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Frankenstein (1931), a review by RossRoy

Original Title: Frankenstein Year: 1931 Country: United States Director: James Whale Rating: NR Length: 384 Min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono Subtitles: French, Spanish

What they say
Boris Karloff stars as the screen's most memorable monster in what many consider to be the greatest horror film ever made. Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with life and death be creating a human monster (Karloff) out of lifeless body parts. It's director James Whale's adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel blended with Karloff's compassionate performance of a creature groping for identity that makes Frankenstein a masterpiece not only of the genre, but for all time. 70 min.

My Thoughts
And thus, my Classic Monster revisit comes to an end. An end which was entirely planned to be on a high note. Ending with my favorite monster of the six: Frankenstein.

I guess to me, this is the whole "magic" Jon keeps referring to when talking about what makes a movie work. I can't really put a name or point a finger that what makes me like this movie so much, I just do. It just clicks in place, takes me in its atmosphere with the creepy castle, and never lets me go, right until the very end. Boris Karloff gives a great performance as Frankenstein's monster. Yet, in pretty much the same way Gene Wilder does in Young Frankenstein, I think Colin Clive steals the show as the demented Dr Henry Frankenstein. His delivery of the now classic line "It's Alive!" over and over always gives me shivers (don't ask why, I have no idea, it just does). This is a great movie!



(From RossRoy's Random Viewings on October 19th, 2008)

Gentleman's Agreement, a review by Eric

Gentleman's Agreement
First time seen



Now that was a very interesting movie.  Filmed in 1947, only 2 years after the 2nd war, it talks about antisemitism.  It's the story of a reporter who's asked to write on the subject but as the editor wants something from an angle that was never used before, the reporter decides to pretend he's a Jew for a while and see how they are really treated.

The movie brings an interesting POV about people who say they are not antisemite, that they despise it but still let go along.  One very interesting thing is that you would expect the movie to have references to the war and the nazis but it actually doesn't.  There's a military who's a Jew and a friend of the reporter but the war is hardly ever mentioned and the holocaust is not mentioned at all.

It is strange that a movie filmed only 2 years after the war and les than a year after the end of the Nuremburg trials would ignore it completely.  Was this an attempt to educate the american people, maybe most Americans in 1947 weren't aware of antisemitism and Zionism and the intended purpose of the movie was to try to change that ?

I really don't know but it surely is interesting to see things haven't changed in 60 years because what's showed in that movie still happens today.

(From Eric's DVD watching. on February 17th, 2008)

Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom

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Angel: Season Five (2003/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (United Kingdom) Length: 913 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, French: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: Danish, English, French, Finnish, Commentary, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish

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Angel
Season 5.22 Not Fade Away
Writer: Joss Whedon (Original Material By), David Greenwalt (Original Material By), Jeffrey Bell (Writer), Joss Whedon (Writer)
Director: Jeffrey Bell
Cast: David Boreanaz (Angel), James Marsters (Spike), J. August Richards (Charles Gunn), Amy Acker (Illyria), Andy Hallett (Lorne), Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall), Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce), Vincent Kartheiser (Connor), Christian Kane (Lindsey McDonald), Dennis Christopher (Cyvus Vail), Sarah Thompson (Eve), Julia Lee (Anne Steele), Leland Crooke (Archduke Sebassis), Stacey Travis (Senator Helen Brucker), Adam Baldwin (Marcus Hamilton), Ryan Alvarez (Pee Pee Demon), David Figlioli (Bartender), Mark Colson (Izzy)

It looks like it has been eight years since I have watched this episode.
It is a good episode and it gives the characters some closures. And even though I like the ending overall, I still have the feeling to being left a little unsatisfied:

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(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on January 26th, 2013)