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Movie Reviews of Gloria
Movie Review: CHABELA Y PEPITO CONTRA LOS GANGSTERS
Summary: 2 Stars
Spoiler alert: Buck Henry gets wasted in more ways than one. Not only some mobsters whack him at the outset of the movie, but he exits without providing it with a much needed script! Instead he leaves behind a book of records the mafia desperately wants (well, not so desperately it seems, since Gloria hands it to them a few times and they hesitate to take it) and an orphan: Buck Henry's Puerto Rican son (yes; you read that correctly). He's your average pre "Welcome Back Kotter" obnoxious little brat, complete with Afro hairdo, an attitude, some Jackson-5 clothes and a few phrases in Spanish. You are expected to find him cute. He in turn is bequeathed to Gloria, an over-the-hill moll neighbor who happens to drop in for a cup of sugar in the nick of time, and also happens to be played by Gena Rowlands. She's the only reason to see the movie.
Together she and the brat do the things one expects from a gal and a kid in a gangster film, like walking out of Penn Station clutching a gun in plain view, crossing all the way through Madison Square Garden Plaza to 42nd Street, catching a cab and having the driver wait for them while they stop by to shoot some bad guys -in The Bronx! Or meeting in a place they've never agreed upon before, or whacking a car full of thugs armed to the teeth, in midday, on the sunny side of the street.
I mean, if this wasn't a Cassavetes film, or if it didn't feature the steely beauty of his wife in the title role, one would trash this half-baked C-movie in the nearest dustbin. As it's often the case, it's considered a cult film. You know; one of those movies you haven't seen but read about how great they are? Finally, you get to see it only to end up wondering what the hell every one else saw in it that you didn't.
Movie Review: Eh...
Summary: 2 Stars
I am a huge Cassavetes fan but I cant say this one did it for me, and I dont believe it really does Cassavetes any Justice.
Watch this one last, the story has alot of corny part. Cheesy lines from the young actor who, gets better as the film goes along, but almost completely ruins the first half of the film with his terrible, and i mean TERRIBLE, acting.
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Movie Review: Am I the only one that noticed???
Summary: 1 Stars
WOW i cant believe im the only one that noticed that it's been recently remade with a sci-fi twist in ultra-vioelet, which I've heard also sucks.