If I said I fast-forwarded through "Sansho the Bailiff," then you could criticize me all you want. But this is "Poltergeist" we're talking about. I was tired from work and had things to do around the house.

surprisingly disappointed
I bought this on impulse the other day ("priced to sell" + shiny cardboard slipcover), knowing beforehand that there was nothing special about the so-called anniversary-edition DVD. I settled in for my I-used-to-watch-this-on-cable-as-a-kid-and-it-scared-me-more-than-the-"Thriller"-video…

Nah, the brat really believes he won a tank at the end of the movie, and the nagging question of what happened to Dad is never adequately addressed, since the film ends before it could be. How does one explain the Holocaust to a child? My objection is not that Benigni's film doesn't even pretend to tackle that…

If he were told that his father was playing a prolonged game of hide-and-seek with him until adulthood, and he did not find his father, he would, in fact, lose the game, and he would have no points to laugh like crazy about. My mistake.

Actually, to be fair to any audience member with a normally functioning adult brain, when the war ended and the camps were liberated, displaced prisoners wandered all over the place, and those separated from loved ones had no idea whatsoever if they were living or had been killed.

"Life" and "down by law"
My objections to "Life, She Is-a Beautiful!" are too obvious and numerous to mention here in their entirety. (When it's likely that the love of your life is dead, but you have no evidence of it, you don't just implicitly "know" it to be so and accept it with saintly grace, as we can presume…

In the film, I believe the vampire actually says, "Gah? [looks up, into the pitiless black sky, to emphasize his point] No Gah."

not so bad, after all
I just saw this movie, with exceedingly low expectations, and I was surprised to find that I liked it. It's better than it needs to be (to paraphrase Roger Ebert), but it's not as good as it could be, given the premise.