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Battlezone: The Vietnam War (2015)
A documentary almost as long as the war.
This is a series of documentaries that are independent of each other yet still concentrate on the Vietnam War. Even though the title is "Battlezone," the intro title is "Timeless Television presents." Some say Th U. S. army presents the big picture. Each episode is in mostly chronological order. This is a two-season series. Season one has 26 episodes; season two has 18 episodes. Each episode is from 18 minutes to 75 minutes. Episode one is narrated by Jack Webb (Sgt. Joe Friday in Dragnet.) The representations' have a sort of a John Wayne type attitude. Great Scott episode 4 we actually see John Wayne.
Some episodes are in black and white and others are in color. They all have a monotone narrative. Mostly they call the NVA Vietcong and do not distinguish. All the US are good guys handing out tropical Chocolat bars. If you tasted a tropical chocolate bar, you would wonder if the US are really good guys. All the locals and indigenous are suspect.
Every once in a while, we are treated to tactics ours and theirs. What this is not a conventional war and there are no battlelines to draw?
Well, I do not wat to give you a blow by blow of what you are going to watch just that it is a one-sided attitude. Oh, no; that is my attitude.
Demonic (2015)
Blair Witch want-a-be
In an abandoned house long ago, some young people met their demise while summoning you know what.
Now today a new group of young people has been lured back to finish the process.
They bring "Blair Which" shaky cameras, the standard flashlights, and hooky paraphernalia.
They get the standard sounds and sights that we already anticipate.
Waiting for the incident to be investigated by the hick next door, a detective with a bottle of wine, and his date.
What will they find?
You guessed it.
How will this end?
Oh no, you guessed it also.
The only reason to watch this is so you can jump at the occasional loud sound and flash of light. That is o.k. But do not expect anything that is not the formula.
Piranhaconda (2012)
Biting humor with explosive action.
Yes, this movie is all that the title implies. It is not a formula as in disaster movies where the husband is estranged and the snotty kid does not listen and puts everyone in danger. This is "there is a monster in the jungle" and no one believes it until they become Piranhaconda-chow.
We have scantily clothed woman Chow potential; however, it turns out that our nemesis is not picky as to which gender is the tastier.
You get plenty of chances to say "stay in the car." Also do not try to find out what is making that sound.
Basically, the theme is borrowed from Jurassic Park movies as Dr. Robert Lovegrove (Michael Madsen), with dollar signs in his eyes, pilfers a slimy egg from a creature that only a mother could love. All the action and interaction with movie makers, criminal types, and more are subject to mommy wanting her egg back. Will this happen? If so, will some cute girl(s) become collateral damage. Will there be car chases and gun play?
The movie was filmed in Kaua'i, Hawaii, USA but it looks like parts of Texas and California.
The title song is "Piranhaconda 1"
Music, Lyrics and Performed by Jasmin Poncelet
However, a better song would be "Run Through the Jungle" by John Cameron Fogerty -
Whoa, I thought it was a nightmare
Lord, it's all so true
They told me "Don't go walkin' slow
The Devil's on the loose"
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Better run through the jungle
Whoa, don't look back to see ...
It is hard to rate this movie as it is dumb and campy as it was meant to be.
Merlin (1998)
The decline and fall if magic.
This is an excellent complete tale of King Arthur known in Britain as "Merlin's Revenge: The Grail Wars" is told in three episodes streaming. It puts all the movies you watched in chronological order and fills in details that may have been missed.
I stumbled upon this TV series while looking for Rutger Hauer movies. Little did I know that it has all my favorite actors and more. Usually, a movie like this that have many well-known actors is designed to cameo out of work actors. But not this one as it had actors in their prime and not just cameos. The big Pluss was having Sam Neill as Merlin.
I have read many of the books including Mallory's "Morte d'Arthur." So, I was amaze to find that this version of Merlin was well written by Edward Khmara, David Stevens, and Peter Barnes.
The actual production is of Merlin telling one big flashback of his part in the mythic history of Britain. Even if you know the story backwards and forwards you cannot miss this version. It is over before you know it.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
You can't Hyde your "Lyin' Eyes" - Song by Eagles
"In each of us, two natures are at war-the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose ... What we want the most to be we ARE."
