Should you see it? I've fallen asleep watching it, but I still say yes.
“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."
Saturday, June 7, 2014
The Manitou (1978)
How bad is it? It's a ludicrous premise with one bad acting performance.
Should you see it? I've fallen asleep watching it, but I still say yes.
Poor Susan Strassberg has a 400 year-old Indian shaman spirit dwarf growing out of her neck (no, really, that's the plot). Tony Curtis, in perhaps his worst acting performance, comes to the rescue with a climax in a refrigerator. The make-up, mechanical and special effects are actually pretty good; it's just the incredibly weird idea of the film that makes one laugh. Michael Ansara is miscast, but gets upstaged by Stella Stevens as a gypsy. Ann Sothern and Burgess Meredith also appear.
Should you see it? I've fallen asleep watching it, but I still say yes.
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