25 – Casablanca (1942)

The blue parrot?More like the grey parrot.

One of the most quoted films ever in my opinion.The last 10 minutes more than the rest of the film.Bogart stars as Rick,owner of Ricks American Café.As you probably guessed the film is set in Casablanca in the north of Africa during Germany’s invasion through Europe.Loads of people are trying to leave for America because shits about to hit the fan  and the only way to get to the U.S. is via Lisbon but there’s Nazis everywhere so people have to go to Casablanca to get to Lisbon.Ricks old flame shows up with her husband intending to leave but Rick has acquired their travel documents.That sums up the whole plot.Not much to it.There’s a few good jokes , notably the old couple who get taught English by some guy who can hardly speak it himself.The song ‘as time goes by’ is played about 28 times in the 105 minutes of film.No mean feat I’ll give you that.

IMDB RATING      –     8.6
MY RATING     –    7
SEEN BEFORE     –    NO
RECOMMEND?     –     NO
OVERALL     –  SOME GOOD CAMERA WORK,THE ZOOM ON BOGART AND INGMANS BEING A COUPLE OF THEM.

27 – Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

A little off the top buddy?

The Indiana Jones original trilogy are classics.I can’t comment on the Crystal Skull one because it was so unmemorable that i can’t remember it.I think it had aliens in it so that scrapped it for me.Harrison Ford is on form for Raiders of The Lost Ark,the looks and expressions,the one liners and all the other comedic bits are delivered with ease and excellent timing.But i guess that’s all down to the writing too.This is the first film in the set,i prefer the one with Sean Conner y as his dad,was that one the Last Crusade?Anyways this one’s about the Nazi,they all seem to be about Nazis,and their quest to get the Ark of The Covenant. This ark contains the ten commandments.The Nazis believe that it’s a phone that you can call up God and have the craic with him.Who knows maybe it is.Indy thinks differently,he saw a picture in a book that shows it as a big spooky ghost that kills people.When it does get opened it’s more like a direct line to Satan not the other guy.Watching the credits i noticed a Micheal Moore as a unit Director or something to that degree,no wait,a quick google reveals it’s not him.

IMDB RATING      –     8.6
MY RATING     –    8.4
SEEN BEFORE     –     YES
RECOMMEND?     –     YES
OVERALL     –  PERFECT SATURDAY EVENING FILM,FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT.

 

56 – Life Is Beautiful (1997)

You wouldn’t away with this now a days.You’d be arrested and signing on the sex offenders list for life.

Life Is Beautiful is a bit of a misleading title for this film.After watching the last last 30 minutes i think a more apt title would be Life Is Shit. I’ve never seen this film before but i bought a copy on DVD for my parents once because it was popular at the time and had gotten a few awards.For anyone who doesn’t know the plot,it’s about a family who gets shipped off to a concentration camp by the Nazis./sounds sad right?The main character,the dad,is called Guido and he is a Jew. His wife is an Italian and they have a young son too that is also shipped off to the camp.The mother pleads to go with her family.Guido is a charming upbeat guy who seems to live in a fantasy,there’s something very whimsical about him.And it’s with his up beat attitude and constant games he’s playing that the whole concentration camp thing doesn’t really effect you on a personal level.Even his final moments i felt distanced from the whole thing.The film came out in 1997 but the whole feel and look of it makes it seem like it’s from the eighties.

IMDB RATING      –     8.4
MY RATING     –    8.1
SEEN BEFORE     –     NO
RECOMMEND?     –     YES
OVERALL     –  GOOD BEGINNING,HUMOUR SEEMS A LITTLE SLAP STICK.

96 – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Indy and his dad have a quick three-way.

Indiana Jones is a hardcore pornographic film focusing on the life and times of a nymphomaniac called Diana Jones.I wish.No,but seriously I’ve probably seen this film about 4 times now and i don’t know if it’s the old age or what,but i don’t remember seeing that bit at the start with River Phoenix in it.I thought i had downloaded the wrong film or something.It’s a flashback to when Indy was a kid and busted some tomb raiders and not the sexy kind.He also doesn’t give a shit about snakes,he even handles about 3 in this short segment.Why’s he got beef with them when he’s older?As the story goes Indys is kidnapped by some Nazis who are looking for the Holy Grail.His dad mailed Indy his diary which has a load of clues for finding it and that’s kind of the incentive for the kidnapping.Get Indy to come and find his dad and bring the book.There’s some great one liners along the way,one of the more notable ones is the “no ticket” after he chucks a guy out of a blimp.There’s a bit of distance between Indy and his dad but as the film progresses they bond and everyone lives happily ever after.I was going to say its one of the better trilogy’s out there but then i remembered about that god awful Crystal Skull re-boot and my heart sunk.

IMDB RATING      –     8.3
MY RATING     –    8.2
SEEN BEFORE     –    YES
RECOMMEND?     –     YES
OVERALL     –  ACTION,COMEDY AND LOADS OF OTHER STUFF MAKE THIS ONE BANG ON.