Cinematic Excrement: Episode 118 - Shining Through
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2019
- They used to make movies this stupid.
They still do.
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To quote Ebert: "I know it's only a movie, and so perhaps I should be willing to suspend my disbelief, but Shining Through is such an insult to the intelligence that I wasn't able to do that. Here is a film in which scene after scene is so implausible that the movie kept pushing me outside and making me ask how the key scenes could possibly be taken seriously."
There's actually a term for "This character is ludicrously poor at everything but the story still bends over backwards to go her way": "Anti-Sue".
"Go ask your parents to start paying more attention to their kids" oof, no mercy
That description made me think of Mitch Hedberg. "They used to make movies this stupid. They still do, but they used to, too."
You know the movie is bad when Sean agrees with the Razzies.
Watching Melanie Griffith’s performance in this movie is seriously making me wonder what did Katharine Hepburn see in her? Early in Griffith’s career she received very high praise from the four time Oscar winner who thought that Griffith would become a great actress, someday. And keep in mind around the same time Hepburn was bad mouthing Meryl Streep saying her career would go nowhere. Now I’m not mad at Hepburn for incorrectly predicting which actress would go on to have a long and distinguished career and which one would fall away into relative obscurity. She was a gifted actress, not a psychic. I’m just wondering after seeing Griffith’s performance in this and some other movies (to be fair the movies I have seen her in, are probably not ones she’s proud of, but still) what did the greatest actress of all time according to the American Film Institute see, that made her think she was going to be the next multi Oscar winning legend.
Tippi Hedren is Melanie Griffith’s mother. She could have played the older woman.
I have seen La Femme Nikita, Leon: The Professional, Assassins, The Killer, all of the Bourne movies, American Assassin, Haywire, Red, Bangkok Dangerous, Bullet To The Head, The Replacement Killers, every Bond movie up to Spectre, The Villainess, Crank, and all three John Wick movies. By this movie's logic, I could be a proficient and ruthless assassin.
To be fair, James Bond only became a 00 agent after he made a baked cheesecake to die for.
One of the major rules of movie writing: Don't mention a good movie in your bad movie. This film mentioned a few of them that are way better.
This is the film Quentin Tarantino made fun of in Inglorious Basterds.
It's ironic that Liam Neeson is a Nazi in this, and then plays Oskar Shindler two years later.
“Unless you’re on Twiiter, in which case ‘Mary Sue’ means ‘female character I don’t like’”
That "screaming internally" bit killed me lol
"she makes him a strudel."
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My mother loved this movie. She thought it was one of the best WW2 movies ever made. She watched it so many times & she always cried when they made it across the border.🤦
After seeing
Apparently, in this movie's universe, a person could become a lion tamer just because they own their own hat.
Thank Siskel and Ebert for introducing me to this movie: they made fun of the "Taste My Strudel" speech and Douglas' bogus throat wound with glee. A shame about David Seltzer, who wrote "The Omen" and made "Lucas."