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The Wild One (1954)
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"Last night, like everyone else, I stayed up late to watch the All-Around Finals in Olympic Women’s Gymnastics. The thrill of cheering for our good, wholesome, corn syrup-fed girls to take their massive muscled thighs and (metaphorically, of course) break the necks of foreign competitors who are apparently ten years under the minimum age can’t be denied. But where even my beloved Bela Karolyi said from the start that Shawn Johnson was probably the American girl to beat, I had my money on Nastia Liukin. There’s just something about Nastia. She’s like part ballerina, and part assassin. From the moment I saw her, I had visions of her dressed up like Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Then, as last night’s competition went on, I kind of revised the fantasy: I imagined all of the competing gymnasts in a reform school exploitation flick, with Shawn as the good girl who doesn’t really belong there, and Nastia as the leader of the pack who teac "
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"Last night, like everyone else, I stayed up late to watch the All-Around Finals in Olympic Women’s Gymnastics. The thrill of cheering for our good, wholesome, corn syrup-fed girls to take their massive muscled thighs and (metaphorically, of course) break the necks of foreign competitors who are apparently ten years under the minimum age can’t be denied. But where even my beloved Bela Karolyi said from the start that Shawn Johnson was probably the American girl to beat, I had my money on Nastia Liukin. There’s just something about Nastia. She’s like part ballerina, and part assassin. From the moment I saw her, I had visions of her dressed up like Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Then, as last night’s competition went on, I kind of revised the fantasy: I imagined all of the competing gymnasts in a reform school exploitation flick, with Shawn as the good girl who doesn’t really belong there, and Nastia as the leader of the pack who teac "
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"Time has definatley not been kind to The Wild One, which wants to be a disturbing and bold statement about a supposed social problem, but, to use a term from the movie, is hopelessly square. Another example of 50's paranoia about anyone slightly outside of the mainstream, the movie is about a fight between two rival motorcylce gangs who take over a small town. The main gang is led by Johnny (Marlon Brando) who has thing for the sheriff's oh-so straight-laced daughter (Mary Murphey). After the other motorcylce gang arrives, the town goes nuts and to drive the gangs out by force. Only the good-ol sherrif (Jay C. Flippen) is the voice of reason. Although towards the end the movie is not quite as jingoistic as would seem at the beginning (giving Johnny a little more depth than usual) much of the way is unintentally hilarous. After West Side Story, these seem to be the most incompetetant gangs in movie history, and this movie can't get away with it by being set in the fantasy worl ... "
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"Voodoo Moon is just your average trashy horror movie with a brother/ sister (Eric Mabius, "Reeker"/ Charisma Carpenter, "Relative Chaos") duo who are fighting to destroy the demon who killed their parents when they were young children. They both have special powers. Some of it is entertaining, but most of the dialogue is cringe-worthy. It wasn't very gore, but I did watch it on Sci-Fi, so that all could have been cut out. I liked the idea, the film was just a bit too cheesy to make it work.I heard so much goodness about My Life as a Dog that I feared it would never live up to the expectations. But it totally did. This film brought Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom ("The Hoax") to the international eye. The movie is depressing, sometimes uncomfortable, often funny and always touching. A young boy whose mother is seriously ill, is sent to live with some relatives in the country. There he meets all sorts of interesting characters. I loved it.The Wild O ... "
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"While unquestionably dated and a bit silly at times ("you hip to my rebop daddy-o, or are you a square?"), the heart and center of this movie, the young charismatic Marlon Brando is what keeps you coming back. Based on a true event, it nevertheless seems mighty improbable that these swing dancing leather clad delinquents could ever terrorize even the 'squarest of squarejohn' townsfolk. Brando plays the prototypical 'rebel with a heart' whose savage nature is calmed by the love of a 'good woman'. However Brando reaches beyond the stereotype to show us a rebel who is frankly bored to death with rebellion, but too proud and stubborn to see any other way of escape. He stands head and shoulders above everyone else in the movie and declares his star power with a sneer and a shrug and a mumbled "What've you got?" in answer to a passing remark "What are you rebelling against, Johnny". A young Lee Marvin also gives a decent performan ... "
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