Archive for Release Year: 1984
10 posts from 11 July 2017 to 08 December 2023.
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For a musical about organising a dance off, there’s less dancing than you would expect. It’s more ugly brawls, sermons and grieving over dead loved ones.
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The 80’s equivalent to the Fleischer cartoons. A smörgåsbord of dated effects, product placement, smoking in inappropriate locations and sex jokes. You know … for kids!
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Kids falling down: The Movie of the Book. Eat you heart out, Labyrinth and The Princess Bride.
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A higher-brow Porky’s (with Kim Catrall too, sadface), still very unfunny. Aged very badly, but I think it was already bad when it came out. Still not much copaganda…
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Conan does The Hidden Fortress, while being driven by a girl, and hearing the lamentations of that woman.
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I like this “modern” The Outer Limits adaptation, it’s very old school.
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This is… Wow. Puts the Cold War in perspective, in this particular case, the Walter Sobchak’s perspective.
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A reversed noir with an horror twist. A great start to a meteoric career.
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Damn, Eddie Murphy is like a charismatic Dave Chapelle. The film is a weird blend of Lethal Weapon and Die Hard, on the comedic side. It’s all script, with minor Bruckheimer action scenes peppered within.
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Well well, Robert Zemeckis, notorious second fiddle to Spielberg, does a better Indiana Jones than the real deal, much superior to Temple of Doom and even Raiders. That wasn’t on my bingo card.