The bulk of the time in the beginning of this movie, everyone debates if devoting yourself to others is neglecting your own development. This comes up in many movies but is the hinge point for this one. And Dr. Jekyll is too good to be true.
There are several film versions of this story some with various titles. However, this is the one that all others are gaged by. This movie is silent with English intertitles (not enough.) The intertitles give the names of the actors playing the parts. The background music is not coordinated with the visuals. There are some creepy double exposer scenes.
At 17 minutes and 31 seconds the intertitle ="Shut you fice-you're 'iding the stige!" I had to look it up as in the context, it's a bit of British slang. "Shut you fice" translates to "Shut your face," meaning "Be quiet," and "'iding the stige" is "hiding the stige," with "stige" being slang for stage, meaning "blocking the view." It would be good if they did a tad of updating the intertitle.
In the scene where Dr. Jekyll is being tempted by a Spanish dancer, Gina, (Nita Naldi), I was thinking it was done better by Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (1927).
This film is based on a novella that was written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. So, the book may read a tad dated.
Everyone agrees that John Barrymore is the quintessential Jekyll/Hyde as when Hyde he makes a spooky face and pointy fingers. When he takes off his hat, he is the original conehead.
In this version Hyde purchases his own Hyde-away (Number nine Bransbury Road, Soho.) to do his nefarious Hydey stuff. He even takes up smoking. Gina shows Hyde her bauble. We learn the terms Hyde diddle, diddle, and tan your Hyde. If he disappears, they will see neither Hyde nor hair.
I will not go through the story as if you have not read the book, you are in for a few surprises.
I will say this, you will want to watch again for the nuances you missed.
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
An old millionaire is about to shuffle off this mortal coil.
He suspects he is being threatened to help make him crazy. His relatives surround him like cats watching a canary; thus, the title from the play.
Even though the story is formula, this is an excellent presentation of who is included in the will and the old man dies. There a few different variances in this presentation. First, the will is not to be opened until 20 years after the old man's death. And someone has tampered with the envelope the names the successor if the person named in the will is also proven to be crazy.
So the inheritor the "will" will now become the new canary being watched by all the other cats in the family. We watch as one by one it looks like they will be dispatched starting with... oh no you don't, watch the movie and find out. And of course, this just enforces the suspicion that the inheritor is crazy.
Of course, as usual it's always the last person you suspect; we are in an old dark house, secret passages, spooky looking eyes, hairy hands, and suspects running from room to room.
Laura La Plante plays the innocent but extremely cute looking niece. Martha Mattox places a sinister-looking caretaker that watched over the house for 20 years (and the safe with the will). Tully Marshall plays a crusty old lawyer who gets to read the will. Creighton Hale gets to play the comic relief the thoughtful cousin and maybe a bit more.
For those of you expecting a talkie, you're going to be disappointed. For the rest of us, you can see their mouths worked and they are saying what is on the intertitles. The fun part of the movie is when the characters express themselves in explicative the written cards are expressed in metacharacters (probably helps get around those ~!@#$%^ scenarios.) There is a good sound score in the background.
This is well worth adding to your silent collection and periodically viewing for missed nuances.
Although any version of this film is worth watching I suggest you look for the restored photography version.
The Wicker Man (1973)
Something Wicker this way comes.
A fun little ditty about not so extinct religion. Of course, it may be a tad dated now. The screenplay is by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel "Ritual." Paul Giovanni adapted with a composed film score.
After watching several similar movies, you may have guessed the jest of the movie right up front. However, it is wort watching the story unfold and may need to watch a second time for the clues.
Police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie, Edward Woodward, takes a Thurston Teal seaplane to an isolated Scottish island named Summerisle. There he is looking for a missing girl, Rowan Morrison. And seems to be getting the runaround. Why are the healthy inhabitants that make their living growing apples so evasive? You can ask Lord Summerisle, Christopher Lee. Or hang around for the May Day celebration. Hold onto your maypole.
This is one of my favorite Christopher Lee movies where he plays a normal person instead of a crazed creature.
Notice that the songs sung throughout the film are also a character or add character to the movie; this especially includes the song sung by the cultists of Summerisle, "Sumer Is Icumen In", is a mid-13th-century song about nature in spring.
