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Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl (2004)
On Fire . . . .
These guys really were on fire.
What a truly great DVD this is. Truth be said, Queen weren't popular after their 'disasterous' "Hot Space" album.
But this is the tour, and they done the disco songs like "Staying Power", "Back Chat" and "Action This Day" and transformed them into traditional Queen stage classics. But this album apparently killed their success in America. But there are still loads of devoted American Queen fans as much as there are British. They are a great band with an awesome universal appeal.
This is a different sounding concert if compared to "Live at Wembley '86". Queen were going through a transitional stage.
But they still showed cynics that they still knew how to rock.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Tell em to put their guns down . . .
This is a very, very decent movie.
The reason being is Al Pacino's unbelievable performance. He held this movie together. He knew his character and you could tell he was having fun playing him. He took you on this ride as though you were there as well. You even start thinking about what you would do if you were him, in that bank, under that much pressure.
The late John Cazale is very good, as well. He doesn't say much, but you can understand his character by the very expressions on his face. It is fun to watch, like the entire movie.
The overall plot and storyline is thin and I feel that they notched up the the homosexual sub-plot for more effect on the whole story.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest deserved the Oscar for Best Picture, but Pacino deserved his Oscar as Sonny.
Jaws (1975)
DUH DA DUH DA . . . . .
Now matter how much I watch this movie, I always feel that is is so underrated.
As soon as the movie opens, students scattered on the beach and the young lady decides to go swimming . . . it has MASTERPIECE written all over it.
They couldn't use a mechanical shark more than they (Speilberg & Co)would have liked to - it kept breaking down and sinking. All this stuff is now pure Hollywood Legend.
The acting is superb: Scheider down-plays his role as an everyday working man and pulls it off Big Time. He really is one heck of an actor, and incredibly underrated.
Richard Dreyfuss over-plays his role and pulls it off very nicely. He is funny and in-your-face without ever being annoying.
Robert Shaw . . . . he over-plays it and . . . well, he's like a cartoon character. I have never ever liked him. Firstly, you can't even here a word he says, and when he does say something half-audible, it's a loud of old clichéd nonsense.
He is the only dodgy thing about this movie (well, apart from Bruce, of course). The pacing is awesome, the directing unique and the first ever summer blockbuster.
The greatest thing is, though, that you can watch this movie day-in and day-out and it never gets boring.
Now THAT'S what a call a proper suspense movie.