Man's Favorite Sport?
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Movie Reviews of Man's Favorite Sport?
Movie Review: Mans' Favorite Sport
Summary: 3 Stars
Typical Rock Hudson -- goofy, love story, and just plain fun. I'd seen it years ago and just wanted it for my collection.Movie Review: Weak script, iffy acting... poor Rock!!
Summary: 2 Stars
This is one of those movies where you say to yourself, "Hey! No fair! I want those hours of my life back again!" It's really pretty bad. Rock Hudson stars as a fumpfering salesman at the San Francisco Abercrombie & Fitch men's store, whose specialty is selling fishing gear (fishing being a manly, manly pastime...) The thing is, he doesn't actually do any fishing himself, and when his boss enters him in a big, manly fishing tournament, he runs the risk of being exposed as a fraud. (Wow! Heavy drama! Hold me back.) Then enter into the mix co-star Paula Prentiss, whose brief glimmer of stardom is truly inexplicable... She's so awful, and so weird! Her timing is really strange, and her attempts at seeming impish or elfin just make her look like that much more of a weirdo. She's a very poor substitute for Doris Day, Rock's main co-star at the time... There's also an odd quality to the film itself that throws the pacing off and makes it perpetually wobbly. I'm not sure, but I think part of it may be that many scenes were actually extended improvs, relying on Pretiss's wackiness and vivacity to carry the day. It doesn't work, believe me. This film may have been the high point of her career, but it's an embarrassment for Hudson.Movie Review: Film editor had a heavy hand!
Summary: 2 Stars
I wanted to love this movie...and had it in my Amazon shopping cart for several months, constantly shifting it from "buy now" to "save for later". The anticipation did not live up to the actual viewing experience!
The editing of this film "classic" is akin to watching a movie on TNT. I constantly wondered, "What was cut to allow for the extra 16 minutes of commercials?" The Paula Prentiss character seemed to suffer the most at the hands of heavy editting, as I struggled to determine why she had a hate-hate-love relationship with the Rock Hudson character, or why he responded the way he did.
This was certainly not the comedic romp I was so higly anticipating, and will probably never have another showing in this house.
Movie Review: Who are these reviewers?
Summary: 1 Stars
I had never seen this movie, and looked forward to viewing it, in part because I think that Howard Hawks may have been the grestest American movie director. I began to worry during the credits which played to possibly the worst movie theme I have ever heard. When I saw the theme was credited to Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini, I was stunned. Then the movie began, and I suppose it was okay if you like comedies that never make you laugh. The movie almost seemed to be an in-joke on Hudson's double life, but I don't suppose that can be proved. Why did the writers have Hudson reveal his secret to Prentiss in the first few minutes? Wouldn't concealment until near the end have given more comic opportunities? Was the fake Indian chief funny even in 1963? I think Hawks forgot at times that he was not directing Cary Grant, whose subtleties and physical grace (with him the scene of climbing upside down into Prentiss's car might actually have been funny) would have added some humor on their own. Hudson was not without a lesser talent , but you don't see it in this movie.