Jeff's Reviews

Thoughts on every movie I've ever seen.

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American History X (1998)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

An intriguing story that makes you think a bit harder about race relations in America, with some real tension. Norton’s performance is powerful, and he looks fantastic. Furlong is eerily good. Great acting all-around. Even all the supporting people were convincing, and you don’t see that very often these days.…

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Apt Pupil (1998)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

Interesting look at the psychology of a Nazi and his admirer. Well-directed, well-shot, interesting photography. Pacing was a tad slow. A good, involving story. Good enough that it didn’t need star actors to be compelling. McKellen was great. Oscar-worthy, perhaps? When McKellen starts going apeshit with his march, why would…

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Armageddon (1998)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

Typical Bay fare. Cheesy dialogue from over-the-top characters and lots of explosions, delivered with fancy photography and overdramatic music. Bay and Roland Emmerich should have a contest to see who can use more money to make a worse film, and then they both should be shot. Tons of factual and…

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BASEketball (1998)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

Definitely Zucker humor. Same style as Airplane, only this one’s a bit smarter. Smart, socially aware, dumb humor. Even their improv is pretty good. Watching all the celebrities make fun of themselves was great.

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The Big Lebowski (1998)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

All the Coen movies feature strange and interesting characters in strange and interesting locales with goofball, random humor. A few decent laughs. A few Pulp Fiction-ish “it’s cool to be campy 70’s” scenes. Kind of weird that it took place in the Bush era. Was it an old script or…

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Bulworth (1998)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

A pretty complicated, loaded movie. But even though it had a lot to say, I’m not sure what the overall message was. The film as a whole is a bit silly and unrealistic, and I think that takes away from the vicious social satire it could have been. The camera=gun…

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City of Angels (1998)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

Hollywoodized, but not ruined, version of Wings of Desire. There IS some magic there. The dialogue seems awkwardly poetic at times, as if it was translated from the original German word for word, but all in all it’s a pretty solid movie. I question some of the story. I don’t…

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Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

Great performance by Malkovitch. Great costumes and props. Even the story is pretty good, if not a bit slow.

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Dark City (1998)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

If Tim Burton has made The Matrix, this would be it. A lot like Proyas’ earlier work, The Crow. Constant music, constantly moving camera. A lot like a music video. Brazil-like rising building metaphors. Could have used a legit star in the main role. Exorcist and Nosferatu-like villains.

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Deep Impact (1998)

Reviewed on Dec 31, 1969

Story’s pretty good, but it finishes a bit too cleanly. Every character seems to have changed, whereas a closer look at how a few of them changed would have been more interesting. I keep thinking that it would have been better if the big one would have hit. Then a…

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