Aging Movie Reviews

Who was the stunt coordinator on this thing?? Considering the budget he had to work with, that man is a genius!!

The best thing about this movie is the curly haired brunette seen sitting at the bar...the scene begins with her holding a businesscard and the french manicure is just a glimpse at the beauty you are about to behold. Guess they didn't offer her enough money to get her in more compromising positions! Grrr!
Anyone know if she's done anything else?

A gun deal, gone bad. A litte bit of soft-core sex, then some action theme events to follow. A top crime starts noticing that his 'friends' and 'associates' are one by one being murdered. Some more soft-core sex, as the victims are lured into what promises to be a wild sexual encounter, only to be brutally tortured and mutilated by a mysterious woman. Recently retired police detective Trent Jacobson (played by Christ Mitchum) seems to be hot on the trail of the killer. The main suspect played by Pethouse Pet Julie Heavy Metal 2 (2000) Rowdy Girls (1999) / Citizen Toxie: the Toxic Avenger Part 4 (1999) Strain is caught in a love triangle of betrayal and then some more soft-core sex, and the evidence is mounting against her. Don't worry the movie does have somewhat of a plot, and twists a little at the end, "...a violent, bloody and explosive climax that is sure to shock!", however seeing Julie Strain naked would probably be the films only selling point. For true fans the disc includes: a mini documentary and interview. "... Julie Strain, with credits on more than 90 movies and videotapes, has justifiably been called "Queen of the B Movies.

This movie was recommended as one that would appeal to both men and women. Erotic, but not "in-your-face" like more hardcore movies. Unfortunately, this movie tried to be too many things to too many people and instead ended up failing at everything. At its heart is the marriage of a professional couple that lacks passion. The wife ends up in a lesbian affair with a pretty photographer. But things turn quite weird when the husband becomes involved. A bizarre love triangle is formed, and the movie goes from romantic to dramatic to just plain weird. I don't want to give too much of the movie away, but the plot twists can be seen a mile away. And to make matters worse, the ending is downright depressing (though by this time, any semblance of caring for the main characters has all but vanished).

Don't waste your time with this one.

Seeking a way to release the pent-up anger & frustration in their troubled marriage, a "yuppie" couple decides to respectively engage in extra-marital affairs. However, things get complicated when the husband becomes involved with an attractive photographer who, unbeknownst to him, is also having an affair with his wife! Photographed in icy cool style. An intimate, moving tale of sexual frustration and uninhibited love.

Usually not much. Don't get me wrong, this one is another unabashed late-night cable skin flick, I make no excuses for it.
Horrible editing, lack of continuity in scene transitions, and the worse Hollywood mistake I've seen to date: A scene in the Miami hotel, (Kinski in a red dress) where the lighting is so bad, you can see every last mark on her face, and she looks 20 years older than she is...
OK.. Given all that: Some of the music is lush and powerful. I'm actually looking for the soundtrack (right, like there is one). Also, consider this: Why do some of us watch B flicks? Because that's where you usually find some of the more interesting plots and premises. Screenplays that are too cerebral for mass-market appeal, with some cool one-liners that quote existential philosophers... stuff like that.
Movies made by insomniacs for insomniacs...
Like the previous reviewer hinted, I'll say bluntly: Kinski naked, is the reason for making this movie and for watching it as well. For this kind of thing, but way higher budget, may I recommend (if ya ain't seen it yet) Sliver?

Let me start by saying that, at some point while watching Nastassja Kinski in this movie, I thought of Diane Lane. They're both stunningly beautiful, they both became celebrities at their young age, then they went through all kinds of ups and downs in their careers... Yet one appears to be luckier than the other...

....That being said, I honestly didn't expect a lot from this movie when I rented it, much less be fooled by its tagline "Think Fatal Attraction... in reverse." I didn't really care if William Baldwin acted well as a sweet stalker, or how Hart Bochner portrayed the character of a betrayed husband... Oh well, I had decided to be lenient with all the flaws of "Say Nothing" just to savour Nastassja's beauty (yes, she's still very attractive...and although I thought her ... body was somehow sexier in "Cold Heart", I felt compensated to enjoy the scene that featured her own famous poster -- remember, the one in which she posed with a python wrapped around her?. It's so nostalgic to me...) So here comes the bottom line: If you once loved Nastassja or still adore her, go watch her in "Say Nothing". The movie might let you down. She will not.

As generous as I have been handing out stars, I can't recommend this movie to anyone for any reason. Taking in to account it was produced in 1937, and the limited production capabilities then, it still doesn't warrant much. Do yourself a favor, look to enjoy some of the more modern versions.

The picture quality of this video can only be described as AWFUL.
After only a few minutes viewing I trashed it. It is disgraceful that this rubbish can be sold as new when it is obviously a copy of many back generations.

