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Liverpool (2008)
My feelings exactly
All I have to say is I agree 100% with the first person who "reviewed" this artistic whatever. I didn't even realize when the movie came to an end, literally fade to black. I just have one question and that is why is this called Liverpool??? Ushaia would have been more appropriate. It was evident that none of the people who were "acting" in this were professionals. The central character drives a snow plow in real life. But if the woman who played his disabled daughter isn't then she did well. I also agree as to the mystery of how this project got funded. Besides the endless tedium I felt a chill just watching it.
War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
Worse than the original (and that wasn't so hot)
I think that the most aggravating feature of this movie was Sally Fraser, she has to have been the worst AIP actress, at least according to this performance. Of course the (so-called) writers bear the blame for making Glenn Manning's sister such a stupid you-know-what. Bottom line the first Amazing Colossal Man should have been the *only* version. And substituting a different actor for the monster/man didn't have much intelligence either. When I watch these AIP films again I get tired of Russ Bender, who must have had a part in every single production. He was the "nuclear scientist" in the original film. And what was really silly about that movie was they stated that a Plutonium bomb had never been exploded before. You have to be kidding me. The Trinity test was a plutonium bomb as was Nagasaki.
Leave It to Beaver: Box Office Attraction (1963)
A Strange episode
I couldn't agree more with the previous reviewer. Despite it being an episode of the beaver, it was a strange one in a sense. It's like Wally is thrown into the pit of temptation but he is not developed emotionally enough to navigate sex with Marlene. Also they've oddly (for the producers) included an obvious nod to class differences in Mayfield. I can't even remember seeing this one although I swore that I saw every one. Finally Wally is small in stature in more than one sense of the term, in this den of iniquity/Hank's Place. He is way out of his element. It' s like one of the writers got brave and put this idea over for a show. Still the beaver, but an interesting one.
Leave It to Beaver: Box Office Attraction (1963)
A Strange episode
I couldn't agree more with the previous reviewer. Despite it being an episode of the beaver, it was a strange one in a sense. It's like Wally is thrown into the pit of temptation but he is not developed emotionally enough to navigate sex with Marlene. Also they've oddly (for the producers) included an obvious nod to class differences in Mayfield. I can't even remember seeing this one although I swore that I saw every one. Finally Wally is small in stature in more than one sense of the term, in this den of iniquity/Hank's Place. He is way out of his element. It' s like one of the writers got brave and put this idea over for a show. Still the beaver, but an interesting one.
The Skydivers (1963)
CF Strikes again
This film is yet another demonstration of how easy it was for an idiot like Coleman Francis to make a movie. Lord knows there were enough examples. My question is who was crazy enough to fund these projects?
Favorite Coleman Francis line (from the Beast of Yucca Flats): Flag on the moon, how did it get there. What relationship it had to the movie is anybody's guess, I don't even think that Coleman Francis himself knew other then he had to fill in some dialogue over a chase sequence (why??)
And of course let's not forget the CF classic, Red Zone Cuba. Was that *the* low point in John Carradine's career? There must have been something about the late '50's and early '60's that inspired third rate movie making.
Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1960)
So badddddd!!!!
This movie must be the only terrible movie to be too terrible to be panned on MST3K (which it was...). Did any of these "actors" actually paid for this trash? This makes the 1951 Invasion USA look like academy award material. Who was Barry Mahon trying to kid? How about a worst movie of all time festival with this piece of you-know-what, Monster A-Go-Go, and Manos the Hands of Fate as the headliners? The production was the cheapest, the actors the worst, the plot was stupid and contrived, the so-called facts about the Soviet Union and sputnik weren't. How about all those "foreign" accents, eh? Well Mahon may have gotten the miniscule amount of spoken Russian right as they were spoken by two real Russians (noticed them in the credits).