Thursday, January 19, 2012

Movies

I'll watch anything with Robert Duvall in it and this was proven recently when I suffered through The Lightship, a 1980s piece of German made junk featuring the worst performance of Duvall's career. Channeling Truman Capote, he plays the fey leader of a trio of on-the-run criminals who take over a Coast Guard lightship.
Klaus Brandauer plays the ship captain and changes expressions exactly one time. Michael Lyndon, as his son, does even less emoting in a failed bid to be his generation's James Dean.
The movie is lousy.
Duvall's performance is fascinating in it's laughable wretchedness and the story makes little sense.
Watch at your own risk.

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