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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Boys from Brazil (1978) in Movies

Apr 21, 2019 (Updated Apr 21, 2019)

The Boys from Brazil (1978)

1978 | Action, Drama, Mystery

7.4

(5 Ratings)

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Another adaptation of one of Levin's pulpy-but-effective thrillers, this one riffing on The Omen a bit (Gregory Peck, paedophobia, etc). Laurence Olivier discovers that Nazi mad scientist Gregory Peck is plotting the death of nearly a hundred 65-year-old men around the world, but why? Could the targets' identical sons have something to do with it?

The material is pure schlock, lifted by the presence of distinguished actors and fairly lavish production values. You could argue that the film also attempts to explore issues of nature and nature in a relatively more sophisticated fashion than most films about (spoiler alert) cloning, but the whole thing retains an air of feverish preposterousness throughout, to say nothing of the fact it is arguably in very dubious taste. That said, it's highly watchable from start to finish; definitely qualifies as a guilty pleasure, though.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Murder by Decree (1979) in Movies

Feb 27, 2018 (Updated Feb 27, 2018)

Murder by Decree (1979)

1979 | Drama, Horror, Mystery

7.3

(3 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Ah, nothing says 'fun' like a movie based on the activities of a brutal real-life misogynistic serial killer. Classy Sherlock Holmes pastiche is as much a vehicle to disseminate one particular Jack the Ripper theory as it is entertainment; fortunately it works very well as the later.

Not really a very good Sherlock Holmes movie - Holmes and Watson are clearly twenty years apart in age, weirdly, and Holmes' fearsome intellect is not much on display; his main method here seems to be to wander about until he stumbles over the solution to a mystery. But a distinguished cast and nice production values make up for the all-over-the-shop script, and the action at the end of the movie is well-staged. Hardly an ideal Holmes, but an entertaining mystery-thriller in a post-Hammer horror sort of style, issues of taste excepted.

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Melissa J Anthony (12 KP) rated The Pisces in Books

Jun 29, 2018

The Pisces

Melissa Broder | 2018 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.0

(3 Ratings)

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There are so many underlying feminine undertones that pull the story together (1 more)

There is almost a fairytale mixed with erotica that many women crave

Have Women Given Up On Men And Turned To Fish ?

Lucy has been stuck in a dead relationship and only when it ends, does she spiral and go stay at her sisters and join a humorous addiction to love therapy group. It’s at night though that she befriends a swimmer, who she eventually finds out is a merman. While they boldly engage in lustful sexual activity, the feminine undertone plays out again. Lucy says, “his come in my mouth didn’t taste bitter, like some men, but it wasn’t exactly sweet either...It felt as though I had eaten his pussy...” Ultimately, Lucy is faced with learning about love, lust, and the obsessive love that forces her to realize the life she has to live presently.