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Animal House (1978)
A good bridge between the 70’s and 80’s, in terms of its look and feel and its comedy. Definitely started the run of 80’s college movies. Belushi actually seems like a classic actor. I bet he would have been a huge silent film star in the 20’s. Allen has some…
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Pretty awful. Full of the most stale 70’s-style acting and dramatic cliches imaginable. And plagued with the typical 70’s sound mixing problems.
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Coming to America (1988)
A bit more elaborate and polished than his earlier comedies and financed himself, I get the feeling that this is when Murphy really started to take his career into his own hands. This is also when his movies became less spontaneous comedy and more Eddie Murphy Show. Loved the Trading…
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Trading Places (1983)
A bit slow, and Murphy’s not funny enough. Made back when it was OK to make fun of black people. Curtis was a fox. Gleason’s one of the best character actors out there. Some nice cameos.
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G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987)
The animation leaves soemthing to be desired. It’s no different than typical weekday afternoon fare from the 80’s. The story was a bit edgier with Duke’s “coma”, but there are too many moral lessons along the way, again just like weekday cartoons. Same kind of story, political struggles, animation, effects,…
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The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
A slow-moving but beautifully shot Coen film, replete with a whimsical invention (dry cleaning, in thie case) and omnipresent death. Thorton is pretty good.
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Chocolat (2000)
Similar to the sensual food drama Like Water for Chocolate. It’s OK, but the story is just not interesting enough to move this slowly. I had a hard time figuring out when it takes place. Molina is good, Depp is obviously good. His first turn as an accented pirate is…
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North By Northwest (1959)
One of Hitchcock’s best. Interesting story, and Grant has got the lines. Saint was the old Christina Applegate. Hitchcock’s penchant for English talent means that too many of the characters in this American film have accents. The most interesting thing about this movie, I think, is that it bridges the…
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Closer (2004)
A simple movie about the complexity of human nature; a harrowing, unflinching look at how disgusting people can be. A meandering walk down the fine line between passion and jealousy. Like Unfaithful, this film conveys very personal, very real, very dramatic emotions without sugar-coating them or dissolving them in a…
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Total Recall (1990)
This is an important science fiction movie. This original (though based on a book) story which introduced many groundbreaking sci-fi elements: the pill (Matrix), brain implants (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), mutants as good guys (X-Men), and stomach creatures (Aliens). Some effects are better than others, but it holds…
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