out to sea movie review. why we see this over and over again

oh the classic couple, the classic duo film team of all time.

This is a film you will see over and over again.

This film has all the elements to a great and memorable film and walter mattau and lemmon knock off yet another odd couple film masquarade.

The first thing about this film is the scenery and the love boat atmosphere this film evokes.

Film as a outlet of escape, always does the itself justice when a great plot is blended with a great location and scenery.

film's are packaged story telling that reverberates all those experiences of travelers and love boaters who can reminisce about the most memorable personal stories that they have shared with themselves and others.

the idea that you travel with many fellow travelers who are travelers who you will probably never se again adds to spice of life live for the moment feel and this film delivers.
 where people destiny's are met even for a moment in time and that moment of time is forever.

I truly believe when we watch films, the part of us that really enjoys the film is the part we relate you our own experiences and this film evokes them.

I term it the romantic comedy as it blends the two beautifully mixing emotions without the dreary over the top chick flick of the by gone era. 

The film is a journey and a voyage where destiny's meet. 

The movie begins with the opportunity for charlie [matthau] to find an excuse to get a free cruise ticket and entices his friend the odd partner, herb[lemmon] with the prospect of meeting rich widows. However  the actual condition of their free travel tickets is that they are in fact entertainers on the ship and who receive crapped conditions of accommodation.

From this set point the film already creates the contrast for the preceding conflict between the characters.

This is reaffirmed by the role played by brent spiner [gil godwin] who is a cruise director, a dance man raised on a military boat.

The classic que of the opportunistic and cunningly funny antics of matthau's characte whilst disguising the fact that they are not in fact dancers but free loaders trying to befriend rich widow woman with the  over bearing and controlling brown noser to the ship owner played by  Rue McClanahan from golden girls- [Ellen Carruthers] antics of gil godwin create suitable tension for walter to improvise his classic prev ado in the dance scenes in the cruise nightclub.

Walter conning his way in trying to find a rich widow is completely tongue in cheek and his romantic sincerity's flourish with his rondavu with actress Elaine Stritch playing - Mavis LaBreche who is also hiding a little secret. so their is a poignant message overlayed between the hilarious comic scenes throughout the film.
the characterisation of walter matthau that he has played throughout his career is the tongue in cheek, cheeky, sarcastic opportunist with the warm well intentioned heart. Their is very little difference between walter on screen to the real man and this the substance that binds the success of many of his films. 
 he adds that honesty in the film.
his character forms in direct opposition to hypocritical conflicts we go through everyday life and many offsprings have been created playing walter's style of character, for example, rodney dangerfield in caddyshack defending the people's golf club to the rich man's golf club represented by the villain, the judge" in the film.
This is the classic cause and conflict formula that are tried and tested and pass the test of time when directors and script writers use this formula for their future  comedy movies.


The movie has class, it bridges the nostolgic past with the future with the likes of donald o connor with his last movie appearance as the tap dancer. The movie is charming as it adds the entertainment music factor a must for any boat themed movie.


for me most of all is seeing the culmination of  the lemmon and matthau combination set to parade in the sunset of their career.
the movie's formulation is timeless and matthau's sense of humour makes this a brilliant film.
the movie is a refreshing contrast to the boyish teen hollywood actors who nervously dribble up to a girl they like.
walter sets it straight with romance, with comedy and with true heart felt moments in the film

A pair of grumpy old men hit the high seas in this comedy. Small-time con man Charlie (Walter Matthau) fast-talks his considerably more straight-laced friend Herb (Jack Lemmon) into joining him for a luxury cruise on an ocean liner headed to the Bahamas. Charlie tells Herb that the trip is free and will be a good way to meet rich widows; both parts are true enough, but Herb doesn't know that Charlie has signed them on as dance hosts (hence the free tickets), and Herb isn't sure if he's ready for romance after the recent death of his wife. As the men struggle with the fact that Herb isn't much of a hoofer (and Charlie can't dance at all) under the strict tutelage of cruise director Godwyn (Brent Spiner), Charlie starts sweet-talking beautiful heiress Liz (Dyan Cannon), while Herb finds a soul mate in Vivian (Gloria DeHaven), who lost her husband not long ago. Out to Sea also stars Elaine Stritch, Hal Linden, Rue McClanahan, and Donald O'Connor, who pulled his dancing shoes out of mothballs for his role. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

a fish called wonder classic comedy with all the elements

a fish called wanda

This successful film has many elements that makes you wanna watch it time and time again.

