OCR Text |
Show yiovies better than boring, rainy day r . s -1 f : " i f I I v : ' - i I T- l I .. - : I !" ' 1 j v - I ' ' ' 1 the virtues of Israeli revanche in the liturgy of "real-politik" for five hours in the Huddle on Saturday night. On the other hand, $2.50 . buys ten double pumps of coffee and a hot dog. "Friends" (Yes, you've seen it; let's compare notes.) Notes: "Michelle, let's have a day, just one day that is free." ...So Michelle and Paul make an attempt to be free from the constraints of bourgeois society. Those constraints con-straints are defined by the coalition of arbitrary movie critics to be: 1) the monetary evaluation of all human behavior including poetry and singing to the shower nozzle, and 2) the necessity of "doing something with your life." The mrHARD BARNUM-REECE byR'C Chronicle Staff Two mediocre films on a boring .s a qualitatively superior ilmative to shooting heroin and 6 ffi alternative to reading "p Donleavy, R. Fanna or H. rimer This insight is not a function 5'Serience in every regard. But 1 movie critic must not seek to Late the horse people or induce SJper minds to partake of the Angular terrors of Gnossos ppadopylis's monkey demon Z double-bubble bill of 'Friends "and "Bad Company," is better entertainment than listening ffl ttie wandering Jews, Stuman ,nd his side-kick Norbert, discuss above two constraints can make life difficult for the non-goal directed aberrant. So Paul, who is hereinafter called the "Silly Btd," (a polite term used with explicit resolve in the movie without regard to the uninitiated) makes his attempt as a 15-year-old man-child with 14-year-old wife. Interesting. Recommended. Symbolic horses THE PROBLEM OF THE HORSES: There is a master cinematographer (Gordon Willis) who saw Elvira Madigan get shot in the flowers. He hasn't forgotten that film. He liked the effect. He liked the flowers. He also likes horses. Please be prepared to see seven symbolic white horses execute water ballet ad nauseum. This is termed "over-wrought" in the definitive dictionary of cinematic criticism. "I wish my father did something useful." The "silly btd" is referring to his abhorrently wealthy and alive dad vis-a-vis Michelle's abhorrently poor, deceased and artistic father. Something is being said here. Can you find it? "There'll always be grown-ups to answer to." The hierarchy of lunacy has been uncovered by a precocious youth. Be prepared for bleak confrontations with truth. The plot does not carry. It is not required to. Sensitivity is offered up on a conveyor belt and becomes a shiny new Ford. A plot could rescue this. Elton John is singing plot surrogates in the background. He has rescued the life raft and forgotten the people. They are still dog-paddling for a plot when the movie ends. Where are the white horses when you need them? Metaphorical rain "Bad Company" is no company at all. The reason you are at this show is to get out of the metaphorical rain. (Is it raining outside? Are you incensed at the format of this review? If so, please address a letter to John Mankiewitzt, co American Express, Ex-press, Beirut, Lebanon. He is the editor of "The Definitive Dictionary Cinema Criticism." He is vacationing on the Palestinian Riviera and will be pleased to receive all constructive or destructive criticism. ..no bombs please.) Jake Rumsey (played by Jeff Bridges) and Drew Dixon (Barry Brown) and gang are dodging Abe Lincoln and the Army of the Potomac. They are draft dodgers and run-aways. They are heading west to be free and find riches. Now they are hungry and people are shooting at them. Boog Bookin (Joshua Hill Lewis) gets the back of his 12-year-old-fool-head blown off by a shotgun slug in hot pursuit of a stolen apple pie. The shotgun blast destroys the boy's head and the apple pie. Two points for realism. Zero points for freedom. Minus two points for the film. Go see it if it's raining outside. ii i |