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There was a lot of this sort of thing about in the mid-eighties, as this was the period which also saw the awful Ben Kingsley/ Nastassia Kinski film "Harem", about a lascivious Middle Eastern ruler who kidnaps a young American woman, and the mini-series of the same name which told a virtually identical story with a period setting.
The film-makers seem to have realised that their film would not work as a pure comedy, because towards the end it turns into a sort of latter-day "Mr Smith Goes to Washington."
Sunny turns from a blonde bimbo into a fount of political wisdom and starts uttering all sorts of platitudes about Democracy and the Constitution and the Citizen's Duty to Vote and We The People and how the Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance blah blah blah , but in truth the film is no more successful as a political parable than it is as a comedy.
Goldie Hawn has made a number of good comedies, such as "Cactus Flower", "Overboard" and ""Housesitter", but "Protocol" is not one of them.
I have not seen all of her films, but of those I have seen this dire comedy is by far the worst.
3/10
What does the " Executive producer " do in a movie .
If I remember correctly it's the person who raised the financial backing to make the movie .
You might notice in a great number of movies starring Sean Connery that he is also the executive producer which meant Connery himself raised the money since he is a major player .
Unfortunately it should also be pointed out that a great number of movies " starring Sean Connery were solely made because he managed to raise the money since he's a major Hollywood player , it's usually an indication that when the credits read that the executive producer and the star of the movie are one and the same the movie itself is nothing more than a star vehicle with the story/screenplay not being up to scratch PROTOCOL follows the saga of one Sunny Davis a kooky bimboesque cocktail waitress who saves a visiting dignitary and as a reward gets made a top diplomat .
Likely ?
As things progress Ms Davis ( Who has problems being able to string two sentences together ) finds herself in more outlandish and less likely situations .
When I say that PROTOCOL stars Goldie Hawn who is also the film's executive producer do you understand what I'm saying about the story/screenplay not being up to scratch ?
Exactly
Outlandish premise that rates low on plausibility and unfortunately also struggles feebly to raise laughs or interest.
Only Hawn's well-known charm allows it to skate by on very thin ice.
Goldie's gotta be a contender for an actress who's done so much in her career with very little quality material at her disposal...
There are only two movies I would give a 1/10 to, this stinker and "The Man who Fell to Earth."
I remember seeing Protocol at a theater in the early 80s when I was in high school.
The script is insulting to anyone (including a high school student's) intelligence.
It completely lost me with the "hillarious" gag of someone getting shot in the butt.
Goldie Hawn is supposed to be charming but comes across as vapid and moronic.
Then there are offensive stereotypes about Arabs, followed by Goldie winning over everyone by spouting populist dribble.
The acting was terrible, including Goldie Hawn's.
I could not stand to see another movie she was in until IMO she redeemed herself in Everyone Says I Love You.
This is the kind of movie you make if you want to put no effort into screenplay writing.
The worst.
The only good thing about this movie was the shot of Goldie Hawn standing in her little french cut bikini panties and struggling to keep a dozen other depraved women from removing her skimpy little cotton top while she giggled and cooed.
Ooooof!
Her loins rival those of Nina Hartley.
This movie came out when I was fourteen and that shot nearly killed me.
I'd forgotten about it all tucked away in the naughty Roladex of my mind until seeing it the other day on TV, where they actually blurred her midsection in that scene, good grief, reminding me what a smokin' hottie of a woman Goldie Hawn was in the '80s.
Kurt Russell must have had a fun life.
I'm studying Catalan, and was delighted to find El Mar, a movie with mostly Catalan dialogue, at my art-house video store.
Hmmm...
not so delighted to have seen it.
Yes, as other reviewers have said, it's well-made, and beautifully photographed.
Although the opening sequence of the children is shockingly violent, it's well-acted and convincing.
(For the most part, that is...
