I should be writing this stuff down just in case a beautiful girl does research on me and wants to confirm that I am in fact obsessed with films and have no social life. This shall be my victory!
MYSTERY MEN: Lame super-heroes. in a hyper-real world. It ended up being a lot more fun than I remember from when I saw it in cinemas as a kid. The film pops with Gilliam like lunacy with its first steps - the old folks home introduction is brilliant. The contrast of regular joes to the crazed stylistic world is when the film works best, but it loses it's way completely in the last act as it drags on way too long and doesn't seem to know where to go. Two freaking hours!? It suffers from commercial director doing his first feature syndrome. None of the characters really get any kind of suprising climaxes and it all lands flat. The gory inside-out death of Captain Amazing is still INCREDIBLY disturbing (This is a PG-13 film!?) no matter how .
LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (Dir: Robert Altman): I dislike Robert Altman's usual style, but Elliot Gould (as Philip Marlowe) slouching through a vague mystery makes this thing work. It's not pressing, nor is it really exciting, but it makes for one hell of a cool ride. Hey! There's a shirtless Arnold Schtznagger as a goon! The ending of this is a a nice surprise that you'd never really expect.
THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST: I thought this was going to be talkie one room drama, but color me surprised when I get the usual bad-ass James Coburn as a neebish analyst that gets caught in a kooky dose of 60's espionage intrigue.
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