A fish called wanda is about a planned robbery that goes wrong and unfolds into a comic parody relief of betrayal and greed.
John cleese as the lawyer Archie Leach is the caricature all repressed" englishman who has a mediocre life in an uneventful marriage who becomes the pawn of seduction for wanda gerstwitz to get back her locket key that has access to the stolen loot.
John cleese parades with irony, apparently living a repressed life and begins to see in wanda an escape from the dredges of his daily existence.
This is one of kevin kline's best roles,  john cleese's character plays the ordinary english man with bouts of sarcastic irony,[consistent with many of the roles he plays] in his desire to be released from the dreary expectations and routine of his surroundings.
 otto west,[kevin kline, is the stereotyped witless american, overtly patriotic, who is self deluded and "stupid. his antics throughout the film bring  in that refreshing antidote when in the midst of the double dealing and betrayal in the robbery gang, farcically tips over a tongue in cheek, but friendly english versus american stereotype showdown between these two characters who make fun of eachother's nationality which intrudes vague elements of truth through the form of effective comic relief and parody.
the characters are flawless in their depictions that infuse valuable substance and depth to a plot that may seem standard or ordinary at first gaze.
The movie receiving critical acclaim and great commercial success, demands us to view what elements make this film a hit.
1 characterization
kline and cleese make a great combination. the brash un political correct stance of english versus american stereotypes really made an impression on the audiences who have been accustomed in their real life engagements and experiences, this rift of stereotypical polarisations that plagued relationships between the american and the english and has also been a source of more amicable comic friendly engagements, such as what we have seen represented  in the two characters of cleese and kline. the bold anglophobe antics of kline is a breaking refreshment in the film which breaks down all facades in the film, so that he lays his bare breast best whilst parading himself as an intellectual when he is really someone who lacks fundamental logic and has a unhealthy love for nihilism philosophy. This contrast  is a hilarious paradox" and a  very effective characterisation pushing substance in each proceeding frame of this quality film.
the comic interplay of these stereotypes lightened these cultural stereotypes in a tongue in cheek engagement and has literally summarised the dialogue of future engagements of these two cultures in how they perceive eachother and how they can learn to laugh off their differences and call everything a spade.
good comedy always implements real life into a comic interplay and this is the source of identification so valuable to comedy
2 sense of adventure
Every good film has a sense of adventure that literally engages the audience to come along and enjoy .
3 great scenes, ques and antidotes.
The parody classic of trying to kill the witness by making it seem accidentally is a classic que that is repeated and reinforced in the film.
the film steers into the area of suspense and anticipation in the unfolding folly that eventuates.
the sense of irony is created in the film that compliments the farcical comedy, when greed and desperation take a life on its own and it is in this light, like the movie rat race, which allows the plot to create characters acting according to greed, a great message, but also a superb platform to elevate the golden character interactions between kline, cleese, michael palin[with the speech impediment] a simple but effective farcical skit. jamie lee curtis as the con artist into a growing crescendo of growing farcical climax that is reached in the end.
john cleese's ravings in apologising to cleese in one scene, epitomises the ensuring conflict between these two characters.
although their is no real message at the end of the film as their feels like a disengaged conflict romantically when curtis's character ends up with whoever won the seat in the plane. however the film reinforces the insincere romantic conviction that culminates after a heist of stolen diamonds.

this film's success continued with the making of a new film playing most of the same characters as the first.
it seems   the consensus believed in a  great sequel to the continuation of these characters as a  formula of a good film and they were not wrong.
fierce creations was not such a  commercial success  but is a film i have thoroughly enjoyed and have watched over and over again and kline plays perfectly the austere and ruthless billionaire who cares little for his son. it felt like the characters were a family and that vibe rubs off  onto you from the screen.

a fish called wanda
8/10
see it now.

something about mary. film and movie what made it successful

something about mary review

This movie set the bench mark for future comedies with the blend of cinematographic elements that made the film an enjoyable and satisfying experience.

the contents of the movie has been explained many times. so i will not talk about the plot and story line.

