Word: clunker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only good thing about this movie. Ambitions Burt Reynolds takes on writing, directing, and acting chores in this clunker about a man with a terminal disease, and poor Burt fails at two out of three (guess which ones). This is the idea for a comedy...
...large success two summers ago, is alive and well and living in Chicago in this sequel. Unfortunately, the movie is not well at all and cannot even be said to be alive. One expects little enough from sequels, but even that bare minimum is not attained by this clunker...
Despite any rumors, Cincinnati Reds Manager Sparky Anderson has not returned to the used-car business. It's tough to tell though, considering the clunker he has been driving lately. It certainly bears no resemblance to the Big Red Machine that cruised by the Yankees in four straight games last October for the team's second straight World Series victory. Five weeks into the season the Reds were blowing leads, big and small, failing to produce in the clutch, surrendering runs in bunches, falling down in the base paths and sputtering along under .500. "This has been...
...Kael has unmistakably earned her pedestal. With a gritty, grappling brand of opinionation (and largely because of it), her review slot at the New Yorker has often produced sparkling minor masterpieces. She's become the Chopin of the pan. When she lights into "Lost Horizon," the multi-million dollar clunker in Reeling, it's a virtuoso performance. "To lambast a Ross Hunter production is like flogging a sponge," she writes. "He is to movies what Liberace is to music, and once, on a television talk show, I saw them both. . .and the two unctuous smiles came together. Mr. Bland...
...Barry Lyndon, critic after critic has written, is an extraordinarily beautiful film. Unwilling to admit they saw Barry Lyndon as a failure (because they know Kubrick is smarter than they are and may have one more trick up his sleeve), they tell us how "beautiful", how "visually stunning" this clunker is. Up to a point, they are right. Barry Lyndon is an unusually beautiful film. But $11 million still buys an awful lot of beauty in almost any art form and Barry Lyndon hardly breaks any records in the cinema beauty contest. Take, for example, the many indoor scenes Kubrick...