I thoroughly enjoyed going through most of the Abbott and Costello collection last year, and I've really been looking forward to this one ever since. Apparently it's a thing to credit Abbott and Costello for ruining Universal's Monster Universe, but honestly these average reviews really show that this one is a hit that's stood the test of time regardless of what happened to the franchises afterward. I really loved this one. I cheesed like a fanboy throughout the film. Abbott…
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Batman 1966
Batman takes on four of his arch-enemies at once! One of the silliest, campiest live-action films one can find is also the first live-action non-independently-produced superhero film - 1966's Batman. I don't think I've seen this one for 30 years and honestly I think I had forgotten that I had seen it in my youth, confusing this film with the television series that followed with the same actors and costumes. In watching it, however, I recalled the best memories of…
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Boyhood 2014
A quality Linklater slice of life production, not that I'm into his flicks. I'm not really into these slice of life flicks at all, but I scooped this one up cheap enough after reading about the 12 year production process. It's not bad I guess, but I was constantly waiting for something to happen. Then three hours later the movie ended. There's surely plenty of philosophical takes to this whole feature and parts of the script. Honestly I don't care…
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High Lonesome 1950
"You came here to kill him! and he gave you your life on a plate!"
Watch #2 for my first Western Wednesday was this seemingly forgotten piece of Western cinema. John Drew Barrymore puts on a convincing show in a challenging role. The story is simple and unique enough for such a dated western. There's some decent action at the end and a bit of a mystery running through all three acts. I might've enjoyed this one more than it…
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Apollo 13 1995
A giant film in cinematic history. This film might not have been the first historical drama, but its critical success cemented the genre as a big-budget money maker on the big screen, which documentaries had been seemingly trying to do since the inception of the film industry. There's really no telling how many more people have seen Niel Armstrong land on the moon in the introduction of this film than have actually pulled the events up on you-tube or elsewhere.…
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The Batman 2022
I'm not typically behind the curve on Super-Hero flicks, and technically I'm not really behind the curve here considering the film currently sits at a 4.4 average rating, but there are certainly more folks here rating this one five stars than with me here at 4.5 stars. This film does what it does extremely well, no doubt, but I'm gonna quote a friend who I saw the film with -
"It's a good movie, but I think it was just…