The movies formula and mix of fun, skits and entertainment make this a complete film.
despite the arkward moment of ben stillers character getting caught up before a date. the film exemplifies and summarises all the arkward moments and high expectations we all had at our school formals as well as our disappointment.
the movie, despite its more obscene elements and heavy comic overtones, remained romantic in the sense that it must have been created by someone who had that school girl sweet heart and during the escapade of their lives, reminisce about the past of that girl that once was and who was special and the sort of girl that proved to be the once in a lifetime nice girl next door bred.
 the movies brilliance is that it moderated these two tones  throughout the film, relieving the heavier more emotional elements of the movie with humour and the  humorous  ones with romance, hope and faith. creating a unbeatable package and blend which tailored to a wide viewing audience.
The gravity, content and contrast/conflict the movie needed, was the hilarious assortment of weirdos who were also after Mary, but did not really love her.
the movie made a mockery of stalking, private investigators and other established taboos and turned them into a parody tongue in cheek affair.
mat Dillon was brilliant and i could not imagine the film without him.
chris Elliot as woogie added to this surprise antidote to a film where both mat Dillon as healy the investigator and woogie were characters who weren't what we thought them to be and when it became apparent their obsessions, the comic crescendo build up proved to be a great example of a comedy sequence that reached its superb climax at the end when all paths of the road meet for the finale.
it solved problems, it made destinies and all this while the serenading  guitar was playing throughout the film that added to the nostalgic aspect to the film.
Scenes certainly make the film and when the film is broken up into pieces or skits, this technique and direction to making films certainly ensures the quality of the film.
i am not such a fan of american pie which uses shock or slap stick to compensate for its lack of plot, direction and content wit.
this is a happy go lucky film that will uplift you in the end and dare i say make you reminisce about your own past, hopes and dreams and in the bag of wonders you also get all the laughs and antidotes  that we all relate to.
 the movies cinematolography was great, it traversed space, time and dimension and took you on a great trip.
a feel good comedy you can watch again and again
the film ensured at every corner or every scene their were surprises.
 ratings 8/10
 6/2012

a night at the roxbury will ferril review

i have ti say that i love the fratpack with all their movies.
in particular their is something about mary which i believe was a success thanks to the contrast element contributed by mat dillon as the sleezy investigator.
Wil ferril is an undeniable talent and i do believe the frat pack is a more talented pack than the last pack of chevy chase, dan aykroyd, bill murray team ups of the 80's.

a night at the roxbury is a typical frat pack comedy probably based on the personalities of its members and their humor with is a brand to be reckoned on its own merit.
The humour is gotten, despite the bad tomatoes review it once received as one of the worst movies.
the fact of the matter is that this movie is simply vindicated with all the other subsequent frat pack movie releases thereafter.
the characters of the movies play a stereotype that we all can reflect with and i once had a friend who was not smart and all he thought about was getting drunk at the club and being seen
and surely we can identify with the body conscious antics of the characters and the funny scenes where the brothers take very seriously their gym work outs.
this movie has to b a success because of the frat pack franchise emulating this comic style with great success and effectiveness.
playing exaggerated immature school boys, the paradox is evident when it is personified by supposedly grown up adults.
who by the way, despite their ways appearing to be perceived as silly, eventually succeed the shallow pursuits of  their dreams.
the message of the movie is that everyone has a talent even though cascaded as losers and when they pursue it, despite the dissonance and scrutiny around them, they will succeed.
The joe greco element as a antidote was funny as and it blended well with the glamour and excitement of their nightclub pursuits.
the stupid antics of the brothers was not slap stick or resorted to obscenity's in order to cover up the lack of wit existent is the scriptwriting.
he stupid antics of the characters suited the direction and execution of the film.
their were no boring bits, but everything blended very well.
This exaggerated form of humour is theatrical and delivers the intent of what the comedy makers were trying to attain. The music and entertainment create the excitement that movies are expectant to deliver to the audience. the i am at home doing nothing and i need to watch something to feel good factor. this movie delivers on that promise-- to feel good.
 the conflict between the brothers and their fathers and the brothers is outstanding and creates good motivation that is played out in the film.
7/10      6/2012

cypher movie i love unforeseen twists

Cypher movie
i watched this movie  on youtube and i thoroughly enjoyed it.
right from the beginning i felt like this movie had more suspense to offer, as it threw you a riddle, a situation and intrigue and curious situation.
you see this guy has been hired by a firm that wants him to spy at a business conference.
The character seems focused and certain of his direction and when issues with his wife come up and he is made to make a choice, he curiously and uncompromisingly makes a choice for his work.

