DANA ANDREWS, JEANNE CRAIN & MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyYtW48spn5qEdB8uaBZliUw_TFn3yA2ugIXnzxQlqEcCd-YhjhEKPCgMfYjMaua3rxodUPYo0kTgx4U73JkcvoG0JTkdKLsovLV2wOJmQ5F91iA9MoeReNSAY3ekq5hQq8jbSVP-evL4H4EFUTUXfQ4zuEk6FvWlIEovKz-iNTPQoD0jaum9a9N-LynG/s1733/12%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="921" data-original-width="1733" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyYtW48spn5qEdB8uaBZliUw_TFn3yA2ugIXnzxQlqEcCd-YhjhEKPCgMfYjMaua3rxodUPYo0kTgx4U73JkcvoG0JTkdKLsovLV2wOJmQ5F91iA9MoeReNSAY3ekq5hQq8jbSVP-evL4H4EFUTUXfQ4zuEk6FvWlIEovKz-iNTPQoD0jaum9a9N-LynG/s16000/12%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: HOT RODS TO HELL Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Camp Score: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>"The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes," says a jaded and nerve-wracked wreck of a middle-aged former salesman Dana Andrews to wife Jeanne Crain. "Jingle bells (on the radio), the whole thing!" </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet HOT RODS TO HELL only <i>begins</i> as a Christmas movie after East Coast traveling-salesman Dana Andrews suffers a major car accident on December 24th, and, after months of traction, winds up with a motel in Arizona... But only IF he and his family can survive the red convertible (titular) menace with only 80 miles left to their new destination...</p><span></span>

action, cult, dana andrews, drive-in, gene kirkwood, george ives, jeanne crain, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, race, road movie, sixties

DANA ANDREWS, JEANNE CRAIN & MIMSY FARMER 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

Title: HOT RODS TO HELL Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Camp Score: **** "The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes," says a jaded and n...

BAD LONGER VERSION OF MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2ppKPRD6t0dIs0YOm6Mi1q40sGb3xjn9mT2UlAk1tcDexiKaGRxn0MhV7uLMHX6g5nP7PHWjQsrfZMFQD832mddsh4dwDi6n4eCQv7_oettEHBdaDrz9D6CDesUIIwpwTnZHcIJnARs/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-04-19+at+12.04.18+AM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2ppKPRD6t0dIs0YOm6Mi1q40sGb3xjn9mT2UlAk1tcDexiKaGRxn0MhV7uLMHX6g5nP7PHWjQsrfZMFQD832mddsh4dwDi6n4eCQv7_oettEHBdaDrz9D6CDesUIIwpwTnZHcIJnARs/s640/Screen+Shot+2016-04-19+at+12.04.18+AM.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Review of the much too extended version of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD before having seen the original</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> AN IMPORTANT NOTE before reading this review... IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD MAD WORLD was viewed, for the very first time, on the big screen in a retro theater, just last week, and it was the version that is reviewed below, which was written before even realizing there was a much. much. much, much better original version at all...<br> <br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgozllo5vpBTlavI5bodZqfqkmjPdJ9VnGrFH3Y15cmsqak03XMe11innCRUwx-7NKToyt6vpCHa3KPxxO0P2WmP4MKy-HFRmCtH_JYSyOrdlPS5oDAlLM1XB0TVwVaNiHRfhoS_sddPw4/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-04-19+at+12.05.50+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgozllo5vpBTlavI5bodZqfqkmjPdJ9VnGrFH3Y15cmsqak03XMe11innCRUwx-7NKToyt6vpCHa3KPxxO0P2WmP4MKy-HFRmCtH_JYSyOrdlPS5oDAlLM1XB0TVwVaNiHRfhoS_sddPw4/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-04-19+at+12.05.50+AM.png" width="201"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"What's in the bawwwwwx?"</td></tr> </tbody></table> Thus, the film is torn apart for an abundance of flaws, and yet now, after ordering the beautiful Criterion Blu Ray/DVD package, and watching the ORIGINAL THEATRICAL CUT, it's like experiencing an entirely different motion picture, one that actually has wonderful, flowing motion instead of sinking slowly into proverbial quicksand for nearly three overlong hours...<br> <br> Getting the plot and misadventure underway in five minutes instead of twenty is one of many changes... Again, like just mentioned, yours truly had no idea there was an extended edition, and why, if playing classic old movies in theaters, would the "Director's Cut" or "Extended Edition" be shown instead of the one originally viewed on the big screen to audiences seeing it for the first time? (Same thing happened with GOOD BAD UGLY... promoting the original but instead showing the one where scenes, like Tuco with the chickens, are added with a completely different film stock). In that, newcomers to MAD WORLD should see the original theatrical version just like people did in 1963, without the Director or Studio, or whoever is responsible for this catastrophe trying to improve upon a Classic: Being too close to the material at hand, there seems to be no realization that what's left out is, in fact, shown even more clearly by not having it there at all. For this is where the viewer's imagination comes in, which is what makes a film worth watching, again and again and again. And, so, before journeying through this writeup, note that the long, long, long, long version is downright horrible while the original is absolutely fantastic... Scenes that cut to lead to others are extended to the point that when you reach the next scene you forget about why there was a last scene... And so much time's spent talking there's simply no adventure or journey happening at all... So there you have it... Alas, since the Landmark Presentation Series decided to overindulge modern audiences with a piece much different than what made it truly shine and memorable and incredible way back when, that's what this somewhat negative review is centered on... Passing the buck, but with reason... Thus the...<br> <br> <u>REVIEW OF THE EXTENDED CUT BEGINS HERE</u>: Many films have followed the heels and back bumpers of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD... That's four MAD's for four cars, at first, whose inhabitants witness another car drive off a cliff and a whispered, dying man's secret – like a few years later would happen to Clint Eastwood against poor Elli Wallach in THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – is heard by a couple of fellas: Yet soon enough their women and a few others catch wind of a race to find a bunch of loot buried underneath a mysterious, unknown "W"...<br>

