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One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at Citizen Kane:

What does rosebaud mean? Citizen Kane starts out with Charles Foster Kanb dieing at the bigining. Then is goes on with newsreels all about his life, like what he did. This movie is very confusing and hard to follow and understand.Charles Foster Kane does not know how to love, infact he gets married twice and does not love his wife he just wants somebody to love him. All he cares about is his newspaper buisness and nothing else. Kane dies a lonly and unmissed man. If i were to rate this movie it would be a 2! It is a very weird and confusing film!!!

I love what one of the reviews below said about people not having to pretend to be smart to like Citizen Kane. I’m not pretending to be smart. I may be dumb but I know a good movie when I see one. This is not one of those.

I felt that this movie deserved less than a star, but I couldn’t put any fewer than one. I felt this because the movie was quite long and very uninteresting. It had no color and was uterly depressing. The camera angles were ok, but the acting really wasn’t too good. All the acters were always interupting themselves or each other and it just didn’t flow very well in my mind.

We really don’t need to pretend to be smart by liking Citizen Kane.

It’s just like “the Blair Witch Project.” A lot of people will watch Citizen Kane because of the hype and find themselves disappointed. It’s sad but true.

Citizen Kane was a real disappointment. Totally unoriginal plot, bad lighting, cheesy sets. Boring too. And gosh, what is with that Rose Bud thing? That was freaky!!! Woah dude!!! Anyway this movie was whack & mad boring cause you don’t even see the dude porkin’ the girl, and she isn’t even really hot anyway. It was a bummer too that it was in black and white and all the guys looked the same cause they all wore suits. The music was all weird and whack, yo. I didn’t like it. It didn’t have a good beat or dance rhythm section. But it was mad sweet, the dude’s crib, but he just be pacing around like, whassup? He should have had a mad party and had mad homies and sum real ladies up in that piece. I thought to my self how could u be so rich & be so messed up, yo?

What is everyone’s morbid fascination with this movie? I found it to be very boring and worthless. The acting is not good and the story is dull. I understand that Welles broke new ground with technology during the filming. So What? If it was not done by him it would of been done by someone. I give this movie zero stars and just to warn people not to waste their money on this flop.

I saw this movie and just about puked in my lap because it was so terrible! Go see the Da Vinci Code instead. Tom Hanks is ten times the actor Orson “Fatty McFat” Welles ever was!

Cheers.

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One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at Cat’s Cradle:

This is a decent sci-fi escape, but nowhere near as good an escape as Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, or Star Wars: A New Hope. This isn’t very challenging, and you may feel compelled to read it because of the almost too simple story, and easy going language. This is basically a book about a mad scientist who tries to take over the world by freezing it over with a substance called Ice-Nine, and at the end he succeeds because of his children’s greed to control it. Again, not very complex or deep, a basic fable, but still entertaining. But as entertaining as Star Wars? NO. I recommend renting the star war movies or getting the star war books, especially the ones with Jabba the Hut. Cat’s Cradle has no point or meaning to it, unlike Lucas’s prophetic, amazing vision. Vonnegut is funny, but not very intelligent.

This book is a total disappointment. One of the worst books I have ever read. His “humor” is on idiotic level and the book in general is schizophrenic. Only thing Vonnegut achieved is to annoy me; this is the first book in my life that I threw into the garbage.

I really wanted to like this book. I loved “Breakfast of Champions.”
But in “Cradle,” I didn’t connect with any of the characters or the story, and though I usually enjoy parodies of religion and apocalyptic themes, I thought the whole Bokononism thing was dumb and unoriginal. Too many ideas and concepts were forced into this book, none having a meaningful impact.
I only got through the first 100 pages, and I’m the type who ALWAYS finishes books. No more. Life’s too short.

This is the third book that I have read by Vonnegut. I also read Sirens of Titan and Wampeters, Foma, and Grandfalloons, his Autobio. Look, he’s witty, but not deep. He is a cynic. If anything, his writing displays the fragility of human existence, and the fact that not a lot of people know what the point of everything is, including him. You will most likely reach a point, about half way into the book, where vonnegut is absentmindedly continuing the exposition while your saying to yourself, “get to the point already.” The other thing is that he is never uplifting. Nothing revolutionary here.

