The “Recommends” feature does not require one to recommend terrible films. The writer could recommend a *good* movie that is largely forgotten, maybe.

I wish I could remember this film better but I haven’t seen it since it was first released on video, oh, thirty-odd years ago.  I remember laughing at the bit with the camel.  “We want a blind camel.”  “Would you like a dead camel?”  Something like that.  But IIRC the rest was pretty dull, and the musical routines of…

“We been on the road for eighteen hours. Let’s sit down, have some chow, and then you and me talk about who dies.”

She’s sexy as hell, she’s charismatic, she’s a great actress, and with a couple of exceptions she seems mostly doomed to schlock.  It isn’t fair!

You’re spot on about the mishmash.  Like Burton couldn’t decide between doing a loopy satire a-la the Brady Bunch movie or a straight horror version, tried to do both, and failed at both.  You’re also right about the fans of the show not being pleased--my mom was/is one of those fans and she strongly disliked this…

“It was way too soap opera-y”

I watched this film.  It was bad.  There was little to recommend it other than the luscious Eva Green and I left the theater wishing Eva Green was in better movies.  There’s also a twist with Chloe Grace Moretz’s character near the end that comes completely out of nowhere, like they got to the last few pages of the…

It does seem like “Trafic” is underrated by the people who usually praise Tati.  Odd.

Yeah, it could have been tightened up.  Of course Tati was spending rivers of money for sets and what not, so why not make the movie longer?

“Badlands” is brilliant.  “Days of Heaven” is brilliant.  “Staring Pensively at  Dinosaurs”, not so much.

There was a weird critical backlash to that movie, but it really is entertaining and fun and god fucking dammit there is nothing wrong with being a crowd-pleaser.  A lot of the critics who probably would have praised it if it had been a European oddball movie that got a limited run in New York and Los Angeles seemed…

It didn’t just leave him in debt. It ruined him. He lost his production company, the rights to his old films, and his house. He made only one more theatrical feature for the rest of his life.

I would have rented “Odd Obsession”.  Machiko Kyo was sex on wheels.

Still can’t muster any interest in these episodes.  The old Ray Charles episode they ran last Saturday was pretty fun, though.

It’s like this dude said “what is the creepiest child molester mustache I can grow?”, and then grew that mustache.

Terrific film.  Loved the last line.

Let’s hear about “The Thief” with Ray Milland.  Long been curious about that one.

This whole reappraisal of Douglas Sirk as some kind of auteur baffles me.  I watched “Magnificent Obsession” and it was just garbage.  Hammy, overacted melodrama, a stupid story--just because something is campy does not mean it’s good.

Wonder if it was a cunning reverse marketing scheme?  “You have the worst name ever.  Let’s lean into that.”

As I get older I have less and less patience for films like this, films that are explicitly about soaking the audience in human misery of one sort or another.  Yes, let’s watch the painful and sad end of a marriage, fine way to spend two hours.