tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post3693705578001870101..comments2024-01-24T15:33:58.720-05:00Comments on A<br> Mythical<br> Monkey<br> writes<br> about<br> the<br> movies: Castle Keep (1969) (A Mini-Review): You Can Keep ItMythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-57194189663694990732014-06-17T15:00:24.550-04:002014-06-17T15:00:24.550-04:00so you're saying Burt Lancaster in an eye-patc...so you're saying Burt Lancaster in an eye-patch isn't as good as Jack Klugman wearing an eye-patch.<br /><br />How's that for an obscure "Odd Couple" reference?Uncle Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14928846509441045279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-78891749272102187352014-06-07T11:17:31.301-04:002014-06-07T11:17:31.301-04:00The initial set-up felt like it was going to be a ...The initial set-up felt like it was going to be a Hammer Studio horror film and I thought the countess might turn out to be a vampire, but it didn't follow through, which made me think of soft core porn with the impotent count wanting his wife to sleep with Burt Lancaster, but everybody's clothes stay on, then it wanted to be <i>King of Hearts</i> but isn't nearly sharp enough, and it has moments of aspiring to be <i>Kelly's Heroes</i>, but it's not a comedy and there is no caper, and it wants to be <i>The Train</i>, debating the merits of art versus the necessities of war, but while they repeat that mantra, they never really get to the kernel of the argument, and it wants to be Sartre's <i>No Exit</i> but they lose their nerve and turn it into a standard shoot-em-up war movie, but the staging of that is generic and low budget (the castle was built out of styrofoam and caught fire in the middle of shooting).<br /><br />It's a hodgepodge. Or maybe more charitably, an experiment at a time when directors were experimenting, but a misfire.<br /><br />I haven't read the novel it's based on, but I imagine the writer thought he was doing <i>Catch-22</i> one better ("I've read the existentialists, dammit!") without realizing that <i>Catch-22</i> is masterpiece.<br /><br />Which isn't to say I didn't thoroughly enjoy the experience of being at the theater with Mister Muleboy. He saw it on television as a 14 year old boy and remember it as being "weird" but also remembered the beauty in the gauzy gowns and the explosions at the end. Maybe he liked it better than I did, having some nostalgic good will banked up in its favor. But I'd never seen it and could only see it through the lens of the last 45 years.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-20375282571857349022014-06-07T10:52:27.788-04:002014-06-07T10:52:27.788-04:00I think I get the idea. Would you say it fails to ...I think I get the idea. Would you say it fails to be Kelly's Heroes or more like King of Hearts?Beveridge D. Spenserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12236771609113409521noreply@blogger.com