tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840014477155018172024-03-05T08:04:30.242-08:00GONNA PUT ME IN THE MOVIESB. Goodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560907754790489198noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-584001447715501817.post-33407405150884071022022-01-30T07:38:00.006-08:002022-01-30T08:03:53.976-08:00Dateline Diamonds<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6gNp-echYDY8lNYwpXOUTSe3eHtUPCWiH53cus66BoN95K3ppThRahdMlwSZCEQ8bU2s6dVUi8hKOPz3hnQJye3MYgnzPgedcfhnGZz44tE0-XkAaBC5UIzTxxjnOOytgDzCIKnWmiY9V2z6iR71AQHOAWdWMxja9x1h1YLUiBoPA7SU7s55XPYvB=s712" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6gNp-echYDY8lNYwpXOUTSe3eHtUPCWiH53cus66BoN95K3ppThRahdMlwSZCEQ8bU2s6dVUi8hKOPz3hnQJye3MYgnzPgedcfhnGZz44tE0-XkAaBC5UIzTxxjnOOytgDzCIKnWmiY9V2z6iR71AQHOAWdWMxja9x1h1YLUiBoPA7SU7s55XPYvB=s320" width="227" /></a></div><br />First off, if you're looking for movie with The Small Faces, this ain't it. Even though The Small Faces are touted on the front cover, they have hardly any presence in the film. They're shown a couple of times getting out of a van, once for a photo shoot, and when playing at the final concert, they get about a minute of screen time with the rest of their performances being heard in the background.<p></p><p>The plot: The Small Faces manager is an ex-con who gets blackmailed into smuggling diamonds to the Radio London ship (as seen in the fictionalized "Pirate Radio" movie"). The best part of this is the blackmailer looks like Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIss8Q7xKENGP-3UkFDWEFIbExP_p6EibpENKjSui_J-vE6idtLu-_ASHhOaEf21WW8mNB0_lL7UIRNyG80FSCwiMCEwDSJptskynaym33XF4Mo7a_9HeO4rbndLMUHxVFYTnuu713VAeuEojvyNjzazmrSTGWu4HpZuppAtWLK4AWgRDyZIhw2Nbo=s480" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIss8Q7xKENGP-3UkFDWEFIbExP_p6EibpENKjSui_J-vE6idtLu-_ASHhOaEf21WW8mNB0_lL7UIRNyG80FSCwiMCEwDSJptskynaym33XF4Mo7a_9HeO4rbndLMUHxVFYTnuu713VAeuEojvyNjzazmrSTGWu4HpZuppAtWLK4AWgRDyZIhw2Nbo=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The Chantells get more screen time than any of the musical acts. They appear three times, twice singing "I Think of You" and once singing "Please Don't Kiss Me".</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaU0oq74lbU9h62E1WLiWb40QulwH3Z9FC3j7v3YLblUE-h-lbmb5wavUAtaRA3L7l-sHpSQndMf4GFqqglXNH41wUIIYX-4LxWR8GciSIiy6zMn_6E0_KwUPHKuJywSllP5XRFW1nVYaEIL7pBODmafDiyTJHnBRDHNIYY0zCrl5JB29Z2WekjWA8=s344" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="236" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaU0oq74lbU9h62E1WLiWb40QulwH3Z9FC3j7v3YLblUE-h-lbmb5wavUAtaRA3L7l-sHpSQndMf4GFqqglXNH41wUIIYX-4LxWR8GciSIiy6zMn_6E0_KwUPHKuJywSllP5XRFW1nVYaEIL7pBODmafDiyTJHnBRDHNIYY0zCrl5JB29Z2WekjWA8=s320" width="220" /></a></div><br /><div>Kiki Dee, the first female singer from the UK to be signed to Motown's Tamla label, and best known as an Elton John duet partner, sings "Small Town". Also performing in the film were Mark Richardson singing "What 'ma Going To Do" and Rey Anton and Pro Forma singing "First Taste of Love". </div><div><br /></div><div>The Small Faces have four songs featured: "I've Got Mine", "Don't Stop What You're Doing". "It's Too Late", and "Come On Children". </div><div><br /></div><div>Final comments: All the performances were lip synched except, it appears, in their brief on screen time, that The Small Faces were playing live. Most people rave about the safe cracking portion of the movie and while it was interesting and detailed, I really didn't get much out of the scene; which is also what I got out of the movie: NOT MUCH!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhV4vsU-rTW2ezt5vHoT78TsSufOcz3z9jXXwjvBbowDMrq-6390UPv8_RCBo501CZ5FmU5swQ70rAwFro6pQQ7DBXwFdGgkrhP-no41eWM9cZK68QLP8zYeZpXZJg5qieWJMTCkL74YLrrPcyp5_ksfuLPXh_ZVZeG-x8kTT5fM_JqjNKDehbBtL3M=s712" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhV4vsU-rTW2ezt5vHoT78TsSufOcz3z9jXXwjvBbowDMrq-6390UPv8_RCBo501CZ5FmU5swQ70rAwFro6pQQ7DBXwFdGgkrhP-no41eWM9cZK68QLP8zYeZpXZJg5qieWJMTCkL74YLrrPcyp5_ksfuLPXh_ZVZeG-x8kTT5fM_JqjNKDehbBtL3M=s320" width="227" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>B. 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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Although Vanishing Point is suppose to be a commentary on post Woodstock America, it plays best, for me, as a simple "car chase film", ranking with the best of the best: "Gone in 60 Seconds"(1974 version), "Bullitt", "Eat My Dust", and "Junkman".</span>B. Goodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560907754790489198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-584001447715501817.post-54801903013313669072016-02-20T06:05:00.001-08:002016-02-23T05:59:08.175-08:00NORTHERN SOUL LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Just like Carolina Beach Music songs, which often cross paths with Northern Soul songs, this allows for a wide variety of music. Carolina Beach Music however, has to have a certain rhythm for the Shag Dancers. I could not distinguish any certain beat in Northern Soul. And while the male partner in Shag dancing has the most ornate footwork, the Northern Soul dancer (male or female) many times doesn't even require a partner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Living For The Weekend</span> draws a direct line from The Mods of London to Northern Soul to Disco to House Music and ends up with Pharrel Williams and his song "Happy" fitting into the mold of Northern Soul. Do I know exactly what Northern Soul is after watching this documentary....no I don't and I don't think I ever will, but I do have a slight understanding of the phenomena that I didn't have before.