In addition: do not waste any of your festive holiday time on Bigfoot (2012): in which two rivals (Danny Bonaduce, Barry Williams) try to capture the legendary creature in South Dakota. I give it 2.5 stars for effort and casting. ps: in case you think I made this up, guess again. pps: I'm not sure how this is relevant to this LIST, other than as a burlesque. happy holidays! -hb On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Val Kilmer's 2013 movie, "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" is a train > wreck= > and a travesty. Don't waste your time, unless you enjoy the feeling of > bei= > ng sick at your stomach. If Val Kilmer's intent was to portray Twain as an > = > evil idiot, he succeeded. I wanted to not just yell at the tv, but also > chu= > nk a hunk of lead at it. The story is a weird kaleidoscopic, topsy-turvy > am= > algamation of Twain tales; Kilmer looks creepy in his zombie-esque makeup, > = > and the other actors (who are obviously amateurs) speak English with > Europe= > an accents (it was filmed in Bulgaria, so I assume they are Bulgarians). > > Other than that, it's not too bad. I gave it one star on netflix, which is > = > the overall rating it has; was I the only one to rate it? Was I the only > pe= > rson to see it (besides my long-suffering wife)? I gave it one star > because= > it's not possible to give it zero stars - or negative 44, which is how > I'd= > really like to appraise it.=C2=A0- B. Clay Shannon > -- Prof. Harold K. Bush Professor of English 3800 Lindell Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO 63108 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml>