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Panic in the Streets (1950)

Possibly the worst Elia Kazan film ever

[1/10 · 15 December 2023]

Set and shot in New Orleans in the 1950's but there is not a single actor that has a NOLA accent. It seems like large numbers of=actors and extras moved to NOLA for this movie. Not one person in the film speaks like a native. Routine and rather lazy performances for both principals. Second rate all around on it's own. But it gets worse. The principals seem to be walking through their lines. I can't blame them much for that. It's insulting that a major studio would go to a city like New Orleans and treat it like it was some sort of colony or vacation spot for the principal actors

According to CDC, the last outbreak of pneumonic plague in the US was in Los Angeles in 1924. Probably would not have.

Guns Akimbo (2019)

Lame, stupid, really bad

[1/10 · 3 December 2023]

Lame premise, not much plot at all (kill the guy with the guns bolted to his hands). No acting talent to speak of (including poor Daniel Radcliff who must have badly needed a paycheck). Compare with "Shoot 'em Up" with Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti. That film reflects the title very well but at least has more of a plot, including what Hitchcock called a McGuffin, in that case a baby, and an adversary that had some character instead of nothing more than a guy with lots of tattoos on his face.

I confess I did not finish this horrible movie. Some have said it can be enjoyed as mindless fun, but for me it's just mindless. Can anyone be surprised that it never seems to have run on any streaming services?