Would the Mallorquins strip a corpse in preparation for burial right in the middle of the town square, in full view of the dead man's 10-year-old boy?) Oh, well...
minor detail.
Up to this point, it had something of the feel of a non-magical Pan's Labyrinth, also set in the Spanish Civil War.
Fast-forward, and the three children who survived the opening incident have come of age.
Francisca is a nun working at a tuberculosis sanatorium and the two boys, Manuel and Ramallo, both are patients.
I know, but hey, coincidences happen.
The problem, as with so many Spanish movies (apologies to Almodovar fans), is that with one exception (Francisca) the characters are just so dang weird.
Their motivations, personalities, and dialogue are often simply incoherent.
What's more, it descends into some horrific wretched excess.
Be prepared for LOTS of pain and LOTS of blood.
The reviewer who called it a "potboiler" is quite on track.
If it had been made 40 years ago, the poster would've said: SEE FORBIDDEN LOVE!!
RAPE!!
MURDER!!
MUTILATION!!
FANATICISM!!
ANIMAL CRUELTY!!
BETRAYAL!!
The opening sequence is not nearly enough to make the personalities and relationships of the characters believable.
To work, this should have had multiple flashbacks to flesh out the characters.
As it is, it seems a bizarre and depressing cross between "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" and "Pulp Fiction."
If that sounds like something you've got to see, by all means, enjoy.
I think I go with something that doesn't make me feel I need to take a shower to wash off the gore and gloom.
As for the Catalan, it's the Mallorqui dialect, fairly different than the Barcelona dialect, though I was surprised by the comment that said that even Barcelonans apparently needed Catalan subtitles to understand it.
I was excited to view a Cataluña´s film in the Berlin´s competition.
But after the presentation I was total disappointed and furious.
Too much blood, too much time, too much themes for nothing.
The Spanish Civil War, like every war, was horrible.
The revenge, a very human behavior, not pretty at all, is shown in uncountable films and plays, as well as the relations between homosexuals and the scepticism in Spain about Catholicism .
But what Mr Villaronga try, is a pseudo tragedy that can belongs to the worst of the film´s history.
It is really a pity to see Angela Molina in this movie.
I advise nobody under no circumstances to go to see this film.
this film was a major letdown.
the level of relentless cruelty and violence in this film was very disturbing.
some scenes were truly unnecessarily ugly and mean-spirited.
the main characters were impossible to identify with or even sympathize with.
the lead protagonist's character was as slimy as they come.
the sickroom/hothouse atmosphere lent itself to over-the-top theatrics.
little or nothing could be learned about the Spanish civil war from this film.
fortunately, i've been to spain and realize this is not realistic!
in addition, the use of same-sex attraction as a lurid "horror" was also very offensive and poorly handled, while the DVD is being packaged and advertised to attract gay viewers.
the actors seemed uncomfortable in their roles,as if they were trying to distance themselves from this mess.
i guess if you like watching children and pets being brutally killed,this film might especially appeal to you.
Three part "horror" film with some guy in a boarded up house imploring the viewer not to go "out there" and (unfortunately) gives us three tales to prove why.
The first story involves a young couple in a car accident who meet up with two psychos.
It leads up to two totally predictable twists.
Still, it's quick (about 15 minutes), violent, well-acted and well-done.
Predictable but enjoyable.
The second involves a man on the run after stealing a large amount of money.
His car breaks down, he's attacked by a dog and stumbles into a nearby clinic.
VERY obvious, badly done and extremely slow.
Even at 30 minutes this is too long.
Good acting though.
The third is just barely a horror story.
It involves a beautiful, lonely woman looking for Mr. Right.
It has beautiful set designs, a nice erotic feel and a nice sex scene.
But (again) predictable and not even remotely scary.
It ends very stupidly.
All in all, the first one is worth watching, but that's it.
Tune in for that one then turn it off.
A very cheesy and dull road movie, with the intention to be hip and modern, shown in the editing style and some weird camera angles, resulting only in sleepiness.

