Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here...
The Internechine Project (1974)
Lee Grant and James Coburn star in this UK spy drama. There is sexism and threatened violence. Red China is discussed. Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a man is told to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy. This was dull and dated. This wasn't that interesting.
Best Line:
“Crusading lady journalists.”
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The Apology (2022)
A woman's daughter disappeared 20 years ago now her ex brother in law pays a visit. Anna Gunn and Linus Roache and Janeane Garofalo star. The ex BIL shagged her and he knows something about her missing daughter. Gunn wails and blubbers. Roache plays a baddie and revs it up to full throttle crazy. This was a letdown.
Best Lines:
“I can't serve this to people.”
“The Queen ain't coming!”
“Just not knowing.”
“Justice fantasy.”
“Don't make me kill you too!”
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The Kid Stays In The Picture (2002)
Robert Evans mumbles his way through his life story. He was a bad actor turned producer. He claims he created the fad for women to wear slacks, he got acting jobs and people didn't like him. This wants to be intellectually interesting. Evans wasn't into genteel pleasures. He acts like he had zeus touching him from above and that he was a singular person. He got fame but faced difficult circumstances. After his fall life wasn't pleasant for him. Did this seal his reputation? In later life he belonged to nothing. He was married married 7 times but only speaks of his marriage to Ali McGraw. That speaks of ambition.
Drugs led to primeval desapir. He would die in 2019. Evans got his foot in the door as a producer at Paramount. He delivered 'Rosemary's Baby', feuded with Sinatra, liked Polanski and lived in a big fancy house. We see old photos and films. Old songs play. The house was tacky looking. There is talk about 'Paint Your Wagon' and Ali McGraw and 'Love Story'. Evans was friends with Kissenger.
There is talk of a wedding, 'The Godfather', a baby and various other movies. Then Ali McGraw has an affair with Steve McQueen and leaves. 'Chinatown' and 'Marathon Man' were made. Then Evans got into cocaine. He was busted. Then he made the infamous flop 'The Cotton Club'. There is talk of a lawsuit and Robert Shapiro and the murder of Roy Radin. The murder of Radin was investigated by the loon Maury Terry who tied it to a nationwide satanic cult. Evans was out of a job and in a loony bin. He had a stroke and made bad films. He was orange. This was mad.
Best Lines:
“Few remaning icons.”
“Changed the entire course of my life.”
“Mentor and husband.”
“Mine no more.”
“He's film people.”
“Bad company.”
“Opportunity meets preperation.”
“Picked some guy out of a nightclub.”
“Anybody who doesn't like it can quit.”
“Diabolical horror.”
“The Fiend Who Walked The West.”
“Goal for the 60s.”
“Pretty boy actor.”
“Ex actor and a bad one at that.”
“In 9th place for 5 years.”
“Brilliance in his little films.”
“Big star in Europe.”
“The fights began.”
“Sense of fright.”
“For nothing that isn't.”
“Everyone turned it down.”
“Cultural revolution.”
“Favourite aging movie stars in lavish productions.”
“Youth market.”
“A simple little film.”
“For the poor.”
“7 digits away.”
“2 most admired women in America.”
“For slave wages.”
“Snotnose McGraw.”
“Flowerchild snotnose.”
“Non smilers.”
“Paramount's future.”
“2 biggest books of the last decade.”
“Great movie they're going to be.”
“Alone and bereft.”
“You can say that on television now.”
“Made it into a disaster.”
“New infamy.”
“A family chronicle.”
“You shot a saga.”
“A secret mission to Moscow.”
“Personally fired 4 different times.”
“One of the most feared lawyers in the country.”
“Saved from the graveyard.”
“Confrontation time.”
“Drug era.”
“Hollywood princess.”
“Hello 80s.”
“He never did.”
“Biggest star in the world.”
“Rather bitter.”
“No idea what lay ahead.”
“Doors closed on me quietly.”
“Public disgrace...continued failure...last bastion of my dignity...lost the will to function.”
“Never ending bad dream my life had become.”
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French Connection II (1975)
Fake blood, France and Gene Hackman doing his actings. Unlike the 1st film, this is total fiction. Doyle gets hooked on smack. This was boring.
