accurate it is to the REAL Casanova, but it was much better--much sexier. You really believed Tennant as Casanova. Ledger was....very pretty and nice to look at--he was a model in this and quite flat in his affect.
Profoundly Normal (2003)
So many bad stereotypes packed into one movie!
I just saw this movie on Lifetime--it was hideous. THIS is the type of movie that was ridiculed in Tropic Thunder--"normal" actors doing their imitation of what THEY think Mentally Retarded people act like. I couldn't BEAR the forced stutters--I've worked with this population as a communication specialist for over 20 years--THEY DON'T STUTTER!!!! I remember seeing the REAL couple on 60 Minutes. It's a beautiful story and one that I've seen quite a number of times in real life. THIS movie--and all movies LIKE this movie do a disservice to developmentally disabled people. There ARE Mentally Retarded actors--HIRE SOME. Kirstie Alley of all people? The story of the real couple was one of fighting against all odds for the kind of life a person wants to have. Developmental Centers are not the same as they were twenty years ago. ANYONE who wants to live in the community is getting the opportunity to live in the community--it's called the OLMSTEAD LAW. Look it up. The only people left in these centers are people who are so medically frail that the only place in the community to care adequately for their needs is a nursing home. That's not any improvement, particularly taking some one away from staff that's they've known for years and consider family. The rest were put there by the court system A person who has always had problems with school (more than likely because there was no support system to make them go) gets into trouble with the law. A lawyer is hired to gets the person diagnosed as ADHD, Explosive Disorder and Borderline Mentally Retarded--BAM--he stays out of jail and is sent to a developmental center. Then, the next time they're looking for people to put into the community--he's out. But that's another movie...
Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
That's two hours of my life I will never get back...
I recognized the title, it stars Paul Sorvino, so it sounded intriguing when I saw it was on "Flix". I just finished watching it so I came here to see if other folks thought the movie was as bad as I thought it was.
Why is Paul Sorvino's character in love with this ballerina? He sees her and is instantly smitten--no matter how annoying she is, he can't help but love her all the more. Yeah, they were going for Jimmy Breslin--that was pretty obvious. I kept waiting for the story to make sense--to see a reason behind all the dreck--but I was sadly disappointed. I thought Paul Sorvino was attractive in a "husky" kind of way (that's the description given for Flix) and all the "I've seen the X-Rays" nonsense was over the top--"You could bleed to death", etc...."I....can't....walk".. "No--I want HIM to carry me out for my bow". I really don't understand why the film makers didn't see how bad it is/was. I think "The Turning Point" was out the year before so they saw an audience for "Ballet dancer as protagonist" type movies, but forgot that you really need a plausible storyline or, if you're doing a "character study", you need to make your characters three dimensional and believable. They failed miserably on both accounts. And I couldn't tell what type of accent the ballet dancer was trying to affect. At times it seemed slightly Russian, at times, slightly British--nothing consistent. I guess they figured that after Turning Point, all you had to do was get a pretty ballerina...women LOVE to watch pretty ballerina's in pain for their art, dying (maybe) and falling in love.