A side note is lots of women have attractive smiles and show their frontal lobes proudly. The main character police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie gets to look at them disgustingly. Poor man suffers from puritanism and other religious disabilities. Will he be cured?
Infinite (2021)
Nobody says "I'll be back."
The movie is based on the book "The Reincarnationist Papers" by D. Eric Maikranz. The alternate title could have been "The Egg and I."
We start out with an explanation of wat the movie is about. Then an immediate car chase. It would be good if it was not over noised with unrelated rap noise. It is best to turn off the sound and read the subtitles until the hideous rap noise has passed. It only takes seven minutes then you can turn the sound back on.
I guess in Mexico it is o.k. To chase and use automatics against fast red cars in public. If you like the car crash scenes then it is better to watch "The Blues Brothers."
Wait, now that they start interacting, we see maybe that gawdawful back ground noise at the beginning is why the film is watched. Before the movie is half over you see all the holes that a truck can drive through and probably found a better solution. It would be embarrassing to try and relate this movie to "The Matrix" or other similar CGI trickery movies. Other than the trickery there is nothing in common.
Gratuitous gore and more gore. The kitchen sink. Wait no Al Gore.
They would never stoop so low as name recognition like "Alexa, music off." Ho, they just did. I wonder what they were paid to say that?
Memories
Light the corners of my mind
Misty watercolor memories
Of the way we were
Songwriters: Marvin Hamlisch, Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman.
I have a sneaky suspicion that this is an intended pilot for a movie or a series.
What is there positive to say? They have made a 4K version. Now this subpar movie can be seen more clearly.
100 Years of Horror (1996)
A series of film clips and sound bites.
This is an interesting (1996) series broken down into 26 episodes. It has been reorganized into a shorter number of episodes.
In this Ted Newson documentary, it is divided into subjects that overlap as you find out when you try to shelve the DVDs. Such as Dracula and His Disciples, Frankenstein's Friends, Girl Ghouls, etc...
Narrated by Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (1922-2015) you may remember him in The Stupids (1996) as Evil Sender as mail is posted return to Sender.
I learned a lot about missing and overlooked films from the clips and interviewees. I will not go through a list as that is why you will be watching this. However, in one of the first episodes they showed a clip of Drácula (1931) the Spanish version with Carlos Villarías(1892-1976); Carlos looks just like Nicolas Cage in Renfield (2023).
If you stick with this presentation, you will notice that many of the clips are repeated. You may also notice that the movies are selective and may not include your favorites. Still, you cannot have everything in the limited time available. They did take the time to mention many of the TV shows and not just movies.
Hopefully someone will pick up the gauntlet and make an UpToDate version.
The Mad Monster (1942)
It does not Pedro to advertise.
George Zucco (1886-1960) is not at his best in the short thriller. George Zucco plays a mad scientist, Dr. Lorenzo Cameron, who was shunned and ostracized by his fellow scientists. He must prove himself and get revenge at the same time. So, he moves to a secluded house with a secret laboratory. There he lives in seclusion with his daughter Lenora played by Anne Nagel and his hulking gardener Petro played by Glenn Strange.
He proves to the world that his theories are sound and swears revenge on those who ostracized him.
The moral of this story is do not play with nature or you may get burned.
See George Zucco again as the besmirched scientist in Fog Island (1945).
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
Twice as boring.
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) has a problem choosing between brain waves, Anne Uumellmahaye (Sissy Spacek), and "Body Heat", Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner). The whole premise is can love be found in a bottle.
I thought 'The jerk' was bad until I saw this movie, both mysteriously directed by Carl Reiner. All he does is make faces with no real acting or thought behind them. A few faces are o.k. But over and over of watching grins and grimaces can get monotonous. I almost stopped watching Steve martin that is capable of making very good movies like "Housesitter" (1992) with Goldie Hawn.
The Martian (2015)
This is a disastrous movie
John Carter... Oops, Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is part of the team of astronauts on Mars. Due to unplanned high winds, the mission is scrubbed. Unfortunately, on their way back, Mark gets what appears to be dispatched by flying debris and does not make it back to the ship.
Is Mark dead or alive?
If alive, how could he possibly survive all the perils, including the Martian trials and tribulations? Is it even possible to save them?