I had seen Richard Chamberlain's goofy Indiana Jones imitation in the 1985 version, which is not an entirely bad movie. It does have its funny moments, like when he bursts through the door to face at least a hundred rifles and says, "Great reflexes, guys!" As for the 1950 version with Stewart Granger, all I can recall is the words of one critic who described his performance as "hypervirile." I might also add that it was a little too 1950's, which is ok if that's what you're in the mood for (and sometimes I am!). I have to say, though, that my own favorite is the little known 1937 version with Sir Cedric Harwicke as Allan Quatermaine (the great White Hunter), the great Paul Robeson as Umbopa, and Anna Lee as the stereotypical Irish lass. For those of you who know her only from her performances in John Ford's movies, check out the brogue! Roland Young radiates dry humor as Commander Goode, R.N. ("retired!")and John Loder places the stereoptypically adventurous 19th century English nobleman. Harwicke is not as rugged as Granger, or as humorous as Chamberlain, but he displays a quiet credibility. The end is a little far stretched, the deus ex machina of all deus ex machinas. But I think it only adds to the charm of the film, in which the underlying implication is, "Off course the English can work their way out of anything!" It is Robeson, whose performance is both larger than life and yet subtly understated, who gives the film its power. He sings, he acts, he grins, he wins the day! It's a shame he had to go to England to get decent roles in films which were denied him in America because of his race. Watch this one, I think you'll like it!

Not genuine letterboxed. Portion of original picture missing. Read review under the orginal DVD two-pack release of Strange Bedfellows/Man's Favoite Sport.

As a big fan of 60s comedies, I find this one seriously lacking. There's no chemistry between Rock and Gina, nothing likeable about their characters, and nothing compelling about the storyline. I do believe I laughed once during the movie however, but I can't remember why. Actually I only got this movie because it came packaged with Man's Favorite Sport, which actually IS a good and funny movie.

This couple, Rock Hudson and Gina Lolibridgita is always fighting because she's different from him and has her own idea and stands for women's rights and then before you know they are made for each other but she also is involved with another man with hilarious results so be prepared to laugh. Find out who gets the girl by watching the movie.

Bought the DVD in assembling a Gregory Peck collection. Version was the one with Ava Gardner on the cover of the pack. The film was complete, but there was annoying technical noise, and quite a bit of fluttering in the picture. I may at some point buy another version of this DVD, but I do not recommend the technical quality of this particular production.

As he lay dying,

Peck pines for Ava whom he

loves, while Hayward waits.

Ernest Hemingway hated this adaptation of his work, and disparagingly referred to it as "The Snows of Zanuck." I think he was overestimating his own writing, and I think the film is no worse than the work upon which it was based. Methinks he doth protest too much. Hemingway was heard to grumble: "I sold Zanuck one short story, not my whole body of works." The Casey Robinson screenplay is witty and honest, with the right blend of cynicism and naivetee. Gregory Peck is a gruff, grumbly, handsome-as-a-devil Hemingway "hero," and Ava Gardner makes a memorable, heartbreakingly beautiful Cynthia. Susan Hayward makes the best of the film's most thankless role (she looks great in a pith helmut, too). The layers of flashbacks perfectly convey the sense of a man reevaluating his past as he faces imminent death. Much has been made of the ending, and the way it deviates from the original story. I don't see the sunny Hollywood ending purists have denounced, since we really don't know the status of the dying writer as the helicopter arrives. The soundtrack is a bit loopy and out-of-synch in places, and the special effects (especially the river crossing) look pretty bad by today's standards, but the acting adds a depth and humanity which is missing from Hemingway's original work. A fun piece of escapist safaridrama along the lines of the superior "King Solomon's Mines" or "Mogambo."

Bought the DVD in assembling a Gregory Peck collection. Version was the one with Ava Gardner on the cover of the pack. The film was complete, but there was annoying technical noise, and quite a bit of fluttering in the picture. I may at some point buy another version of this DVD, but I do not recommend the technical quality of this particular production.

As he lay dying,

Peck pines for Ava whom he

loves, while Hayward waits.

Ernest Hemingway hated this adaptation of his work, and disparagingly referred to it as "The Snows of Zanuck." I think he was overestimating his own writing, and I think the film is no worse than the work upon which it was based. Methinks he doth protest too much. Hemingway was heard to grumble: "I sold Zanuck one short story, not my whole body of works." The Casey Robinson screenplay is witty and honest, with the right blend of cynicism and naivetee. Gregory Peck is a gruff, grumbly, handsome-as-a-devil Hemingway "hero," and Ava Gardner makes a memorable, heartbreakingly beautiful Cynthia. Susan Hayward makes the best of the film's most thankless role (she looks great in a pith helmut, too). The layers of flashbacks perfectly convey the sense of a man reevaluating his past as he faces imminent death. Much has been made of the ending, and the way it deviates from the original story. I don't see the sunny Hollywood ending purists have denounced, since we really don't know the status of the dying writer as the helicopter arrives. The soundtrack is a bit loopy and out-of-synch in places, and the special effects (especially the river crossing) look pretty bad by today's standards, but the acting adds a depth and humanity which is missing from Hemingway's original work. A fun piece of escapist safaridrama along the lines of the superior "King Solomon's Mines" or "Mogambo."