There was a lot of this sort of thing about in the mid-eighties, as this was the period which also saw the awful Ben Kingsley/ Nastassia Kinski film "Harem", about a lascivious Middle Eastern ruler who kidnaps a young American woman, and the mini-series of the same name which told a virtually identical story with a period setting.

The film-makers seem to have realised that their film would not work as a pure comedy, because towards the end it turns into a sort of latter-day "Mr Smith Goes to Washington."

Sunny turns from a blonde bimbo into a fount of political wisdom and starts uttering all sorts of platitudes about Democracy and the Constitution and the Citizen's Duty to Vote and We The People and how the Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance blah blah blah , but in truth the film is no more successful as a political parable than it is as a comedy.

Goldie Hawn has made a number of good comedies, such as "Cactus Flower", "Overboard" and ""Housesitter", but "Protocol" is not one of them.

I have not seen all of her films, but of those I have seen this dire comedy is by far the worst.

3/10

What does the " Executive producer " do in a movie .

If I remember correctly it's the person who raised the financial backing to make the movie .

You might notice in a great number of movies starring Sean Connery that he is also the executive producer which meant Connery himself raised the money since he is a major player .

Unfortunately it should also be pointed out that a great number of movies " starring Sean Connery were solely made because he managed to raise the money since he's a major Hollywood player , it's usually an indication that when the credits read that the executive producer and the star of the movie are one and the same the movie itself is nothing more than a star vehicle with the story/screenplay not being up to scratch PROTOCOL follows the saga of one Sunny Davis a kooky bimboesque cocktail waitress who saves a visiting dignitary and as a reward gets made a top diplomat .

Likely ?

As things progress Ms Davis ( Who has problems being able to string two sentences together ) finds herself in more outlandish and less likely situations .

When I say that PROTOCOL stars Goldie Hawn who is also the film's executive producer do you understand what I'm saying about the story/screenplay not being up to scratch ?

Exactly

Outlandish premise that rates low on plausibility and unfortunately also struggles feebly to raise laughs or interest.

Only Hawn's well-known charm allows it to skate by on very thin ice.

Goldie's gotta be a contender for an actress who's done so much in her career with very little quality material at her disposal...

There are only two movies I would give a 1/10 to, this stinker and "The Man who Fell to Earth."

I remember seeing Protocol at a theater in the early 80s when I was in high school.

The script is insulting to anyone (including a high school student's) intelligence.

It completely lost me with the "hillarious" gag of someone getting shot in the butt.

Goldie Hawn is supposed to be charming but comes across as vapid and moronic.

Then there are offensive stereotypes about Arabs, followed by Goldie winning over everyone by spouting populist dribble.

The acting was terrible, including Goldie Hawn's.

I could not stand to see another movie she was in until IMO she redeemed herself in Everyone Says I Love You.

This is the kind of movie you make if you want to put no effort into screenplay writing.

The worst.

The only good thing about this movie was the shot of Goldie Hawn standing in her little french cut bikini panties and struggling to keep a dozen other depraved women from removing her skimpy little cotton top while she giggled and cooed.

Ooooof!

Her loins rival those of Nina Hartley.

This movie came out when I was fourteen and that shot nearly killed me.

I'd forgotten about it all tucked away in the naughty Roladex of my mind until seeing it the other day on TV, where they actually blurred her midsection in that scene, good grief, reminding me what a smokin' hottie of a woman Goldie Hawn was in the '80s.

Kurt Russell must have had a fun life.

I'm studying Catalan, and was delighted to find El Mar, a movie with mostly Catalan dialogue, at my art-house video store.

Hmmm...

not so delighted to have seen it.

Yes, as other reviewers have said, it's well-made, and beautifully photographed.

Although the opening sequence of the children is shockingly violent, it's well-acted and convincing.

(For the most part, that is...

Would the Mallorquins strip a corpse in preparation for burial right in the middle of the town square, in full view of the dead man's 10-year-old boy?) Oh, well...

minor detail.

