Lifeguard
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Movie Reviews of Lifeguard
Movie Review: So Bad it's Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
Get a load of Sam Elliott driving his Corvette barefoot! I did things like that in the 70s, and would probably still do them today if I could get away with it. It's the kind of stuff that makes a bad movie great!
And a movie worth owning for its historical value alone. Plus, it's amusing and excruciating at the same time.
This five-star pick is an absolutely horrible movie, a shallow tale, one that I'll bet Sam Elliott is embarassed by (understandably), and probably posterity's most succinct, accurate snapshot of youth lifestyles on the Southern California coast in the 1970s. I know because I was there -- I was only a year or two older than Kathleen Quinlan's character, almost as cute, and easily as stupid. It's more accurate than a docudrama and is as timeless as it is trendy.
"Lifeguard" is a perfect chronicle of the horrific polyester cheesy-hair-and-sideburns brain-freezing-interior-decor, free love, bad dog 70s. Those of us who lived it, who wore those faux seersucker polyester jackets and bell-bottoms, those of us whose kitchens were decked with the sister print of the flowered wallpaper pattern in Ann Archer's kitchen, calculated to elicit spontaneous shouts of horror, know that it was even worse than we remember. We may also remember how the loose morality of the times made for a lot of cheap fun and worse misery. The tortuously sappy soundtrack captures it perfectly. The movie is a profile in the worst of 1970s America.
I give this movie five stars because it is so pleasantly and unpleasantly honest and accurate. It presents authentic insight into the bad 70s. They were bad. Worse, indeed, than remembered. This movie is evidence exhibit A!
Movie Review: "Time and Tide" ~ Life on the Beach
Summary: 5 Stars
With the approach of his fifteen year high school reunion and the possibilty of re-connecting with his teenage sweetheart (Anne Archer), an aging lifeguard (Sam Elliot) re-examines his career choice and single lifestyle.
This is my favorite Sam Elliot role and conversely probably his least well known. It's one of those perfect little gems where everything seems to work to perfection. Much like the main character, Lifeguard Rick, the viewer subtly touches on so many different emotions during this film that it's hard to define exactly what you're experiencing at any given time. But in the end you are left with a quiet contentment, an understanding and acceptance of who you are and what is the right choice for yourself no matter what the mainstream opinion might be.
Paul Williams' song "Time and Tide" was removed from the soundtrack when this movie hit the T.V. screen. I hope it has been restored on the DVD release, it just wouldn't be the same movie without it.
Update 06/22/05: The DVD came out yesterday. I bought it and watched last night. All is well, the song is back. Thanks Paramount!
Movie Review: Life's conscious choices.
Summary: 5 Stars
A long-awaited DVD choice, the launching of Sam Elliott, Kathleen Quinlan, Anne Archer and Parker Stevenson shin in one of the greatest B movies. On the surface, it anticipates "Jaws," yet was overshadowed by "Summer of '42." However, this "teen film" was very adult. Sam Elliott, as the inveterate lifeguard-jock, has the opportunity to move up or drift, sell-out or join. With all the temptations, he escapes with self-respect from tempting entanglements. His choices are contemporary, yet his decency and manliness do not go out with the tide at the finish. Anne Archer was never more lovelier as the sexy, vulnerable, willing single-mom.Kathleen Quinlan plays a perfect life-guard naive groupie to a tease. This is an unforgettable time capsule of the post-hippie,unhurried times. Peopld should see this film about individuals who thought about actions and weighed situations before committing themselves to regret, before cell phones and internet browsing.This is a movie that could beg for an equally mature follow-up. People forget "Last Summer," but are alwsys haunted by "Lifeguard."Movie Review: Sam's the man
Summary: 5 Stars
Just found the DVD of this upstairs in my stash...watched it and it brought back some fond memories of those times in the 70's....and introduced us to Sam THE MAN Elliott...clearly the sexiest man alive....forget Pitt, Clooney (or Gibson in his day).....they have NOTHING on this guy. That voice, that hair, that bod....WHATTA GUY!!!
He has a special quality about him... totally believable in this role and any others that he has taken on throughout his career....Mask, The Contender, all those westerns...
I used to have a practice in Malibu and my nurse and I were having lunch at one the main places near the "Colony" when she mentioned she thought she saw him walk into a flower shop. We were there in a flash, just listening to that voice ask about some flowers, undoubtedly for his lovely wife. Made my week!
Someone wrote earlier that Katharine Ross is one lucky lady....totally agree.
Movie Review: real life in the 70's
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie. Even though its a small-time production, the writing was excellent, and very realistic. Music was memorable too. The dvd contains the whole movie with curse scenes and all the situations that were edited out for the tv version, scenes that would be considered politically incorrect today, but nonetheless are situations we all deal with in real life. This movie really brings you back to the 70's and how we grew up then. Sam Elliot is a perfect choice as lifeguard Rick, struggling with the peer pressure of getting a "real" job or doing what he really wants. This is one of my favorite films. Paul McMahon, my old roomate, you've got to get this.