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ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES

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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

I'm going through a Cagney phase, so I'm watching or re-watching his gangster movies in chronological order. Can't get enough of the early Warner Bros. films, and they look really good on DVD.

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES is more about the conclusion than it is the 90 minutes leading up to the conclusion. It ends like just about any crime saga of its sort should end -- the bad guy takes a long walk down the prison hallway where he'll be strapped to some device and sent to meet his Maker. Father Jerry is a realistic portrayal of someone who plainly does what is right even if it means implicating a friend.

Posted Sunday, April 19, 2009 2:30 PM by Windbreaker | with 0 comments

TWILIGHT

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Twilight (2008)

I had zero desire to see TWILIGHT when it hit theaters. I had zero desire to see it when it hit DVD. But when most of the wives in the circle of friends raved, I checked it out. My thoughts: meh.

Content: It feels too much like the pilot episode of a TV show that only the die-hard fans will watch regularly. Think the two X-FILES movies.

Style: tried too hard to be overly artsy. Don't get me wrong, I like some oddball flicks, but trimming 15-20 minutes of fat would have made this a lot more tolerable. There's a reason CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON isn't 3 hours long.