I'm one of those people who refuse to recognize David Lynch as one of the great directors of our time. However, Blue Velvet was especially good (unlike Lost Highway, for example) in that it actually held my attention for an hour and a half, and Lynch didn't have to play the weirdness card to do it. Instead, he provided an intriguing story line, a frightening and unpredictable villain, and a protagonist whose fate you actually cared about. It was good to the last 5 minutes. All-in-all, definitely worth checking out.
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Canadian Bacon
(1995)
Take a remake of Dr. Strangelove...
18 March 2000
...or a facsimile thereof, minus the black humor, add stupid jokes about Canadians and a happy ending, and you've got Canadian Bacon. Seduced yet? Hey, I liked Strangelove the first time around. The scene of the gluttonous Russian officials and the war-room scenes are lifted right out of the former. Canadian Bacon makes all the obvious Canadian/American jokes (Canadians are naive country cousins, Americans are violent, Russians are coarse, etc). Derivative and tiresome.
Legend
(1985)
I gave it a 6 out of 10
29 December 1999
"Lord of Darkness wants eternal night, wants last two unicorns (the most mystical creatures of the forest) dead." Alright, so the plot, I'm sorry to say, is actually kind of corny. The characters aren't that likable; in fact, I thought that Lily was a stupid little girl who obviously didn't love Jack "dearer than life itself" by risking *his* life throughout the entire movie. And the standard issue clean cut good guy-bad guy plotline doesn't bring much to the genre. You could predict that Evil Lily wasn't going to slit the unicorn's throat, and that Good will triumph over Evil, and that none of the prominent good characters were going to die. If I was a producer reading this script, I would probably turn it down.
However, the direction and the atmosphere more than make up for these flaws. The sets are all gorgeous- virgin old-growth forests with enough pollen floating around to make you break out in hives. The Lord of Darkness' costume, while predictable enough for an evil character, is awesome. All of the visuals are memorable and seamless. Obviously a lot of effort was put into making a movie with a lackluster script seem cooler than it actually is. It worked. 6/10
However, the direction and the atmosphere more than make up for these flaws. The sets are all gorgeous- virgin old-growth forests with enough pollen floating around to make you break out in hives. The Lord of Darkness' costume, while predictable enough for an evil character, is awesome. All of the visuals are memorable and seamless. Obviously a lot of effort was put into making a movie with a lackluster script seem cooler than it actually is. It worked. 6/10
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