The film to launch Barbra Streisand’s screen career, it’s easy to see why she became such a star, with Funny Girl really showcasing her range of talents from singing, comedy and drama. It’s just a shame the film around her is so stuffy and low energy. William Wyler is a great director, but Funny Girl isn’t his best work, with many of the musical numbers feeling very limp and stilted. It’s more a testament that Streisand can rise above it than the film’s own ability.
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Veteran 2015
Hyper-active South Korean actioner that kinda gleefully dies away with balancing it’s baldy comedy with it’s class division and corruption cop procedural. It’s a sheer bolt of energy of madcap filmmaking, with wild transitions (even a godawful page wipe is hidden within it) and tonal shifts that’ll take your head straight off your shoulders. If it wasn’t so enamoured with itself, it probably would fall to pieces, and admittedly the backbone to this isn’t as sturdy as it could be,…
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Metropolis 1927
Reportedly one of Adolf Hitler's favourite films.
A part of me thinks he didn't quite get it...
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Taken 3 2014
It's lazy. It's incompetent. It's lazy and incompetent. It's lazily incompetent and it's incompetently lazy. It's lazy within it incompetency and incompetent in it's laziness.
這是懶惰的。這是不稱職的。這是懶惰和無能。這是懶洋洋地無能和它的無能懶惰。這是在它的無能和不稱職它的懶惰懶散。
Kjo është dembel . Është i paaftë . Kjo është dembel dhe i paaftë . Është lazily paaftë dhe kjo është incompetently dembel . Kjo është dembel brenda atë paaftësisë dhe të paaftë në atë të përtacisë .
انها كسول . انها غير كفء. انها كسول و غير كفء. انها غير كفء بتكاسل وانها…
