It almost ruined a great film

 
It almost ruined a great film - #8: The stars in The Player

picture nabbed without permissionfrom Peter Gallagher’s website Robert Altman‘s The Player is a great little dig at the movie industry and to add authenticity he roped in a bunch of his film star pals to lurk in the background…a few more props for the set-decorator to carefully position around the set…”we’ll have a couple of [...]

 

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid is superb, Steve Martin at his best, Rachel Ward appears to be not too bad an actor and all those other great stars…Of course the story didn’t really matter so it seems a bit churlish to criticise it for being rubbish. The important thing was to not let the story [...]

 
It almost ruined a great film - #6 : Barbara Stanwyck’s wig in Double Indemnity

silly wig! It just looks silly – Hazel said it already so I don’t have to

 
It almost ruined a great film - #5 : Shelley Duvall’s ears in The Shining

The biggest problem I’ve had with this is finding a picture to illustrate just what bothers me about Shelley and her ears – because I’m sure her ears are just fine really…it’s the way her ears peek through her haircut that bothers me. We get a hypnotizing and distracting glimpse of an ear every time [...]

 
It almost ruined a great film - #4 : Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street

There are so many things that are great about 42nd Street – mostly there’s Busby Berkeley’s choreography…and the songs, then there’s the sassy Anytime Annie (Ginger Rogers) and Lorraine (Una Merkel) double act, there’s Warner Baxter’s insanely overwrought Julian Marsh…and there’s the songs…and the dancing…and…well…there’s Busby Berkeley doing what no one else could do… But…in [...]

 
It almost ruined a great film - #3: The Muppet in Alien

John Hurt lies writhing on the table – held down by his shipmates and with his chest/stomach moving in a very scary way – suddenly with a vile splatter of blood this cute little alien shoves its way out of his innards – looks around gives a little squeal of delight and belts kermit-like across [...]

 
It almost ruined a great film - #2: Mr Dean’s shorts

Black Narcissus is an astonishing film. The casting for the most part is perfect, the colour photography is gorgeous, the painted backgrounds are stunning, the plot is engrossing and wonderfully acted BUT for the so much of the film I am hypnotized by Mr Dean’s shorts, a little too short and pulled up a little [...]

 
It almost ruined a great film - #1: Mark Lester in Oliver!

Oliver and the Artful Dodger It might seem a little churlish to suggest that Oliver almost ruined the fantastic Oliver! but for a film so perfectly cast poor Mark Lester seems a little too angelic, a little too naive, a little too clean. Maybe it’s just that he had to act alongside the fantastic Jack [...]

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