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The Right Stuff, a review by Rich

The Right Stuff





First outing for this commercial flop, I found some great moments of tension & excitement within this space race biopic, and a reasonable factual account of the Mercury project. As heroic pilot after pilot try to break the air speed and space records, good characterisation techniques are employed to help you understand some truly brave men, and their equally courageous families. Pretty standard Oscar stuff, overly long (3 1/4 hrs), it has all the elements to keep you watching - satire, adventure, human interest, tension and action.
Decent acting and generally impressive effects which stand the test of time (amazing cockpit shots), and a refreshing tongue-in-cheek approach to avoid the ludicrous patriotic macho BS often found in similar films, I think this is a majorly underrated film.
 



(From Riches Random Reviews on March 4th, 2009)

Mondo Cane 2, a review by Jimmy

Title : Mondo Cane 2 (1964)

Overview
Two years after their international smash MONDO CANE became the most controversial documentary of its time, Directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi again ignited a firestorm of outrage and acclaim as they travelled the globe to film an all-new exploration of primitives, penitents and perversions in a world gone mad.

My Impression
This second part isn't as good as the original one for many reasons. The footage use for it is the one that was not good enough for the first, the footage is almost all about the occidental world, some of them is clearly staged and the ensemble is an image patching without a logic narrative. Not that it is bad, but this film is a weak follow up to the original. By exemple a musical number where 6 peoples are slap on stage while a pianist plays is clearly fake or, the most iconical image of the film, a monk who imolate himself on fire for protesting is fake too (the event is real, but it was not filmed for this movie as reveal by the director in the documentary who is included in the boxset). I like some scene like the photoshoot for the pulp fiction novel cover or the shooting target practice by the Mexican police or, my favourite, a park at London (I think) where all kind of crazy peoples make nonsense speech and nobody seems interested (does this place exist really? Look like a good place to get a free laugh).
 
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(From Shockumentary/Mondo Week Marathon on February 4th, 2009)

Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom

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Berlin, Berlin: Complete Series (2002/Germany) IMDb | Wikipedia Universum Film (Germany) Length: 2150 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles:

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Berlin, Berlin
Season 4.20 Melbourne, Melbourne
Writer: David Safier (Writer)
Director: Franziska Meyer Price
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(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on April 11th, 2013)