tomfsloan

I watched The Equalizer with my brother on May 31, 2025. The 136th anniversary of the Johnstown flood. It appears more people died in this movie than the flood. And most of them were bad guys. Denzel does his best to teach the bad guys lessons despite the fact they only have seconds left to live. During the movie we took a break to eat sardines. I had Chicken of the Sea brand on crackers. He had Costco Seasons sardines on whole wheat bread. We agreed that mine would rate a 10 and his would rate an 8. Although those Costco cans are extremely difficult to open. The can would rate a 2. If you have other opinions on the movie or sardines, please let us know.

This is such an odd episode for Eight is Enough. It really isn't an Eight is Enough episode, but more of an odd TV movie. David Bradford becomes an instant expert hang glider pilot. Just like when Fonzie became an instant expert shark jumper. Why not have Nicholas or Tom Bradford fly? Not the same plot, but this episode reminds me of Burt Lancaster in Gypsy Moths. If that movie was an episode, it would make the same sense as this.

The production and cinematography was well done. 99% was real footage. Very few scenes had fake backgrounds.

This isn't actually that bad of an episode as a stand alone show, but it just seems way too much out of left field.

As an episode of Eight is Enough, I'd give it a 3. As it is, maybe a 6. I'll compromise with 5.

The Cat Creeps is a very difficult movie to review. Even harder since IMDB now requires a way to long minimum of six hundred characters in the review. So it forces us to add a lot of padding. No known copies of this movie exist anymore. But in the early 70's my mom told me about old movies she had seen as a young girl in the 30's, and the Cat Creeps was one of them. She said it was pretty good. From what she told me, I gave it a 7. At least there's some basis for a rating there. Wikipedia has a section on "lost films", and one on "partial or incomplete films". This one is listed in the incomplete section.