Saturday, March 08, 2008
BUGS!
Today's NYTimes 1176 Best Film was
Even without the hi-tech, this is a better picture with more suspense than the remake with Jeff Goldblum.
This one is about the people and the horror of loved ones being taken away.
A different screw is being turned.
It is all Donna Reed in the beginning.
Well, actually not, as you know the end of the story in the first 5 minutes.
What you don't know and what the stretch involves is the "why done it". Not the "who done it".
There is a scientist, there is a lab, there is a nice family, there is a loving brother (Vincent Price to spice the stew I think).
There is a lab breakthrough.
Things go wrong.
It is all very orderly until it isn't.
The last parts of it are very exciting.
We know thing that they, on the screen, do not.
Tense.
Very good, even when it seems to be a bit too Fifties and is slowing down. I think that adds to the tension.
I will give it a surprised 3 out of Netflix5. I thought it would be a dud.
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