Archive for Release Year: 1985
10 posts from 14 June 2017 to 08 June 2025.
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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.
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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”.
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Very much an anarchic semi-adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in the same package. Style over substance might be too harsh, but definitively a low cosmopolitrometer setting.
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Charles Bronson murders everyone. Jesus Christ, how much more can you milk this idea? At least two more, I guess.
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Another trademark schizo “comedy” with not many jokes, a Landis/Aykroyd collab. It’s Ghostbusters meet Rambo III, our allies the mujahideen of Afghanistan!
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If The Lord of the Rings, The Thief of Baghdad, The Ten Commandments, and The NeverEnding Story were mushed together, this would be the result. Ridley Scott continues to be obsessed with unicorns.