This movie will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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I could not wait for the movie to hit the rentals so I went ahead and read the book first.
They did an excellent job of following the structure and feel of the book. Each scene was played out well enough that you didn't have to guess what they were doing.
Including most of the potty mouth; this is not necessary and distracted from the movie with maybe one or two exceptions such as where he broadcasts a negative word throughout the world.
The acting was excellent the seams were spectacular Mars never looked more real. The technology was very close to real; you will not find yourself saying that's impossible.
Naturally being a movie though they dispensed with a few of the disasters; however, because this is a disaster after disaster movie you won't notice the missing ones unless you've read the book.
The Martian Chronicles (1980)
An excellent adaptation of the book stories by scriptwriter Richard Matheson
The story is more of a series of progressive short stories of the attempts to colonize Mars. Each landing encounters a different situation. Aside from the technical aspects of the story and the cheap effects of the film the real purpose of the movie is the message. I will not repeat the message here, as this is why you need to watch the series.
I found the ending satisfying but wondering if there should not be more.
Ray Bradbury is not as thrilled with the mini-series, calling it booooring. Nevertheless, you have to expect a few adaptations if you are going to have a relevant mini-series.
This may seem like a vehicle for out of work actors. Yet I can assure you that each actor played his/her part well enough that you are looking at the character, not the actor.
Be aware that the version I watched was complete but the first two parts were on side A and B of the same DVD. Part 3 was on a separate DVD. The good thing was there were no coming attractions to work around with some fancy button-pushing. The only thing missing was a voice-over commentary that we have come to expect.
The Moon-Spinners (1964)
Too Disney-fied
Disney mutilates a remarkable story by Mary Stewart. Will we ever learn?
Nikky Ferris (a rather pudgy and blotchy Hayley Mills) is on holiday with her aunt Frances (Joan Greenwood). They find themselves unwanted by the local hotel owner (the famous Greek actor Irene Papas) and her abrasive brother (Eli Wallach). Little do they suspect that they will be involved in a nefarious international plot; One in which you cannot tell the good guys from the bad until it is too late.
On the plus is a lot of good scenery. And how they could pay Irene Papas "Electra" (1962) to be in this movie one can only guess.
The real problem with this film is that Disney got a hold of it and turned a mystery into a farce. Nikky spills the beans more than once and is bratty when called upon to be decisive. She is naïve and quite bratty for her age. The other characters are quite sophomore most of the time. Too many times, we must suspend any logic in figuring out where the runners are hiding and how the hunters know right where to get them. The story has a swift and inconsistent sort of ending.
The Plot Against the President (2020)
Can you say "A steaming pile of nitrogenous waste"?
Based on the book "The Plot Against The President" by Lee Smith. Lee Smith is a Middle East correspondent for The Weekly Standard. He has written for a variety of Arab media outlets.
Directed by Amanda Milius. Amanda attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts and completed her thesis film, The Lotus Gun, for her USC MFA program in 2015.
Past production facilities Stonewood Entertainment.
This is a careful collage of sound bites; these soundbites are carefully edited and taken out of context and rearranged to express a mythical plot. Investigate anyone of those soundbites in its original context and you will have to scoff at any of the soundbites that you do not recognize.
This is not a must watch or must see.
They mention deep state.
It is well done.
Not just every American can watch this as it is universal.
They wish it was a Russia Hoax.
There is background music giving it a dramatic feel or dramatic shape. (well done)
It has that comes out of Hollywood feel.
The Next Three Days (2010)
Whatever happened to a cake with a file in it?
Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) is convicted of murdering her boss. Overwhelming evidence proves this. Her husband John (Russell Crowe) naturally assumes she is innocent of the dastardly deed. They go through the court system and run out of appeals; so that is that.
Well maybe not. No one realizes whom they are up against. John is a junior college instructor and knows a little bit about human nature. Soon he hones some new skills needed to extricate Lara. What looks like bumbling attempts may alert the authorities prematurely. However, most of what looks like mistakes may be part of the big plan.
A small but crucial highpoint in the movie is John's father George (well played by Brian Dennehy) who knows about the plot but is closed-mouthed.
Can John outwit the authorities and escape their containment skills? We get the thrill of being part of the chaser and the "chasee."
