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Goldfinger (1964, Guy Hamilton)

January 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

How can a film, with such a beautiful, awe-inspiring fight scene (Bond and Oddjob), have such terrible editing overall? In fact, how can the technical side be so contradictory… terrible direction from Guy Hamilton on most scenes, but fine or excellent when he’s on set. Terrible editing for most of it, but then the rest […]

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Tagged: Guy Hamilton· Ian Fleming· Paul Dehn· Richard Maibaum· Sean Connery· United Artists· ★★½

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972, J. Lee Thompson)

July 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is about a bunch of ape slaves overpowering their human masters. Any film with a thirty second recap of the previous sequel by Ricardo Montalban has to be at least amusing, but Conquest is actually better than amusing (until the actual revolt begins). Since the film didn’t have […]

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Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Don Murray· J. Lee Thompson· Paul Dehn· Ricardo Montalban· Roddy McDowall· ★½

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971, Don Taylor)

July 20th, 2006 · No Comments

I occasionally–or often, depending on the films I’m going through–start a post saying how much I was dreading the film and how well it turned out. Usually, these are films I used to love and haven’t seen in ten years and was worried about them. I wasn’t dreading Escape from the Planet of the Apes, […]

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Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Don Taylor· Eric Braeden· Kim Hunter· Paul Dehn· Pierre Boulle· Ricardo Montalban· Roddy McDowall· ★★★

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970, Ted Post)

July 14th, 2006 · No Comments

On rare occasion, I watch (and on even rarer occasion, finish watching) an utter dreg of a film. A film so bad I misuse the word dregs, which apparently–since it refers to a liquid form–must be used as a plural. Beneath the Planet of the Apes is just such a film. Immediately, with its use […]

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Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Charlton Heston· Don Pedro Colley· James Franciscus· James Gregory· Kim Hunter· Maurice Evans· Mort Abrahams· Paul Dehn· Ted Post· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

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