Common Sense Movie Reviews

Just today I watched Marisa Mell in an Austrian TV...

2012-01-25T08:39:33.703-08:00

Just today I watched Marisa Mell in an Austrian TV interview from 1977 ("Bitte zu Tisch", celebrities cooking their favourite dishes on TV plus interviews) in which she said that it "Diabolik" was one of her own favourite movies, because "it was made for the children and for the intellectuals".

Have a wonderful 2012 discovering a lot of movie g...

2011-12-31T01:51:24.554-08:00

Have a wonderful 2012 discovering a lot of movie gems! You only just opened the pirates treasure trove of cult movies! There is SO much more to discover! Be amazed! LOL

www.marisa-mell.blogspot.com

@Mirko - at least the film incorporated animatroni...

2011-12-29T21:17:15.018-08:00

@Mirko - at least the film incorporated animatronics as well so it wasn't completely CGI. But it's very true film's nowadays are often overshadowed by CGI which more money and time is put into than the actual development of the story. I'll take the classic special effects of films like Raiders of the Lost Ark anyday, then look and the last Indiana Jones and their attempt to make

Everytime when I see the movie Jurassic Park I hav...

2011-12-29T12:08:16.040-08:00

Everytime when I see the movie Jurassic Park I have mixed feelings! On one hand I love the movie as being one of the movies that did really justice in bringing the dinosaurs to the big screen as they should be: realistic and very very dangerous, on the other hand this movie among others started in 1993 the whole CGI craze that we have today never to go away! CGI becoming so important that almost

"It's not until the film's peak, w...

2011-12-23T22:57:42.185-08:00
"It's not until the film's peak, when Uncle Billy loses the money and George is about to leap off the bridge that I found the story really interesting and emotional."

Yes, everything up to that point is simply telling you who the characters were, why George Bailey might be so disappointed in his life and his ruination so utterly unfair. But then, life often is

Reviewed this masterpiece a couple of weeks ago on...

2011-12-20T00:26:08.403-08:00
Reviewed this masterpiece a couple of weeks ago on my blog. Hedren was such an underrated actress. A pity Hitchcock ruined her career. She would've starred in "Mirage" with Gregory Peck and "Bedtime Story" with Brando and Niven. Truffaut wanted her in "Fahrenheit". (He then cast Julie Christie instead.) I always loved her. The way she smokes and holds a martini

Fulci directed two other giallo masterpieces: &quo...

2011-12-20T00:22:15.680-08:00
Fulci directed two other giallo masterpieces: "Lizard in a Woman's Skin" and "Perversion Story". Highly recommended!!

One of my all-time Mell favourites. She gave an ex...

2011-12-20T00:16:49.983-08:00
One of my all-time Mell favourites. She gave an extraordinary performance in this and her unearthly beauty just breaks your heart. The three movies she did for the Spanish production company Emaus in the early 70s (they all got pretty cheesy titles for their US release: "Violent Blood Bath", "Death Will Have Your Eyes", and "Diary of an Erotic Murderess") are also

@Dez - sorry I've got to remember a lot of thi...

2011-12-19T09:07:22.513-08:00
@Dez - sorry I've got to remember a lot of things. I guess that just wasn't a very important thing to remember. Glad you mentioned though, so we didn't waste time going through it again! ;)

ahahha, you are getting old a bit, Answer, remembe...

2011-12-19T05:41:24.341-08:00
ahahha, you are getting old a bit, Answer, remember our famous argument on THE PAINTED VEIL last year? :)) We had quite a long exchange on it :)
I adored the story, the promising possibilities, the setting, but thought the director didn't have a clear vision and enough sensuality, and I also thought that Naomi's one-facial-expression acting ruined the film. It should have been

@Dez - I don't even remember McAvoy being in i...

2011-12-16T09:10:10.856-08:00
@Dez - I don't even remember McAvoy being in it, must have been before he reached popularity. The only Kirsten film I barely like her in is Elizabethtown, and she is kinda like a Paltrow, but I wouldn't throw Watts into that mix. Watts is quite a good actress watch The Painted Veil.