Up to this point, it had something of the feel of a non-magical Pan's Labyrinth, also set in the Spanish Civil War.

Fast-forward, and the three children who survived the opening incident have come of age.

Francisca is a nun working at a tuberculosis sanatorium and the two boys, Manuel and Ramallo, both are patients.

I know, but hey, coincidences happen.

The problem, as with so many Spanish movies (apologies to Almodovar fans), is that with one exception (Francisca) the characters are just so dang *weird*.

Their motivations, personalities, and dialogue are often simply incoherent.

What's more, it descends into some horrific wretched excess.

Be prepared for LOTS of pain and LOTS of blood.

The reviewer who called it a "potboiler" is quite on track.

If it had been made 40 years ago, the poster would've said: SEE FORBIDDEN LOVE!!

RAPE!!

MURDER!!

MUTILATION!!

FANATICISM!!

ANIMAL CRUELTY!!

BETRAYAL!!

The opening sequence is not nearly enough to make the personalities and relationships of the characters believable.

To work, this should have had multiple flashbacks to flesh out the characters.

As it is, it seems a bizarre and depressing cross between "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" and "Pulp Fiction."

If that sounds like something you've got to see, by all means, enjoy.

I think I go with something that doesn't make me feel I need to take a shower to wash off the gore and gloom.

As for the Catalan, it's the Mallorqui dialect, fairly different than the Barcelona dialect, though I was surprised by the comment that said that even Barcelonans apparently needed Catalan subtitles to understand it.

I was excited to view a Cataluña´s film in the Berlin´s competition.

But after the presentation I was total disappointed and furious.

Too much blood, too much time, too much themes for nothing.

The Spanish Civil War, like every war, was horrible.

The revenge, a very human behavior, not pretty at all, is shown in uncountable films and plays, as well as the relations between homosexuals and the scepticism in Spain about Catholicism .

But what Mr Villaronga try, is a pseudo tragedy that can belongs to the worst of the film´s history.

It is really a pity to see Angela Molina in this movie.

I advise nobody under no circumstances to go to see this film.

this film was a major letdown.

the level of relentless cruelty and violence in this film was very disturbing.

some scenes were truly unnecessarily ugly and mean-spirited.

the main characters were impossible to identify with or even sympathize with.

the lead protagonist's character was as slimy as they come.

the sickroom/hothouse atmosphere lent itself to over-the-top theatrics.

little or nothing could be learned about the Spanish civil war from this film.

fortunately, i've been to spain and realize this is not realistic!

in addition, the use of same-sex attraction as a lurid "horror" was also very offensive and poorly handled, while the DVD is being packaged and advertised to attract gay viewers.

the actors seemed uncomfortable in their roles,as if they were trying to distance themselves from this mess.

i guess if you like watching children and pets being brutally killed,this film might especially appeal to you.

Three part "horror" film with some guy in a boarded up house imploring the viewer not to go "out there" and (unfortunately) gives us three tales to prove why.

The first story involves a young couple in a car accident who meet up with two psychos.

It leads up to two totally predictable twists.

Still, it's quick (about 15 minutes), violent, well-acted and well-done.

Predictable but enjoyable.

The second involves a man on the run after stealing a large amount of money.

His car breaks down, he's attacked by a dog and stumbles into a nearby clinic.

VERY obvious, badly done and extremely slow.

Even at 30 minutes this is too long.

Good acting though.

The third is just barely a horror story.

It involves a beautiful, lonely woman looking for Mr. Right.

It has beautiful set designs, a nice erotic feel and a nice sex scene.

But (again) predictable and not even remotely scary.

It ends very stupidly.

All in all, the first one is worth watching, but that's it.

Tune in for that one then turn it off.

A very cheesy and dull road movie, with the intention to be hip and modern, shown in the editing style and some weird camera angles, resulting only in sleepiness.