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Question: a big surprise to me .
the good trailer had hinted that they pulled the impossible off , but making a blues brothers movie without jake blues ( john belushi ) is such a dumb idea i really had no hope .
they replaced him just fine .
not with john goodman , he did n't do much of anything , but with the brilliant actor joe morton , who can really sing .
the fourth blues brother is j evan bonifant , who 's ten .
this was another of my fears for the film , but he 's a really good dancer , and plays a mean harmonica
( although he may have been dubbed ) .
things that intellectually had bothered me before , like no mission from god , everyone being richer , it not being filmed in chicago -- gave me no problems at all .
i 'm quite pleased that there were less car pile - ups , because they meant less music , and john landis seems to have lost interest in the whole thing .
there 's a few early crashes , and then one huge pile - up , but after that it all stops .
it 's just the music .
one of my problems with the first is that cab calloway 's song is so good the actually blues brothers look dull after him , but there 's no problems with this .
the music is all as good as ever , tons of great musicians showing up -- with the exception of johnny lang , who ca n't sing ,
all the musicians do a great job .
the only real problems i had was the special effects .
these were superfluous and a waste of money .
since the film is n't doing very well , they could mean we have no possibility of another sequel , which i want to see .
the bluegrass version of riders in the sky is even better than rawhide .
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peter o'toole

Answer: P


Question: uncompromising french director robert bresson 's " lancelot of the lake " achieves the exact opposite effect of sir thomas malory 's " morte darthur .
" instead of enshrining the legend of king arthur and his knights of the round table , it dethrones them by revealing arthur as a weak , ineffectual leader and the knights as a group of jealous , bickering men who failed to live up to the legends prescribed to them .
chivalry has no place in " lancelot of the lake , " except as that of a dying ideal .
bresson begins his tale as the knights of the round table are returning , decimated , after failing merlin 's command to retrieve the holy grail , the mystical cup that was filled with christ 's blood .
bresson immediately gives us his impression of the essential meaning of the grail quest : bloodshed and failure .
the opening sequence is a series of clumsy , disjointed fights amongst anonymous knights -- a head is hacked off , a stomach is impaled , a skull is split open , skeletal remains hang from trees , and
burning bodies smolder in the ruins of a flaming house .
since the film starts with camelot in near - ruin , and takes only an hour and a half to arrive at its inevitable conclusion , it does n't carry the grand , tragic resonance of other arthurian films .
we never get to see camelot at the peak of its power , therefore there is no real downfall to witness .
but , then again , it is not the name of camelot that is evoked in the title of the film .
rather , it is lancelot , and bresson is more interested in the internal battle within his heart , than the external downfall of a kingdom .
lancelot has always been a tragic figure in the arthurian tales , and bresson uses him as the central figure to explore the battle between the spirit and the flesh .
the greatest of all knights , he was flawed only in his love for arthur 's wife , queen guinevere , and it was that illicit affair that eventually caused the downfall of camelot .
even when lancelot attempts to end the affair with guinevere ( laura duke condominas ) , he only finds himself falling back into her arms against his better judgment .
he knows it means the destruction of the idealized kingdom , but he is powerless in his passion .
when sir mordred ( patrick bernhard ) accuses lancelot of the affair , other knights , including sir gawain ( humbert balsan ) spring to lancelot 's defense .
it is this battle within the knights that is the eventual undoing of the round table ; the flesh wins out over the spirit , and the consequences are dire .
bresson is an intensely personal filmmaker most interested in the interiors of men 's hearts and minds .
" lancelot of the lake " is filled with his particular trademarks : a stripped - down , minimalist style , flat , expressionless dialogue , and a grand use of natural sounds in place of music .
he uses background music only twice in the film , during an opening narration segment and during the opening credits .
the music here is a heavy drumbeat and accompanying bagpipes , but the rest of the film is scored with natural sounds that punctuate the film 's thematic elements : the incessant clanking and creaking of heavy armor , the neighing of horses , the rhythm of hooves beating down dirt roads , and the natural chirping and whispering of the forest .
like most of his other films , bresson employed nonprofessional actors who recite the dialogue in emotionless , flat voices .
all the actors he used in " lancelot of the lake " had never acted before , and with the exception of patrick bernhard , they never acted again .
never once do they raise their voices or put any emphasis on a given word .
instead of using vocal inflection , bresson strove to create emotion through images .
in some ways , this technique works ; in other ways , it does n't .
the final montage of arthur 's men battling each other is quite marvelous , and the final image of the knights in shining armor reduced to a literal scrap - pile sums up the entire film in one moment .
however , other times bresson 's uncompromising methods are distracting and questionable .
for instance , during an important jousting contest , bresson films the majority of the action so that the only things visible are the horses ' legs .
he does this repeatedly , opening each shot with the same few notes from a bagpipe and the raising of a different flag .
while there might be symbolic value in this , the resulting experience of watching it can be bothersome .
nevertheless , " lancelot of the lake " is a fascinating cinematic experience boldly made by a master filmmaker .
bresson 's style may not be for everyone , but one has to respect his strength as an artist .
by re - evaluating the arthurian legends and making them his own
, he turns " lancelot of the lake " into something rare in modern cinema : a truly personal film .

