Movie Reviews
Titles starting with I
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Lee tells me this film was offered free of charge to a school district or districts, and was turned down. Let something like this in the door, was the reasoning, and we’ll have to start showing all kinds of other stuff, and you may not like that stuff. Sadly, I have to agree, though the content of the film is something that ... Read more »
The Incredibles
Everything I expected it to be, and even a bit more. One of the more adult-themed feature-length animations I’ve ever seen, except maybe The Triplets of Belleville. The animation is everything you’ve come to expect, and the story is even better than Finding Nemo, in my opinion. Of course, that’s from an older viewer. It has more to do ... Read more »
Incredibles 2
I have nothing bad to say about this film. On the other hand, I didn’t see anything to rave about. I am always leery of sequels, and I wish Pixar would do fewer of them and more original stories, like Coco. Yes, I know sequels can be as good as the original, and once in a very great while, even better. Finding Dory was as good as Read more »
The Indestructible Man
At lunchtime I have been enjoying watching some of the old SF B&W B-movies they show on TCM. Watch a half-hour at a time, so your brain doesn’t get too fried. Some of them are even good. But I am not a fan of purely bad cinema, unless it is screamingly, unintentionally funny. This one isn’t scary, isn’t funny, isn’t even campy. It’s just sad, purely from ... Read more »
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
What is all this negativism? Why are some people trashing this? As far as I’m concerned, it’s a little better than Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and maybe not quite as good as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but close.
Could Indy survive being hurled a mile inside a refrigerator? Hell, no … ... Read more »
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Not a lot more to say about this one. Spielberg and Lucas came to bat three times, and they hit three homers. Who cares if two of them went into the stands and one went clear out of the park? The intro action scene with River Phoenix as the young Indy was great, and explained the hat, the jacket, the whip, and his fear of snakes. Sean Connery was excellent as Jones Sr. No need to explain ... Read more »
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Movie series usually follow a predictable pattern. The first one wows you, the second may capture some of the thrill of the first, and subsequent numbers are usually … by the numbers. It’s the peril of sequels. The power of sequels seems to be that most people don’t notice too much, or don’t care. Why else would people flock to The Mummy: Tomb ... Read more »
Indigènes
This movie was released in America under the perfectly awful title of Days of Glory. Unless you take that as supremely ironic, it’s hard to think of a worse title, as there is nothing of glory in it, not for France, and not for the ever-suffering infantry, which in this case is North Africans from Algeria and Tunisia and Morocco, ... Read more »
Indiscreet
According to IMDb Cary Grant said this was his personal favorite of all the films he made. This, from a man who made Charade, North By Northwest, Notorious, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Philadelphia Story, Gunga Din, and Bringing Up Baby, among many other classics. I guess there’s no accounting for taste. Walt Disney was said to be proudest of So ... Read more »
Indochine
Here is one of the prettiest movies you will ever see, with stinking ugliness just under the surface. It tells the story of an old French family who have lived in French Indochina for generations, stealing rubber and exploiting the locals. Catherine Deneuve is Éliane Devries, who runs the plantation, and who I instantly hated. She refers to her indentured workers as “coolies,” but “slaves” ... Read more »