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Title: The Big Letdown
Review: Very disappointing. This is basically a jumped up filmography, with fairly extensive but prosaic plot synopses, which seems unnecesary in this age of cable/sattelite TV and video tape making just about anything available on video (eventually).Lyons admits most of the films he desribes are awful, so why bother to synopsize them? He should have cherry picked those B films worth seeking out.My biggest complaint concerns Lyon's critical evaluations of the film. They're perfunctory, sometimes running only one sentence, and lack any insight into why we should watch the film. I was hoping for something like Barry Gifford's compulsively readable Out of the Past, which you read for Gifford's sensibility and fresh takes on familiar films. I really didn't need another reference book that tells me how unintentionally funny Shack Out on 101 is (I've never found it funny and the film was already discovered by Film Comment about 15 years ago).
