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The Fly 1986-- 8.8
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Aria 1987-- 7
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Midnight Run 9.9 -- any of the dialogue between DeNiro and Grodin is understated hilarity...and, the music is some of my favorite, especially the main/title "Try to Believe" by Elfman.
They say that laughter is the best medicine. Whenever I need to laugh, I turn to this film.
NP: Midnight Run
Nice to know someone else loves Midnight Run as much as me! Easily one of Robert De Niro's 5 best films!
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There Was a Crooked Man 6.0/10
Directed by Joseph L. Mankeiwicz
An "offbeat" western that I'd always wanted to see. Good cast, (Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Burgess Meredith, Hume Cronyn and the late, lamented Warren Oates, (I miss him! Benecio Del Toro could pass for the Warren Oates of today...) Kirk was quite good, Fonda his usual sterling self (which makes his descent into lousy Italian produced films all the more perplexing...) But the music by Charles Strouse was positively annoying, not even dated in a kitschy kind of way, it seemed more like the producer's attempt at being "Countercultural" what with Douglas' "Anti-Hero" character and all...
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Jul 15, 2003 - 1:19 PM
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 7.5/10
Really, I think this film has gotten a bum rap. Why, I don't know. It's anti-war, anti-profiteering bent? It certainly doesn't boast any flaw not repeated or maximized in other big budget summer releases I've seen.
It does however possess some impressive art direction, evocative visual effects, a rousing score, and a host of intruiging personalities who, regrettably, have been posited in explosive, but fairly humdrum sets of circumstances with very little room to arouse our sympathies. Still, there remains enough eye candy on the screen to be worthy of distraction.
I would certainly not consider it a boring film or one lacking in narrative curves, unlike a certain Pirate movie au courant. But it does, more or less, play out like a Readers Digest abridged version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
That said, I'd be curious to know what ended up on the cutting room floor.
(Is it really just accountants who shape popular culture I wonder?)
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phone booth-- 6.8
shanghai knights-- 6.5
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The Ring (americanized remake)-- 2
(what's up with the drones n tinkle noises on the soundmix? when in doubt, drone!)
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-Shanghai Noon: 7
-Shanghai Knights: 7½
Two highly enjoyable Jackie Chan actioners, fuelled by his goofy charisma with co-star Owen "Penis Nose" Wilson. The second is even more fun than the first. Randy Edelman's scores for both have some nice melodic writing, but the leaden "action" music is completely unable to match Jackie's fleet feet.
-Pirates Of The Carribean: 6
Johnny Depp is a scream, and Keira Knightley is the Sexiest Tomboy Beanpole on the planet, but laaaaame "comic" relief and a plot that makes little sense (not to mention Media Ventures' hideous "wall of sound" score). Give me The Mask Of Zorro any day...
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super troopers-- 6.6
(way better than crack rock down, i mean Black Hawk Down, only it's not as pretty)
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TELL ME SOMETHING, MR. HARRINGTON, HOW DOES IT FEEL? GETTIN PAID FOR IT? GETTING PAID TO SIT BACK AND HIRE YOUR KILLINGS WITH THE LAW'S ARMS AROUND YA?
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SO GODDAMN RIGHT?!
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The last but one film I saw was Jonathan Demme's THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE, and that does rate a zero. Not so much as a 0.01. There's not a single thing they've done right with this contemptible remake of CHARADE: contempt for the original and contempt for a paying audience. Half the film is shot on digital video for no good reason, the music track is wall-to-wall noise, none of the cast have an iota of charm or chemistry, and the final three-way hunt in the deserted opera house is reduced to a bunch of people (half of whom haven't shown up in any of the preceeding footage), pointing guns at each other in an alley somewhere. Insulting garbage, and the worst movie I've seen since AUSTIN POWERS 2.
The most recent film I saw was FEAR DOT COM, which probably rates 4.5. It's certainly gleefully nasty, but the film is never shot in anything brighter than deep gloom, the story doesn't make very much sense (actually, it doesn't make any sense at all), and the whole thing needed a degree of restraint rather than the chaotic approach they elected to use.
NP: PLANET OF THE APES (Jerry Goldsmith)
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bad boys 2 -- 2 (the exploding guy at the end was interesting enough to raise above 0)
ballistic: ecks vs sever-- 4.9
bangkok dangerous-- 6.99
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Pirates of the Caribbean:
Umm on a whole the film gets a solid 7.
however the rehashed score "UGH" gets a 3!
This movie could have been a 10 for me accept for the score,it was a mess. Gladiator,Pearl Harbor,Waterworld, hell even Kilar's Dracula was heard,probably temp tracked with it.
The Hulk:
Visual (Cut Cut Cut Split screen here Split screen there)tripe! MTV Please DIE! Along with all the people who direct videos! PLEASE give real directors, unknown Directors who want to tell a story please let them have a crack at something. It rates a 1 (ONE)
Take it or leave it!
Rich
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