I Saw A Film! It's hard to not feel like you're being preached at about lax criminal justice when the big bad guy himself lectures us about how society keeps breeding and rewarding the violence, and taunts Stallone's Cobra by telling him that murder is against the law, and so the police officer can't kill…

I Saw A Film! I have to admit I didn't get it, but, I'm sort of the wrong generation. Having perused a Roger Ebert critique of the film I found out what I was supposed to be wow'd about, and also, why I was rather underwhelmed with the story. Basically it comes down to cool…

I Saw A Film! Between 1964-69 Elvis was pumping out three campy fluff films a year. Like many young men of his era, he'd had an awakening, watching James Dean and, of course, Brando, and desperately wanted to do something dramatic like those icons. He did get himself a screentest, well, his manager the colonel…

I Saw A Film! Apparently a Michael Crichton story about malfunctioning robotics and the men and women who are charged with protecting the public from them, though, in this case, it's not so much malfunctioning that immediately becomes the issue. It's Kiss front man Gene Simmons, the kabuki demon bassist himself, who's messing with the…

I Saw A Film! We meet our so-called "hippies" as they steal from immigrant businessmen and fall ridiculously in love with passing Sandy Duncans. The fellows, one played by Woody Allen stalwart Tony Roberts, work, sort of, at an idealistic independent newspaper which they also try peddling on the street with little success. Never mind…

I Saw A film! Another of these Glob-Globbus films this time paring none other than Chuck Norris with none other than Louis Gossett Jr. assisting a lovely blonde Melody Anderson (with a huge, earnest, big-eyed, slab o' face) on a mission to find some Native American treasure. Not a thing about this film works, as…

I Saw A Film! We meet Dundee in a little skiff, dynamiting fish in NYC harbor, like any good sportsman. As the cops discover him, he manages a cute repartee with a sergeant who lets him off with bemused resignation. Oh that lovable Aussie weirdo! Next he's teaching some little nippers about animal tracks in…

I Saw A Film! I mixed up James Remar with Michael Pare. I also mixed up Michael Wincott with an unnamed extra in this film. I feel bad, so many actors so little recognition ability. I mostly use IMDB to correct my loopy connection failures. There's no mixing up Burt with anyone though. Nor Liza…

I Saw A Film! By now Bronson is the original "Taken" father character, fully nothing but a leather-faced vindictive weapon on two legs, but somehow the vileness of the policeman's hatred for Asians and the wickedness with which our cultural permissiveness is equated with underaged rape makes this film a hard watch. Films generally use…

I Saw A Film! I generally don't like to go on about directors and screenwriters and really anything that sounds like an insider's jargon about films. I want to approach this as a consumer of the entertainment, have fun, and not be terribly concerned about the "shoot" aspect of cinematics. I don't care who spilled…