Archive for Release Year: 1982
8 posts from 14 December 2023 to 29 September 2018.
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Rambo is a PTSD-laden ‘Nam veteran, drifting over flyover country and getting mistreated by everyone he finds.
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Clip show with some of Clouseau’s best gags, with a timid test for a female version played by Joanna Lumley. It might have worked, but they got cold feet, probably.
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Some Irishman called Fitzgerald, a failed businessman, goes big or goes home. The crazy part is that it works, he goes big.
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I’m pretty sure the creators of this dross were on dope. Just a whitewashed piece of Americana by Cameron Crowe, set in the worst possible place: high school. Just another Porky’s, but with rich folk.
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Like tears in the rain, the sheer visual power seeps into the water table and contaminates all downstream art.
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Hot damn, this is intense. “Show, don’t tell is” taken pretty far here, most exposition is replaced with body horror instead. High octane paranoia, relentless from the opening shot with the escaping “dog” to the final explosions.
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A 50 years old parable on how screentime in children is bad for them, delivered as a long stretch of PG-13 screentime. Ya’ know, fo’ kids!
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I was truly convinced this was an allegory about AAAAIDS. But then Malcolm McDonald gets shot and meek Natassja Kinski absconds to Virginia and gets back a sex fiend. The analogies break down from there, I lost the plot. The writer was really putting out fires with gasoline.