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Dirty Love (1988)
Deeper than the surface
Dirty Love's originality can be felt only after watching Di Leo's "Being Twenty" (of which this is a kind of mirror).
The premise is the same: a 20 yrs-old girl with a stunning body can do whatever she wants, trick whoever she wants anytime.
While Di Leo's film leads straight to hedonistic sex-drug abuse, in Dirty Love here comes the twist when Terry discovers her flatmate's deviations. She becomes responsible and altruistic thus growing adult and finally quitting the adolescent dream of dancing. American world is potrayed cynically hence twisting Flashdance hints even more.
Great soundtrack.
Timecop (1994)
Easily the best Van Damme movie and performance as an actor
This is the best Van Damme movie simply because it's not only about action and kicking people, but mostly about a man who lost his beloved half. I don't think Van Damme ever cried into a movie. His character has much depth and is grief is so big that he's clubbed to death every time he gets rocket-launched at full throttle against a cast iron wall in order to time travel. It's even better when he's actually trying to hide his deep emotions when he later discovers her wife was pregnant but never told him. This is proper ACTING.
Burn After Reading (2008)
Mediocrity of average human life
You'd expect your life to be thrilling as a spy story. But it's not. People hate this movie because it puts them in front of the reality that nothing happens in their lives. You get downgraded at work because of boozing. You write your memories believing they will be top notch, but they're scrap. You believe you can have a life turnaround by using a random happening as a bad guy would, but you're pretending. All you are is already written and all you can think up to change your life is exterior surgery. What have you learnt... about yourself? Probably, you will burn this movie right after seeing.
Lethal Weapon (2016)
PLEASE Stop Regurgiting Reboots
You really CAN NOT outrageously steal and burn the history, the title and the names of a pure Action masterpiece that built the cornerstone of Action cinema, only to pile up a bunch of cash out of your zombie marketing strategy. You are insulting the history of Cinema and the whole concept of Art with your trivial, superficial emulation of a character considered among the best 100 ever for his intense and unique emotional suffering, whose name is Martin Riggs. You are as well killing a show that could stand for itself with a name and a history of its own, just like L.A. Heat successfully did in the past. This is a very short-term moron-driven strategy that utterly highlights your huge, gigantic, catastrophic artistic incompetence. Get the hell out of this business. STOP REBOOTS. Stop Regurgitations.
Independence Day (1996)
Action raised to a power
This is what I mean to be a pure action movie.
If you like this genre, in 'Independence Day' you can find all you need to enjoy: large-sized explosions, dogfights, general destruction, great special effects. It has a very good cast, as we can see actors like Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Randy Quaid and many more, all of whom are great in their parts. It has great direction, which involves you so much that you would never say runtime is 145 minutes. And finally, David Arnold's original soundtrack is simply wonderful. All of that set on the magnificent background of aliens' invasion. It also shows important values, as fighting against difficulties never giving up, a value that is progressively fading away in actual society.
Most people condemn that movie calling it 'A typical American action movie', I reply them just to put their brain out of window and think to enjoy. There are movies supposed to make think and grow, and movies supposed just to entertain. This is one of them. Without enjoy life is gloomy.
In my opinion this is one of the best movies of the decade, a milestone in the field of action cinema.