</span>B. Goodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560907754790489198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-584001447715501817.post-27516190989089185182016-01-03T08:15:00.000-08:002016-01-12T11:43:57.991-08:00SEASIDE SWINGERS aka EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you only have time to see one mid 60s movie built around an English band who aren't The Beatles, <u>please</u> don't let it be <span style="color: red;">Seaside Swingers</span>. Pick <a href="http://gonnaputmeinthemovies.blogspot.com/2010/07/ferry-cross-mersey.html" target="_blank">Ferry Across The Mersey</a> with Gerry and The Pacemakers or <a href="http://gonnaputmeinthemovies.blogspot.com/2010/05/having-wild-weekend-aka-catch-us-if-you.html" target="_blank">Having A Wild Weekend</a> with Dave Clark Five or even <a href="http://gonnaputmeinthemovies.blogspot.com/2010/10/ghost-goes-gear.html" target="_blank">The Ghost Goes Gear</a> with The Spencer Davis Group, but unless you're really want to be bored to tears, don't let it be<span style="color: red;"> Seaside Swingers</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The main reason <span style="color: red;">Seaside Swingers</span> is so bad, compared to those other films, is that it isn't built around Freddie and The Dreamers, even though the movie poster would lead you to believe otherwise. Instead, it's light romantic musical comedy, which includes several dance numbers in the style of <i>Oklahoma</i> or<i> Seven Brides For Seven Brothers</i>. Freddie and The Dreamers are only featured in minor roles as goofy cooks. Since Freddie & the Dreamers were a minor British Invasion band, I guess in a way that's appropriate. In <span style="color: red;">Seaside Swingers</span>, they perform one absolutely terrible song and then during a talent show, they sing another song, which is just barely listenable. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I still think Freddie & The Dreamers could have carried a move (and certainly a better one than this), IF they had a script written around them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The plot, such as it is: In a dystopian future Jack Fate (Dylan) is in prison, but is released to do a benefit performance. As Dylan proceeds to the concert site and prepares for the show, we meet a variety of characters, all played, for the most part by famous actors. Dylan sings several songs (the oddest of which, to me, was "Dixie") and the soundtrack provides more Dylan tunes covered by different artists. As noted above, this movie seemed to be striving, but definitely not succeeding, in providing some message about politics, or society, or Dylan himself. Your guess is as good as mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most days I'm a Dylan fan (probably why I didn't think this film was so bad on my first viewing), but I consider this movie to be one of the lower points in his career, even worse than his Christmas album and his Sinatra covers album. If you want to see Dylan in a movie, I would recommend "Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid", where Dylan actually acts, or even the laughably bad <a href="http://gonnaputmeinthemovies.blogspot.com/2010/07/hearts-of-fire_14.html" target="_blank">Hearts of Fire</a>, which is still better than <span style="color: red;">Masked and Anonymous</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have an obsession with AIP (American International Pictures) and had never seen a movie from AIP that didn't entertain me in some way or the other, either in my youth or now in my AARP years, until<span style="color: red;"> Cult of The Damned</span> destroyed that axiom. Not only is this the worst AIP movie I've seen, it's also one of the worse films I've ever seen. One bright thing about the film is Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann composed the songs, so at least there are a few decent tunes in the movie. Released originally under the title <span style="color: red;">Angel Angel Down We Go</span>, a year later it became <span style="color: red;">Cult of The Damned</span> to capitalize on the Manson murders (yeah, Hollywood, what a way to show your sympathy....or maybe you were showing your sympathy......for The Devil!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The plot (and I use that word loosely) follows Tara (Holly Near), the overweight daughter of one of the richest families in the world. Her parents hire a rock band for her coming out party. The lead singer, Jordan Christopher </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">doing his best Jim Morrison impression</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">, plays rock star Bogart Peter Stuyvesant, the charismatic leader of the band (which also features Lou Rawls).