Bought the DVD in assembling a Gregory Peck collection. Version was the one with Ava Gardner on the cover of the pack. The film was complete, but there was annoying technical noise, and quite a bit of fluttering in the picture. I may at some point buy another version of this DVD, but I do not recommend the technical quality of this particular production.

As he lay dying,

Peck pines for Ava whom he

loves, while Hayward waits.

Ernest Hemingway hated this adaptation of his work, and disparagingly referred to it as "The Snows of Zanuck." I think he was overestimating his own writing, and I think the film is no worse than the work upon which it was based. Methinks he doth protest too much. Hemingway was heard to grumble: "I sold Zanuck one short story, not my whole body of works." The Casey Robinson screenplay is witty and honest, with the right blend of cynicism and naivetee. Gregory Peck is a gruff, grumbly, handsome-as-a-devil Hemingway "hero," and Ava Gardner makes a memorable, heartbreakingly beautiful Cynthia. Susan Hayward makes the best of the film's most thankless role (she looks great in a pith helmut, too). The layers of flashbacks perfectly convey the sense of a man reevaluating his past as he faces imminent death. Much has been made of the ending, and the way it deviates from the original story. I don't see the sunny Hollywood ending purists have denounced, since we really don't know the status of the dying writer as the helicopter arrives. The soundtrack is a bit loopy and out-of-synch in places, and the special effects (especially the river crossing) look pretty bad by today's standards, but the acting adds a depth and humanity which is missing from Hemingway's original work. A fun piece of escapist safaridrama along the lines of the superior "King Solomon's Mines" or "Mogambo."

Bought the DVD in assembling a Gregory Peck collection. Version was the one with Ava Gardner on the cover of the pack. The film was complete, but there was annoying technical noise, and quite a bit of fluttering in the picture. I may at some point buy another version of this DVD, but I do not recommend the technical quality of this particular production.

As he lay dying,

Peck pines for Ava whom he

loves, while Hayward waits.

Ernest Hemingway hated this adaptation of his work, and disparagingly referred to it as "The Snows of Zanuck." I think he was overestimating his own writing, and I think the film is no worse than the work upon which it was based. Methinks he doth protest too much. Hemingway was heard to grumble: "I sold Zanuck one short story, not my whole body of works." The Casey Robinson screenplay is witty and honest, with the right blend of cynicism and naivetee. Gregory Peck is a gruff, grumbly, handsome-as-a-devil Hemingway "hero," and Ava Gardner makes a memorable, heartbreakingly beautiful Cynthia. Susan Hayward makes the best of the film's most thankless role (she looks great in a pith helmut, too). The layers of flashbacks perfectly convey the sense of a man reevaluating his past as he faces imminent death. Much has been made of the ending, and the way it deviates from the original story. I don't see the sunny Hollywood ending purists have denounced, since we really don't know the status of the dying writer as the helicopter arrives. The soundtrack is a bit loopy and out-of-synch in places, and the special effects (especially the river crossing) look pretty bad by today's standards, but the acting adds a depth and humanity which is missing from Hemingway's original work. A fun piece of escapist safaridrama along the lines of the superior "King Solomon's Mines" or "Mogambo."

Bought the DVD in assembling a Gregory Peck collection. Version was the one with Ava Gardner on the cover of the pack. The film was complete, but there was annoying technical noise, and quite a bit of fluttering in the picture. I may at some point buy another version of this DVD, but I do not recommend the technical quality of this particular production.

As he lay dying,

Peck pines for Ava whom he

loves, while Hayward waits.

Ernest Hemingway hated this adaptation of his work, and disparagingly referred to it as "The Snows of Zanuck." I think he was overestimating his own writing, and I think the film is no worse than the work upon which it was based. Methinks he doth protest too much. Hemingway was heard to grumble: "I sold Zanuck one short story, not my whole body of works." The Casey Robinson screenplay is witty and honest, with the right blend of cynicism and naivetee. Gregory Peck is a gruff, grumbly, handsome-as-a-devil Hemingway "hero," and Ava Gardner makes a memorable, heartbreakingly beautiful Cynthia. Susan Hayward makes the best of the film's most thankless role (she looks great in a pith helmut, too). The layers of flashbacks perfectly convey the sense of a man reevaluating his past as he faces imminent death. Much has been made of the ending, and the way it deviates from the original story. I don't see the sunny Hollywood ending purists have denounced, since we really don't know the status of the dying writer as the helicopter arrives. The soundtrack is a bit loopy and out-of-synch in places, and the special effects (especially the river crossing) look pretty bad by today's standards, but the acting adds a depth and humanity which is missing from Hemingway's original work. A fun piece of escapist safaridrama along the lines of the superior "King Solomon's Mines" or "Mogambo."