Should you see it? Only if you're a killer amphibian completist.
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| Joan Van Ark. She almost saves this film. |
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Frogs (1972)
How bad is it? It manages to be preachy as well as ludicrous.
Should you see it? Only if you're a killer amphibian completist.
Ray Milland, acting from a wheelchair, plays an industrialist who's polluting for profit. This causes intelligent frogs (played by toads, by the way) who can use mind control over snakes, lizards and insects to attack people. Almost everyone is killed, though just how they get killed by frogs is not exactly clear. This tries to be atmospheric and to give an ecological message, but fails.
Should you see it? Only if you're a killer amphibian completist.
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And here I thought it was Aristophanes
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