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Hey, my name is Michael, I was born on July 10, 1984 and I have been a big movie fan all my life!
WHAT MAKES A MOVIE GREAT?: Every scene needs to be looked at in two different ways. One way is what the scene is about and the other way is how the scene is filmed. I think a great movie is when the story keeps moving along and the film making doesn't look aged.
WHAT MAKES A MOVIE MY FAVORITE: When I feel it's perfect on all levels of filmmaking.
REASONS WHY IT MATTERS WHAT YOU SEE:
1. Nobody knew what a movie was when they first saw a movie and they enjoyed it because it was filled with images they've never seen before. Then over the years, they lost the memories and didn't gain much knowledge since they started judging movies over what year it came out or what the genre is and all of the above have good movies and bad movies. So keep the memories from when you first saw a movie and gain the knowledge at the same time. That way it's a win-win situation.
2. You will never get your time back no matter what movie you see.
3. There's thousands of movies made and you won't see every one.
4. The winning team, in terms of movies, are not the majority. It's the one that paid the most attention.
I watch movies from nearly every genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film-Noir, Foreign Films, Gangster, Horror, Martial Arts, Musical, Natural Disaster, Romance, Samurai, Science Fiction, Silent Movies, Sports, Spy Movies, Superhero movies, Suspense, War, Western
I ENJOYED EVERY MOVIE FROM THE FOLLOWING SERIES':
All three BATMAN/DARK KNIGHT's
All three GODFATHER's
All four LETHAL WEAPON's
All three LORD OF THE RINGS
All six MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE's
All five RAMBO's
All three THREE COLORS TRILOGY
All four TOY STORY's
Films I've changed my mind on:
Absolute Power (was: 5/10 now: 8/10), Adam's Rib (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), After Life (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), All of Me (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), Amarcord (was: 9/10 now: 6/10), American Graffiti (was: 9/10 now: 5/10), The Animal (was: 7/10 now: 3/10), Annie Hall (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Apartment (was: 9/10 now: 5/10), Apocalypse Now (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Arsenic and Old Lace (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Bananas (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Bank Dick (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Barbarella (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Batman Forever (was: 6/10 now: 7/10), Beguiled (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), The Birds (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Black Swan (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), Blade (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Blood Work (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Bringing Up Baby (was: 9/10 now: 10/10), Broadway Danny Rose (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Bronco Billy (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Buck Privates Come Home (was: 7/10 now: 9/10), Cape Fear (1991) (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Chain Reaction (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Changeling (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), Cheetah (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Child's Play 2 (was: 5/10 now: 6/10), Cobb (was: 6/10 now: 8/10), Coconuts (was: 6/10 now: 5/10), Conan the Barbarian (1982) (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Coogan's Bluff (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Crimes and Misdemeanors (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Deep Red (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Deliverance (was: 8/10 now: 5/10), Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (was: 5/10 now: 7/10), Die Another Day (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Die Hard (was: 5/10 now: 8/10), Dinosaur (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Dirty Dozen (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Doc Hollywood (was: 6/10 now: 7/10), Down to Earth (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Dr. No (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Dumb and Dumber (was: 6/10 now: 7/10), East of Eden (was: 9/10 now: 6/10), Edge of Darkness (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Eiger Sanction (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), El Mariachi (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), The Enforcer (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Escape From Alcatraz (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Exorcist (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Fantasia (was: 9/10 now: 6/10), Fast and the Furious (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), F For Fake (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Firefox (was: 4/10 now: 5/10), Fistful of Dollars (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Flags of Our Fathers (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), For a Few Dollars More (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Forbidden Games (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Forbidden Planet (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Freaks (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), French Connection (was: 9/10 now: 5/10), Friends With Money (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Fun With Dick and Jane (2005) (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Gangs of New York (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Giant (was: 9/10 now: 5/10), Godzilla (2014) (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Goldeneye (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), The Good Shepherd (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Good the Bad and the Ugly (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Grandma's Boy (1922) (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), Great Muppet Caper (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), Hang Em High (was: 6/10 now: 5/10), Heartbreak Ridge (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Hellraiser (was: 7/10 now: 4/10), High Plains Drifter (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), Holiday (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Horton Hears a Who (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Husbands and Wives (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Inception (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), In Cold Blood (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Insidious (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), Inspector Gadget (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), In the Navy (was: 6/10 now: 7/10), It Happened One Night (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), It's a Gift (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Jack (was: 7/10 now: 4/10), Jackie Brown (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Jezebel (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Jingle All the Way (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), King Kong (1933) (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Knowing (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), L.A. Confidential (was: 9/10 now: 10/10), Last Samurai (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Laura (was: 9/10 now: 6/10), Lethal Weapon 2 (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), Lifeboat (was: 8/10 now: 5/10), Life of David Gale (was: 7/10 now: 4/10), Little Mermaid (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Lost Weekend (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Love and Death (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), M (was: 9/10 now: 7/10) Mad Max (was: 8/10 now: 5/10), Magnolia (was: 9/10 now: 10/10), Manhattan (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Manhattan Murder Mystery (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Matinee (was: 6/10 now: 7/10), Matrix Reloaded (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Mean Streets (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Megamind (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Milky Way (1936) (was: 5/10 now: 7/10), Millions (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Mission (was: 9/10 now: 6/10), Mister Roberts (was: 9/10 now: 5/10), Monster House (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), My Fellow Americans (was: 6/10 now: 3/10), Naughty Nineties (was: 5/10 now: 7/10), Never Ending Story (was: 9/10 now: 6/10), Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (was: 6/10 now: 4/10), Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child (was: 4/10 now: 5/10), Night of the Hunter (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Night of the Living Dead (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), North by Northwest (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), Oh Heavenly Dog (was: 8/10 now: 5/10), Oliver and Company (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Once Upon a Time in America (was: 7/10 now: 9/10), One Hour Photo (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), Open Water (was: 8/10 now: 5/10), Our Hospitality (was: 9/10 now: 5/10), Passenger 57 (was: 7/10 now: 4/10), Patch Adams (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Peter Pan (1953) (was: 7/10 now: 9/10), Pi (was: 10/10 now: 9/10), Planet of the Apes (1968) (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Play It Again Sam (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Play Misty For Me (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Psycho (1960) (was: 9/10 now: 10/10), Pulp Fiction (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Purple Rose of Cairo (was: 9/10 now: 10/10), Radio Days (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), Raging Bull (was: 8/10 now 7/10), Rear Window (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Rebecca (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Rebel Without a Cause (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Road Warrior (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Rocky (was: 9/10 now: 5/10), Rocky Horror Picture Show (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Run Lola Run (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Rushmore (was: 7/10 now: 9/10), Ruthless People (was: 6/10 now: 7/10), Saboteur (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Schindler's List (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), School of Rock (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), Seabiscuit (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Serpico (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Seventh Seal (was: 9/10 now: 6/10), Shadow of a Doubt (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Shawshank Redemption (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), She's Out of My League (was: 8/10 now: 5/10), Sideways (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Sinbad: The Legend of the Seven Seas (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Singin in the Rain (was: 9/10 now: 10/10), Sleeper (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Spellbound (1946) (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Spirit of St Louis (was: 9/10 now: 5/10), Spy Kids (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Spy Kids 2 (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Stardust Memories (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Stepmom (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Sunset Boulevard (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Survivors (was: 6/10 now: 3/10), Suspicion (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Suspiria (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Sweet and Lowdown (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Swing Time (was: 5/10 now: 8/10), Tarzan (1999) (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), Terminator (was:9/10 now: 8/10), Thank You For Smoking (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), That Thing You Do (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), Them (was: 7/10 now: 6/10), 39 Steps (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Thunderball (was: 6/10 now: 5/10), Top Hat (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), Trading Places (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Treasure of the Sierra Madre (was: 9/10 now: 6/10), UHF (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Unbreakable (was: 8/10 now: 5/10), Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (was: 8/10 now: 9/10), What About Bob? (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), What Dreams May Come (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), When Harry Met Sally (was: 7/10 now: 8/10), Where Eagles Dare (was: 8/10 now: 6/10), Wild Bunch (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (was: 8/10 now: 7/10), Witness (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Wolfman (2010) (was: 9/10 now: 8/10), World Is Not Enough (was: 7/10 now: 5/10), Yankee Doodle Dandy (was: 9/10 now: 7/10), Zelig (was: 7/10 now: 5/10)
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Three Amigos! (1986)
I always found this very uneven.