buddy hackett, car, ensemble, jonathan winters, milton berle, race, sid caesar, sixties, stanley kramer

BAD LONGER VERSION OF MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD

Review of the much too extended version of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD before having seen the original AN IMPORTANT NOTE before ...

ETHAN HAWKE & SELENA GOMEZ IN GETAWAY

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1BYDQMfRn0LsM_4J482C-egVE8JwxwaEvRDgfgE-8embsyuMX3VJwPznd-EthN6dbyMUEyMUCen-9A2oZpAdvYXJ0YDjFhYU-LUGNJsAR0TII653xbN3iQ16IbYg5HAjW08FpTVjY4x4U/s1600/getaway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1BYDQMfRn0LsM_4J482C-egVE8JwxwaEvRDgfgE-8embsyuMX3VJwPznd-EthN6dbyMUEyMUCen-9A2oZpAdvYXJ0YDjFhYU-LUGNJsAR0TII653xbN3iQ16IbYg5HAjW08FpTVjY4x4U/s640/getaway.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2013 cast: Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Jon Voight, Paul Freeman, Bruce Payne rating: **</td></tr> </tbody></table> For an opening weekend tally, a 3.9 on imdb provides fair warning to casual moviegoers, although for someone into cult films, this might result in a worthwhile two-hour bag fest. But GETAWAY isn't the kind of flick that jovially stinks up the room. There’s just not much of a story past the plot description...<br /> <br /> A former race car driver named Brent Magna, played by Ethan Hawke, is given a supped-up Mustang to pull off risky "stunts" so that his kidnapped wife isn’t killed by a mysterious man, giving orders from the dashboard speaker. Brent ends up unintentionally picking up a teenage punk, billed as The Kid, and Selena Gomez spouts more dialogue than a commentator at the Indy 500. Within this moon-faced starlet is all the technical exposition needed for Brent to reluctantly trust his uncompromising remora. And please don’t let the title fool you…<br /> <br /> Just one word shy of the Sam Peckinpah/Steve McQueen 1970's classic, this is neither an old-school road frolic or even a FAST AND FURIOUS style shredder. Most of the uncreative “cockpit” angles are from built-in cameras so that Jon Voight’s mysterious villain, The Voice, can keep steadier watch than a GPS navigational system, while each and every exterior shot occurs in a loud, shaky flash. But all the rapidly-edited racing around town sure beats the conversations between our reluctant duo: Hawke and Gomez have less chemistry than a road cone and a burnt out flare... left on a dead end highway.<br /> <br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=mr0c27-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=tf_til&asins=B0008ENHTY" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></span> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?t=jamtaci-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00013RC8O&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?t=jamtaci-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00DU6PJX4&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe>

2013, action, ethan hawke, jon voight, paul freeman, race, road movie, selena gomez

ETHAN HAWKE & SELENA GOMEZ IN GETAWAY

year: 2013 cast: Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Jon Voight, Paul Freeman, Bruce Payne rating: ** For an opening weekend tally, a 3.9 on imdb...