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Wrong, a review by Silence_of_Lambs

Summary:
Dolph Springer (Jack Plotnick) wakes up one morning at 7:60 to realize he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of others ... risking his sanity all the while.

My Thoughts:
Now this was an experience ...
Quentin Dupieux did it again and even more.
If you thought that Rubber was weird you'd have to find new words for "Wrong".
The feature could be called Dadaistic if there wouldn't be something like a plausible main-story as a basis (even though this may stretch "plausible" a bit).
It could be called "Comedy", but only in the classical meaning (Play with an happy ending).

Most of all it seems to be an LSD-trip for the eyes, it has (like "Rubber") extremely powerful and well-composed pictures, which nevertheless never seem to make any sense, or (come to that) add anything to the main-story. Strangely though, this feature is highly entertaining and the (roughly) 90 minutes pass "in no time at all".

So if you expect a movie to move in a straight line from the beginning to the end, skip this one.
But if you are willing to watch a dream come true (and this is not meant in the fairytale meaning, but translates to: abrupt jumps on the timeline (all directions!) combined with surreal locations, situations and actions), give "Wrong" a chance.
After all, the title really says it all.

Highly recommended

My Rating: (out of possible 5)

(From Michael's random reviews on May 24th, 2014)

Topaz, a review by Achim

Title: Topaz
Year: 1969
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating: NR
Length: 142 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Frederick Stafford
Dany Robin
John Vernon
Karin Dor
Michel Piccoli
Philippe Noiret
Roscoe Lee Browne

Plot:
The best-selling spy novel bursts onto the screen in this riveting story of adventure and international intrigue. John Forsythe stars as an American CIA agent who hires a French operative (Frederick Stafford) to travel to Cuba and investigate rumors of Russian missiles and Topaz, a NATO spy. The inquiry soon spins into a life-threatening escapade of espionage, betrayal and murder.

Extras:
Scene Access
Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Gallery
Production Notes
Storyboard Comparisons

That must have been a hard sell at the time... The film has a great plot about spies, takes place during an actual historic event (therefore giving it immediacy to the audience) and places it's set pieces (not high caliber action but good suspense) well spaced throughout the run of the film. The problem is however, that it lacks a central character to identify with and those who are with through the main part of the story have strong character treads that have potential to make them unlikable to some (especially since not portrayed by famous actors). So, actually quite a ballsy movie to make.

The acting is good and Hitch went and hired French actors for most of the French roles. I had hard time recognizing Philippe Noiret or Michel Piccoli as they are so very young here. John Forsythe reminded me, in a rather irritating way, of my late grandmother I have always enjoyed Roscoe Lee Browne, although he overacts a little bit in this one.


(a weak one though)



(From Alfred Hitchcock Marathon on March 19th, 2010)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Synopsis: Garak has joined in on the operation to attack the Founder's home world. The fleet of romulan Warbirds and cardassian warships is taking course to the Omarion Nebula. Now it's his job to interrogate Odo whether he knows something he didn't put into his report to Starfleet. Sisko takes the Defiant against explicit orders and follows them to get his chief of security back.

My Opinion: Now the numbers start to increase and become more realistic. With the Federation the Klingons, the Romulans and the Cardassians we know races that occupy the space of at least one entire quadrant of our galaxy. This space is approx. 4 billion square light years and that doesn't even acknowledge that space has a third dimension. Yet the greatest battle known to Star Trek was the one of Wolf 359: 39 Starfleet ships vs. one Borg cube.
Now we've seen a battle between 20 and 150 ships. 150 ships, that's a dimension we haven't seen before and the Dominion war will provide us with even greater numbers and as I said, that seems only realistic given the vastness of space.
As for the other aspects of that episode: It was a good conclusion to this story and I found it interesting how Tain was still analyzing the situation even though he was about to die.

Synopsis: While on Bajor, Sisko has found the plans for a bajoran solar sail spacecraft. The Bajorans claim to have reached Cardassia with these kind of ships and Sisko wants to build one just to prove that it is actually space-worthy. And his son thinks about leaving for Earth, to do an internship to study writing.

My Opinion: When Jake was introduced in the pilot I thought that it was a good idea to see that a Starfleet officer has a family. But I also thought that he would have a minor role, to appear once in a while and then disappear again. But I like Jake's friendship with Nog and I like how he has developed. The kind of interaction between Jake and his father in this episode, as well as the interaction between O'Brien and Bashir makes me like DS9 more than TNG.

Synopsis: Brunt. FCA. (Ferengi Commerce Authority). He comes to the station and closes Quark's bar. Why? Because Quark's mother Ishka is conduction businesses and she's making profit! Quark and Rom return home and Quark wants her to sign the confession. Meanwhile Jakes tries fix up his father with a certain freighter captain: Kasidy Yates.

My Opinion: Brunt is the IRS guy from hell. I like him. He is a guarantee for a good story. And I like his actor (Jeffrey Combs) who will play both Brunt as well as (in later seasons) Weyoun - in one episode even both IIRC. And I like Kasidy. Her role here is much more likeable than the one Penny Johnson will play on 24: President David Palmer's (ex-)wife Sherry. And I liked how the writers tried to argue against the upkeep of outdated traditions and roles.

Synopsis: The First Minister has died and Kai Winn is temporarily holding both offices but she plans on running for the First Minister's office, too. But she has a problem: Shakaar, former head of Kira's resistance cell, is unwilling to return farming equipment. He was promised that he could have it for a year but Winn wants it back - now. She sends Kira to negotiate.

My Opinion: Yet another good story. I like all stories where Winn loses a fight. And I also liked that all the former resistance fighters refused to fight one another.

(From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Marathon on November 1st, 2008)