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Jennifer Jones is cast as Holly's gold digging mother. It seems mother was a porn star in her former life. Her father is rich and gay. Eventually, Christopher seduces Holly Near, Jennifer Jones, AND the father. For any of you fans of Holly Near, who have always ached to see her naked, this is the movie for you. There's a lot of talking in this film (and that includes piles of bad dialogue), but the main problem with the movie is the director tried to make so many "arty" shots that it just made a mess of the whole film. I'm sure at the time (1969), the director thought he was sending a "heavy" message. The only thing that got <i>heavy</i> with me was my eyes, which kept wanting to close and not watch this piece of crap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">During the course of the film we see several musicians, the first being Rufus Thomas at the train station, bumming a light from the Japanese tourists. The hotel the tourists check into is run by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, who is so good in his role, makes me wish he had done more acting. The final musician we see is Joe Strummer, the Englishman with the nickname Elvis. Strummer and his problems are the major plot points of the third story. If you noticed, on all these musicians I stated the word "see", and that's because Tom Waits is a disc jockey who is only heard on the radio in all three segments, but never actually appears in the film. Also, I could never be sure, but I think Clarence Gatemouth Brown is shown walking down the street; however, I can find no evidence of this being him or not being him, it may just be the cowboy hat tricking my mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Each episode has its own story to tell and each one can stand on its own without having to watch the other segments. Part of the fun in watching the movie is seeing how the stories and some of the characters overlap and little details in each segment refer to other segments. <span style="color: red;">Mystery Train</span> really shows off the talent of director Jim Jarmusch. While this is one of my favorite films, these stories slowly unfold and I would caution those who aren't into films based on characters, you might not be as enthralled as I am with <span style="color: red;">Mystery Train</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I found this on VHS at a thrift shop and couldn't believe I hadn't heard about it previously. I was super excited to watch this film since it starred Patrick Swayze, who is one of my guilty pleasures with a trio of his movies: Dirty Dancing, Road House, and Next of Kin (overlooked in Swayze's canon of films, as good, if not better than Road House). Unfortunately, Black Dog didn't live up to my expectations, especially with Swayze doing some of his weakest acting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The plot is about an ex-trucker pulled back on the road to haul a load of contraband to save his family from being killed. Meat Loaf plays a bad guy trying to intercept and steal the load for himself. Randy Travis is a would be country song writer, who is riding shotgun with Swayze and his motives as to which side he is on remain suspect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While Swayze was never the greatest actor, he usually could tear up a role that called for over the top tough/sensitive guy histrionic acting. In <span style="color: red;">Black Dog</span>, Swayze's acting is weak, either he didn't have the right direction or his heart just wasn't in this film. Meat Loaf is his dependable self as the bible verse spouting bad guy, but the real revelation here is Randy Travis. He's so good that the film would have been better with Travis as the lead. Maybe the part of Earl, "a good-ole boy wanna-be country song writer", just came too easy for him, whatever it was, he is superb in his role and is the only reasson I would recommend watching <span style="color: red;">Black Dog</span>.</span>B. Goodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560907754790489198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-584001447715501817.post-66351451448245609842014-11-03T21:35:00.000-08:002014-11-09T06:02:15.140-08:00SCARED STIFF<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Dino sings a couple of tunes, as does Carmen Miranda (in this her final film) and although I really was just in a hurry to get to the end of the film, these musical interludes were better than most of the movie. In a uncredited part, Frank Fontaine (Crazy Guggenheim from the Jackie Gleason Show), pops up as, what else, a drunk and this is probably the best comedic scene in the film. However, the very brightest spot in <span style="color: red;">Scared Stiff</span> was a brief cameo by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, in their few seconds on screen, they out shined Martin and Lewis by a mile. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This first part of the documentary is laid out with such detail to the mystery, that after the discovery of the Rodriguez in Detroit, the movie started to drag momentarily for me, until Rodriguez turned out to be everything you could want in a forgotten hero. His first visit to South Africa (where everyone believed he would turn out to be an imposter) is such a triumph that you can feel it through your TV screen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One night I was in the mood for an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_biker_film" target="_blank">Outlaw Biker Film</a> and while searching through youtube I found an obscure, out of print film called <span style="color: red;">Devil Rider</span> and decided to give it a try. If you wonder why it's showing up here on <a href="http://gonnaputmeinthemovies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Gonna Put Me In The Movies</a>, well we'll get to that in just a bit. <span style="color: red;">Devil Rider</span> turned out to be much worse than even I expected it to be....but it was that </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">kind of</span></span> bad movie that's so bad you start enjoying it the more you watch. The acting in <span style="color: red;">Devil Rider</span> ranged from "look ma, I'm saying stuff and I'm in a movie" to community theater level to a few people who could "actually act". The poster above makes this film look 100 per cent better than it really was. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The basic story is about a young girl whose boyfriend is too busy giving karate lessons to pay attention to her. On her own and in a fit of boredom she joins up with a biker gang. When she doesn't show back up at home, her parents hire a private detective to track her down. The detective is so inept that he "thinks" he is disguising himself as a fellow biker and tries to infiltrate the gang. His disguise is SO BAD (like something you rambled through a closet and put together) that he is immediately found out and has to be rescued by the karate boyfriend when he comes for "his woman". The real highlight of the film is the karate boyfriend, who looks and acts like he's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/" target="_blank">Napoleon Dynamite</a>, and when I think about it, <span style="color: red;">Devil Rider</span> could have been a prequel to that movie. The private detective (seen above in his "disguise") could even be Pedro's father. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now, getting to why <span style="color: red;">Devil Rider</span> is showing up on this blog. The film opens with a nice psych instrumental, "The Wind", played by Heroes of Cranberry Farm (I swear I'm not making that name up) who are playing in, what I assume, is a city park (this same location appears to be where the bikers hang out and where a majority of the action takes place). The Heroes of Cranberry Farm, in an earlier incarnation, were a Florida garage band known as The Squiremen (IV). There's some great photos and other interesting information about this group at the following link: <a href="http://limestonelounge.yuku.com/topic/510/THE-SQUIREMEN-IV#.U1Q1XFfg6ws" target="_blank">The Limestone Lounge</a>. If you can't tolerate really bad movies, the best thing is, you can catch the first few minutes of <span style="color: red;">Devil Rider</span> and see the Heroes of Cranberry Farm without having to watch any more of the movie. If you like a really bad movie, then this film will be right up your alley.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: red;">Speedway</span> was Elvis' third appearance as a race car driver having previously had the same profession in <a href="http://gonnaputmeinthemovies.blogspot.com/2013/07/viva-las-vegas.html" target="_blank">Viva Las Vegas</a> as Grand Prix driver Lucky Jackson, and in Spinout he played Mike Mcoy, part time race car driver and part time musician. While <a href="http://gonnaputmeinthemovies.blogspot.com/2013/07/viva-las-vegas.html" target="_blank">Viva Las Vegas</a> is one of Elvis' best films, <span style="color: red;">Speedway</span> ranks more toward the bottom of Elvis' cinema output. The plot, which I know isn't the prime reason they made movies starring Elvis, concerns Elvis' business manager, Bill Bixby, misusing Elvis's funds until they get audited by the IRS. It seems Elvis owes Uncle Sam $150,000. Nancy Sinatra is an IRS agent assigned to Elvis's case to recoup the funds he owes.....need I say that a love interest blooms between the two? Oh yeah, there's some kind of subplot about a homeless guy with kids which is never fully developed, but allows the movie to include some cute little girls.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I guess the idea of using Nancy Sinatra as Elvis' love interest in <span style="color: red;">Speedway</span> would be equal to Ann-Margret in <a href="http://gonnaputmeinthemovies.blogspot.com/2013/07/viva-las-vegas.html" target="_blank">Viva Las Vegas</a>. The problem is there wasn't much chemistry between Nancy and Elvis, plus Nancy just wasn't as talented in the singing and acting departments as Ann-Margret. I'm not trying to take anything away from Nancy, she definitely had some onscreen sex appeal and definitely could rock a pair of white go-go boots, but her acting wasn't even as good as Elvis' and that's a feat hard to accomplish. Even though her performance was good, the one song she was given to sing solo, "Your Groovy Self" , written by her long time collaborator Lee Hazlewood, had a great title, but unfortunately terrible lyrics. