Have you been to the movies lately?  This is the movie review item
where we all get to play Siskel and Ebert.  It doesn't matter whether
the film is a new release being shown in a theatre or something that
has been around for ages on videotape.  Just jump right in and share
your opinions on what worked and what didn't. 

232 responses total.

I rented "This Boy's Life" knowing nothing about the film other 
than two of my favorite actors played the leading roles - Ellen
Barkin and Robert DeNiro.  It also starred a new kid who is getting
rave reviews for another recent performance but I can't recall his
name.  The film was a little jewel, well worth renting.  Rated: B. 

        I just saw Beetoven's 2nd, it was really bad.  Just take my wor dofr
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don't see it.  it was cheesier than, well, than carson loves barney!

  Please refrain from using the word "cheese: as a derogitory term.  I am
a Cheese lover, it offends me.

Vidar,

Then you must gorge out on MST3K nightly!

Javol, Mein Feuer!

yep, me to.

I saw the Pelican Brief.  It was pretty good, but it would have been better
if it were about 20 minutes shorter.  Non-brief pelican?  Anyway, it was
the first time I've seen a movie starring Denzel Washington.  I'm impressed.
I'd like to see him some more.  What other films was he good in?

_Malcolm X_, for one.  He also stars in Jonathan Demme's new film
_Philadelphia_, soon to open at theaters everywhere.

And don't forget _Much_Ado_About_Nothing_.

I loved the Pelican Brief, I read the book first and thought the movie
wasn't quite as good.  However I was very impressed by the job that Denzel
Washington did.

Washington was also in "Glory," the story of the black regiment from
Massachusetts that fought in the Civil War.

I plan on seeing _Tombstone_, _Addams Family Values_, and possibly _Wayne's
World 2_.  However, my sister told me that _Wayne's World 2_ is way cool...




--- NOT!!! ---

I saw WW2, it was a big dissapointment from teh first one!

Goody, now all I need is a third opinion.

One of my in-laws is in WW2. Paul Raczkowski. like, wow, huh?

Wow indeed   ....NOT.   :)

Okay, Strike WW2.

Pelican brief was okay.. the book was much better.

So said I.

Moof.

...and then there's "Farewell My Concubine", which I saw with seveal fellow
Grexers. I don't think I quite absorbed it all. It was too thick, operating
on too many levels. I guess I _am_ a part of the MTV generation after all.

Like me too, er something, huh, huh, huh.

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Cool! (gloat gloat gloat)

<smirk>

Recently carson and I embarked on a long journey to Briarwood to see the 
film GERANIMO!  I thought it was good for the most part.  Sevral parts of
it were very depressing, such as the brutal killing of many indians.  It 
actually had carson in tears although he won't admit it!  But, it was worth
seeing.  I would give it about *** (three stars)

_Tombstone_ was great but carries on too far.  It should have ended with the 
gunfight at the O.K. Coral.
I give it a B-

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  I just got my new christmas present from Suncoast video...

The President's Analyst ****
  James Coburn plays an analyst in NYC who has been selected to be the
president's analyst. All goes well until Coburn has a nervous breakdown
because he cannot tell anyone about what the president told him. So, he
leaves, well, disappears and then the FBR (FBI) orders him killed because
he knows too much. Everyone else just wants to capture him to learn what
the president has been telling him. The ending is beyond words, in terms
of being funny. There is absolutly nothing wrong with this film, good
cast, not too long, and the pace is just right.zzzzzz 
   William Daniels appears briefly.
14.95 

I loved this movie.  It is one of the most hysterical I have ever seen.
I refuse to go near phone booths.

My friend got a boxed set of all the Star Wars movies.  I hadn't seen them 
in a while and I didn't realize how good they are.  If you haven't seen them
in a long time you should really pick up a copy.

I remember I saw my first Star Wars movie when I was 3.

They're all very good.

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I'm 16 and I feel like I'm 4,500,000,016.  I never knew being a Junior in
High School could do this to me!

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Uh the rip of of the Orignal _Heaven and Earth_ is playing at A2 theatre.
The orignal was an untranslated Samurai movie.  Kind o' weird for rated R,
no blood when people got decapitated and that type of stuff.

Real Genius: B.  This is an unrepentantly silly movie with little or no
relationship to reality, but then again, it is an unrepentantly silly movie
and a good laugh.

Glen Gary, Glen Ross.  Wow.  This movie is wonderful, with several wonderful
performances, and ome really slimy characterss.  An A, but not for the
easily depressed.

"Shadowlands"  A gentle, old-fashioned love story.  The story has been done
to death, actually, but somehow Attenborough brings it around this time
with such tenderness and honesty that it's well worth seeing.  Winger is 
perfect and Hopkins is Hopkins.

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