chirpas72

For being 70 years old, this movie still has a lot ot truth to it

especially with George W and his cronies in the White House.

Secret trials, etc., are part of Bush's dream world. But at least John

Huston got some convictions. Bush and Ashcroft have indicted

hundreds without one major conviction. One afterthought: Maybe I missed it, but why does everyone

assume it was Gabriel or even an angel when all I saw was the

wind blowing the curtain on the window while the PREZ was in his

coma. Nothing spoken, no graven image, etc. But all in all, this

was a pretty good movie considering how darn old it is.

Sure there were parts of this movie - almost all of it, the more I think of it, that made you laugh at it and not with it. The stock stock-car scenes from

Daytona and Darlington were real. The acting was bad and the plot was

sophomoric. If Fabian was really having those blackouts all of the time, then he should have been locked up for continuing to drive while having them. But maybe I'm putting too much thought into this. As someone who has covered NASCAR for newspapers, the off-the-track plot stuff was more than lame. Annette did a good job; I got a kick out of the announcer; and Diane McBain is always easy on the eyes, even if she doesn't take it easy on the eye shadow.

I'm a fan of farmers but this mass-media notion that farmers are losing their shirts doesn't hold water in the real world. Unless they are VERY stupid, there are so many federal subsidies available, along with other programs, that farmers would never even consider growing pot. Plus, as pointed out by others, to just pick fresh plants and throw them into a garbage is not the way pot is sold (or so i've been told. Nod, nod, wink wink.) The movie itself is shallow, the characters ridiculous.