this movie has great twists and turns and i would not watch the whole movie unless i was reviewing it.
Your left guessing right at the end and certain events occur whilst the main character is engaged with his unusual  and suspicious  job when  he is unexpectly told that he is infact a pawn in a dangerous game brokered between ruthless computer firms vying for sensitive secret computer information.
This introduces the advent of high tech computer espionage and suspense and their are very few boring bits because any of the bits in between where there is no direct action, your wandering, where the hell is this going.
You'll never guess in the end where it is heading and these movies that are well thought out are very well worth the watch.
the mysterious bernard shaw is a 007 type of guy.

7/10
nicholas . the unsuspecting movie critic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LV6mfPUJK8&feature=mv_sr

caddyshack

Even slap stick sleeze ball 80's comedy flicks need some some direction, depth, character and content.
And caddyshack films delivers on all fronts.
caddyshack 2 not as successful film,Spawn in the backdrop of a class conflict, there was no better way to emulate this divide, than through the discourse of a golf course.
caddyshack 1
This is more the case with part 2, however the part 1 was more about the conflict between the judge and the realestate tycoon.
Characters such as chevy chase who plays like in all his films, the cynic, the antagonist, the patroniser, set in motion an extra funny antedote to a film whilst this folly and trivial rivalry is played out on the golf course.
Every film, needs some skit or comic book style antedote and this feature is covered with the use of the golfer which evades detection from the golfers playing up above.
The films success, i believe is probably strewn by the effect the whole movie produced, from the little skit like episodes, the attitude to well to do people treating golf so seriously, to the characterization of the actors, especially to the personality of dangerfield who almost acts like an everyday working guy who seems out of place in a conservative and upright and proper upper class english like golf club that was only once reserved to fit and proper high bread types.
The judge symbolising this class divide or personality divide, you can be the judge.
Bill murray eptomises the dysfunctional golf course management who is preoccupied with the golfer as is dan aykroyd replacing this role in caddyshack 2
Before ben stiller, wil ferril their was bill murray chevy chase who provided the personality behind these films.
They showed that essentially acting had its limits and these actors have made a huge career by simply being  themselves whilst improvising the roles within their periphery, rather than trying to be someone else.
Then again if acting for comedy was taken serious then movies will not be funny. They are talented but you also know that they make incredibly interesting people to talk to in real life. like my dad did overseas when he spoke to bill murray while he was supervising an archeological exhibition, he ranted to my father is a checy like bill murray style of  comic patronising,"oh they do the digging, while i watch".
For me, dangerfield represented the frustrations of the working class towards the upperclass and this high strung battle was fought out on a golf course with pompous ideals with a  repressed stiff upper lip atmosphere  that dangerfield breaks down and condescends. The brevity of this conflict provided us with the highly charged and let loose comic antics of patronisation of authority  that we  all relate to as comedy is also an outlet of our frustration and injustice in society expressed through the antedote of sacasm and parody.
 And the most powerful message ,through the antics of dangerfield who changes the culture of a repressed and outdated institution through his arrogance and tenacious ways.
This content fueled the contemporary relevance this movie had  for the time and is still relevant today.
It is a movie that you don't need to think on any deep level about a film, but just enjoy the parody and skit saturday night live fueled comedy around the backdrop of a relaxing golf course scenery.
scenery is very underestimated in a film and it played it role.
I think film makers wrote movies around personalities and being inspired by their tendencies and that makes these characters have a very well respected role within the music industry.
I watched a little of chevy chase roast and this program tries to do the andrew dice clay treatment with an unsuccessful element. I was embarrassed and appalled by other well to do actors condescending of chevy.
I think this rant of roast could be done without using it as an opportunity by actors to express their frustrations whilst not focusing on being ironic, funny, playful and this is all about being humble and the ability to laugh at yourself. it seems that these people who make a joke about another respected actor, could not make fun of themselves and this is the most important aspect of comedy is the ability to laugh at yourself and the rest of the episode of human folly since the fall of the roman empire. [so to speak]
nicholas lazarou
There is nothing like cozying by your bed covers in a nice comfortable corner watching a caddyshack film.

