Archive for Release Year: 1985
6 posts from 11 August 2024 to 14 June 2017.
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The best Rocky is the first one, but Rocky III (the one with Mr. T) was pretty crap already. This takes the cake, though.
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Now this is more Rambo. Jingoistic, preposterous and ripe for parodies.
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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.
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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.
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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.