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The Conversation, a review by Antares


The Conversation (1974) 68/100 - Nothing drives me more crazy than when a director plays the audience for a bunch of suckers, and that's exactly what Francis Ford Coppola does with The Conversation. The film starts out rather dry, but still intriguing as we are given insight into the covert world of surveillance and eavesdropping. It is here where the film really shines. But halfway through, it kind of loses steam and only comes back to life at the very end. Now I can forgive a film that lags a bit if the payoff makes up for it. But the payoff here is a bit of manipulation by Coppola that defies the laws of science.
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This is just a cheap way to trick the audience, and a lazy way to show that you really didn't have much of a story in the first place, so you had to resort to this kind of cheap carny trick. The minute it happened I felt as if I had just been duped by a crooked Three Card Monty dealer. I thought about giving this a much lower rating, but the first hour is rather good and of course, the sound in this film is excellent. But when all is said and done, this film for me, is not worthy of the lofty position it is given by many in the film world.

What the color coding means...

Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is


(From Antares' Short Summations on August 16th, 2012)

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Billu, a review by Tom




Title: Billu
Year: 2009
Director: Priyadarshan
Rating: FSK-6
Length: 132 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: German: Dolby Digital 5.1, Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: German

Stars:
Irrfan
Lara Dutta
Om Puri
Asrani
Rajpal Yadav

Plot:Awards:
Extras:
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Scene Access
Trailers

My Thoughts:


Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on June 11th, 2010)

Member's TV Reviews

Doctor Who Marathon, a review by Tom


Doctor Who
Series 2.01 New Earth
Writer: Russell T Davies (Writer)
Director: James Hawes
Cast


(From Doctor Who Marathon on February 27th, 2014)