Movie Review #43 - Colossus the Forbin Project - Don't Play Us Cheap - Property is no Longer a Theft - Barry Lyndon - Night Full of Rain - Meetings with Remarkable Men - Serial

A decade under the influence

Seven more 70’s movie reviews in the can today, putting us at a grand total of 337 movies we have showcased or reviewed.

Today we start out with (Colossus the Forbin project 1970) Dammit, first off we are all not perfect in general, and here ME in particular got 2 actors screwed up and said a bunch of wrong shite. Look up actors Eric Braeden, and Ken Berry circa 1970 and give me the slightest bit of redemption please. Here we have the Mom from Webster and the Mom from Happy days as part of a team of genius nerds who create a super computer in 1970 that we cannot even create now. Said computer gets out of their control extremely fast and decides that humans are flippin dumb and quite bent on murdering each and very much deserve a time out!
(Don’t play us cheap 1972) is up next and it was streaming, so that was a nice lil treat for us. Film has 2 iconic t.v. mom’s in it, before they were t.v. moms. Mabel King was Mama from What’s Happening, and Esther Rolle was Florida Evan’s from Good Times, Annnnnd Maude. This film has only a few other actors, and is kind of a play on wheels, crazy because it was oddly a movie first, then a play which was done to get funding to distribute the movie. It was directed by Melvin Van Peebles, please listen for more.
next is (Property is no longer a theft 1973) I’m jumping sharks but sayin anyways that this sounds cooler than it is, possibly a very rad movie in there but some ick that made this one difficult. Directed by Elio Petri, with quite an interesting radical life to read about, we will see his work again hopefully under better circumstances.
(Barry Lyndon 1975) According to our amazing V they chose a quite problematic script to adapt here, I’d have to agree, however with that, the film looks absolutely stunning, stars Ryan O’neal and is directed by master Stanley Kubrick, and we’ll see them both again sooooon.
Next today we get the Mighty Murphy Brown in (Night full of rain 1978) Candice plays a rad feminist photographer traveling in Italy where she meets this shitty shit. The acting is very good and we have a woman director here telling the hard truth of an abusive narccisistic man, and unlike many movies, she does leave him at the end, spoiler I know but in a triggering setting I usually wanna know the end so I can worry just a lil less. Lina Wertmuller was the first woman to receive an Oscar for directing, so we may see her work again, still both of these Italian films we review today get a content warning.
Happily moving on to (Meetings with remarkable men 1979)This trippy ish cult film was available only on VHS, until we watched the F’r- and now you can watch it on amazon for 2.99. I was longing for a young Terrence Stamp here, but A. I got the release date wrong and he looks just as he does in superman, and B. He’s hardly in this. Listen for more info on all these films, why not?! There is a fun Bauhaus band connection here.
Finally today we review (Serial 1980). Sally Kellerman and Roseanne’s boss star in this film about trying to find some ease in this crazy cruel world. Best appearance of Christopher Lee ever! Put yer hands down!
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