Category: MOVIE MUSINGS
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***Spoiler Alert*** Wow! What a brain twister! The mental gymnastics in this one are fantastic! Yet through brilliant storytelling sleight of hand, I think it holds, by the skin of its teeth, but it holds. Dirty Harry is back with his trusty .44 Magnum: ready and willing to put large calibre holes into anyone foolish…
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The concept is sickening yet simple, and with the revelations coming out from the Epstein Files, nowhere near as farfetched as we would hope. A savvy entrepreneur has thought of another way for the mega rich to entertain themselves at the expense of the peasants. Hunting humans is so blasé and exhausting. Why not just…
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One of the great big budget disaster films; the plot is not too important. Or I should say, it doesn’t need to be too convoluted. The crucial factor for this genre is getting the audience to care for, at least some, of the main characters. Keep the suspension of disbelief going strong and get us…
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The Karate Kid 2 was a great sequel, especially with the deleted ending of the original making such an awesome opening. Daniel travels to Okinawa with Mr Miyagi and continues his training in Magic Karate (don’t laugh, a lot of us thought it was possible at the time). The paternalistic relationship between the two grows…
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Glory Days of Home Video #2 I remember hearing at least two separate stories about people getting ripped off by the inaugural video shops. Looking back, it was a shonky business model, but everyone was learning on the run. Those first video shops charged a subscription fee, I believe it was for a year. Once…
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Avatar (2009) ***spoiler alert*** (plus a massive bummer alert) This wasn’t James Cameron’s first foray into corporate greed, and I will definitely be covering Aliens in a future post. Sci-fi is such a brilliant way to critique the human condition when it is done well, using fantasy to tell the truth. This one is about…
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***Spoiler Alert*** (Especially if that title means nothing to you) When we picked it up from the video store it was “that movie where the monster busts out of the man’s chest”. There was a strange kind of grapevine for movie recommendations back then. Beside the movies you already knew about and the ones you…
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Glory Days of Home Video #1 I grew up during the dawn of home video players and video rentals. (in my old man voice)” Young people today could never appreciate the massive advancement home video was at the time!” Before that the only way you could see a movie was at the cinema (or Drive-In)…
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Pump Up the Volume (1990) ***SPOILER ALERT*** Hard Harry is the alter ego of Mark Hunter, a high school student in small town America. Mark is an intelligent introvert who goes about not being noticed. Hard Harry is the rebellious DJ of a pirate radio station who tells it like it is. The station theme…
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***SPOILER ALERT*** I will begin with a question: Do you think that this film has a happy or at least a fulfilling ending? Every person I have asked usually says yes. Call me a jaded film buff, but I disagree. The final scene sees Thao Vang joyfully driving Walt’s prized Gran Torino – all has…