Vonnegut tried to suck you in with a boring main character that had no substance at all. Then brought in mutated family members of an infamous man, the man who made the H bomb. Vonnegut had no other way of ending the book except for killing off everybody in the world. If I could give negitive stars I would. Boring- don’t read it.

“el Stinko Award” Pointless really. Vonnegut should have taken some ice-nine before he wrote it.

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One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at Catcher in the Rye:

I am very open minded when it comes to literature (I even read through Mein Kampf without any objection) but I just hated this book! If it wasn’t required reading, I would have stopped on the fourth page! I think Salinger could have done much better!

This book is pathetic. Many people called it a “classic.” It’s the book that killed John Lennon. Oswald had a copy. So I thought “What the heck?” I then embarked on four hours of my life spent reading this complete testacle sack of a book; four hours I will never get back, I might add. The long and short of it is: the writing style is mundane and repetative, the crude language, while could be seen as “liberating” considering the time in which the book was written, becomes more numbing than anything else thereby losing its effect on the reader, and to wrap it all up, the boy is so unbelievably annoying, you find yourself applauding the pimp for slapping the crap out of him. The only reason this book survived to the present day is more because of the folklore surrounding it, rather than the book itself.
J.R.R. Tolkien said to C.S. Lewis concerning Lewis’s first book “Clive, people who are willing to use the word ‘bunk’ are going to call this book ‘bunk.’ They don’t know any better.” I am an educated man, and to call The Catcher in the Rye “bunk” is to give it far too high a praise.

THIS BOOK WAS HORRIBLE. I AM IN HIGH SCHOOL AND WE HAD TO READ IT IN ONE OF MY ENGLISH CLASSES. WE WERE TOLD THAT PEOPLE WANTED TO BAN IT AND I TOTALLY AGREE. HOLDEN WAS JUST THIS LOW DOWN DEPRESSED PERSON THAT ALWAYS FELT SORRY FOR HIMSELF. PLUS THIS BOOK HAD TOO MUCH BAD LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL CONTENT IN IT. I’M NOT THE TYPE OF TEENAGER EVERYONE THINKS ABOUT. I DON’T SWEAR,DO DRUGS OR SLEEP AROUND. BUT WHEN I READ THIS BOOK, I FELT LIKE SWEARING BECAUSE THE WORDS WERE CARVED INTO MY MEMORY. AND THEN WE HAD TO WRITE A PAPER ON IT USING WORDS HOLDEN USED. I DIDN’T USE ANY SWEAR WORDS AND GOT A BAD GRADE ON IT. THIS BOOK REALLY MADE ME MAD. I WOULDN’T HAVE READ IT BUT I HAD TO FOR SCHOOL. DO NOT READ IT!!!!!!

I have heard about this ‘brilliant” work of literture for many years. But until now have never read it. After reading it, I never missed anything. This is nothing but a priviledge wuss trying to be something that he never will be–a mature useful part of society. He constantly whines, projects his uselessness on others and has little to no ability to see that the phoniness his so hates in others is nothing but his own personality reflecting back to him. if he had to actually be responably for one second of his life and didn’t live of the wealth of his parents, maybe just maybe he might amount to something. I wish I had the time i spent on reading this dreck back.

My god, probably the most boring, inconsequential book I ever read. Thank god it’s a short one though. Spare yourself the trouble and read what wiki has to say about it, you won’t take away anything else from this piece of ****. The book makes fun of “Phony” people, well, I say the “Phony” people are all those who recommend this book. They only do it so they don’t feel so bad they were the only ones that read it, kind of like the emperor’s clothes.

Having said that, I dare you to find a book that says “… and all”, “…kills me” and “depressed” more times than this one.

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, maybe I missed something, but I thought this was the most pointless, boring, and redundant book I ever read. There was no climax; there was no meaning. The supposed “conflict” was non-existent. Just heed my advice: Don’t read the book. Heck, even if you do, I’m sure you’ll throw it out after the first 10 pages.

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One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at Are You Experienced:

Words cannot describe my intense dislike for Jimi’s guitar “skills”. This guy is a HACK. All songs sound exactly the same, the drummer is weak, does the bassist even exist? Listen to some REAL music that actually requires talent- like Nickelback!

