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Summary: It's by George freaking Lucas
Review: A great comedy. Well, it's not for the faint of brain. It's funny if you can see the underlying message. At the end of the film you can look back and say, "Eh? That's boody good cinema!"
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Summary: "Who Murdered This Movie?"
Review: A painstakingly unwatchable bunch of scratch about a radio station that has management members dropping like flies on the station's debut night. The murders are the most ridiculously old and obsolete things: some uninvited voice on an intercom says a rhyme and someone dies shortly after. A bunch of these in addition to bull about showing radio commercials and more bull about a husband and ex-wife both working at the same station, both looking to get back together. All the jokes are baby jokes: a guy slips and falls, a guy gets thrown out of a room, or someone shuts the door on a guy. HORRIBLE
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Summary: A cult classic, of sorts
Review: As he did with "Raiders of the Lost Ark", boy-man George Lucas pays tribute to the entertainments of his childhood with a fiendishly clever movie that is paced like a machine gun. It may be too frenetic and claustrophobic for some tastes. But the creative exuberance bursting out of every frame delights me every time.
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Summary: Great dark comedy that takes place in an unforgettable era
Review: I happened to really, really like this movie. This is the only way of getting it in widescreen, other than the laserdisc, which is probebly long gone. I was dissappointed that it wasn't encoded with AC3 sound, as it says on this page. But the movie really doesn't require 6 channel sound for enjoyment (as Star Wars does require it). George Lucas has a great sense of humor that people seem to ignore and take shots at...I feel sorry for them, they miss out on his humor. Great work.
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Summary: Radioland Murders
Review: I thought this movie was not main stream, and was well written. If you hate those movies that crittics and main stream Hollywood try to slam down your throats and call it a brillant cinamatic masterpeice, then this a refreshing change of pace for you. Yes it was campy, and, no it wasn't Forrest Gump or Titanic (which I thought they weren't even worth the paper they were written on), but a movie that you can curl up with some popcorn and escape for a few hours. I loved the characters, I loved the idea, and it was an alround good story that was never given a chance.
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Summary: Radioland Murders
Review: I thought this movie was not main stream, and was well written. If you hate those movies that crittics and main stream Hollywood try to slam down your throats and call it a brillant cinamatic masterpeice, then this a refreshing change of pace for you. Yes it was campy, and, no it wasn't Forrest Gump or Titanic (which I thought they weren't even worth the paper they were written on), but a movie that you can curl up with some popcorn and escape for a few hours. I loved the characters, I loved the idea, and it was an alround good story that was never given a chance.
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Summary: An unexpected pleasure
Review: I was searching for a film with Rosemary Clooney! And Amazon's search engine give me a 1994 movie in the list... I bought it just to check if this was an error, noticing also that Georges Lucas was executive producer. Intriguing for the least, for a movie I never heard of. The result is : - Rosemary Clooney is effectively in the film (she sing a song as our heroes have a romantic encounter on the roof of the radio station), so congratulations to the Amazon's search engine; - the movie is very well built, good rythm, good sympathic and living caracters, very clever evocation of the radio omnipotent era (30's), professionnal music and comic sets, excellent sound and picture, an special award for lighting, costumes and decors. Well, our teens play this movie at least 2 times a week (we have hundred,s of movies), they laugh and it is one of the big hits of the last batch we bought. So, no real weakenesses, real fun without pretention
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Summary: Bad start that gets great fast.
Review: I'll admit, at first I really didn't like this movie, about 10 minutes in and I was tempted to turn it off, however I decided to continue just for the sake of it. It takes a little while to get used to it and either you grow to like it's style or hate it. I grew to like it alot, and there's alot to like about this movie. However, critics, the saddists pigs they are, hated it. Screw them. At least rent this great movie.
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Summary: A Misunderstood Masterpiece
Review: I'm conducting a wake for Rosemary Clooney (Born May 23, 1928 . Died June 30, 2002.) I read "Girl Singer:an autobiography" and got the conveniently packaged "Songs from the Girl Singer: a musical autobiography "CD set. Like Girranimals, the similarly titled pieces have the same picture on the front so that the purchaser will know that they go together. I heartily recommend both.I also recommend this madcap musical murder mystery movie that manages to pay homage to Radio Days Gone By while keeping audiences of all eras entertained. It's the 1939 opening night live extravagnaze broadcast of the fictional WBN in Chicago, a 4th national network. Who's killing the participants? What played in Peoria? Meanwhile, "the Show must go on" and the viewer is treated to a mature Rosemary Clooney, (maybe as a metaphor to her own life, Rosemary sings a heart-rendingly beautiful "That Old Feeling" while pandemonium rages off-stage,) George Burns (Gracie had long since left the building by the time this movie was filmed) and others. Christopher Lloyd as the Sound Effects guy and his noise are a real hoot, as are the "Bubbly" live and drop dead commercials and Corbin Bernsen as the smarmy (think his later role as LA Law-yer Arnie Becker) announcer. Radioland Murders works on many levels. Like the box says: "It's a side-splitting, edge-of-your-seat adventure, part farce, part mystery, and all fun!"
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Summary: Remember?
Review: I'm conducting a wake for Rosemary Clooney (Born May 23, 1928 . Died June 30, 2002.) I read "Girl Singer:an autobiography" and got the conveniently packaged "Songs from the Girl Singer: a musical autobiography "CD set. Like Girranimals, the similarly titled pieces have the same picture on the front so that the purchaser will know that they go together. I heartily recommend both. I also recommend this madcap musical murder mystery movie that manages to pay homage to Radio Days Gone By while keeping audiences of all eras entertained. It's the 1939 opening night live extravagnaze broadcast of the fictional WBN in Chicago, a 4th national network. Who's killing the participants? What played in Peoria? Meanwhile, "the Show must go on" and the viewer is treated to a mature Rosemary Clooney, (maybe as a metaphor to her own life, Rosemary sings a heart-rendingly beautiful "That Old Feeling" while pandemonium rages off-stage,) George Burns (Gracie had long since left the building by the time this movie was filmed) and others. Christopher Lloyd as the Sound Effects guy and his noise are a real hoot, as are the "Bubbly" live and drop dead commercials and Corbin Bernsen as the smarmy (think his later role as LA Law-yer Arnie Becker) announcer. Radioland Murders works on many levels. Like the box says: "It's a side-splitting, edge-of-your-seat adventure, part farce, part mystery, and all fun!"
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