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Yeah... Kiss Me Deadly... I had high hopes for a solid ending during the entire movie, and all I got was a box of "spirits". I understand that it is a B-list film, but really? I expected something completely different. I actually don't know what I was expecting but a box of radioactive material was the absolute last thing I could have imagined. It is relevant to the time the movie was made, and maybe if I had been a bit more in the mindset of 1955 it would have made more sense. I don't understand how that explained any of the movie. They were hunting down a briefcase that somehow is worth ridiculous amounts of trouble because it explodes when you open it. I really don't know how I feel about this movie, I enjoyed it until the last five minutes. It kept my interest but I was hoping for something a bit more rational. A flaming box that's going to end the world didn't do it for me.

Yes!

Double Indemnity would usually have been a movie seen on the AMC channel that I would have immediately skipped over, but the more I allowed myself to watch it, the more I thoroughly enjoyed it. By the end I even almost understood the line of "Shut up, Baby" as something being incredibly smooth. I really liked the way it built up through out the movie, and in the beginning you question why you're watching it. You were quickly given all the information you needed without much character development, and it would have been all too easy to write off the movie entirely. I'm glad that I didn't. The ending threw me off a bit, but it wasn't expected. I love the idea of a femme fatal character as well. Such a change from the westerns, where women were just whores (i.e. Chihuahua).

This is another great movie, that I was surprised to enjoy so much.

... Groundhogs day

I'm not a huge Bill Murray fan, and I don't find him all that funny. I feel like he's an awkward, old man posing as an actor. Its not believable at all to me that he would land all those women, and they would enjoy it. I'm personally repulsed by him. The movie did have some funny parts, the suicide montage especially stood out to me as a great way of making the film a bit darker, and being unconventionally funny. I don't like romantic comedies in general, and this wasn't a huge exception. After about groundhog day number three I was ready to walk out if I had to hear the groundhogs day tune (before the Groundhog comes out of the tree stump) one more time. I would like to believe that Bill Murray is as crazy as he came across in this movie, that would explain his comedic value a bit more to me.

Bringing up baby : )

I thought bringing up baby was a phenomenal movie. It was so simple, and I unlike most of my classmates adored the Katherine Hepburn character. She was bubbly, innocent, and for some reason fell in love. I understand how she could seem annoying to some, but her intentions were so well meant that I couldn't help but love her. She is beautiful in a timeless way, and showed so much spunk and dedication to her roll that it was impossible for this movie to not become one of my new favorites.

The addition of the leopard, Baby was also a highlight of the movie to me. How random for a paleontologist to be chasing down this leopard, and meeting the love of his life. But it brought to characters who compliment each other so well together. I really, really enjoyed this movie.

Dead End

I recently rented the film, with the intention of watching a cheesy, humorous horror film. To my surprise I was scared out of my mind. Neil Smith, a BBC film reviewer shares some of the same opinions in his review. The low budget film had nothing terribly unique to it, but the simplicity of it is what had me hiding. In the review by Neil Smith, he discussed the main points of the movie in a non opinionated way before sharing his true thoughts of the movie.

A mysterious woman in white lurches out of the shadows and sends the Harrington's spinning into a dark vortex from which there seems to be no escape. Signposts point to a town that never materialises, frustration turns to panic, and every time they stop, a hearse appears and whisks one of them away.

To make matters worse, the already strained relationships between husband and wife, brother and sister, and boyfriend and girlfriend are stretched to breaking point.

After going over the basic plot, he goes into his own views of the film. He acknowledges the low budget, without completely tearing the movie apart. He then supports my own feelings of the movie by discussing the feeling involved.

Where it scores is in its canny exploration of family dynamics and a jet-black gallows humour that will have you tittering into your popcorn even as you cower behind your Big Gulp.

I think that his review is a good representation of the film. Though it might not have been an original, big budget movie, it did provide for 85 minutes of pure suspense and genuine fear.

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