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Strong and Moving!

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Has Gary Lockwood ever played a character who didn't think he was a demigod? The script is full of nonsense. Ann Margret who is usually a stunning person comes off very guttural. Anthony Quinn's character is stale. Of course watching a liberal professor have to deal with the real-life consequences of his lectures would be a fascinating concept, but the film came at it from the wrong angle and the possible paradox was not explored well. I can say the film exposed the student movement for the ludicrous, hypocritical abuse that it was. Sadly the point was not driven home because I'm sure that wasn't the message the studio was trying to convey. As it came off it was very tepid, and undecided. Full of stale ideals that even in their day were not widely accepted. The characters were far from empathetic and with such a cast I would have thought that impossible.

Okay some people really didn't like this movie but I did. Yeah the revolting students are stereotypically revolting in their acting and words. Of course I may be just a little biased as I was over in Nam in 1970 (71 and 73 too). So when the cops start busting up the hippies it didn't bother me too much. Now everything leading up to that part was okay as far as acting went. The script seemed a little trite with the speeches by the protesters, pretty standard gibberish of the times. Anthony Quinn did his usual fine job. He is a liberal professor who gets stuck with the deanship of the school when the former one retires from stress caused by the sit in. He tries to talk with the sitters but they not only will not yield on the last three of twelve demands even after getting 1 thru 9 agreed too but are extremely insulting and rude to him. Not really the way to get what you want if you make the powers that be mad. Quinn finally has enough and sends in the cops. Heads get busted and 7 students and 4 cops get sent to the hospital. Ann-Margret is the half his age grad student who he is living with at the time. She is a liberal and cannot understand when Quinn sends in the cops. At the end you see her and other students break the police line to help the sitters who are getting the snot beat out of them. Teda Bracci plays one of the sitters. She is a horse face with the worst attitude of the whole bunch, then when she breaks out with the others kicks two cops in, shall we say, the lower regions. I was so hoping to see her clubbed to the ground and be one of the seven. Oh well, it is only a movie after all.

R.P.M. the abbreviation of Revolutions Per Minute is Stanley Kramer's attempt to get inside the head of the student movement of the late Sixties. It probably got a bit of box office coming out as it did in the year of the four students shot down by the National Guard at Kent State. But in the intervening years it really hasn't worn well.Anthony Quinn is a popular sociology professor of Hispanic heritage and has something of a following among the radical left on campus. When President John Zaremba just resigns in frustration because he can't deal with a bunch of students occupying the campus administration building. Quinn also has a student mistress in the person of Ann-Margret a rather open secret on campus.The Board of Trustees decide on what they consider a master stroke, make the popular Quinn the new president because they think he can talk the radical talk and make them walk. It doesn't quite work out that way as Quinn all too well realizes that he's now part of the 'establishment'.The students who are all too old to be playing campus radicals include spokesperson Gary Lockwood and black student leader Paul Winfield. Fine players but all showing their age. Ann-Margret is a graduate student, but even she looks a bit old to be college coed.It ends in a scene that was all too familiar in the Sixties, police raiding the school and making arrests. At some point the students have to get back to the business of education. Fascinating that the big threat they had was to destroy the giant computer that the college had if they didn't get their way. Now Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs would have a fainting spell dare they suggest such a thing.R.P.M. marked the beginning of when director Stanley Kramer started to lose his muse. It is truly truly dated.

I first read about "RPM" in a book on bad movies. The review made note of the dated premise and baffling slang. Anthony Quinn plays a college president stymied by the striking student body and hooked on Ann- Margret's striking human body. And the book was right. "RPM" is bad.Quinn is all wrong for this, but then, I never liked his face. So much of film is visual and Anthony Quinn's terribly inexpressive mug never conveys any emotion, never ever lets the audience in. It's not that he's bad looking- there are plenty of unattractive actors whose faces speak volumes- he just always looks exactly the same: mildly perturbed.Here he plays hipster professor Paco, who has to stare down the self-righteous protesters at a West Coast university. And of course he's hit on all sides by clichéd slang: "square," "copout," "establishment." But neither he nor the guerrilla student body seem particularly passionate about their causes... they're simply reading the script.Ann-Margret was still dripping with pheromones and raw sexuality at this point, and as a courtesy to all us edging males she shows us her exquisite breasts. Her character is a grad student and Paco's young lover, and she spends the vast majority of her screen time scrutinizing every aspect of Paco's hypocritical existence. Margret seems to understand how ridiculous and annoying her character is so she plays it with a wink to the audience... and her nipples go a long way toward helping us forgive her.But the real problem with "RPM" is the direction by Staley Kramer. It is lifeless. It is dull. It shows a complete and utter lack of understanding of the subject matter, the youth culture, and the issues of the day. It renders the movie a hollow and useless experience. Sometimes the book on bad movies is right.GRADE: D