Word: dewitt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sherlock Holmes: I suppose you know why I am here, Dewitt? Dewitt: No. I don't have a clue...
...here to talk about my past, Dewitt. It's your past that I'm here to uncover...
Competing with the Nickolodeon's ready-made typo is the Harvard Square Theater's CALIGULA. Dewitt thinks that this is either the worst soft-porn action movie or the worst action-filled soft-porn film ever made. Caligula, the Man, tries to dominate his fellow Men, and Nature ends up aserting herself to resolve the ensuing chaos. Sex and violence are so intermingled here that the sex scenes aren't a turn-on and the graphic bits of violence induce fits of laughter instead of a quickening of the pulse. The only notable monologue in the movie...
...Dewitt finishes this column, his eyes seize on a ray of hope, a certain hope for Nature's final triumph over the inevitably jaded sensibilities and efforts of Man. The Beacon Hill Cinema in beautiful downtown Boston unveils GODZILLA 1985 this weekend, a film which should be subtitled "Nature's Ultimate Weapon." The fire-spitting monster once again proves to be the most effective remedy to the crime, filth, traffic problems, pornography, impoliteness, inflation, hypocrisy and general yuck which accumulates every time Man decides to congregate in groups of more than four. Raymond Burr also stars in this latest incarnation...
Godzilla was always one of Dewitt's childhood faves, and this time, one can only hope that the big green monster is tired of fooling around. It all goes to prove that in the battle between human beings and their environment, it's not who wins the most rounds but who lands the final blow...