Showing posts with label 1981. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1981. Show all posts
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Monday, September 17, 2018
The Comic Critic Reviews "Buddy Buddy"
The chemistry of Walter
Matthau and Jack Lemmon was first discovered in The Fortune Cookie. With The
Odd Couple a few years later, they were solidified as a marketable buddy team.
Lemmon and Matthau would go on to do eleven films together. I have a soft spot
for Buddy Buddy. For whatever reason,
it’s a film I’ve seen many times. Buddy
Buddy has that comfortable feel that lets you settle in to watch instead of
clicking over to the next channel. I’ve always enjoyed its premise and story.
Matthau plays a highly tuned, cool-headed professional hit man; Lemmon is a
blindingly over-reactive husband whose world is turned upside down when his
wife leaves him for a sex guru. I find Buddy
Buddy visually unique in that while it was created in 1980 it has the look
and feel of a movie from the 1960s. There’s a lot of 1970’s New-Age-hippie-pseudo-psychology
that spills into the script and comes across as a little dated. The movie is
cluttered with stereotypes offered up as comedic elements. Just another
indicator that this movie was a vehicle for two things: Ham and Cash. But even
with its faults, I still can’t help enjoying this movie.
Monday, February 13, 2012
The Comic Critic Reviews Time Bandits
1981 was a very big year for me. I finished high school and began college. The public school system had been a painful purgatory that I had to suffer through before I could finally go to college to fulfill my dream of becoming a commercial artist. The Space Shuttle Columbia launched for the very first time, the Prince of Wales married a girl named Diana, and the first test-tube baby was born. At college, I did more than come out of my shell—I exploded. My mind, fueled by everything I’d wanted to learn for so long, was ablaze with crazy ideas, art and fantasy; I embraced anything that allowed me to explore them. It was the best timing in the world for me to experience the haplessly crazy, wonderful, dark, bizarre movie Time Bandits. And because of that timing, I still can’t see any flaws that I know this film must have. I fell in love with Time Bandits then, and I’m still in love with it now.
Also, I'm going to be featured on Seattle's Evening Magazine on Channel 5 tonight at 7:00 p.m. and I hop you tune in.
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