Word: stinko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those cases where we get to shoot off the same day that the big boys do, so shoot their perceptions--but really, this doesn't look like much more than a bad movie with one wonderful centerpiece. The first main problem is that Thomas McGuane's celebrated writing is stinko. You can see almost every line spoken on the written page as soon as it's said; it doesn't look so good there either. The speeches are bloated, the cowboy banter is self-conscious, the themes muddy. Next big trouble comes when you begin to feel that the film...
...Long Last Love. Bogdanovich, P. (American film director) is on his professional premature death bed. No one need ask who done it; he done it himself. His latest picture is, as Variety might put it, stinko. Not only that, it is expensive, personalized stinko. Worst of all, this leaden dirigible dragged some very talented people down with it, including Cole Porter, a hard man to sink. When a friend of mine stole the script from Twentieth Century Fox and lent it to me, the two of us sat rocking on chairs for the better part of an afternoon rubbing...