I liked the film too, but I'm known to have lo...

2011-12-16T05:46:13.546-08:00
I liked the film too, but I'm known to have love for romcoms :) Loved the cast with Paul Bettany, James McAvoy, and that GAME OF THRONES hunk Nicholas Coster Waldau. I'm also not a fan of Kirsten. She never bought me with her acting, too fake if you ask me. Kinda like Gwyny Paltrow and Naomi Watts.

@marisamell - I'd love to read your book when ...

2011-12-15T16:02:26.413-08:00
@marisamell - I'd love to read your book when it's finished! Please do let me know when it's done or published. I own the book about Marisa written by one of her friends, unfortunately it's in German which I do not read. Planning on scanning the pages and attempting a software translation, haven't had the time yet.

Definitely one of Mell's most stylish and wond...

2011-12-14T01:15:07.727-08:00
Definitely one of Mell's most stylish and wonderful movies. You did an excellent job with your review. So far I've reviewed ten of her movies on my blog (excerpts from the biography I'm writing about her and her films), but I've left out this one so far. Thank you so much for sharing!

Top Gun is awesome. Top Gun's soundtrack is le...

2011-10-15T01:56:17.954-07:00
Top Gun is awesome. Top Gun's soundtrack is legendary. End of story.

I meant more him as HIM, than his songs :P

2011-10-02T15:22:19.582-07:00
I meant more him as HIM, than his songs :P

@Dezmond - I like Bad Day and Jimmy Gets High, but...

2011-10-01T10:49:51.982-07:00
@Dezmond - I like Bad Day and Jimmy Gets High, but can't think think of any of the other songs I really like... might have to listen to the album again.

in an off-topic, I just wanted to say that I adore...

2011-10-01T06:03:16.068-07:00
in an off-topic, I just wanted to say that I adore me some Daniel Powter!

@Matthew - I guess I like the makeup more than the...

2011-09-03T12:07:14.721-07:00
@Matthew - I guess I like the makeup more than the first film because it harkens more to the original Universal monster look. Mummy's Tomb would have been even more entertaining had Cushing not backed out (understandably so because of his wife's death), I think the history behind the bizarre occurrences to people involved on that film are quite interesting. The whole Karnstein Trilogy

I enjoy this rather more than Revenge too and thin...

2011-09-03T02:12:02.158-07:00
I enjoy this rather more than Revenge too and think it generally gets an unfair rap - the only thing we don't agree on is the monster make-up, which is the one thing that stops it being a genuine contender for me. I just don't understand it: why does he have that massive, jutting, square foreheard? If there was only some kind of a reason I'd be okay...
But the original Curse of F

^ Okay, he still "adapted" the book to t...

2011-09-02T19:02:14.120-07:00
^ Okay, he still "adapted" the book to the screenplay. Which is what I said. The fact he also wrote the book only makes this film's existence even worse!

William Peter Blatty who wrote "The Exorcist&...

2011-09-02T12:32:41.064-07:00
William Peter Blatty who wrote "The Exorcist" wrote the screenplay!

@Dezmond - she's been around on the direct to ...

2011-08-12T10:58:54.432-07:00
@Dezmond - she's been around on the direct to DVD market, and recently got arrested for drunk driving I believe, which wasn't a first for her.

I wonder what has happened to Estella Warren from ...

2011-08-12T05:20:12.801-07:00
I wonder what has happened to Estella Warren from this film, she was rather gorgeous ... and hasn't appeared in anything after this ...

@Dezmond - Wahlberg wasn't THAT bad, sure the ...

2011-08-06T00:25:02.227-07:00
@Dezmond - Wahlberg wasn't THAT bad, sure the could have cast someone with a little more talent, but they could have done worse. I personally don't have much more hope for James Franco, whose in the new Apes film.