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...screening of the classic melodrama, accompanied by running commentary from a chorus of Crimson Key members. During the film's first hour, most comments were sophomoric but harmless, consisting largely of sexual innuendoes and repeated references to the lead actress' ostensible ugliness. Several shouts foreshadowed the cancer that, by reel three, would take the young woman's life. As the disease progressed, a similar malignancy claimed the commentators' attempts at humor: as the hero aided his limping wife through a snowy lawn, the chorus declared, "Nice day for a drag,"; a pain-wracked hailing of a taxi elicited...
...hosed down. But this movie is a bad cry, for calculation steams off it like skunk musk. It is packed with stale "sure-fire" routines, like the rendition of a rock-'n'-roll oldie (here Walk like a Man) and a funny car crash (which comes a reel or two after the fatal crash -- yikes!). The screenplay's big achievement is to create four people who are already dead and then give each a death scene...
...Arnold Schwarzenegger's new Last Action Hero, is living the dream of any lonely young movie fan. He has been blasted magically through the screen to co-star in a new action film with Jack Slater, his favorite hero and budding father figure. But there are differences between reel life and real life. The boy writes a certain word on a piece of paper and asks the man to say it out loud. Jack declines the challenge, and Danny knows why. "You can't," the lad crows. "You can't possibly say it! Because this movie...
...game certainly will not get much air time in the season ending highlight reel. It wasn't Harvard's best performance of the year...
Bigger is not better. James Michener's novels keep getting longer and less readable. Overhead costs are bankrupting the newly renovated, expanded Crimson. Gandhi, the movie, might have won an Oscar, but it would have been just as good--if not better--without the second reel...