Posted by moviegeek916 on July 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Batman & Robin (1997) – Sigh… so in the past couple years I have revisited a couple movies that I remember hating and finding out they weren’t quite as awful as they were in my memory (The Phantom Menace was by far the most surprising of these). So I have to admit I went into this … Continue reading →
Filed under Film, Reviews, The Worst · Tagged with 1997, A Beautiful Mind, Adam West, Akiva Goldsman, Alicia Silverstone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Batman, Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, Chris O'Donnell, Christopher Nolan, Dick Sprang, Doug Hutchison, Eli Wallach, Elle Macpherson, George Clooney, George Saunders, Joel Schumacher, John Glover, Michael Gough, Michael Reid McKay, Otto Preminger, Pat Hingle, Robert "Jeep" Swenson, sequel, Star Wars, The Lost Boys, The Phantom Menace, The Phantom of the Opera, Tim Burton, Uma Thurman, Vendela K. Thommessen
Posted by moviegeek916 on April 13, 2012 · 1 Comment
Slasher flicks thrived in the 1980s but a couple years into the 1990s the horror genre was in a noticeable decline. A screenwriter named Kevin Williamson decided that he wanted the final word on the slasher subgenre. He wrote a screenplay that was simultaneously a parody of and loving tribute to classic flicks like Halloween … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 25, 2012 · 1 Comment
Air Force One (1997) – Right after watching As Good as it Gets on cable I saw there was another movie from 1997 starting up… one that while perhaps not as critically acclaimed kicked a substantially higher volume of ass. Wolfgang Petersen’s Air Force One is the kind of action movie I grew up on. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 25, 2012 · 1 Comment
As Good as It Gets (1997) – Sometimes I get bored. Sometimes I get lethargic. Sometimes these feelings overlap. For those time, there is the wide world of cable television where, get this, THERE ARE ALWAYS MOVIES ON! Now my rules for writing reviews is that 1) the movie needs to be completely unedited and … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on December 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
L.A. Confidential (1997) – It was a cold night in Sacramento. The nights are always cold in Sacramento. Except for all those months where they’re hot. Or temperate. But this wasn’t one of those nights. I had just watched what was supposed to have been a funny movie, but it didn’t bring the goods. Suddenly … Continue reading →
Filed under Film, Reviews, The Best · Tagged with 1997, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Academy Award Winner: Best Screenplay, Academy Award Winner: Best Supporting Actress, book adaptation, Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson, David Strathairn, film noir, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, James Ellroy, Johnny Stompanato, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, L.A. Confidential, L.A. Noire, Mystic River, Ron Rifkin, Russell Crowe, Simon Baker, Virtuosity
Posted by moviegeek916 on September 19, 2011 · 1 Comment
Boogie Nights (1997) — This is a story, basically, of losers bottoming out yet it doesn’t ever get as depressing as that summary would imply (maybe because banding together as a surrogate family helps them cope). I think Paul Thomas Anderson ascended to that Robert Altman level of directed large ensemble casts for epic-in-scale movies … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 