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Quentin Tarantino had his design team for <b>Pulp Fiction</b> view <span style="color: red;">Speedway</span> and the results can be seen in that film. The club Elvis hangs out in, cleverly called The Hangout (bet that took a lot of time to think up) features car bodies for booths. In the Jack Rabbit Slims club scene in <b>Pulp Fiction</b>, a similar type of car booth was used. No dance contest at The Hangout, as in <b>Pulp Fiction</b>, but when the owner shines a spotlight on someone, they have to perform for the rest of the club. This, of course, made it easy to include a couple of more songs in the film. A couple of songs in <span style="color: red;">Speedway</span> turned out to be pretty good,
especially "Let Yourself Go" and the finale "There Ain't Nothing Like A
Song", plus I enjoyed the "full on" Broadway musical performance of "He's Your Uncle, Not Your Dad". When all is said and done, <span style="color: red;">Speedway</span> delivered what is was supposed to....Elvis singing some songs wrapped around a light plot. It just didn't do it as well as some of his other movies. </span></span>B. Goodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560907754790489198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-584001447715501817.post-19665157056474325932014-04-06T08:51:00.000-07:002014-04-06T09:07:57.049-07:00THE SAVAGE SEVEN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A motorcycle gang, The Savage Seven, invade an Indian shanty town and at different points in
the film the Indians and the Cycle Gang are either friends with each
other or they're fighting each other. When one of the company store employees rapes and kills an Indian
girl the blame is put on the Savage Seven. This starts an all out fight
with the Savage Seven, where they take the place of the Indians attacking
from above (as seen in so many Western films) and the Indians are those holed up in a "fort", or in this case the shanty town. This is when <span style="color: red;">The Savage Seven</span>
finally gets in the groove with a fifteen minute fight, where the
stunt director must have been told to pull out all he's got, since
there are people falling off buildings, crashing bikes, running cycles
through cardboard boxes, a person catches on fire, knife fights, guns
shooting, dynamite exploding and probably some other things I've
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Most likely due to Dick Clark being involved, Duane Eddy (a close
friend of Clark's) was given a part in the film as Eddie, one of the
motorcycle gang members. I'm assuming that Eddy decided to "talk tough"
when delivering his lines, but unfortunately this caused some of
his words to be almost intelligible. Eddy is sometimes hard to pick out when
watching the film, but if you want to spot him, he's the one wearing the Rebel cap (sort of like the ones you buy at tourist
shops in the Great Smoky Mountains). Strangely, there are no Duane Eddy instrumentals on the soundtrack; however, the soundtrack does contain one song by Cream and two songs by Iron Butterfly. I personally found this movie mediocre in the field of biker films, but others may be much more enthralled than I was. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The title tune is a catchy little number written by The Sherman Brothers, who wrote many of Annette's songs. The Beach Boys look like they're having fun performing with Annette, and Brian Wilson has said it was a real thrill. Mike Love even gets to do a little bit of dancing with Annette. I'm not sure all of "the boys" thought it was as thrilling as Brian, if you check out the studio photo below. Dennis appears to be wishing he was somewhere else, while Carl studies the floor and Mike appears to be using his time to study the bored Dennis and Carl. Only Brian and Al Jardine appear to be engaged in the process. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The movie isn't bad and some of the plot for the film was obviously taken from "the beach party films", which were still pretty popular at the time. Not only does <span style="color: red;">The Monkey's Uncle</span> have the club scene at the first, but the first part of the film also has Annette talking marriage, pouting when Kirk doesn't show her enough attention, and jealousy over the monkey's baby sitter becoming too chummy with Kirk....all of these things could have been part of the plot of any of Annette's "beach party films". About half way into the film, most of this is dropped and you get your basic Disney family movie. So check out the first of the movie for The Beach Boys and Annette's song, and if you've got nothing better to do and </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">you're in the mood for some mindless entertainment</span></span>, stick around for the rest of the film</span></span>B. Goodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560907754790489198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-584001447715501817.post-17472926818013288722014-01-26T15:25:00.000-08:002014-01-26T15:41:15.878-08:00KISS MEETS The PHANTOM of The PARK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;">KISS Meets The Phantom of the Park</span> is a 1978 TV movie. The film starts a little slow while it gets the other characters in the movie, besides KISS, introduced to the audience. Once KISS starts appearing in the film, it's like a train wreck that has come off the rails, which in this case is a lot of fun.<br />