In the end button, button who has the button.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Another M. Night Shyamalan story
Everywhere you hear the phrase "I see dead people". This goes to show how popular the movie is.
The basic story is Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) Is a child psychiatrist that goes on one more try and chooses a new child Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) to help with his tendency to see dead people.
After watching the movie, the first time, you will want to watch it again to see the clues you missed. It was well shot so you will be surprised at the movie from view of seeing it a second time with what you know.
M. Night Shyamalan seems to borrow his stories from existing books or movies. The claim is that this is original. Not sure where this one came from but it is suggested The Lady Vanishes (1938) ("Are You Afraid of the Dark?" season 3 episode 10.)
Bruce Willis brings this story to life.
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Hoodoo, you believe, you are?
Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) is a hospice caregiver living in New Orleans. She still feels guilty for letting her father die alone. She feels that xxx is just a money factory and sets out to find someone that she can take care of at the ending g time of his/her life.
An opportunity arises in an old mansion located in the swamps of Louisiana. There Mr. Ben Devereaux (John Hurt) has had a stroke and only a few months to live. Mrs. Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands) does not want Caroline to be there but is convinced by her estate lawyer to keep Caroline on.
Soon Caroline is given a skeleton key that opens every door in the house. However, she finds that a hidden door in the attic does not open. Ben had his debilitating stroke in the attic and Violet seems suspicious so Caroline turns to the estate lawyer Luke (Peter Sarsgaard) with her suspicions.
Will Caroline be a good girl and just leave Ben while he is dying?
Will Caroline get too nosy for her good and try to open the hidden door?
Are Caroline's suspicions founded or is she just being melodramatic?
This movie is just jam-packed with great actors. After you get over how Kate Hudson looks like her mother and her miraculous recovery from her recent pregnancy, you realize that you are watching the movie and the character of Caroline. And how did John Hurt make it through the whole movie and you did not note that he did not say anything except a one-liner" Ca-ro-Line! Help me!"? We get our first ominous warning from Jill (Joy Bryant) whose character gives the original feel of normalcy to the story. The whole film is glued together and hinges on the character of Violet played to the hilt by Gena Rowlands.
If you like this maybe it is and maybe it isn't type of story then you need to watch a movie based on "Conjure Wife" by Fritz Leiber. His story has the same feel "Night of The Eagle, aka Burn Witch Burn" (1962) with Peter Wyngarde as Norman, and Janet Bliar as Tansy.
The Thaw (2009)
I'll get you and your little dog too.
For those people that found Tell Your Children (1936) intriguing. Now realized the folly of consuming forbidden weeds, they will see the same story played out with unsafe sex.
This movie bugged me as it starts with a dissertation about the inevitability of our world due to the inability to control global warming.
From there quickly goes down Hill. The film deteriorates into ancient bugs from the cold north that like you and you are about to be bug-chow.
The story was much better done in a movie called The Thing from Another World (1951) where people become plant food. For that matter, it was much better done in the movie called The Deadly Mantis with better screams.
This animal should be relegated to midnight television. I can't believe they gave it the blue Ray treatment. But it's good to see Val Kilmer playing older parts. And there were a lot of lose parts in this movie.
2012 (2009)
This is just another run of the mill disaster movie.
Looks like the Mayans were right. Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) is starting to put two and two together. Yep sunspots, neutrinos, and planet alignment spell kaput for the world. However, wait doomsayer Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson) finds the governments of the world have found a way out. Can Curtis same his estranged family and the doctor/pilot that usurped his wife and half a dozen other assorted characters? Alternatively, do they learn what dust to dust means? We hope this is not one of those wimpy movies wherein the end the people of the earth hold hands and sing Kumbayah.
I only saw the Blu-ray version so I cannot compare. However, you are treated to a seemingly endless Blu-ray and BD live commercial. Then you are bombarded with choices that have nothing to do with the film. All I wanted to do was see the film, not press buttons every time it was flagged.
The fun part is recognizing the different actors and saying, "Now where have I seen him/her before?"
The Tempest (1979)
The Tempest (1979)
Most of the words are Shakespeare and the names are the same. This is Derek Jarman's rewrite. Then we go downhill from there. Most of the people have gratuitous birthday suit scenes; Toyah Willcox gets to show off what her 21-year-old accouterments looked like at the time.
