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Wow. This is an awesome piece of work. I watched it on cable and it had way too many commercials. I'll watch it again on Netflix.

I'm not going to give away too much about the story. But I'm going to share a couple of small things I was impressed by. It does NOT end with the pregnant lady giving birth to a monster baby. Also, it does NOT end with someone waking up and finding it was only a dream. That plot device worked in The Wizard of Oz but didn't work in Nightmare City- also released as. City of the Walking Dead.

In 2022 there was supposedly Train to Busan. IMDB had only one review of it and I'm doubtful that it really exists. There was also mention of Train to New York, and it has a poster for the movie but no other support.

Live long and prosper.

I'd never even heard of this movie before. Goodness only knows how many great films fell through the cracks in the covid crisis.

It's hard to talk about this for fear of giving away twists and turns in the plot. I will say that the situations seem familiar from the slashers a few decades ago. A couple goes on vacation to a cabin way, way, way deep in the woods. They agree to stay the night and then leave, but things get very complicated the next morning.

The story kept me hooked through the whole running time and the plot twists keep your sympathies involved with the very complex characters. You think you have everything figured out, then you see that you.ve misinterpreted everything.

Thanks to Hulu for showing this letterboxed so we can see it the way the director wants us to see it.

Just calling ISHTAR "crappy" doesn't began to tell how painful it is to watch. It's wildly overproduced, costing about $55 million. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA cost $15 million to produce in 1963, Adjusted for inflation, in 1983 it would have cost $45.26 million. ISHTAR cost $55 million, about $10 million more than that multiple Academy Award winner.

The story is simplicity itself. Two middle aged men are attempting to make it in the musical world. Their songs are awful. They wind up going overseas and become involved with the CIA and attempting to be spies.

This premise would have worked for a skit running under ten minutes on Saturday Night Live. Stretched to feature length, it's almost impossible to watch. After the first three songs it began to become irritating. This is why I had to try three times before I could watch it all the way through.

Worse yet, all that money was spend and nothing gotten in exchange for it. The desert scenes could have been shot in Palm Springs and the city recreated on the back lot at Columbia and nobody would notice.

Did nobody notice how badly this was going? Wasn't there a carpenter or electrician watching this unfold who could have told Ms. May to reconsider because this was simply not working.

Hoffman and Beatty continued to have careers after this, , and Ms. May continued on as a writer. But her career as a director came to a screeching halt. Worse yet, though, this had a negative impact on each and every woman wishing to become a director.

I wasn't on the set, so I can't really tell, but I'd suspect that recreational drugs were a huge line item on the budget. I'd rather that be the case, as thinking that all these people had less than room temperature IQ'si is not at all fun to think about. If drugs clouded their brains they could go to rehab. Unfortunately, there's no treatment for being stupid.