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The park referred to in the title is an amusement park (actually Magic Mountain) and the creator (Anthony Zerbe) of the park has gone loopy and became obsessed with turning people into cyborgs. While he's never actually referred to as The Phantom, he does have an underground lair where he performs all his devious misdeeds. Having KISS perform at the park is the last straw for The Phantom and he plans to discredit them. The first thing he does is make a robotic copy of Gene Simmons and have it wreck a Coke stand (one of many bad F/X in the movie, since it's obvious the stand is made out of Styrofoam). As a side note, Coke must have sponsored some of the movie, since their product shows up throughout the film. The Phantom's final plan is to make KISS duplicates and have these clones cause a riot at the final concert where they will sing "Rip and Destroy" and the fans, being mindless idiots in his opinion, will go wild and destroy the park.<br />
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KISS, according to this film (which borrows from the KISS comics), are not only a rock band, but they also have super powers. These special powers have been granted to them by <span id="movieSynopsisRemaining">secret talismans, which they carry around in a briefcase. Each member has a name to reflect his unique power. Gene Simmons is Demon and he growls instead of talks most of the time and can also shoot fire out of his mouth. Peter Criss is Cat Man and he can jump really high. Ace Frehley is Space Ace and can teleport the group. Paul Stanley is Star Child and can shoot lasers from his eyes. The craziest two scenes in the film (among many crazy scenes) are when KISS fight an army of white cat robots and when KISS fight their robotic selves near the end of the movie. In both these scenes, all the KISS members get to use their special powers.</span><br />
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<span id="movieSynopsisRemaining">KISS have distanced </span><span id="movieSynopsisRemaining"> themselves from this movie and for good reason. Even though I thoroughly enjoyed it, the plot is ludicrous. If I said the members of KISS and their acting ability was abysmal, I would still be too kind. In recent years KISS has released the European version of this film on KISS: Kissology Volume Two, but to see the original US TV version, you'll need to either buy a used vhs (fairly inexpensive) or get a copy from the grey market. </span><span id="movieSynopsisRemaining"><span id="movieSynopsisRemaining">Over the years, I've watched a lot of
movies that were billed as "so bad, they're good". Some actually turned out to be good
and some just turned out to be god awful bad, but <span style="color: red;">KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park</span> is <u>truly</u> "so bad. it's good".</span></span><br />
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<br />B. Goodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560907754790489198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-584001447715501817.post-10456459547161176542014-01-11T15:22:00.000-08:002014-01-11T15:22:29.601-08:00UHF<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I like Weird Al Yankovic, having said that, <span style="color: red;">UHF</span> is not a very good film and I'm being generous when I say "not very good", it's really terrible with only one bright spot in the whole movie. How a comic genius like Yankovic could have made such a disaster of a film is beyond me. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Weird Al plays a dreamer who can't hold a job, until one day his Uncle wins a nearly bankrupt UHF channel in a poker game and turns it over to Weird Al to run. Weird Al's attempts at saving the station aren't going so well until he turns his kid show "Uncle Nutzy's Clubhouse" over to his half-wit janitor Stanley, played as a stupider version of Kramer by Michael Richards. Stanley's child like demeanor is a hit with the audience and the program is renamed "Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse. With the renewed interest in the station and the revenue Stanley's show is bringing in, Al is able to create more shows and soon his UHF station is outranking the local network affiliate, which is owned by R.J. Fletcher, played by Kevin McCarthy. Fletcher makes plans to put Al's channel out of business, but by the end of the film Fletcher is the one out of business and Weird Al has the number one station in town. