purryguy Reviews

Wildflower (1991 TV Movie)

Simple, predictable, teary romance

[8/10 · 25 July 2003]

Nice little heart warming movie which follows the conflict which arises when a partially deaf abused girl is helped by a brother and sister team to escape the evil grasp of her deranged violent step father. The brother and the deaf girl gradually fall for each other and well you know how it goes, love and hugs all around after a bit of an emotional roller-coaster.

Get the hankies ready if you are in an emotional mood. If you are of a cynical cold hearted disposition then this won't be to your liking.

A River Runs Through It (1992)

Narrative style movie

[7/10 · 29 June 2002]

If you lean towards emotional narrative based accounts as in The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption you will probably like this movie. I found the casting of Tom Skerritt as a Scot woeful. I find his acting style very forced and un-natural and every time I see him I'm always thinking "this guy is trying to act". His Scottish accent - if it was meant to be one has got to be the worst!

Apart from that the movie flows along quite amicably and there are some heart string tugging quotes from the supposed narrator at the end although we all know that ain't Robert Redford. Don't know why they didn't get the actor to do the narrative himself? Actually there were a lot of disparate instances in this movie which spoiled it a little for me and made me think "this is a flawed movie".

I loved Robert Redfords directorial debut with the film "Ordinary People" but since then he doesn't seem to have learned as much as you'd expect judging him on the merits of this movie.

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Overrated Yawnsville

[5/10 · 29 June 2002]

Ok so people think of this as a bit of classic movie making; it might well be in some respects but that doesn't stop it from being dull to watch. I saw it at the cinema not so long ago when it was doing its re-release revival and it looked very dated and I found it kinda lame to be honest. It wasn't at all shocking, more boring than shocking.

Yeh so he wore eye liner and jumped around a lot like a 5 year old, and liked to be violent, so what? Anthony Burgess created a silly language to go with the movie - so what? Its just stupid talk like Teletubbie talk - it has no intrinsic value and doesn't enlighten us in any way about anything.

People who loved this movie I think have missed the point about what good movie making is all about.

Kubrick was certainly a talented director and The Shining, Lolita, Spartacus and 2001: A Space Odyssey are classics of the genre but "A Clockwork Orange" is a very flawed and silly movie.

The Front Page (1974)

Ching Ching Seconds Out!!!

[12 August 2001]

His Girl Friday is a bit more slap-stickish and the constant jabbering gets to be slightly irritating. Cary Grant didn't lend particularly well to that style of acting; Walter Matthau did. He was the quintessential grumpy cynic and in The Front Page Lemmon balances out his frenetic postulations. That edge is lacking in HGF, it is jab, jab, jab all the time from almost all the actors without a final knockout or a respite between rounds. Both are still brilliant movies, probably due more to the acting talent in them than to any intrinsic message in the plotline which is fairly superficial.