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Hi all, this tumblr mainly exists as a way of tracking all the movies I've been watching and some of the initial thoughts, and general feelings, I've had about them.

5/5 - Fantastic movies; movies which need to be seen and enjoyed by everyone.

4/5 - Movies which are very good but don’t have that spark which compels you to make others watch them as well.

3/5 - Average movies; watchable and enjoyable, but nothing which elevates them higher. The baseline all movies are given before watching.

2/5 - Can be watched but really bland and forgettable.

1/5 - Minimal to no reason to watch these films. It may have some redeeming factors e.g. it’s so bad it’s good or there’s one character that’s awesome enough to make it not a total waste of time.

0/5- Total waste of time. Nothing redeemable about these films.

As with every review blog/site, this is all my own personal opinion so feel free to take everything with a grain of salt.

Also I'm Scottish so all reviews will be in UK English. Get used to theatre, colour and words ending in -ised.

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#350/#67 Dragnet An 80’s semi-spoof of the original 50’s tv show sees veteran police Sgt Joe Friday (Dan Akyroyd) and his new free-wheeling partner Pep Streebek (Tom Hanks) trying to track down a group known only as P.A.G.A.N. as they commit a number of crimes around L.A. This is one goofy film and it’s so very 80’s that it becomes funny again just by how ludicrous the whole thing is. Hanks is hamming it up big time at that point in his career when all he was doing were comedy films. It’s still an entertaining watch but that doesn’t stop it from still being really cheesy. Akyroyd is good in his role getting a fast-talking, conservative, no nonsense 50’s guy down pat and Harry Morgan works quite well as the always put upon Captain of the pair. Not much more to it than that. The story’s daft and the whole thing feels like a bunch of different episodes of the show were smushed together but it meets what you’re expecting coming into the film so you can’t ask for a great deal more than that. 2.5/5

#350/#67 Dragnet

An 80’s semi-spoof of the original 50’s tv show sees veteran police Sgt Joe Friday (Dan Akyroyd) and his new free-wheeling partner Pep Streebek (Tom Hanks) trying to track down a group known only as P.A.G.A.N. as they commit a number of crimes around L.A.

This is one goofy film and it’s so very 80’s that it becomes funny again just by how ludicrous the whole thing is. Hanks is hamming it up big time at that point in his career when all he was doing were comedy films. It’s still an entertaining watch but that doesn’t stop it from still being really cheesy. Akyroyd is good in his role getting a fast-talking, conservative, no nonsense 50’s guy down pat and Harry Morgan works quite well as the always put upon Captain of the pair.

Not much more to it than that. The story’s daft and the whole thing feels like a bunch of different episodes of the show were smushed together but it meets what you’re expecting coming into the film so you can’t ask for a great deal more than that. 2.5/5

  1. fuckmetodubstep reblogged this from leezy2 and added:
    Hmm, why don’t I remember this one? Oh well, I’ll watch it tonight :D
  2. leezy2 posted this