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Al's daydreams and his shows at the station allow the movie to parody TV, movies, and commercials. The problem was nothing was funny, or even mildly amusing, with the exception of the video for "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies Theme", which was so superior to anything else in the movie it made me realize I would have been better off watching a Weird Al video collection, rather than wasting 97 minutes of my life viewing<span style="color: red;"> UHF</span>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other songs in<span style="color: red;"> Let's Rock</span> fall into categories other than Rock n Roll. Paul Anka sings a ballad, "I'll Be Waiting For You", Danny and The Juniors in a great doo-wop appearance sing "At The Hop", Roy Hamilton has another song in the movie, a ballad, "The Secret Path of Love" and Della Reese also has a ballad with the tune, "Lonelyville". LaRosa has a few other ballads throughout the film, "Two Perfect Strangers, "There Are Times" and "Casual" a duet with Phyllis Newman. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Although <span style="color: red;">Alice's Restaurant</span> is presented in a linear fashion making it appear almost like a documentary, it's important to note that Arlo did not write the screenplay, he only wrote the song "<i>Alice's Restaurant Massacre</i>" on which the movie is based. The screenplay was co-written by the director Arthur Penn with Venable Herndon. Arlo has stated that even though the film used many real names, it took many liberties with actual events. Of course, the song itself was exaggerated to make for a better story. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first part of the movie, gives you background leading up to Thanksgiving and this is the part that plays most like a documentary. Around the half way point of the movie, we get the "<i>Alice's Restaurant Massacre</i>" part which makes up the middle part of the film. For anyone that doesn't know the story, it's all about Arlo and his friend trying to dump trash on Thanksgiving Day. Finding the dump closed they illegally dump their trash and the next day are arrested for littering and are brought before a blind judge. Interestingly enough, the main cop, Officer Obie, and the judge are actually played by themselves. This arrest leads to Arlo being rejected by the Army because of his criminal record. This part of the film is hilarious and will make you want to be sitting on the "Group W" bench with Arlo (you'll have to watch the movie to find out why this is so funny)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The last part of the movie is boring, as the plot starts to revolve around the lives of Alice, her husband Ray, a heroin addict friend, and a motorcycle race. Once Arlo is no longer the central character, I lost interest and found it a hard to get through the remainder of the movie. Still, I would highly recommend <span style="color: red;">Alice's Restaurant</span>, especially to you old hippies...but then again, I know you've already seen this film...so I'll just highly recommend it for everyone else. Not only is it well worth seeing for the comedic parts, but it also serves as a time capsule of the period in which it is set (late 1960s)</span></span>B. Goodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560907754790489198noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-584001447715501817.post-5906999922638232682013-11-07T16:50:00.001-08:002013-11-07T17:13:47.008-08:00THUNDER ROAD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The guests on this special were Margaret Hamilton, Billie Hayes (Witchie-Poo from H.R. Pufnstuff), Billy Barty, Tim Conway, Roz "Pinky Tuscadero" Kelly, Florence Henderson, Betty White, Donny and Marie Osmond, and KISS in their first TV appearance. Donny and Marie make only a very brief appearance in one skit. I can only assume, they were trying to promote their own weekly variety show by dropping in for this one skit. Florence Henderson sings a disco version of "That Old Black Magic" during a disco skit. If you think that would be pretty bad, you're exactly right. Kiss perform three songs during the show "Detroit Rock City", "Beth", and "King of The Night Time World" and interact briefly with Paul Lynde after they are introduced to him by the Wicked Witch of The West (Margaret Hamilton). One more musical number closes out the show, "Disco Baby" performed by Lynde and "Pinky Tuscadero" Kelly . This is so bad, it made me decide Florence Henderson's performance wasn't that bad after all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I hear a lot of people bemoaning the fact that they just don't make TV shows like they used to, and <span style="color: red;">The Paul Lynde Halloween Special</span> is a prime example of why that's probably a good thing. Personally, I enjoyed the bad jokes and appreciated the appearance of all these "stars", more in 2013 than I would have in 1976. The camp factor is so high here, it's almost off the charts...I mean Florence Henderson singing disco, Paul Lynde mincing his way through skits with Tim Conway, Florence Henderson, and Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days, and then add in KISS showing up for their first TV appearance, what more could you want out of a TV special! While The Paul Lynde Halloween Special is in print on DVD, it is also available for free on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4psTeRpQ-1o&feature=share" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.</span></span>B. Goodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04560907754790489198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-584001447715501817.post-50319068035198767002013-07-31T15:27:00.000-07:002013-07-31T15:33:41.079-07:00STARDUST<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span>
