movie review
"Sharkey's Machine' drips with quality
Sharky's Machine
Burt Reynold*
Cinlmmorad
Now and then a filmmaker produces a
show that just drips with brilliance
"Sharkey's Machine" is such a show
The story revolves around Reynolds, a
big-time narcotics agent on the Atlanta
police department who gets busted to
vice squad after a bungled bust
Reynolds, who directed this epic mas
terpiece, spared no expense and used
Kodak ECN 7254 36mm filmstock for all
the shooting in low light conditions as
well as outdoor scenes
This filmstock also shows its stuff dur
ing the many gunshot scenes in the film.
In one, where a woman is shot in the face
with a sawed-off shotgun at point-blank
range, the blood, etc., that spatters walls
and carpets is startlingly vivid, while the
reds are not too saturated, giving a nice,
realistic color rendition.
This particular scene also showcases
the sound engineering of the film The
report of the rifle is excellent, with lots of
low bass (60 kiloherz), making the gun
sound even more powerful than it really
is. Later, when Reynolds and his friends
walk around the murder scene, their
shoes make squishy squeaky sounds in
the clotting blood in the carpet. It’s the
next best thing to being there.
Then there’s the cinematography of
“Sharky's MachinePowerful images
abound, from hunks of people's backs
flying toward the audience (point-blank
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in the chest) to the standard body
crashing through a plate glass window
and falling hundreds of feet to the busy
street below. The lighting, with just the
right hint of film noir, gives these mas
terful shots an air of understated
elegance, of restrained power.
With flawless editing, excellent cin
ematography, superb sound and color
rendition and wonderful scenery,
"Sharky’s Machine” is a finely-crafted
masterpiece that shouldn't be missed,
by mutt myear
‘Golden Pond’ morally bankrupt
"On Golden Pond”
Henry Fonda
Katharine Hepburn
Cinlmmorakf
Add Katharine Hepburn and
good old Henry Fonda to your
list of family-wrecking, moral
crumbling leftist no-goodniks
"On Golden Pond." perpetrated
to be a nice, heartwarming little
family film, is nothing less than
two hours' worth of pure
propaganda for those elements
that would ruin everything good
and wholesome in our great
land
Katharine Hepburn is Fonda's
wife, an old woman who doesn't
know her place She stoops so
low as to encourage skinny
dipping (at her age!) and other
morally bankrupt acts of in
decency
Then there's Jane Fonda, that
left-wing radical, making things
worse than some pure porno
scenes of her bouncing around
in a skimpy bikini I was shocked
to see a number of children in
the audience who were exposed
to this filth by their progressive
parents
The storyline of the film is that
Henry is getting old and crot
chety, and he and daughter
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Golden Pond, the subject of the Oscar award-winning screenplay
written by Henry David Thoreau. "Golden Pond" stars Henry
Fondue and Katharine Heartburn walked away with the best actor
and actress award. Police are still searching for the missing pair.
Jane can't seem to get their
relationship together Then
Jane comes along with her
partner-in-sin Dabney Coleman
and his son Jane and Dabney,
like typical radical permissive
types, decide to frolick across
Europe, leaving the kid with the
elder Fonda and Hepburn
The kid, morally starved by his
irresponsible folks, talks dirty
and doesn't give the proper re
spect to Fonda or Hepburn. But
instead of taking him out behind
the shed, Fonda and Hepburn
encourage his foul talk and dis
obedience With this type of ex
ample to learn from, is it any
wonder that our society's mor
als have crumbled to their pre
sent state ?
No wonder our country's
youth are revolting No wonder
they're all shooting up mar
ijuana No wonder they don't
respect our President. The Reds
have gotten a solid foothold in
Hollywood, and are using it to
split up families and weaken our
morals through slickly
produced propaganda like "On
Golden Pond.”
The only good thing about
this show was that it didn't talk
about homosexuality
by mutt myear
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