There is an immediately recognizable actor; Peter Bull who played the Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
Elisabeth Welch sings "Stormy Weather" - I wonder what Shakespeare would have made of that?
Even though this is supposed to be a primitive island that Prospero was just dumped on, the house even if old is too Gothic. The environment just does not fit the play in any age or place or fantasy.
I do not believe there is a version of this movie floating around out there that has "Closed Caption."
Still this needs to be added to your collection.
You may find a few of your favorite lines missing in this version.
The Hot Chick (2002)
No strangling the dancers
You have seen it a million times from "Freaky Friday" (Disney) to "Vice Versa" with Judge Reinhold. This movie is one of the most formula stories around. So now it boils down to if you like the acting style and the "one-liners." Or if you just like to ogle young girls and extra hairy guys.
The basic story is simple. A person who is intentionally rude, but unconscious of the rudeness, soon will find tables turned (gaining or losing an appendage in the process) and learn to feel for the other person. Then again it is the story of making mugging and dancing a little easier if you have the right body.
For an excellent version, that excels at exchanging bodies, watch Goodbye Charlie (1964). Debby Reynolds did not have to act like a baseball player to emphasize the change.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee sort of together again.
Writers - Arthur Conan Doyle and Peter Bryan
"It's elementary my dear Watson; there are no tarantellas in South Africa."
We know the story from the book by Arthur Conan Doyle and the many movie versions some of which are:
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988), The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002),
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983),
André Morell (Watson) is a more than competent colleague of Holmes than other actors such as Nigel Bruce. This tradition is carried on in the series Elementary (2012) with Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson.
Basic story is that Sir Henry Baskerville (Christopher Lee) comes to occupy the family estate after his uncle is mysteriously dispatched; this is supposedly by cardiac exhaustion. We get told a tale of the Hound from Hell that has a habit of dispatching the offspring of Sir Hugo Baskerville, for being a tad rough with women. But poor Henry is not like that. Will it make any difference and can Holmes and Watson figure out a diabolical plot in time? Or will Henry become dog-chow?
This is a well-produced version and should be the one that all other versions should be measured by.
F Troop (1965)
This critter lasted 65 episodes, 1965-1967
Due to a sneeze Capt. Wilton Parmenter (Ken Berry) becomes "The scourge of the west." He is sent out west to command F Troop. We find the real command of F Troop is O'ouke Enterprises. Always deceiving the military leaders that there is an ongoing war.
It tries too hard to be campy. There are lots of slapstick and ridiculous situations. Off-color jokes as she is a "She is a blue-nose redskin" or "If not work, me sue. No, me not Sioux, me Hakawi" - the Hakawi chief.
It leaves great memories and has surprising guest stars. Some of the stars are Milton Berle, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Harvey Korman, Don Rickles, Vincent Price, and Edward Everett Horton. You will have to watch the whole series to spot the actors not mentioned here.
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Finally the perfect wife
Frank Oz and others had a huge debate over making this movie dark, menacing, or light, fluffy, and it shows. One minute it has Mathew Brodrick making hidden malice faces and the next moment they are cracking jokes about AOL. However, by not trying to follow the formula of a strict remake they came out from the shadow of the original and made a stand-alone movie on its own. The commentary track was just as good, if not better than the movie itself.
The actors themselves were quite good:
Nicole Kidman of "Natural Magic" fame, as usual, can look so emotional.
Mathew Broderick looked like Farris Buller with a secret.
Bete Midler was just being herself(s).
Christopher Walken adds that sinister touch. Nothing mechanical.
Faith Hill adds a real spark to the movie.
Glen Close can keep a straight face.
Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) has it all and puts her whole life into her career. Through a series of miss events when she goes into what she expects would be a raise is let go. The trauma sends her over the deep end. Her husband quits working for the same network to care for her. He only wants the BEST. So they moved to the quainter environment of Stepford. There, men can be men and women can be women. Joanna being her cantankerous self has trouble adjusting to life and the people around her that only wanted to help. Her husband threatens to leave her if she does not change her ways. So, she does and solicits the help of two other disgruntled friends.
Will she change?
If not what can be done?
Why is the mechanical dog asking for help?