Are you kidding me. Did Avril Lavigne ever use distortion in her songs? Or how about those wierd sound effect things? Mmhhm, that’s whqat I thought. Keeping that in mind, how could anyone in their right mind say that this Hendrix guy is good. You lozerz obviously now nothing about muzik. Some idiots are calling him the best guitar player ever….? HELLO??? That’s like saying MTV doesn’t play good muzik!!! If you want good guitar, try Avril Lavigne, or, the masters of Metal, Limp Bizkit.

I bought this disc based on all the reviews claiming it’s the greatest guitar album ever. I was very dissapointed, most of the solos suck. Plus, I was surprised that MTV didnt play any videos from this album, I wonder why? Probebly cause the MTV crowd know this music is tired and boring. If you want great guitar listen to Good Charlotte.

I first picked this album up because I heard Hendrix played some heavy, rockin music. But all this album is is a bunch of blues tunes that go nowhere. His solos are just a bunch of noise and his sound is dated, unlike good bands like Great White and Skid Row. Not recommended for fans of good heavy metal.

Jimi Hendrix has to be the most over rated guitarist ever! Not only does his songs make no sense, but he can’t solo to save his life! I’m sick and tired of these retro wannabes saying how fabulous he is!

For good guitaring check out Limp Bizkit, Nickelback, Disturbed, Korn, Kid Rock, Staind, Creed, and Metallica’s St Anger Album.

Oh, and Lenny Kravitz is GOD compared to this rip off!

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One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at Pulp Fiction:

I have heard alot about this movie from my friends but when I actually saw this movie I realized this was the worst movie I have ever watched in a long time. At least you can’t expect such a lousy movie from such a great cast.

QUENTIN TARENTINO WORKED IN A VIDEO STORE IN YOUNGER YEARS.
HE “STEALS” PEOPLES IDEAS AND CALLS THEM HIS OWN.
IT IS CALLED PLADGERISM, FOLKS!
I COULD NAME 35 OTHER MOVIES HE STOLE TO MAKE THIS S..T ON CELLULOID.
IT ABSOLUTELY APPALLS ME TO THINK GULLABLE PEOPLE CAN’T RECONGNIZE THE FILMS THAT ARE RIPPED OFF IN THIS WRECK!
IF THEY ARE MOVIE BUFFS, THEY SHOULD KNOW THAT THIS LINE IS FROM THIS MOVIE, AND THAT SCENE WAS BODILY STOLEN FROM THAT FILM………BUT NO. THEY END UP SAYING, “WOW, MAN, THIS DUDE CAN REALLY WRITE, LOOK HOW “ORIGINAL” THIS IS”.
YEAH, YOU JUST KEEP TELLING YOURSELVES THAT, TARANTINO FOLLOWERS.
3 FILMS, [GO -- 2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY -- and THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOUR DEAD ] ARE BETTER, SMARTER, AND A LOT MORE ORIGINAL THAN THIS JUNK!!!!!

PULP FICTION has to be one of the most disgusting and overrated film of this decade. Pretentious camera angles and dialogue, mangled pacing and another bad performance by the tremendously under-talented Bruce Willis made this film difficult for me to watch. As for the use of the “N” word, I wonder what Tarantino would do if Spike Lee made a movie where Italians were called nasty names, and I think there are plenty. You don’t get to use the word sir – you ain’t a member of the club. His subsequent efforts may not have been as lurid, but are equally as bad.

This movie had poor taste. I didn’t like how it tried to be too original. I want a movie I can read from cover to cover. This one jumped around all over the place. It wasn’t funny, no suspense, lack of action, didn’t flow, dark film. This movie shouldn’t have been made.

I know there are a lot of technical terms associated with a movie production like screenplay, direction, plot, acting, etc. Unfortunately I don’t know the definitions of most of them. One thing that is pretty basic to me, though, is a “point”. Usually there is some kind of point to a movie, good guy verses bad guy, she loves him, he loves her, may the force be with you, etc., but the point of this movie totally escapes me. It’s THE most pointless movie I have ever seen. When it was done I felt like the trapeze artist who swung out to meet the person on the other trapeze and he wasn’t there. I was also amazed that someone could make a movie where 90% of the dialogue consists of 4-letter words, the same 4-letter words. I know this movie has a following, but I’m not one of the followers.

