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Mission to Mars (2000)

Reviewed on Apr 23, 2000

Some Contact, Apollo 13, and a few Kubrickian moments in there. Cast is pretty good overall. Nice to see Robbins doing a space movie. Sad when he dies. A young, spry Connie Nielsen is pretty hot. Some overly exposition, crappy dialogue, and a few silly reactions from the astronauts. Their…

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Point Break (1991)

Reviewed on Apr 21, 2000

Good story, pretty good characters. Reeves was cool when he was younger. Busey’s surprisingly good as a good guy, and Swayze’s surprisingly good as a bad guy. Petty’s cute. Nice camerawork for the action scenes. With the blue lighting and second wind to the action, you can definitely see the…

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The Karate Kid (1984)

Reviewed on Apr 20, 2000

Like Rocky, Avildsen gives us another story about a lower class, inner-city Italian fighting his way to fame and glory. Good story, interesting characters. Lots of stereotypical Grease/West Side Story-ish characters and situations. Lots of 70’s camerawork and music, especially in the beginning. Corny at times, but the corny moments…

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Anna and the King (1999)

Reviewed on Apr 16, 2000

Blah. The drama is OK, but there’s not much else to the movie. Sure it wasn’t Ron Howard directing?

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Blade (1998)

Reviewed on Dec 22, 1999

Some nice effects, great techno score. Snipes does a good job not looking clumsy. Cool “what the fuck” lip-reading.

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Horse Chase (2024–)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

Um, cool.

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Thumbs Across America (1989)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

Kinda neat, but it gets boring. He only wanted to take the trip just to see if he could, and it would have been nice if there was more meaning to it so we would care. Nice ending.

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Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

As a musical, it’s goofy. As a romance, it’s cheesy. As an action-adventure, it’s silly. And as a comedy, it’s just not funny. Witless, dumb gags, horrible timing. They certainly went downhill after “Who’s on First”. Costello seems like a cross between Nathan Lane and John Belushi. Abbott looked like…

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