The idea sounds good, but there weren't many laughs. Having three silent actors mistaken as real cowboys for a village in danger sounds fun. I also like the three leads, but, unfortunately, there's not much else to it. When the bad guys find out they're actors by shooting Lucky in the arm, the leads soon decide to be the real thing towards the end and not actors putting on a show. On the positive side, the songs are cheerful and entertaining. There are some laughs involving the invisible swordsman and when the three amigos are separated in their own dangerous situations. For example, Lucky trying to breaking loose from the chains in jail after the keys are dropped on the ground in the cell. Otherwise, I don't like it that much.
Tightrope (1984)
I used to like this movie, since it has a distinct look, but the pacing wanders.
The character Eastwood plays is like a bland Dirty Harry. The character named Wes Block is so calm and laid back, I wonder why Eastwood would take the role. The villain also seems unmemorable, which is unfortunate because there's a good mystery here. Various prostitutes are being assaulted and strangled by a masked man and some of the signs point to the cop because of using similar neckties and interviewing some of the women before their unexpected deaths. The romance also isn't very memorable when Wes Block meets a woman who teaches a self defense class and even the last scene is blah. There's a good story and visual look in here, but the slowness and lack of urgency for the leads hurts it. Oddly, the use of red in the movie and the killer having many close ups of his shoes are repeated in the Eastwood movie Blood Work.
Mr. Deeds (2002)
Adam Sandler seemed bored making this movie.
The slapstick was very forced. For those who don't know, this is a remake of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. I don't think it was that memorable, but it was more honest to its story than this version. The relationship with the two leads in the original was also more convincing. John Turturro does have some laughs as the butler and so does Steve Buscemi playing a similar role as in Big Daddy, but with his crazy eyes, but most of the cast looks uninterested in being on screen for this. Basically, the dialog works better for comedy than its tired, unrehearsed slapstick. What also doesn't make sense is why Adam Sandler would remake a lighthearted movie with his own form of over the top comedy and play a character who acts laidback in other scenes. It doesn't even follow its own advice at the end.
Demolition Man (1993)
I feel split on this movie.
The 21st century looked cool and the laughs about how the world was in the future were good. I didn't think the action scenes were anything special. The two leads were ok, but their characters were their typical selves. The only real standout of their characters were being in a different timeline and feeling confused by it. If anything, Snipes dying his hair blond with a mohawk cut was the only real change. I know he plays police officers or other heroes, but Snipes was just acting like his foul mouth, I'm cool self. Inevitably, the story was familiar with the Terminator movies. This time, they enter the future instead of the past, but it's basically two characters from a different year battling each other in another century.
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994)
The sequel to City Slickers is not that good.
One reason is that the first used up most of the laughs. Another reason is that it doesn't have a lot of interest in the family as before. The final reason is that it doesn't have a good payoff of its subtitle. Jon Lovitz, who plays Billy Crystal's brother, takes Bruno Kirby's place as well. Jon Lovitz needs better lines and more to do in the script. The movie's about Crystal having a birthday again and keeps on dreaming about what happened when his friend Curly died. He finds a treasure map and later lies to his wife pretending that he, Stern and Lovitz are in Las Vegas. Crystal and Stern fiddle around with the map to find the treasure and find Curly's brother.
A Perfect World (1993)
Clint Eastwood directed a brilliant movie.
Kevin Costner and his partner bust out of jail and try to steal a car. They stop at a house that the partner is breaking in so he could have a hostage. Meanwhile, Costner saves the family before violence occurs, but kidnapped the 8 year old boy. They try to become friends as Costner teaches the kid stuff that he wasn't allowed to do. After that, Eastwood tries to track down the criminal named Butch and his partner, who Butch shot since he was mean to the kid, Phillip. Kevin Costner is great as he sets examples to those who are very mean to kids and learns to take care of one as well. As you watch him, you will notice how caring Butch is to the kid.
Encino Man (1992)
I've seen better teenaged comedies than this one.
