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This movie was a hit with Hollyweird and the rich liberal movie industry but it fell flat with the public and I can see why. It's like when Reagan soundly defeated the other southern democratic peace liberal Jimmy Carter It showed that the public only likes real democrats not the liberal kind. Because FDR who was a real democrat had already been in for two terms when this movie was made the public had known full well what a genuine democratic president was and what he could do. This stupid movie was a product of rich jealous liberal movie industry moguls who didn't like FDR's socialist changes and thought they could brainwash the public with a piece of Hollywood fluff. It is good for a laugh though with over the top sentimentality and extravagant wardrobe and scenery.

This is a movie that should be in the Smithsonian. It's a profound reflection of a time period that produced some of the best American music ever. I was very surprised to read at the end of the film that Hank Williams was only 29 when he died and that he had written over 700 songs many of them classic. I was born in '48 so he was not of my generation but after the 60's rock and roll died I came to appreciate the greats of the past like Hank and Bill Monroe. I think Sneezy Waters did an incredible job of acting. The writing was right on target for humor and the soulful journey that Williams must have experienced. He seems to be searching for a peace that eludes him. I didn't know he had written "I saw the light", which he sings here.

I saw the original when it came out and couldn't stand it. This was when it was the in thing to be a house husband and dick-less. It was the east coast N.O.W. culture in the movies. Supposedly it was a horror movie with the obviously politically correct nod toward woman's lib. There was no horror it was just long and boring. This one is much better and probably too short. Their's some good dialogue and humor that makes the settings less picture perfect. The settings are pleasing to the eye much as the housewives but the husbands are software executives and would like their woman more compatible, like their computers. So they decide to combine the two. I think Matthew Broderick is a good choice to play Nicole Kidman's husband. He's very likable and not as pushy until the other husbands work him over. Kidman plays a successful television executive who loses her job after a reality show she made backfires. This is an entertaining comedy and doesn't try to be anything more.

This has got Rod Stieger playing a psycho mom obsessed killer in the big city and George Segal plays the young cop who is taken off the case and then put back on by request of the killer. He thinks Segal understands him. In one good part the killer rings an apartment dressed as a cop and you only hear his voice because he has his back to the camera but the voice is George Segal's not Rod Stieger's. When the camera comes around to him it's Rod Stieger. It would have been more interesting if the killer could actually mimic Segal's voice and have him do it while he's talking to Segal. But it was only thrown in to add to the suspense. The movie is pretty good, well written, well acted, but dated. Which to me is not a bad thing I would give it a 7.5 only because the ending was too quick and neatly packaged.

This is about left-wing eggheads from the 30's who are now bureaucratic right wingers. They seem to beat-up on Tom Hayden because he was from the rock and roll 60's. At that time they were the professors and writers who wanted to ignore the Vietnam situation because it didn't relate to their life and career. They weren't draftable. I think this is a good display of what youthful ideals and enlightened self-interest are really about. I was from the 60's but wasn't a radical. The music, though, gave me a feeling of change that was possible in an America that had been cheated by following a tight-lipped closed-minded patriotism. The thing about communism and marxism is that dictatorship of the proletariat will never lead to full communism, altruism and brotherly love are not a basic human characteristic but greed and love of power is.

This movie makes Hitler look remorseful but we know he wasn't. It is interesting because of what Hitler was to the 20th century. He and the other dictators of that century showed that Karl Marx, a Jew, was wrong in considering dictatorship of the proletariat as a stepping stone to full communism. Dictators will destroy a world before giving up their power. Using Freud, another famous and genius Jew, as his analyst showed Hitler's deceit in trying to appear innocent. It shows him surrounded by rural children both in actual footage and live in the bunker. Hitler was the first big media politician and you see in this movie how much of a lie politics can be. I enjoyed the artistic feel of this movie. I would give it 3 out of 4 stars.

This is a good movie. The ending is a little too simple but overall it is a decent revealing of an indescribable force in the universe. It was nice how all the characters, except for the Christian girl deceive themselves about their own worth by their worldly success. The casting is excellent but the special effects could use some help. It was also interesting to show the military trying to use it as a weapon kind of like what they did with LSD. Not being a hail and brimstone Christian myself I think the reviewers are overreacting in their condemnation. When you look at revelations in the bible it does present such a black and white unforgiving idea of the future that you can see how easy some horrible event like the Inquisition could happen.

This movie is too long and too sentimental. The costumes and scenery are good but the screenplay is stiff and predictable. The story could be interesting with some reference to human survival instead of making it so special to be human. I don't care for Asminov's writing but I do like Robert Silverberg. It would be nice to see a movie made from one of his books.