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Category Archives: Reviews
Raising Arizona
The kind of movie you either love or hate. I didn’t really love it or hate it though, it was just “ok”.
Rain Man
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this all in one sitting. Actually, I’m not sure how it ends… but I’m pretty liberal as to adding things on this list. I guess it was good, but I wasn’t blown away or anything.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
When I first saw this movie, I had no idea what it was about beforehand. Wow. It was so cool, I just couldn’t believe it! Of course, I was only like 13 years old. But even now, this is a damn cool movie. Spielberg proves his legend with this one…
Quest for Fire
A bunch of primitive humans go on a quest for fire. I thought this was pretty unique – most movies that take place in this time period (and there aren’t many) don’t do a really good job… of course, it’s hard to know just what things were like on a day-to-day basis back then. It’s difficult to make a movie with no dialogue (except for the grunting). Though, I’ll have to say that humans of this period probably did have language – it’s a fundamental characteristic of humans.
Puppetmaster
Your typical cheeseball “aliens take over human bodies” movie. This time, they’ve picked Iowa as their starting point. There were a lot of “missing” scenes in this movie. It was like they figured some scenes would just be too expensive to film, so they just skipped to the next one. That was a little annoying. I was pretty darn impressed with the “hang on to the helicopter” scene at the end – chilling.
Pulp Fiction
You know what they call Pulp Fiction in France?
Psycho
Nutcase kills people.
Prospero’s Books
Wow. Only Peter Greenaway could pull off a movie like this. This is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “the tempest”. John Gielgud speaks every line for every character. The costumes and sets are beyond dreamlike. I think this movie also set an all-time record for sheer number of naked people. Don’t expect to understand it, just let it melt your brain.
Princess Caraboo
I wish the end of this movie was longer – they just figure out the secret and the movie ends about 10 minutes later. It would have been more interesting if she had confided the secret to somebody, so we could know more about her motivations and real character.
The Princess Bride
This movie was pieced together perfectly. There are indeed clever intelligent funny movies being made.
Pretty in Pink
I don’t really remember much about the specific plot of this movie… something about Molly Ringwald falling in love with some wanker. This was made back in the heyday of John Hughes. At least, I think he made this movie… (well, he wrote it…)
Predator2
See Predator 1
Predator
Kind of like a movie version of that survivor TV show – except that you know who’s going to live at the end.
A Prairie Home Companion
Can a movie have no real plot (well, it’s the last show, I know)…, not really be about anything (well, death, sure, I know…) and get by purely on acting and directing? Yes, indeed it can with Robert Altman behind the camera. You won’t even mind watching Garrison Kiellor’s alien mug for a couple hours.
Powder
Nobody understands me, I’m just an albino guy who channels lightning – I’m a person too dammit!
Popeye
I suppose it had to be done. I guess it couldn’t have been done a lot better either. One of the few movies where Robin Williams isn’t “Robin Williams”. This doesn’t even compare to the really old b/w popeye cartoons from the 30’s though, where he’d beat up on people for just looking at him wrong – before the Hollywood morality police took over.
The Postman
Yes, the Kevin Costner movie that nobody saw. This movie had possibly the worst trailers I’ve ever seen. They made it out to be this epic story… I remember turning to the guy next to me in the theater and asking “is this a joke?”. I was serious, but… so was Kevin Costner. I’ve seen a lot of worse movies, I think ‘The Postman’ just got a bad vibe and was doomed before it ever came out. Some people have called this “waterworld without the water”. That’s actually a pretty good description. It’s about a loner in a post-apocalyptic world who accidentally finds something to believe in, and rises up against a tyrant (oh, he falls in love with a strong, independent woman too). Except in this one, Kevin is trying to get to the water (some ocean-side village) instead of land. The story & writing in this movie is a little better than waterworld, but the special effects weren’t as numerous. Remember how you felt about waterworld because you’ll probably feel the same way about this movie. If you haven’t seen either movie, you didn’t miss that much.
Poltergeist
I liked this better than ET. They both came out at the same time, and I thought the whole “media attention” thing was misdirected.
Pollock
I don’t know anything about the “real” Pollock, except for the squggily lines… Considering how hard it must be to dramatize painting, this movie does a good job, especially in the way they don’t try to over-idolize Pollock. In the end, he’s just a slut like everybody else.
Poison Ivy
I know I saw this, but I must have been half-awake, because I remember none of it. If I was awake, that doesn’t bode too well for this movie – i.e. forgettable.
Point Break
Surfers rob banks and Keeaneaueau Reeves does his best to look cool. Kind of dumb, but watchable all the same.
Pleasantville
I’m sorry if you liked this movie, but I thought it was completely full of itself. After a half hour, I was sitting there saying “ok, I get it… when people ‘wake up’, they turn into color… oooh! a metaphor or something”. But that was the whole movie. This was just stupid, they were living in an artificially constructed reality in the first place, any growth of the characters was just stupid.
The Player
Really cool movie about movies… or the movie biz anyway. Fun to watch just for the “reel life” cameos. I don’t remember much about the plot, but it was good.
Platoon
A bunch of hot young Hollywood hunks get all emotional and kill people.