jcm11360 Reviews

Titanic (1997)

Goofs unreported in a great movie

[11 October 2005]

I have just watched Titanic for the 7th time. I saw in in the movies when it first came out and it is without a doubt one of the greats. I have searched through the Goofs feature on IMDb and I can't find the following.1) When seeing the picture of herself on TV old Rose calls Brock Lovett and asks "I was wondering have you found the diamond yet" or words to that effect. Why would she ask that question when she had the diamond all along. 2) Lizzy Calvert says to one of the crew referring to Rose, "we met a few months ago" Yet Rose States later in the movie that she never told anyone about Jack Dawson, "not even your father" to her daughter or was she an unrelated friend....

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Lets do the Awards over again!!!

[3/10 · 30 July 2005]

I saw this film when it was released back in 1978 and I wasn't impressed. Just finished watching it on VHS and I am still not impressed. "Coming Home" which was one of the contenders for Best Picture for that year should have won as it was a far better movie and quite possibly may have won if Jane Fonda wasn't in it. In any case Deer Hunter was a big disappointment, for me anyway. DeNiro as usual played over the top when he should have been low key but then again I was never a big fan of his. Chris Walken on the other hand is one of the greatest actors of out time and his supporting Oscar was well deserved. In fact the movie could have been edited down by an hour with more concentration on Walken's character. Another thing that bothers me is the way they dressed DeNiro up as though he were Audie Murphy. He was drafted along with his buddies which meant a two year hitch and he wears a three year chevron on his arm and the "time in combat" hashes on his other sleeve show at least three years of combat???. Add to that all the ribbons and badges and it just doesn't work. Obviousely nobody paid attention to detail in this area and it shows .

Report to the Commissioner (1975)

A true story........

[17 May 2005]

I was one of the many bystanders who witnessed part of the major scene which took place on location in front of and inside Sak's 5th Avenue in Manhattan, a lunch hour that turned into two. I believe it was based on a true event and is documented in the NYPD files.As for the movie it was one of the best and well acted movies of the seventies in my opinion. I have been trying to get a copy of it for years.The movies involves a screw-up that leaves a female undercover cop dead because the brass feel asleep and later looked for and found a scapegoat, sound familiar? As I mentioned the acting was great, all of the cast acted as if they been NY City cops at some point in their lives.

Hamburger Hill (1987)

Realistic account of what it was really like.

[10/10 · 3 April 2005]

There were many battles for useless real estate in Vietnam but Hamburger was among those that cost the most lives and John Irvin's telling of it on film is up there in my list of the three best films about Vietnam, the other two being "Platoon" and "We Were Soldiers" The critics generally overlooked HH but that doesn't change the fact that it was great movie in my opinion and the actors, while for the most part unknown, did a great job. They were "believable" as grunts.They had the lingo of that day down pat and their characters were well formed by the time the movie gets to the job of taking the Hill. This is especially true of Courtney B.Vance who played Doc.