WHAT KIND OF MORON MADE THIS MOVIE. WAS HE ON CRACK! THIS MOVIE DOESN’t HAVE A PLOT, A STORYLINE, AND IT DOESN’T EVEN HAPPEN IN SEQUENCE. THE END OF THE MOVIE WAS IN THE BEGINNING? WHAT? I SLEPT THROUGH HALF THE MOVIE. I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIKE THIS MOVIE.

This has to be one of the most overrated films in history. I believe that most people who said that they liked this piece of garbage only did so because they wanted to sound hip and cool. Many did not see Tarintino’s previous films but were told how hip and cool these films were and so by the time Pulp Fiction was released they went to see it so that they could “jump on the bandwagon”. Tarintino is trying to make mindless violence “trendy”. There is no real plot to this picture and the characters are all obnoxious. It seems that for a film to be considered a masterpiece nowadays, it must contain weird situations and violent obnoxious characters. Because this film was so popular it is a sad commentary of the times we live in.

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One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at Catch-22:

There are many myths that persist in modern life. One myth is that war is “meaningless”, “useless” or “insane.” Another myth is that Catch-22 is a good book. The reality of this second myth was brought home to me when I attempted to read this book. I gave up in disgust after 80 pages. I felt as though I was reading a children’s fairy tale rather than a serious piece of literature. This is a horrible and insulting book. The “plot” (if one can call it a plot) is pointless and the writing is sarcastic and juvenile. We are told by fans of the book that the author intended it to be read this way, as a clever statement about “the insanity of war.”

What a load of rubbish. War is ugly and brutal, but it is not “insane.” Many American wars were fought because people believed passionately in a noble cause and were willing to fight to defend that cause against those who would vanquish it. Among these were the Revolutionary War (democratic government), the Civil War (individuals’ rights vs. states’ rights) and World War II (the defeat of fascism). Catch-22 is an adolescent little book which is applauded by people who believe that nothing is worth fighting for.

Anybody mind if I break up the love-fest for this piece of anti-establishment drivel? Get serious folks. The premise of this book is based on three assumptions, all incorrect, which are as follows: (1) the military is evil, (2) any person in the military is an idiot, and (3) any person who mocks the military is heroic.

Please. This type of thinking went out with flower power and tie-dyed t-shirts. Get with the times, people. Vietnam is over.

I read this a few years ago as it was on a list of the best novels of the 20th century. Awful! While there are a few parts that are humorous, I thought the book as a whole was horribly tedious. If a student wrote a paper/essay like this he/she would get batted across the head. Verbosity reigns supreme in Heller’s work, with tedium a close second. The attempts at humor are feeble. I suppose in the interest of being well-read it might behoove some to read it…certainly not for enjoyment. A shame really, because the basic premise is interesting and, yes, thought provoking. Perhaps I am in the minority, but I don’t understand all the hype.

If Harry Potter is, as people claim it to be, one of the best books of all time, then this is its antithesis. Gather round muggles and read this review, or else the person that you’ve been dating will leave you for that professional football player and your parents and/or children will disown you and you’ll be forced to live in the basement with that balding, 43 year old starwars geek. Catch-22 is about John Yossarian. He’s an American soldier during WWII. However, don’t mistake this book for your average war literature, because it’s not. This book is CrAzY! From the get-go, you’ll be confused. Not because you can’t read but because the book isn’t in chronological order, which gives the impression that Joseph Heller was having a seizure while writing this book and the editors didn’t catch it. In my humble, yet clearly superior, opinion, this book is far too long and filled with meaningless content. There are some very important lessons to learn from the book, unfortunately, the book puts you to sleep before it can convey the moral of the story. You need to be some mythical, god-like English teacher to be able to finish this book without throwing it at the wall in frustration. The characters are insane, so insane that, at one point, I was actually wishing the German bombed the crap out of Yossarian and those around him. The book is funny. However, you need to be clinically insane to get most of the jokes, sadly, contrary to popular belief, I am not. Every time I read a piece of comedy from this book, the scene from Napolean Dynamite would flash in my head, where Napolean would slap someone on the cheek and run away. It’s funny but after a while it gets old and feels as though you’re being slapped on the cheek, which isn’t fun at all. The humor fails to salvage this poor book and only hard-core literature analyzers will appreciate it and call it a work of art. I say pass this book up and read that Harry Potter book again for the 34th time.