    MelonCholia A Movie ReVieW

From the promotional pamplet broshure, we adduced a gory film struck within the shimmering and deathly gaze and demeanour of the girl in the wedding dress.

What got me to watch this film in the cinema was the photoshopped creative work that showed a wedding party of people at a table with a backdrop of a mysterious enigmatic evening of suspense and intrigue.

A movie quality is made by its very cinematography where scenery plays a crucial role not just to compliment the storyline of the script, but to express what books can, that is the layers of meaning hidden behind the film.

The use of metaphor works always well and for this film the constant lingering one that connects the word melacholia or depression with the name given to a mysterious impending dooms day comet that has some pending course the audience is oblivious to until the end part of the film.

In the beginning a vision is made by the main character woman who seems to have projected this image a collision of two planets. The guess was struck when the audience was brought to gaze upon the uncanny two moons in one shown during the course of the film

The enduring film interplays a weird and disturbed wedding feast, thinking the woman to be possessed and highly mentally disturbed where a happy occasion is met the mysterious depression and melancholia that the audience is made to guess whilst quit literally and metaphorically reflecting the physical reality of a actual collision between a melancholia comet and planet earth.

It ponders the dualistic belief that all of man's destiny is made out in the stars, as like theatre characters where the person is hidden behind a mask and plays out a sequence of events predictable in a blemished marriage ceremony turned chaotic from the impending doom looming near.

This film is a icon of despair where hope has no expression or personification of its own.

This film's gothic nature perhaps is a reflection of the directors view of life and reason for existence. Perhaps he sees life as a random event that can be ended with another random event.

He turns a sacred marriage with all its spiritual meaning and harvest into a game of empty puppets on a stage plunged into a course of chaos where one person's very nature is questioned because of the yet to be revealed hidden melancholia, still not known as whether it is a comet or a family secret oozing the emotion of melacholia as like a ancient greek personification, but vivid during the gloomy and dark portrayal in the film that will leave the audience feeling the suspense and anticipation that may culminate from the disturbed behaviour of the wedding woman during the course of the film.

I like kurt russell as the film reminded me of flatliners, whilst this impending mystery was still in the air, however I was totally dismayed by the choice of the film writers to decide to make out his character as somewhat a coward once again reiterating the goal of director to present the gloomy wedding guest figures as mere gothic puppets on a stage with no purpose and reason but subject to the perpetual fate of the stars and random chaos.

Whether I like this film or not, depends on perspective, but I did not like the ending.

I keep an open mind to the film that perhaps deep down it was merely trying to represent the sense of hopelessness people all over the world go through. Where for many an impending doom will inevitably come and wash them away.

Perhaps to portray the uncertainly of life and death is a gory horrific way.

I guess all films don't need a happy ending, however I could not help that reason and spirit should be subject to the creative license of the few, who masquerade and impose their religious convictions of the atheistic kind onto a unsuspecting audience.

From the creative side of things, the movie was beautiful but gory.

It focused allot of scenery and don't mind that the film takes its time,however for me the director was rubbing it in, reflecting on all the everyday things as empty and without purpose and meaning or perhaps the end of the world for the director encapsulated all these things, activity without meaning.

As a writer with a biased critique, As a christian it did not appeal and touch my humanity.

It portrayed the morbid, empty hopelessness and despair through the lack of heroism which once again enforced the idea of the empty puppet in a theatre stage playing out pretend emotions and guises and where love and emotion was subordinated and warped in favour of the pre destinial doom and fate lingering in space and in the stars..

The Inevitable doom was cinematically enforced through the film. There is no prayer, not even reflection of memories, but there is a woman disturbed because she sees into the future, an impending doom, a medieval style of faith where your doomed or your not.

Her craziness is brought by her hopelessness and despair and the film narrates to a cresendo where the director tags you along the journey but teasing and snapping a resolution with only perpetual confusion and uncertainty, to only plunge you into the depths of despair of which where the movie always intended to lead you.

I prefer the christian version to the end of the world where our saviour we will dave us from the wickedness of man in the end times. The director I believe tried to subvert this view with shock and gore.

Not a film to watch with kids.

5 out of 10.

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