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Crash (2004)
mawkish background singing
A couple of action scenes were spoiled by a mawkish lady singing to some sort of religious background music. car scene was very well done with plenty of tension & would have been better in complete silence, apart from the actors voices.The portrayal of the way white Anglo Saxon Americans act towards ethnic groups was very direct no punches pulled. but the black on black conversations were the best I have heard could never have been so direct in a European made film without offending somebody! If things in the USA are as portrayed really exist at the present time I certainly would not want to be a member of an ethic minority living there! in all a very good movie which I think will become a classic in the future.
EuroTrip (2004)
It was very funny but could have been better
I am in my fifties (shock horror that old!) I have met many of the exaggerated stereotypes in the movie. Having traveled in the USA & Europe not as a teenager, I see where the writers are coming from. Americans in general are seen by Europeans as knowing only about the USA & believing everything people say, as their humour is not ironic. The situations which the students get themselves into are what in my opinion the writers would see students getting into. It could have been a lot funnier, but from a European point of view very tame as a there is much less censorship & shockability than in the USA. I am sure a lot of stuff was cut from the Amsterdam section (see outtakes at end of movie) for this reason. I have met British football (soccer) supporters in there own environment (& lived to tell the tail) The scenes were very well done as were the characters. a lot more could have been done with German truck drivers tastes but not in the USA! don't get me wrong I like & get on well with Americans but the attitudes & way of life of say a small town in the mid west & Amsterdam are so different that it would be impossible to show the movie uncut as I think it was intended, without a lynching! what students do & what parents think they do (American pie) or students think parents think are very different. I was young & was with a biker group a long time ago so have seen a few things that they would not even put in a European movie! my brother who on the other hand travels extensively in the USA & Europe on vacations but works In an office
did not find it at all funny, so maybe there is something wrong with me!
Rebus (1968)
typical of its time (late 60s/early 70s)
This is a typical action movie of the period revolving around a casino employee who is forced to do something wrong. I was In charge of motorcycle parts of film. It was never released in uk I managed to get a copy from production company in germany a few years ago but my german is not that good! (film dubed from english)I actualy appear in film for about 5-10 seconds but you have to be quick & have freeze frame.The london filming was done at the playboy club casino in parklane (no longer in existance)Hyde park,& Flask public house hampstead north london. some of night shots were done on river thames embankment opposite houses of parliment in daylight but with smoke generator to make it look like foggy london. good comedy action thriller.I rember the late Laurwence Harvey as a man who could talk & be with people of all types & backgrounds getting on ok with everybody.a man of the people I like him very much in the short time I knew him.