Tuesday, August 19, 2008
SWEET AND SOUR
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was
This is Speilberg's first film. The Times seems to have the need to put all of his films on the 'Best' list regardless of merit.
I think that there is a meritorious film in here somewhere amongst the car chases and the gun play. It just doesn't come along very often in this road film. Every fifty miles or so.
It has some great actors in it. Ben Johnson, always worthwhile. Michael Sacks and William Atherton.
Michael Sacks was an interesting actor who played Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse Five. He quit acting in 1982. Atherton has done a lot of teevee but no movies after this one. Too bad.
Goldie Hawn plays against type as a stupid, self centered, red neck........well, that isn't so much against type, eh? I can't fucking stand her.
I enjoyed the brief moments of actual plot and character study as well as the apparently real people who are on the fringes of the main action. But overall, I didn't like it. I did watch the whole thing though. That makes it a 2 out of Netflix5.
There aren't even any good Google images for this film. Sucks that bad.
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