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Topic	Movie Club Topic 5 - The Rest Is Silence
Mega Mana 01/26/22 10:50:09 AM #164:	Oh wow, I forgot I started a ranking of things I watched in 2022. I don't know where the rest of the list is (stopped at 12), but relevant: #22 (out of 22). Murder by Death (1976) Dir: Robert Moore Star: Peter Sellers, Peter Falk, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Truman Capote, James Cromwell Look at those names. How is a movie with a such a pedigree dead last on a movie ranking, even with a short selection of twenty-two films? Well, same way Casino Royale 1967 is the worst Bond movie of all time, also starring David Niven and Peter Sellers. It's a bad parody movie in the same vein of those many "____ Movie" films throughout the 2000s. The film is about five of the greatest detectives in the world and each of their closest companions coming to an eccentric millionaire's house for 'dinner and a murder.' You have a Miss Marples, a Hercule Poirot, a Sam Spade, a Nick & Nora Charles, and an always horridly racist Charlie Chan. It's a slow-plodding affair with lots of lampshade hanging, beating tropes into the ground, deaths-but-not-really, answers-but-not-really, and just utter boring mayhem. It was bad. I will say that of everyone in the cast, the standout for me was Peter Falk. He was already Columbo for a number of years, and man, he was just in his element here. I also rather liked the Nick and Nora Charles, and James Cromwell's putupon butler. There are bits of some reall good stuff in here, but so much of it is offensive, slow, and unfunny that it's hard to watch. --- "In my headcanon, some staffer saw Trump pull out his phone and start typing so they just Terry Tate Office Linebacker'd him out of his shoes." - FFD <cite>Mega Mana posted [p:962090815] in Movie Club... [t:79761999]...</cite> <quote>Oh wow, I forgot I started a ranking of things I watched in 2022. I don't know where the rest of the list is (stopped at 12), but relevant: #22 (out of 22). Murder by Death (1976) Dir: Robert Moore Star: Peter Sellers, Peter Falk, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Truman Capote, James Cromwell Look at those names. How is a movie with a such a pedigree dead last on a movie ranking, even with a short selection of twenty-two films? Well, same way Casino Royale 1967 is the worst Bond movie of all time, also starring David Niven and Peter Sellers. It's a bad parody movie in the same vein of those many "____ Movie" films throughout the 2000s. The film is about five of the greatest detectives in the world and each of their closest companions coming to an eccentric millionaire's house for 'dinner and a murder.' You have a Miss Marples, a Hercule Poirot, a Sam Spade, a Nick & Nora Charles, and an always horridly racist Charlie Chan. It's a slow-plodding affair with lots of lampshade hanging, beating tropes into the ground, deaths-but-not-really, answers-but-not-really, and just utter boring mayhem. It was bad. I will say that of everyone in the cast, the standout for me was Peter Falk. He was already Columbo for a number of years, and man, he was just in his element here. I also rather liked the Nick and Nora Charles, and James Cromwell's putupon butler. There are bits of some reall good stuff in here, but so much of it is offensive, slow, and unfunny that it's hard to watch. --- "In my headcanon, some staffer saw Trump pull out his phone and start typing so they just Terry Tate Office Linebacker'd him out of his shoes." - FFD</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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