Popeye (1980)

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Popeye (1980, USA, Robert Altma ...
by CinemaRian in CinemaRian Blog

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"Words cannot describe how horrible this movie is. Popeye is the single worst movie I have seen since I have started keeping this blog, and is only the third film I have ever given zero stars to. It ruined the career of Robert Altman, who due to its failure spent most of the eighties making low-budget adaptations of plays for television, and its not hard to see why. It looks like he lost his sanity. To Altman's credit, I doubt anyone could have made a good live-action film of this material. Whose idea was this? Were there millions of crazed Popeye fans clamoring for a movie adaptation? I have never read the comic strip on which inspired the character (I don't know if it even runs anymore), but I did watch several of the cartoons as a kid, and I remember liking them (when I was nine or ten). They had a certain kinetic appeal to them and Popeye was an unlikely hero, always saying strange things under his breath and existing in a slightly surreal world. But what might be fun in a seven ... " [More]

A Nostalgic Favorite
by JakeStevens in JakeStevens Blog

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"Both Robert Altman and Robin Williams have disowned this film, and I'm not sure why. Sure, it's not Citizen Kane - it's POPEYE, for Chrissakes! I had the soundtrack on vinyl (?!) as a child, and the music by notoriously self-destructive Harry Nilsson will rattle around in your brain for days afterward. As always with Altman's films, his personal touches (2.35:1 Widescreen, various scenes of many people talking at once) are here in full force, and this is William's first theatrical role. Ray Walston is loveably cranky as Poopdeck, and Shelley Duvall is annoyingly accurate as Olive. Not the best film ever (Plot? What plot?), but a childhood favorite. " [More]

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