Hard as it is to believe, I’d sort of forgotten about Jim Belushi having a film career. For a while during Taking Care of Business, I kept thinking I’d seen him in something recently (which I haven’t), then I realized… his performance in the movie is a rip on Bill Murray. Expressions, tone of voice, […]
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Taking Care of Business (1990, Arthur Hiller)
May 29th, 2008 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloDedication (2007, Justin Theroux)
May 22nd, 2008 No Comments
Is it possible to use The Doors’ “The End” without it recalling Apocalypse Now? Even if it’s just the opening snippet.
No, it’s not. Especially not when you do it twice like Theroux does in Dedication.
But Theroux harkening back to great films (or, hey, if he even harkened back to a mediocre one) would be such […]
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, Steven Spielberg)
May 21st, 2008 No Comments
I can understand Chinese people being upset with the stereotypes–Spielberg and company basically lift all the anti-Japanese stereotypes from early 1940s American films and apply them to the Chinese–but at least they’re only goofy and mischievous. The Indians in the film are downright evil. Temple of Doom’s atrocious script (I suppose Willard Huyck and Gloria […]
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007, Colin Strause and Greg Strause)
May 15th, 2008 No Comments
Surprisingly, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem does elicit some conversation. Or, at least the first forty or so minutes of it does. The rest might elicit armed revolt, I’ll never know.
The movie’s interesting for a few reasons. Firstly, it’s atrocious. From the incompetent direction–the Strause brothers apparently couldn’t handle a Doublemint commercial–to the cheap CG (maybe […]
The Squeeze (1987, Roger Young)
May 13th, 2008 No Comments
I was wondering why, for such a cheap-ish movie, The Squeeze looks so good. Its budget almost doubled, allowing for some really expensive looking sequences on an aircraft carrier, a decent amount of New York photography and… I don’t know, something else. It also almost starred Jenny Wright in the Rae Dawn Chong part, which […]
Man-Thing (2005, Brett Leonard)
May 9th, 2008 No Comments
I’ve actually seen Man-Thing before, back when it aired on Sci-Fi. Lionsgate’s DVD release has it in what appears to be an open matte 16:9, as opposed to 2.35:1 (which is how Sci-Fi aired it). So, I matted the DVD and tried the uncut version. It’s probably no better than the televised, but–and here’s why […]
What About Bob? (1991, Frank Oz)
May 2nd, 2008 No Comments
What About Bob? is a special movie. It’s absolute dreck. Coming from screenwriter Tom Schulman, I suppose its lack of quality shouldn’t have been a surprise, but I think I was operating under the assumption producer Laura Ziskin wouldn’t let it get too bad. I mean, production wise, it’s got good people–Anne V. Coates is […]