Pathetic.

I forced myself to finish this book because it was heralded as “one of the greatest novels of the century.” I found it an amazing chore to trudge through page after page of absurd, repetitive babble, replete with needless descriptions of depraved immorality.

If the point is that government/military institutions are insanely inefficient and bureaucratic, ok. I got that in the first 100 pages. Were the next 400 pages simply meant to illustrate that point — making me “experience” the absurdity?. I really can’t believe I read the whole thing.

In all sincerity, I can not recommend this book.

I read this book and all I can say is…it was simply a disappointment. I realize it was satirical…however the characters seemed 2 dimensional and unrealistic, and after a while there behavior and responses were so predictable, I soon lost interest and the book became a slog. I personally feel if Joseph Heller wrote it later on in life he would have had more life experiences to draw upon and could have written a much better novel.

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One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at Schindler’s List:

Anyone who makes a feel good movie about the Holocaust is a total crackpot. Move over, Mel Gibson.

Mr. S should stick with kiddie flicks like ET – although even there he was cruel to the actress who performed inside the ET suit.

This film is very empty, for not only does it portray the Germans as “evil, lop-sided, devil worshippers” but it shows the Jews as being “promising, alluring, good guys”. If one is to question morality, then do so, but do not give us the black vs white issue found in this film. Speilberg, immature since day one as director, tells us what to think, he strips away our humanity by overdosing us on excessive amounts of guilt and sentimentality. In effect, the film lacks any moral basis except to denounce all evil men and with that, we learn absolutely nothing…..

Hey don’t get me wrong I like Holocaust movies as much as the next guy , but this one was a real let down. First of all there are no Americans(at least not American characters)hey spielzy what gives, wheres are hero, schindler is no indiana jones. Perhaps he should of handed the script over to michael cricton.I think spielberg is our greatest “dreamweaver”, to quote someone else, but this film has no pizazz, or more importantly no color. plus it doesn’t have any great action scenes or excitement like saving private ryan. I guess the holocaust is a good topic to make a movie about, but brother this movie aint no “hook”. hopefully people will forget about this turkey and pay more attention to stephen’s better work, ‘amistad’ ‘field of dreams’ ‘ the lost world’.

It makes me very sad that people so love Steven Spielberg movies. Spielberg only makes movies about the most simplistic emotions in the most simple ways. Most of the time it boils down to a child’s feeling of fear running away from a monster. Is there really any difference for Spielberg between running from a killer shark or a killer dinosaur or a killer Nazi? I don’t think there is. Showing bad things happening to people and saying, “Here’s a great holocaust movie” is so insulting. It’s the worst thing one can possibly do to take something very complicated and through propogandistic techniques (cutting between party scenes and scenes of suffering etc.) make it look simple. I beg you not to go for the cheap and easy way out.

Yeah. Easily. Spielberg has to stop with the Germans. It’s becoming uncomfortable. What is the word when you constantly portray an entire race, it’s culture and it’s language as evil and subhuman? I await the next Indiana Jones film with interest.

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One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at Led Zeppelin IV:

Man I work with recommend this CD. Why such noise? And old noise too, from 60’s. No such thing as stairway to heaven either. Not understanding why people like this music. Woman who sing the song sound like she is feeling in pain. She yell and scream. Not good.

This is it!!! The most boring band in history. Led Zeppelin…
I hate this band. They are just as bad as Pink Floyd,and The Beatles and never made anything decent. They are overrated, stupid, lousy, and lame. This album only has 1 good song in Stairway to Heaven. Rest of the other songs are really, really bad. Metallica and Dire Straits are much better than this, avoid this and go with the bands I mentioned who are actully great and enjoyable and avoid all albums from LED ZEPPELIN who suck.
Don’t read the previous 5 star reviewer, LED ZEPPELIN ARE LEGENDS. He can go straight back to hell or heaven.

I tried eating a grass stalk when I was a kid. It was horrible. I tried getting into this album as well. It was horrible too. But it’s popular with the masses in need of shearing who don’t like to think for themselves and buy it because others are buying it too. Baaa.

This CD is whack. It sounds like old peoples music. Its really old too, like over 30 years old. The sound isn’t real good and the style of music on the CD is way out of style.

