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The Thin Red Line (1964)
Very gritty stuff for 1964
Keep in mind War movies were generally much tamer stuff during this time. The acting was uneven to me but the two leads, the private and the sergeant were great. This is the best I've ever seen Duliea act. It was interesting to compare this to the 1998 version. Both are good.
Basil (1998)
My Goodness this is bad on all levels
I'm guessing the people who like this are simply satisfied to stare at Jared Leto for an hour or so, because I can't image anyone likes it for the story. You can immediately see why the Director never made another film. I quit at the 40 minute mark because this film wasn't in the "so bad its' good" category, it was just bad.
Its really hard to know where to begin with describing how bad this film is, since its bad in every respect, though I guess it was in focus, so cheers to the Camera operator I guess. The dialogue is atrocious, the lighting is awful, the transitions between scenes is jokingly bad, and the acting.... Oh my, where to start.
I rarely criticize production design but it can't go unmentioned for this film. There is an opening voice over about how the mansion is run down, and it looks like the Production designer had 5 dollars and about 5 minutes to make the mansion look old.
To be fair, a lot of what makes this film laughably bad is because of what must've obviously been severe budget constraints, as it had scenes that clearly needed many extras, but only had a few to fill the background.
But you can't blame lack of money for bad dialogue, bad acting, and some atrociously bad accent work by Leto and Slater. I've seen those actors be good in other things, so I have to put a lot on the really bad dialogue they had to speak. It's George Lucas Phantom Menace level of bad dialogue.
I'll stop now, because this movie deserves no more of my life or your time spent reading this review.
Cheers.
Howards End (2017)
A mixed bag - the good outweighs the bad though
I'm of two minds on this. The parts that stuck to the book were good although the first episode was rather slow. What really kept annoying me was how they created in one particular regard a past fictional universe, where England was evidently harmoniously multi-ethnic. If they change the culture of the time, which is one of the things that makes these old English stories usually so interesting, why not just add some steampunk to it, or maybe some pets that could talk? I'm kidding, sort of. But seriously, I've never seen an alternate-universe story that was so grating . If they're going to go so radical in one aspect but then have the rest of the story stick the book, its a very jarring thing when it swings back and forth.
Every scene with Helen and Quinn was excruciatingly bad. It was just grating and made me long for them to get back to the main plot. There was one scene in particular that just went on for so damn long. It was horribly written and all but ruined the whole experience.