Answer: P


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* cast : gary sinise , don cheadle , connie nielsen , jerry o'connell , kim delaney ,
tim robbins , elise neal , jill teed , jody thompson , bill timoney written by : jim thomas , john thomas and graham yost directed by : brian depalma running time :
115 minutes the first big event movie of 2000 turns out to be anything
but .
gary sinise stars as an astronaut who is removed from a mars mission when his astronaut wife , maggie ( kim delaney ) , becomes ill and passes away .
don cheadle is then given the mission along with a russian couple and a young hotshot .
when a strange whirlwind shot from the top of a mars mountain range attacks the crew of the mission , sinise and robbins convince their superior to let them , neilsen , and o'connell perform a rescue mission for whatever crew might be remaining .
what they discover on the surface of the planet will dramatically change their lives forever ( although no one watching the film will come away profoundly affected ) .
before i ever saw the film , i was aware of the promotional campaign with dr .
pepper .
every time i would see a bottle of the soft drink , the mission to mars logo was emblazoned upon it .
little did i know that the plot would be taking a back seat to the product placement of the drink and several other products .
dr .
pepper saves the day at one point , and a dream sequence / flashback features jerry o'connell shoving m&m 's in our face .
these are but a couple of the ridiculous examples of product placement scattered throughout the film .
clich ?
s are also the order of the day with mission to mars .
dialogue and character motivations are all lifted directly from countless other science fiction films that have all done it better and with more style ( even independence day , which lifted all of it 's premises from other sci - fi films was better than this film , and i do n't like independence day ) .
films like 2001 : a space odyssey , the abyss , and close encounters of the third kind are all blatantly stolen from ( and poorly at that ) .
there is even a sequence where a rover is traveling through a canyon , and i could n't help but whisper " u'tinni " to myself and wait for a jawa to quickly hide in the rocks before the rover could get a glimpse of it .
this film also features one of my all - time least favorite movie clich ?
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the " he would have wanted you to have this " moment , where one character gives another a trinket that yet another character is established as constantly having ( and is usually made fun of by the character who ends up getting all sappy over it later on ) .
scenes like these always bother me when they come out of nowhere in regular films , but in a film as clich ? ridden as this ,
it is particularly irritating .
ennio morricone 's music is usually considered to be some of the best stuff in the projects he works on , but here it is dreadfully overbearing
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his music sounds like it came straight out of a vincent price movie in certain scenes .
at other times his music is unbearably over - dramatic .
one sequence involving a daring spacewalk rescue is given a particularly cheesy sting when it is discovered that the grappling hook device used for the rescue wo n't reach its intended target .
mission to mars is push button filmmaking to the greatest extreme .
events are set into motion that are obvious to anyone who has ever seen a movie and seem like they are just there to evoke an emotional response in the audience .
we are apparently supposed to be upset that tim robbins character removes his helmet in deep space and kills himself to save his wife , but i felt extreme boredom coupled with a twinge of disinterest .
what makes it all worse is that fact that there is no real reason that robbins ' character needs to turn himself into a popsicle , except to invoke an emotional response ( i could think of at least one way to save him , and the nasa clowns in this film are supposed to be " smarter " than i am ) .
during the finale , when we are finally introduced to the translucent , conehead , kitty - faced aliens that we ostensibly sprung from , we are presented with some of the most ridiculously cartoonish cgi ever put to film
( just slightly worse than the plane crash at the end of air force one or the hell scenes in spawn ) .
a brief history lesson about " where we came from " is proffered , then sinise is whisked away to be with " the rest of our people
" ( he does this because his late wife proclaims in a video he watches early on that " this is a chance to step foot where no one else has " ) .
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from the press i 've been seeing this film receive ,
it is apparent that mission to mars will be dying a quick death at the theater .
i 'm sure the first weekend or two will be huge , but once word gets out people will stop going .
let 's just hope the upcoming red planet is better than this and is n't hurt by the negativity this film is generating .
i 'd venture to say it wo n't be worse than this waste of time .
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Answer:
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