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East Is East (1999)
Wonderful Film.
The film is set in the 1970's and the oldest son is not a hairdresser, - but a milliner. Since the previous poster could not tell the difference, . . . I felt the need to add a comment. The poster seemed to understand so little of the film and made rather disparaging comments based on those misunderstandings.
The film is a "slice of life" depiction of a multi-racial family at its crisis point, - the children are entering into adulthood. The parents who have been able to straddle both worlds up until this time are pitted against each other in terms of which world they want the children to become part of. But much like life, it is not a simple story of "culture clash".
The father wants them to be traditional Pakistani, even though he has been very happily married to an English woman for 25 years and not returned to see his traditional Pakistani First Wife during that time.
The mother while verbally balking at much of what her husband says, supports him and demands the children respect him and encourages their embracing his culture.
While the father is domineering, the wife is shown as being more than able to stand up to him and he as being all bark and little bite. The domestic violence portrayed in the film is not of the "on-going" variety, but more of a "crisis moment".
The family is portrayed very real. They never bend to the Hollywood convention of giving the audience too much information. You enter their world for a brief time and share their family's experience.
A wonderful film definitely worth the rental price.
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Pure rubbish.
Other than the names of some of the people connected to Lon Chaney, it is all pure rubbish. It is an insult to the talent that was Lon Chaney.
For some strange reason the film makers cleaned up the "juicy bits" from Chaney's life mainly the years with his first wife, and sullied the clean ones, mainly the years with his second wife.
The only redeeming feature for Chaney fans is we get to see The Cabin.
Nomads of the North (1920)
I Love Lon Chaney, BUT . . .
This is definitely not one of his better films.
He is cast as the "hero", and a rather bland hero at that. It simply did not offer the incredibly talented Mr. Chaney enough "to do", so he chews the scenery through most of his scenes.
Point to note in this film, the stars were nearly killed in the big fire scene when their escape route was cut off. All three wound up in the hospital.
If you are a Chaney fan you will watch this and enjoy it regardless, but it will not be anyone's favorite Chaney film.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
I did not enjoy the film.
I found the changes made in the story line showed Mr. Jackson did not understand the book, -at all. His his replacing the character of Glorfindel, a warrior, with Arwen, a Lady of the Realm (turned female warrior for no apparent reason other than to attract Xena fans), completely destroys the point of the Tolkien trilogy. He simply can not undo the damage he has done with this "substitution". A significant segment in "Return of the King" hinges on the fact that there are not female warriors.
I am so disappointed in the film and will not be watching any of the following installments.
I just wish Mr. Jackson had bothered to read the books before he butchered them.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Worth the price of a rental.
Alan Rickman is fantastic as the Sheriff. Morgan Freeman offers up an interesting character in Azeem. The cast of the Merry Men and their families is wonderful. The Sheriff's "mother" and his henchmen are well done.
All you have to do is fast forward through all the bits with Robin Hood and you will truly enjoy this film.
Costner should have walked away from this role as a service to humanity.
Ngo si seoi (1998)
A Jackie Chan movie with a plot!
Chan fans may have a difficult time adjusting to something called a "plot", but "try it, you'll like it".
I am surprised it did not get an American Theatrical release as personally, I think this film is better over all than any of Jackie Chan's American films.
Definitely worth watching.
Space Cowboys (2000)
Way too predictable.
Dull scripts are nothing new to the Sci-Fi genre. The thing is; this film didn't even have good special effects to distract me from the painful predictability of the script.
It was a waste of 30 minutes of my time. What can I say, I hit the "ff" about three minutes in and rarely needed to take my finger off the button for any scenes that were "important" or even funny for that matter.
The sad thing is that all parties involved in "Space Cowboys" were capable of doing much better work. This film fell way short of it's potential.