This strange teenage comedy is about two best friends. When one of the friends (Sean Astin) tries to put a pool in his backyard, a caveman (Brendan Fraiser) in the prehistoric years has an earthquake and falls into where the two friends are trying to make the pool. After they meet the caveman, they decide to name him Link. Then, after the two helped the new friend out by prentending that Link is a teenager, suddenly, Link gets a date and tries his best to make it count. Most of the time, I don't like movies with Brendan Fraiser. I could probably understand that Fraiser's acting is probably a caveman's characteristics.
Vertigo (1958)
Certainly one of Hitch's top 3 best.
Vertigo pulls you in and continues for many viewings. The story about John Ferguson who was retired from the police force due to having acrophobia and then manipulated back to investigate a disturbed woman leading to a death on top the bell tower is only a segue into the next hour. Hitchcock does stuff like that such as the first hour of Psycho being its own story of Marion Crane before switching to Norman Bates. The music is hypnotic and so is the shades of red and green and it's opening credits. One thing that doesn't make sense is the obsession Madeline has of Carlotta Valdez. I also don't understand why the victim who was thrown off the tower wasn't bleeding or in bruises. The movie is a test of Johnny living with his vertigo and getting away with murder from the man who hired him. Alfred Hitchcock was known as a control freak and wanted many of his actresses to look like Grace Kelly. Perhaps James Stewart's character is like Hitchcock since this also involves manipulating a woman to look like someone else.
Suspicion (1941)
Not as good as I thought before.
I do recommend the movie because it has some really good techniques only Alfred Hitchcock could do. The movie opens just fine inside a train where the two meet. There are some other scenes that make us second guess the tone of the movie, like a long shot of Johnny maybe attacking Lana, followed by the response in close up, "Now what did you think I was going to do? Kill you?" The scrabble scene is quite good, too, when Lana's imagining a possible death of a close friend by Johnny, but there are some slow spots here and there. The relationship between the leads isn't very clear. They don't say much to each other, but I do enjoy the moments of uncertain danger from their own thoughts and feelings. The characters could've been more memorable though.
Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
A pretty weird story and a pretty dumb title.
Jim Varney returns in the fourth movie that's a Halloween comedy about a troll which has finally been trapped and put away in a tree, which Ernest's grandfather put him in. Later on, Ernest and his kid friends release the troll and put kids in complete danger. Ernest unleashed the troll from its tomb that's been staying there for 200 years. Then, Ernest tries to save the town when the troll captures a child and turns it into a doll. He gets his powers and when he turns five kids into dolls before Halloween, that's when he gets his children. I don't know why director John Cherry would make a movie that scares kids.
Lightning Jack (1994)
OK Paul Hogan western-comedy.
Though, it appears that there are a few chuckles here and there. This western flick has Paul Hogan as Texas' main outlaw who people believe has been shot. Later on, Hogan is back with another bank robbery. He then kidnaps mute man Ben Doyle (Cuba Gooding Jr.). Later on, the two quickly develop a certain type of friendship and depend on one another. Then, Jack takes Ben Doyle on a tour of Texas and teaches him the ropes to success. This isn't the type of movie you would expect. I was surprised that it was more of a feel good comedy, then a regular, funny and enjoyable comedy like City Slickers is. A boring movie.
Man of the House (1995)
I thought it would be a mixture of Home Alone and Mr. Nanny.
I was wrong. The movie is wastefully more detailed in an Indian camp that Jonathan and Chevy are going to. It also has deep father and son moments. Chevy Chase's character is named Jack. He is also a trial lawyer. After years of the trial, when Jack put his enemy's brother in jail, they try to kill him. Ben, who all his life was helping his mom (Farrah Fawcett), makes Jack join an Indian tribe. At first, Ben doesn't want Jack to like it, until they learned how to have fun in the raindance. Then, they try to depend on each other. George Wendt plays the Chief of the tribe and isn't bad. George says that all the fathers and sons make up whatever name they want to. Ben wouldn't mind calling Jack Squatting Dog.
Angus (1995)
Actor George C. Scott, who plays Angus' Grandpa, is the only character who makes you laugh.
