November 13, 2004
Saturday, November 13, 2004

Savant's new reviews today are

Creature from the Black Lagoon: The Legacy Collection Universal
Intermezzo: A Love Story MGM
Arrowhead Paramount
Secret Honor Criterion and
The Naked Jungle Paramount

Well, I decided to play catch-up and to get ready for more screeners coming in so almost the entire main page of reviews has changed over this time. This also might help over the coming Thanksgiving weekend, when I might take a break. The Creature films were hard to resist. I've seen them all so many times it's difficult to have a real reaction to them. But I remember clearly seeing parodies of the Gill Man in Mad magazine before I was aware he existed, and then when the famous line of Aurora monster models appeared, the Creature was my instant favorite. The first order of business was to cut out the jagged shark teeth that Aurora added to make him seem more fierce! Those Universal monster movies were frequently shown in afternoon TV slots with dozens of commercials yet still only lasted 90 minutes, so it wasn't until high school or college that I was able to rent prints and see them intact.

Anyhoo, thanks for all the corrections and comments this week. I'll try to keep picking interesting movies. If I don't review hot titles like STAR WARS, well, there are already plenty of good reviews of those movies out there, and all my nagging about revising movies that don't need revising gets me down too. Thanks, Glenn Erickson

Posted by DVD Savant at November 13, 2004 07:45 AM