This sucks!! Most of the songs on this album are screaming,
Led Zeppelin are one of the worst bands in history of rock
and roll. The vocalist screams a lot, and the words are very
disturbing. Stairway to Heaven is probably the best song on
this album. This album is also overrated too. This is another
one every rock fan should AVOID!!!! BUY SOMETHING FROM DIRE
STRAITS, FOREIGNER, OR GUNS N’ ROSES. THIS IS TRASH!!!!!

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One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at 1984:

This book had a good warning about futur totalitarian government but it was way too wordy. I had too much description and was really boring at the beginging that it took me a while to get through it. The love affair was discusting and the torture and Winston’s viens were discusting and horrifying..Thats it

This book only plays with our mind.

i give this book one star i had to read it for class and i know it’s suposed to be a “classic” but god itis awful. first of all its NOTHING like the future is probly going to turn out. second of all every one says the aurthor george orwell is so trippy and wierd but i think he’s just trying to cover up for the fact that HE CAN’T WRITE. please george do us all a faver and stop writing books.

While cultural pundits try to convince you that some literature is better than other literature, the truth is that all art is relative to individial tastes. Thus, it doesn’t make any sense to think that a novel like this one is really any better than say, Michael Crichton or Stephen King. Aesthetic standards can’t be grounded.

Thus, don’t listen to anyone who tries to distinguish between “serious” works of literature like this one and allegedly “lesser” novels. The distinction is entirely illusory, because no novels are “better” than any others, and the concept of a “great novel” is an intellectual hoax. This book isn’t as good as Harry Potter in MY opinion, and no one can refute me. Tastes are relative!

I have never read a bigger piece of garbage in my entire life. For the people who read and enjoyed this book…GET A LIFE!

Give me a break. The writing was lousy, the concepts and ideas were questionable…sorry, but one star is pushing this book.

Orwell underestimated the human animal and its tenacity in the face of oppression…his complete and utter takeover of society w/ “Big Brother” just wouldn’t last, even if it could happen.

People have oral histories…ones you cannot erradicate…just ask various peoples around the world who survived oppression despite attempts at stopping their stories and changing their cultures.

Let Orwell’s work die as a curiosity…

Orwell is one of the most overrated novelists of this century. He’s nothing more nor less than a second-rate hack who profiteered by preying on the worst fears of modern man. Today, his book is the modern bible of the paranoid disgruntled white male and other conspiracy nutcases. Yet another fairy tale, albeit a grown-up one, warns us to LOOK OUT for that proverbial boogy man–Big Brother, in this case, being the latest in a long line of aliases he goes under. Perhaps Orwell’s “Newspeak” should include these additions: “Propaganda is Truth”; “Truth is Absolute”; “Freedom springs from Fear”; “Extremism is Virtue.” This book has never made anyone stop to think, but, instead, to fear and hate one more faceless abstraction. Contemporary paranoia gets a much more powerful portrayal in the works of Thomas Pynchon, such as “The Crying of Lot 49.” At least IT has the virtue of being well written.

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One star Amazon reviews of classic movies, music and literature. Today we take a look at Casablanca:

I rented this waiting to be blown away. I’m still waiting. I expected a lot more action. I’m pretty sure I will enjoy it a lot more when Warner Bros finally gets around to releasing the colorized version, the way this movie needs to be seen – the world is not black and white, why should our movies be?

I’m holding out for a 16:9 colorized version with Dolby Digital EX 9.1! I mean when I watch Casablanca and I here the gun shot at the end, I want to HERE GUN SHOT AT THE END!!! Also Ingrid Bergman is no Maryland Monroe.

I hate this movie. Its not even a movie, more of a waste of time. I’ve wasting too much time writing this review already. THIS IS NOT A CLASSIC! It doesn’t even qualify as bad or horrible! See CITIZEN KANE a million times (no really, a million) before you see this one. If I could just leave all the stars blank, then maybe I could begin to do it justice.

After readying countless 5 star reviews I’ve decided to finally watch this. It was a total disappoitment. There is absolutely no chemistry between the main characters, they just talk and talk and talk, you don’t get a feeling that they are really and hopelessly in love. At the end of the movie I felt relieved that it was finally over. There are so many old classic romances out there such as An Affair to Remember that are really believable and you see the connection between the characters, which is sadly missing here.

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