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Seven Ways from Sundown, a review by Antares

Seven Ways from Sundown (1960) 65/100 - At first I couldn't figure out what kind of western this was going or wanted to be. There are a few played for laugh moments in the beginning, and I started to wonder if this was going to be worth the investment in my personal time. But once the town is left behind and the pursuit and ambush take place, this turned out to be an enjoyable little movie. Once Barry Sullivan's character is captured, the film then evolves into a quasi buddy picture that at times, reminded me of 3:10 to Yuma, but not as stark or dramatic. It may have starred Audie Murphy, but this is Sullivan's picture. He plays a well known and well liked outlaw who has a price on his head and a lot of friends in a lot of towns that Murphy has to travel through to bring him to justice. By the end of the movie you can understand why everyone likes him, Sullivan's the kind of guy you'd want as a friend. Halfway through the story, I started to get the feeling that Murphy was OK with Sullivan stealing the film from him. Earlier that same year, he had a supporting role in John Huston's bigger budgeted western The Unforgiven, with Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn Charles Bickford & Lillian Gish. The success of that film may have led Murphy to believe that bigger and better things were about to happen with his career and he would only have to make this film as part of his Universal contract.

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 July 11th, 2020)

The Dream Team, a review by KinkyCyborg

The Dream Team




Title:The Dream Team
Year: 1989
Director: Howard Zieff
Rating: PG-13
Length: 112 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, French: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Michael Keaton
Christopher Lloyd (1938)
Peter Boyle (1935)
Stephen Furst
Dennis Boutsikaris

Plot:
Michael Keaton heads an all-star cast in this wild and crazy comedy about four mental patients who get separated from their therapist on the way to a baseball game.

Billy (Keaton), a pathological liar with a violent streak, finds himself on the loose in New York City with his fellow group therapy patients: Henry (Christopher Lloyd), a neat freak; Jack (Peter Boyle), a former advertising executive who thinks he's Christ; and Albert (Stephen Furst), a near catatonic couch potato. Faced with the task of rescuing their missing doctor from a pair of crooked cops, the group finds themselves sharing a series of hilarious adventures in this farce The Washington Post calls an "irresistibly nutty buddy movie."

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers


Comedy about 4 mental patients out on a day pass to go to a Yankees game but never make it as their doctor goes missing.

Not bad, but not great. The movie isn't nearly as good as some of the individual performances. Peter Boyle, who thinks he is Jesus Christ is a hoot!  Christopher Lloyd was the perfect choice to play the obsessive compulsive neat freak. He was funny but also had a touching moment or two as well. While there was nothing special about Lorraine Bracco's performance she is gorgeous in this early role, the first time I've seen her without the BIG hair.

Michael Keaton headlines this but he was the same as he was in so many of his comedies from the 80's... hyper, outlandish, smart ass and also with BIG hair.

This was ok but if you want to see a better comedy about mental patients gone awry I recommend Crazy People with Dudley Moore. 

KC

Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2011 on April 17th, 2011)

My PILOT Marathon, a review by Rich

Chancer

1. Weapons from the Wall
When an inferno destroys the Douglas family sports car factory, their only hope of escaping ruin is devious financier Stephen Crane.



Clive Owen stars as financial whizzkid Stephen Crane, out to save a struggling sports car factory in the Midlands using his bosses (Jimmy Blake played by Leslie Phillips) money and making many enemies along the way.

Badly dated drama series from 1990, Clive Owen is fairly awful in the lead, but is saved embarrassment and made to look good by a cringeworthy carry-on style role from the annoying Leslie Phillips.
The whole feel of the show is cheesy, the writing similar to many poor 80's series that swam around at the time, the plot totally uninteresting, and the characterisations were notable by their absences. Lot of familiar faces appear clearly early in their careers, and I bet if they had the opportunity they would wipe this from their resumes.
The only unconnected interest you may draw from the programme would be to get the laughs out of the fashion of the day, mullet haircuts, and bricks for phones.
 


(From My PILOT Marathon on September 14th, 2009)