Archive for Release Year: 1985

6 posts from 11 August 2024 to 14 June 2017.

  • Rocky IV

    The best Rocky is the first one, but Rocky III (the one with Mr. T) was pretty crap already. This takes the cake, though.

  • Rambo: First Blood Part II

    Now this is more Rambo. Jingoistic, preposterous and ripe for parodies.

  • After Hours

    This is like a show reel of actors doing scenes. There’s barely a coherent plot, just a Scorsese expy having many woman throw themselves at him, and self destroying when they are rebuked. Ya’ know, New Hollywood, not like the olden days.

  • The Jewel of the Nile

    The difference the writer not being a woman makes: we go from Romancing the Stone to generic Temple of Doom: cultural insensitivity, random action scenes, plot nonsense.

  • Ladyhawke

    A medieval story to the bone, in the form of the standard silly fantasy film of the 80’s. Sort of a Dune in tights.

  • Mata Hari

    From Cyborg’s producers, Sylvie “Emanuelle” Kristel is Mata Hari, an accidental “spy” who is being manipulated by both sides of WW1. It’s even more based on a great big lie, there’s a disclaimer that “no similarities with living or deceased persons are intended”.