A big, fat kid is being humiliated by a kid named Rick, along with a bunch of other bullies that he has met close to his entire life. Though, nobody, except for Angus' best friend Troy, realizes that Rick is a bully. Rick always humiliates Angus. He puts Angus' underwear on the top of the flagpole. He also has done things that are worse than that. Angus isn't very popular. Angus has other problems besides himself. His family isn't normal one bit. There is one thing that he really wished could happen: Melanie, the girl of his dreams...The beginning isn't that great to start with. The movie also isn't that funny, too.
Aladdin (1992)
Walt Disney's classic masterpiece.
Aladdin is exciting, like Raiders of the Lost Ark as a cartoon or at least another Indiana Jones epic. The musical-comedy is about a poor man named Aladdin, who's only friend is a monkey named Abu. Suddenly, they enter the Cave of Wonders with the villainous Jafar dressing in disguise. Then, when Aladdin and Abu got locked up with the lamp in the Cave of Wonders, Aladdin ends up reviving and reawakening, the Genie (voiced by Robin Williams), who's character is extremely enthusiastic and entertaining for kids and adults, too. Later, Aladdin doesn't appear to be poor because of the Genie and tries payback from Jafar and his parrot Iago.
All I Want for Christmas (1991)
Not the type of present you want to receive for Christmas.
A family's children try to revive the marriage of their parents back together again. The problem is, they have to put up with their soon to be new father (Kevin Nealon). So, one of the youngsters tries to report to Santa (Leslie Nielsen). If you're a family who's parents appear to be a divorced couple than this could probably be the movie for you. If you're a married couple, then watch something more entertaining. I have an idea: How about National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? That at least knows what the word "funny" means. Though, two Hollywood actors (Kevin Nealon and Leslie Nielsen) at least try to stretch the laughs out.
Boris and Natasha (1992)
No, this is not an animated feature.
Somewhat dull movie that starts off with a good beginning idea, which, out of nowhere, falls flat from there on. Though, there appears to be some cameo appearances that work well (John Candy, John Travolta has a one second clip of himself). Just not that much. Now, instead of main heroes Rocky and Bullwinkle, your main evil couple Boris and Natasha start the leading role. They are on a mission to become Russian spies. When they later on meet a couple, they develop a friendship. Near the end of the movie, there seems to be a surprise that the friends of Boris and Natasha turn out to be the voices of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
The Ernest Green Story (1993)
The Ernest Green Story is an enjoyable family movie.
Based on a true story, The Ernest Green Story talks about the time when blacks and whites were separated from different schools. Now, lots and lots of blacks decide to go to a white school and one of the black kids is Ernest Green. One the first day, already rules strictly for blacks have been made. Every single teacher blames every little accident possible on the black kids, mostly on Ernest. Ernest is the kind of kid who tries really hard to make it to college. He never jokes around and is normal like everyone else. Well, except for the white kids. They probably don't want him to be normal like everyone else.
Frankenstein (1931)
Well done Karloff, playing the legendary monster.
For those of you who haven't read the Frankenstein novel, Dr. Victor Frankenstein invents his best and most amusing creation built yet. That creation is the very famous monster. Unknowingly, Victor left out one important detail into his new creation: That was using the wrong brain. The brain put into the monster made Victor's creation go madly insane. He now is the murderer of all the close relatives/relationships of his creator. Lots of memorable scenes, such as a little 4 or 5 year old girl getting drowned in the water by the monster. Though, the movie has one difficulty to it and that is having some slow spots here and there.
Crimson Tide (1995)
One big, powerful thriller.
With both actors Washington and Hackman working great together in top form, too. It first starts out pretty easy going, then in a normal speed of pace. All of that is smooth. It's mostly smooth because of your Hollywood actors making it work. Crimson Tide is about a Civil War in Russia and a nuclear submarine, which is the most deadliest weapon. Though, after the captain (Gene Hackman) has the orders the orders, a new, somewhat slick talking EO (Denzel Washington), disagrees with anything the CO tells his crew to do. Crimson Tide has somewhat of a slow starting script. Washington and Hackman make this a must see.
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
Walt Disney's remake of the 1951 classic now has sort of goofy and maudlin ideas.
