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The original Crocodile Dundee film was fresh and creative, as was the first sequel, as it juxtaposed the culture of the Outback with the shallowness of modern urban society, tipping its hat to the superiority of the former over the latter.
It's the story of Paul Kersey, a family man (and former Conscientus Objector in Korea) whose wife and daughter fall victim to a brutal attack at the hands of unknown thugs.
The Giant Gila Monster is the story of a former child star named Scotty Beckett going under the name of Don Sullivan in an effort to salvage his career and someone named Ken Curtis who made a decision that being an actor is far better than being a horror movie producer.
Scribe Linda Voorhees is a UCLA screen writing professor and former student/current colleague of Lew Hunter, who wrote "Screenwriting 434" (one of THE best books on screen writing).
I was also surprised to find that one of the voices is done by a former child star who was part of the "Our Gang/Li'l Rascals" films.
Seven years later, the company's tyrranical founder has died and the remaining staff recruit the former trio to premier the work which broke their dancing careers.
There's a lot of weird stuff going on, like a guy in a lizard suit who zaps people into ashes with his ray gun, an Ecstasy induced game of 'kick the can', strange cameos by former television stars (John Ritter plays a televangelist!) and a group of punk rock psychos straight out of REPO MAN.
First, he is miscast as a former high-school star hockey player that every guy looked up to and every girl wanted to bed.
I've seen many former high school glory boys, and none of them were as diminutive as Gordon- Levitt.
What's worse is that, though technically a sound actor, Levitt is part of a whole crop of up-and-coming former child actors that seem completely untouched by life (see Josh Hartnett).
Just ask his former band mates.
Meeting a former very beautiful lover is a romantic way toward change.
Christina Schollin is also very good as Theresa Berg, Grieg's patron and former lover.
He was originally given this novel in 1980 by a former TIME critic who told him "it's guilt and conscience - the definitive Scorsese."
Not many movies made such a good use of stereotypes and urban myths of former Yugoslav Army.
Isabelle Huppert plays a former nun who is trying her hand at writing sexual fiction; Martin Donovan is an amnesiac (groan) she picks up in a diner.
Man" is a slow-paced Spanish shocker that contains some graphic gore.The film is also extremely stylish and the atmosphere of decay and frustration is simply overwhelming.It certainly gained some notoriety as a former video nasty in the UK,but it's nowhere nearly as explicit as for example Lucio Fulci's gorefests.However the most interesting fact is that Eloy de la Iglesia was one of the major directors to push Spanish censorship boundaries with this film and a number of powerful gay-oriented films like "El Diputado" or "Los Placeres Ocultos".So if you are a fan of Spanish horror give it a try.8 out of 10.
Religious leaders in the former Yugoslavia have been condemning this film, because of the same-sex love story.
The former was the case, however, prior to my viewing of COMPELLING EVIDENCE.
First of all, I love kinda movies like this one and I consider myself lucky of having watched it last weekend in my former girlfriend's flat because she has always been a b-movies freak and so."The last word" is for me a deep story about cranks, a worn femme-fatale and the dummies of Hollywood.The resentful and witty character of Doc, a close friend of the main character that Timothy Hutton hides more than shows, stands out in a so powerful way that at the end, you realize that you was taken in about him.The girl is beautiful and confused -Michelle Burke acts sensitive and finally splendid compounding her Sara/Caprice character.Althought Hutton triumphs in his mission revealing the ambiguous talented guy, corrupted gleefully by Hollywood, Joe Pantoliano -incredible actor- offers a new dimension sticking behind Hutton every time he appears in scene, stealing the whole film.
Actually ,I will say one positive thing , I did like the soundtrack-all of the songs are performed by the late former beatle George Harrison.
Even more disappointing when you see former PM Entertainment exec Joseph Merhi is a producer on this.
He-Man (Prince Adam) discovers he has a sister She-Ra (Princess Adora)and that Hordak, Skeletor's former mentor kidnapped her as a baby, and raised almost as his own daughter.
You've got Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence (fresh from "Halloween"), Barbara Bach (former Bond Girl), Woody Strode (those who've seen "Spartacus" aren't likely to have forgotten him), Capucine (Inspector Clouseau's wife in "Pink Panther"), even the legendary director John Huston (not his first useless supporting role; remember "Tentacles"?).
It favors the former, but is clearly a product of the latter.
As the Grim Reaper gets ever closer to calling his number, former defense secretary and mass murderer Robert McNamara sits down in front of a camera and admits he could be considered a war criminal.
Its story is not a fresh one: an ex-con trying to go straight (Gene Nelson) is coerced by circumstances to aid and abet a gang of his former cellmates.
I checked it out because I saw that it was written by a former Simpsons writer, and had Conan as a guest voice...how could that not be funny?
As a Nam vet and former combat infantry squad leader I can tell you this movie was 80% BS.
Incredibly bad Future Prison movie in which sweaty leather-clad Vin Deisel wannabees run around a former mining asteroid turned penal institution shooting 20th century handguns at each other (as it was set in the 23rd Century, this is the equivalent of having James Bond run around with a muzzle loading flintlock) and generally being sweatily homo-erotically sadistic to everyone in sight.
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