Revisionist History

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These are reviews in which I’m either re-evaluating a movie that I had seen long before, a film with a big reputation, or thought of as a classic, an interesting remake or adaptation, or a movie that actually deals with trying to change history.

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Brazil

Cruising

Dare

Dirty Harry vs. The French Connection: The Fascist Cop Movies of 1971

Forgotten Silver

The Informant!

Inglourious Basterds

Lookin’ to Get Out vs. Lookin’ to Get Out: Revisionist History Vol. 1

Once Upon a Time in America vs. Phantasm IV: Oblivion

Outrage

Rip Into That All Time Classic

Silent Running

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Wild at Heart

Willard (2003)

Now on DVD and Blu-Ray

MacGruber

By Adam Lippe

Those of us lucky enough to have seen Exhausted*, the 1981 John Holmes sycophant-umentary, may remember something the now world-weary director Julia St. Vincent, said on the DVD commentary. She described Holmes’ pursed lip expression during his moment of climax as one of his “monkey faces.”

Now as the title character in MacGruber, the adaptation of his reoccurring Saturday Night Live sketches, Will Forte doesn’t offer monkey faces exactly, but during his sex scenes, one of which is with his dead wife’s ghost, he offers a similarly ridiculous variation. Such excess is where Jorma Taccone’s MacGruber succeeds. When Taccone leaves behind the one note MacGyver parody that MacGruber was as a sketch and turns his movie into something energetically absurd[...]


Winner: BEST ONLINE FILM CRITIC, 2010 National Veegie Awards (Vegan Themed Entertainment)

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On Watchmen:

At the funeral of the conflicted, narcissistic, and mean-spirited superhero The Comedian, each of what appears to be ten different people get their own extremely detailed flashback to their interactions with their fallen friend. As the camera slowly moves past each character that had their screen time, eventually stopping at whom I thought was the priest, who then gets five minutes to look to his past, I kept waiting for the dirt and the coffin to get their fill in too.

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