Only the (well done and detailed special effects) angels are enthusiastically made. Off beat coach George Knox (Danny Glover) has been furious for the last couple of games. Knox is so burned up with rage, that he would throw wooden bat's around his place, punch someone if they disagree with him and other bad ideas for reckless behavior. Meanwhile, a kid has more problems interfering with his life as well. His parents are divorced and his father sadly doesn't want to see him. The son's favorite baseball team in the world (the Angels, of course), could get a chance or find a way to win the pennant. All the angels are a huge treat to watch. Lloyd, playing the head angel, AL, is an enthusiastic angel finding creative ways to save the Angels. It isn't that entertaining by acting like it's too much of a children's movie. Though, the better the special effects, the cooler the angel's next scene turns out.
I Love You to Death (1990)
Surprisingly, I Love You to Death is based on a true story.
If you read what I'm going to write about, than you would understand how it's a miracle. A troubled husband named Joey (Kevin Kline), one night, appeared to be shot...twice. He was shot from his wife and two doofus people (Keanu Reeves and River Pheonix). Joey was sleeping by sleeping pills in his spaghetti. First, he was shot in the heart, then the head. Oh, and here's another thing that really shocks you: That night, he wakes up and when everybody's happy he's dead, he comes out saying, "Why are you looking at me like that?" Later on, Joey goes to the hospital and here's another laugh: He doesn't understand why he should go to the hospital. He thinks that he is perfectly normal. Shouldn't Kevin Kline get a nomination at least? It is one big, black comedy. The movie doesn't really have more than just a one joke idea to it.
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Disappointingly mild Brady Bunch entertainment
Though scenes when the Brady clan go to Sears, have a potato bag race and their own group song is funny. The Brady's have to find $20,000 in just one week. If they don't, then their next door neighbor (SNL actor Michael McKean) will have to sell their house. Other problems surround every single Brady, too. Jan isn't getting any attention whatsoever and everyone pays attention to Jan old sister Marsha; Greg tries to make a song that could impress girls; Mike Brady tries to make several samples of an area of a city so he can make money and sell them, etc. The Brady Bunch Movie has a bunch of actors/actresses scattered around from the original T. V. series.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Now, you see a movie like Gremlins shouldn't have a sequel.
I know that Gremlins 2: The New Batch is just a tad more familyish than Gremlins. I also know that the spoofs on certain things throughout the movie are enjoyable. Some funny, just to amuse you, others not, because those are somewhat of a waste. This time, Gizmo, the cool, kind, sweet Mogwai, gets stolen from Chinatown from a Clamp building in New York. Once again, Gizmo has his evil others formed. This time, there are even more. Though, there happens to be the two funniest gremlins: The Brain, who has a funny accent and a gremlin who's eyes always ticks throughout. The production design is very colorful.
Gremlins (1984)
Billy Peltzer didn't listen to rule 2 or 3.
The main story in Gremlins is about a young teenager's father, trying to look forward to giving a Christmas present to him. The father's name is Rand Peltzer, spotting a cool looking object in the middle of Chinatown. That object is Gizma. After taking the creature, Rand learns the three rules that will ruin the creature and the city. Those rules are: 1. Don't let him see light, that will kill him. 2. No water whatsoever should spill on him. Then, here comes the most important rule. 3. No matter how starved he is, don't feed him after midnight. Gremlins has a few cool scenes, like when the gremlin with a Mohawk accidentally slips into a gigantic pool. Then, hundreds or so, little Gremlins come marching out, whole the pool fills itself with smoke close to everywhere.
Planet of the Apes (2001)
A lot of the pros and cons are typical of Tim Burton.
Artistically, he did a really good job with his makeup department designing all the different Apes and building the costume designs and sets. These are typical positives of Tim Burton. Also typical is how meandering the writing is. There isn't much of a story here. A small chimpanzee orbits out of a space station and Mark Wahlberg is chasing it in a different spaceship, but lands in uncharted territory where he confronts the Apes and wants to return home. One of the problems was, there's no sense of awe or interest in the planet. Wahlberg just wants to go home and doesn't seem surprised. There wasn't much humor in this either or memorable characters as apes. Heston in the original was more shocked and didn't immediately encounter the Apes until realizing there's a plant growing in a deserted wasteland and other astronauts with him were wondering what to do. The surprises were too quick for the main character and lack much story. I do enjoy the awesome twist ending as a twist on the historic ending of the first movie.