I’ve had ample time to watch some movies lately. I’ll give you just a quick run-down because I’m desperately trying to get caught up on things.
I re-watched one of my all time favs, Harper, with a young Paul Newman as Lew Harper (based upon Ross MacDonald’s Lew Archer). Newman is a total bad ass and a cool mo-fo to boot in this flick.
I also finally got to watch Kiss Me Deadly, a 1955 movie based on Mickey Spillane’s novel of the same name. It featured Mike Hammer so I was immediately intrigued. Unfortunately, they made Mike out to be a sleazy, Los Angeles detective at the beginning who is always looking for angles to swindle cheating spouses out of their money. That ain’t Mike Hammer and the movie was simply tough to get through. I kept looking for a redeeming quality in the flick and couldn’t find a one. Skip this if you ever run across it.
Another one to completely ignore is the original The Italian Job with Michael Caine. Now, I’m a big Caine fan but this movie was horrible. It was definitely a period piece (late 60s) as it looks and feels horrible dated and cheesy now. Hollywood remade this movie into a passable caper-film a few years back. Definitely see the remake over the original.
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