johnlink ranks MAD LOVE (1935)

•June 18, 2012 • Leave a Comment

A large portion of the films I have ranked on these pages from the beginning of the sound era through the 50s are Bogart movies. I wish this wasn’t the case, but his are the movies from that era that I tend to seek out. MAD LOVE is not a Bogart film, but it features Bogie’s typical co-star Peter Lorre in the lead villainous role. What I’m trying to say is this: A large majority of the films from the 30s through the 50s on these pages have some sort of Six Degrees of Humphrey Bogart connection going on. I suppose that is something I should remedy. But, anyway, here we go with MAD LOVE…

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johnlink ranks JURASSIC PARK III (2001)

•June 17, 2012 • 1 Comment

Well here is the much maligned third JURASSIC PARK film which, it just so happens, I have never seen. I had heard that it was so bad that it wasn’t worth seeing. I went into my viewing of the first JURASSIC PARK last week knowing that this day would come. I would eventually have to watch number three. Well, that day came. And here it is…

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johnlink ranks THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (1997)

•June 16, 2012 • 1 Comment

I remember this as one of my first big theatrical disappointments. I had seen bad movies, to be sure. But after being so enamored with the first JURASSIC PARK, I was all-in for number two. I had already read the Crichton novel when the movie came out. I went to the theater all ready to be hit with an experience that took all the intensity of its predecessor and upped the ante by eliminating fences and increasing dinosaurs. Instead I got THE LOST WORLD.

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johnlink ranks WINTER’S BONE (2010)

•June 15, 2012 • 1 Comment

Before seeing HUNGER GAMES in March, I literally could not have picked Jennifer Lawrence out of a lineup. I knew she had been nominated for Best Actress for WINTER’S BONE, but did not know much about the movie. After seeing her work in both of those films, as well as an eager turn in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, I think it is safe to say that she is a legitimately amazing who should be around for a long time…

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johnlink ranks CONTAGION (2011)

•June 13, 2012 • 2 Comments

Here is a movie I was certainly anticipating. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, this is a film about a major virus destroying millions of lives across the globe. It has a gallery of stars including Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Marion Cotillard. And the supporting cast is solid as well, with names like Jennifer Ehle, Demetri Martin, Bryan Cranston, Elliot Gould, and Enrico Colantoni. I really wanted to get at this in the theater, but it never happened.

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johnlink ranks JURASSIC PARK (1993)

•June 11, 2012 • 1 Comment

JURASSIC PARK is a movie which is hard to consider without also admiring its contribution to film. To watch this movie, now nineteen years old and counting, is to see a technical marvel. When you consider the special effects of films which came just a few years before it, you can’t help but be impressed. Personally, I think of this movie every time I see shitty special effects (I thought about JURASSIC PARK about a dozen times while watching WOLVERINE, for example). If a movie could get it so amazingly right in 1993, what excuse to films have for shoddy CGI work in 2012? But JURASSIC PARK is more than just a CGI extravaganza, it is one of the major feathers in Steven Spielberg’s career cap.

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johnlink ranks AN AMERICAN HAUNTING (2006)

•June 10, 2012 • Leave a Comment

I entered the month of June realizing that I was closing in on 400 rankings. I wanted to get some stuff in which should have been covered in these pages by now. I was successful in doing so with the INDIANA JONES series. I was then slightly detoured by a couple of B-movies, but that’s alright because DEMENTIA 13 is a film I’d been wanting to see. So now… AN AMERICAN HAUNTING. This I did not want to see. Well, I mean, I made the choice to watch it, so I can’t say I absolutely didn’t want to see it. But the Celtics had just lost a heart-breaker to the hated Heat in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals, and I needed FearNet to cheer me up. I found an 83 minute horror movie starring Sissy Spacek and Donald Sutherland. How bad good it possibly be?

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johnlink ranks DEMENTIA 13 (1963)

•June 9, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Another B-movie ranked! Though DEMENTIA 13 is not just a low-budget and short feature length film to fill the bottom half of a double feature. It is also a B movie which was made by Francis Ford Coppola a decade before THE GODFATHER. Coppola was in Ireland working on a film called THE YOUNG RACERS by Roger Corman. Corman allowed Coppola to borrow his camera equipment (and his actors) to make DEMENTIA 13 around the schedule of THE YOUNG RACERS. Now that is true B-movie film-making!

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johnlink ranks THE HITCH-HIKER (1953)

•June 7, 2012 • Leave a Comment

This is a 71 minute B-movie which rolled across Turner Classic Movies recently. Not sure what caught my attention about this over any other title which floats on by, but I was intrigued enough to give it a run.

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johnlink ranks INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008)

•June 6, 2012 • 2 Comments

All four INDY movies in five days? Not too shabby. My looks at any given series usually take a longer span of time than that. But it was good to put these in order in the course of a week, because it especially allowed me to get some perspective on the much maligned fourth film. My feeling, from seeing it once in the theater, was that it was not particularly good, but that it was no worse than TEMPLE OF DOOM. So with the aura of high expectations gone, what would an objective look at this fourth film find?

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