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Cutting Class (1989)
I'm surprised Brat Pitt got work after this
I cannot believe how bad this film was. It was the most ill-conceived piece of garbage ever put to celluloid. The acting was incredibly weak, Brat Pitt was the most convincing, but that's not saying much. There's one scene where a teacher gets shoved into a kiln and the dial is turned to 500 degrees, the highest reading on the dial. Five hundred degrees? Come on! anyone with 1/2 a brain knows that kilns have to be much hotter than that. But that's the kind of crap I'm talking about.
Cabin Boy (1994)
irreverent comedy ahead of its time
Long before "South Park" or "Family Guy", Chris Elliott was making experimental irreverent comedy on his hilarious but vastly unappreciated FOX sitcom "Get A Life". I thought it was a wonderful program, but people just weren't used to any deviation from the usual "Friends" and "Frasier" sitcom fare. The show was light years ahead of its time, much like his weirdly enthralling motion picture "Cabin Boy", about a foppish little snob, Nathaniel Mayweather (Elliott), who after graduating from finishing school, gets on a boat he thinks is intended to send him to his father, but is actually a dingy ship filled with filthy pirates. The further adrift the crew gets, the stranger and funnier the movie gets. A has a whole Tim Burtonesque feel to it combined with Elliott's out-there humor. David Letterman has a monkey-selling cameo, Ricki Lake is the ship's figurehead, and Conan O'Brien's Andy Ricther also stars. How can you beat that?
Toys (1992)
how these pieces of flotsam get made?
I saw this movie, and after I did, I wished I were dead. I can't believe studios actually pay people to do the kind of performances Williams does. I'm not certain actual running time on this film was, but it felt like an eternity. I'm sure about 10 people saw this one.
Introducing... Janet (1981)
very funny and poignant
I don't know what the hell that Ryan Monahan was saying. It wasn't a bad film. It just wasn't wall-to-wall Jim Carrey like he's used to. I think a lot of kids will identify with Janet and Tony. Not bad for a rainy day.