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Well, what did you think of it?Cyborg
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Well, what did you think of it?
Sneakers (1992)
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Really stacked cast. Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier, David Staithern, River Pheonix, Mary Mcdonnell, and Ben Kingsley.
it works very well as a popcorn spy comedy/thriller/heist movie. Lighthearted with focus on crowd pleasing over deep cinema. The main team, led by Redford, is really great.
Overall, It does lack one "signature scene". But it is consistently good and at times, very good. In the fun popcorn heist movie genre it might be secretly upper tier.
7.5/10 range
Cootys rat semen / 10.
idk what you’re talkin’ about, this movie rules! if this new update didn’t suck so badly, i’d upload an image of my sweet lightup vhs copyRAD (1986)
I had fairly fond memories of this movie from watching it a long time ago but...I don't know man. It's not as good as I remembered it being through rose colored glasses. It is produced by Talia Shire's husband with Talia playing the mother of a BMX kid under the auspices of the production company Taliafilm, but it plays out a lot like a Cannon Films movie. Just enough dialogue and plot to get its way to the big BMX kid race. I guess it's kind of like Breakin' or Skatetown USA in that regard.
It's about nine minutes of BMX montage stuff before a character utters a meaningful line. The first scene in the movie is a full length song montage of the kids doing their paper route...after the opening credits montage of BMX stunts. We get to know the kids a little bit and the big bad corporate guy who is going to ruin everything a little bit...for a few minutes before we're back in time filler bike montage territory at 15 minutes, now on a Bloodsport type running from the cops scene that is almost exactly the same except there are BMX bikes. I have no idea why the cops are even after them.
If you're into BMX stunts and can't get enough of them then this movie would be heaven on earth. If you don't care that much about that kind of stuff...you'll be wishing for character development and plot advancement pretty early in the process. This movie makes Rocky 4 look like it has no montage sequences at all. Including a high school dance hall sequence meant to build up the villain as good at everything but all the scene does is make his two henchmen look gayer than Top Gun painted in rainbow colors sitting on top of the world's biggest fruitcake.
All the actors under 30 are pretty bad. Lori Loughlin shouldn't be acting circles around everyone else. But anyway, it's a passable version of Hot Dog: The Movie, just with BMX bikes instead skiing and largely for kids instead of a sex comedy.
I don't know if I could call it rad, awesome, tubular or gnarly...but it's all right.
5.1 / 10.
made me weep like a big ol’ babyFinally got around to Past Lives going with a 9 . Celine Song looks like a lock for original screenplay and for a directorial debut this was amazing. Can't wait to see greta Lee's next performance.
idk what you’re talkin’ about, this movie rules! if this new update didn’t suck so badly, i’d upload an image of my sweet lightup vhs copy
it’s one of my all time favorite schlocky 80s movies. is it a great film? no, of course not. but it’s endlessly fun & silly, & is a perfect artifact of its time.Okay I'll finish it. I quit with a fair bit of the movie to go because they just kept doing montages of people they haven't given me a reason to care about yet.
Roadrunner, the Anthony Bourdain documentary. I'd rate it a 10.