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Adam Faith, Marty Wilde, Keith Moon, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds (who went on in real
life to produce the rockabilly band Stray Cats), and Paul Nicholas. There's a lot more music performed in this movie than there was in <a href="http://gonnaputmeinthemovies.blogspot.com/2013/07/thatll-be-day.html" target="_blank">That'll Be The Day</a> (where most of the music was on the soundtrack), but the soundtrack here is also filled with great songs from the era (in fact, more people bought the soundtrack than ever saw this film). </span></span><br />
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days, and o.d.'s in the end, just didn't do it for me. Even though Jim MacLaine was somewhat of an unlikable character in the <a href="http://gonnaputmeinthemovies.blogspot.com/2013/07/thatll-be-day.html" target="_blank">That'll Be The Day</a>, I still rooted for him. In this second feature, I never felt or cared much about MacLaine. Still, this film is well worth seeing and is almost a requirement if you've seen the first movie.</span></span><br />
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becomes his mentor. Ringo is superb in his part, as good as any other actor in the film. I imagine his familiarity with the era helped a lot in making his character so believable. Billy Fury plays Stormy Tempest (based on Rory Storm) in the house band at the camp's bar. The drummer for the band is Keith Moon of The Who, who also has a small acting part. Moon has one of my favorite lines in the film, when asked if he has ever thought about writing his own songs, he replies "<i>you got to be American to write Rock and Roll songs</i>". </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In <span style="color: red;">Viva Las Vegas</span>, Elvis sings seven songs solo and has a duet with Ann-Margret on one song. Ann-Margret has two solo songs in the movie and The Forte Four have one song. I thought the stand-out songs were "Viva Las Vegas" (Elvis has an edge to his voice when singing this tune that really makes the song), "C'mon Everybody" and his duet with Ann-Margret "The Lady Loves Me". A few of the other songs were ok and, as usual with an Elvis movie, a few of the songs were just "filler". Supposedly, the scene where Elvis performs "Viva Las Vegas" was done in one unedited shot, the only time this ever happened in Elvis' movie career.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My mind wandered into the fantasy world of the movie as I wondered in the above scene, did Elvis have the short yellow jacket and Ann-Margret wore the dress to
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's rumored that Ann-Margret and Elvis had a love affair while making this film and I have no doubt this is what brought out the best in Elvis. Ann-Margret had only made a few movies before this one and Elvis turned out to be the better actor in the film. When Elvis and Ann-Margret have a scene together their chemistry exploded off the screen. They truly made a dynamic duo (<i>take that Batman and Robin!</i>). There are a few dull moments and a few silly moments in <span style="color: red;">Viva Las Vegas</span>, but they're few and far apart. I think the worst part of the movie, for me, was Ann-Margret's second dance number. I felt like I had already seen the same routine the first time she danced in the movie. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The title<span style="color: red;"> Glenn Tilbrook: One For The Road</span> pretty much sums up this documentary. In 2001, Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze came to the U.S. and bought an RV to enable him to make a month long solo tour of America and not have to stay in hotel/motel rooms. The movie was directed by fan Amy Pickard, who supposedly sold all her possessions to finance the film.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This was a thoroughly enjoyable documentary and the main reason is Glenn Tilbrook. His love for his music and his easy going manner with fans or in the face of RV breakdowns makes you really like the guy. I had such an enjoyable time watching that the one thing that kept running through my mind while was, "<i>Gee, I wish I'd seen this tour when it came through Greenville</i>". I would highly recommend this film for anyone who loves good music, not just fans of Squeeze. </span></span></div>
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