Archive for Release Year: 1993
14 posts from 15 June 2015 to 21 December 2024.
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Demolition Man is hilarious. It’s only set in 2030, but it’s like The Jetsons already, at least in San (Francisco/Los) Angeles, the white-picket-fence mega-metropolis of the future.
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The director of The Last Seduction did not spring into existence with his magnum opus. First he did this low key, light noir, set on a small town, in which our lead drops into. And it’s not a remake of Yojimbo.
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A classic. Worth it for the Callas aria scene alone.
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A very silly comedy. It might be a series of disjointed set pieces, but those set pieces are very good.
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50 Shades of anti-noir. Sneaks up on you when you are not expecting, wearing a fedora and trenchcoat, talking gruff, then it turns out the femme fatale gets killed by a previous lover, and love prevails.
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Purgatory is a small town celebrating an inane “festival”. What a depressing and miserable existence. No wonder our sophisticated hero commits suicide so many times.
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An alternative universe where some blonde property developer from Brooklyn rules with an iron fist, plastering his name and face everywhere, while privately harassing women. Only good working class folk can save us from this deranged maniac. Good thing this was absolute fiction, no way this happened decades later.
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The superior Basic Instinct parody, where the femme fatale puts on underwear instead. Raunchy, but tasteful. Worth it for the cast alone.
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Back to the convent she goes, this time to teach a group of unruly inner city kids what life is all about: bust your ass for a possibility of an education, while external consultants suck the school money into their pockets, until they close it down and earn passive income from the capitalist leeching.
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You got to hand it to Spielberg, he can tug at heartstrings. Under absolutely no circumstances you have got to “hand it” to the nazis.
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Ha, a Rambo parody with Richard Crenna. With the classic episode of George Bush Sr puking all over the Japanese Prime Minister.
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This seems like a lighthearted child film, but the more you think about it, the closer it is to the Dirty Harry universe. It’s also very 90s, large parts of the jokes wouldn’t fly nowadays. Chris Columbus is the best at working with kids, it’s uncanny.
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Spielberg defuses Crichton crap by growing the plot tumour into the main plot: is Alan Grant, notorious kid hater, father material? He passes with flying colours, Ellie will put out.
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A courtroom drama with a film noir attached to it, with an extreme old school perspective, where the “hero” rapes the femme fatale, but she still gets gunned down in the end like the whore she is.