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I became obsessed with this movie after seeing the trailer. The premise is so strange and should have never been green lit by a studio. But thank God it was. Opening shot is Dan Ackroyd power walking set to Devo and I immediately had a smile on my face. Then he finally becomes the titular character and does that insane voice for no reason and I couldn’t get enough. One thing I’ve noticed when I revisit 80’s comedies is how sparse they are on actual jokes. So many of them are just lighthearted hangout movies. Doctor Detroit has a bit of that but definitely made me laugh out loud a few times. It should’ve had more of the Doctor but made for a solid Friday night flick.

Two separate groups of young women are stalked at different times by scarred maniac Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), who uses his "death proof" cars to kill them all.

I won’t go into the history of the making of this film. It’s worth noting that Quentin Tarantino made it as a tribute to the B-movies of the 1970s and 80s, and released it as the first part of the Grindhouse project, the second part of which was directed by Robert Rodriguez. All the attributes of such movies, such as constant noise or stripes on the screen, cut out pieces of film, and changing the color picture to black and white and vice versa, are in place and create the appropriate atmosphere.

Listening to reviews from various professionals who called Death Proof Tarantino's worst film, I was set up accordingly, but the film turned out to be surprisingly good. The first part of the film is slower and more "dialogue", but these dialogues are natural and realistic, which makes it interesting to watch. But the second part is much stronger and brighter, in particular the extremely exciting final chase, during which there is also a reversal of roles, when the hunter himself becomes the victim. This is helped by the excellent cinematography (the film was shot by Tarantino himself). And watching how the girls kick Mike's ass and smash him to the ground at the end is especially satisfying.

The characters are diverse and interesting, and the actors play them well. Kurt Russell looks normal, but there's something secretly sinister about him that betrays the true nature of his character. But what impressed me the most was Zoe Bell, a professional stuntwoman and longtime member of Tarantino's crew, who played and performed all the stunts herself (including riding on the hood of a car). The only thing that really raises questions is that Mary Elizabeth Winstead's character was actually bailed out by her friends to the redneck.

Overall, Death Proof is a good and very tense slasher film, and the unusual way the murders are done makes it even more interesting. But I would recommend it if you can tolerate exploitation and horror B-movies, and a lot of dialogue even by Tarantino standards.

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) is a cult classic film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino, known for its genre-bending mix of crime thriller and horror. It follows the Gecko brothers (George Clooney and Tarantino), two bank robbers who take a family hostage to escape to Mexico, only to find their refuge, a strip club called the Titty Twister, is a haven for vampires, forcing them to fight for survival until dawn. The movie is famous for its sharp dialogue, unexpected tonal shift, and iconic performances, particularly Salma Hayek's.

Number 131 in my A-Z watch. I, Robot follows detective Spooner as he unravels an insidious plot to bring humanity to its knees through modern technology.

This movie is not subtle. It's heavy handed. There's not much to read between the lines. But that's not the point. It's a popcorn flick and doesn't try to be more than that.

I was impressed that a lot of the VFX felt like they held up well enough. Alan Tudyk's virtual performance is slept on, it really felt like he put considerable effort into the role. And I'm always happy when i see Chi McBride in a project.

7/10 Turn your brain off and enjoy the ride. It does surprisingly well to predict where we're currently headed, in terms of AI. It's entertaining, accomplishes what it looked to accomplish. I even felt some Demolition Man vibes while watching. I feel like it would make a good double feature at the drive ins.

In this movie we follow Howard he is engaged to Eunice but he spend so much another women Judy whom some gangster are looking because they mix each other bags.This movie is very funny and it reminds on 1930s movies holiday and bringing up baby. The cast off this movie was so Barbra and Ryan where so good and got very good chemistry, Madeline Kahn was also good as Eunice and this was her first movie.

I do love the mustache musical number, though. And I do enjoy the scenes that only feature Ruth and Edward. The Django and Doc Brown cameos were excellent as well. However, despite these great scenes, it's hard for me to say whether the movie's good or bad. I can at least say it's better than Ted 2, which isn't saying much, but still.

I will admit, that unexpected death scene at the end does catch me off guard every time despite the fact that I know it's coming. It's like Samuel L. Jackson's death in Deep Blue Sea. I'd still watch this movie over 90% of modern films, though.

Number 130 in my A-Z watch. Inglorious Basterds is the historical fiction story of Nazi hunters thriving in the middle of WWII, and the Nazi detective hunting them back.

In terms of Tarantino films, this feels like the *most* Tarantino. Every movie he made before led to this, and every film since has strived to live up to it. It has the gratuity, the humor, the non linear story, the racism, and of course the phenomenal supporting actor performance.

I genuinely think this is the best overall production of Tarantino. From the ensemble performance, to the set and costume designs. The editing, the script, the cinematography, the score. It's all top notch. Speaking of score, i was really impressed with it in comparison to how much T tends to rely on soundtracks.

One thing that sticks out to me with each watch is the translation choices. Many times in the subtitles you'll see the original word in the English subtitle. And then there are moments that aren't translated at all (which is fine, film is a visual medium and you get the context). And other times things just aren't translated correctly at all. I happen to also have familiarity with German and there are lines that are translated in the vibe of the original line, but each word is still different. I'm curious what the decision making was.

10/10 This movie breaks a ton of filmmaking rules and you're just along for a massively entertaining ride. I mean, a flashback within a flashback? That should just be bad writing. But it works! The cast each makes the most of their limited screen time. I love that they do the classic full credits at the beginning of the film. Many moments this film turns into a tense thriller. And that opening scene may be the single best scene Tarantino had ever filmed.

On my first viewing, I found the movie entertaining but a bit overhyped.

Now after watching it on the big screen, I enjoyed it a lot more. Amazing performances all around and timeless quotable lines. Val Kilmer’s Doc Holiday might be one of the greatest Western characters of all time.

I love how the movie embraces the cheesiness and dramatics. You can tell they were trying to recapture the vibe of those 50s Classical Westerns.

Love the music, cinematography, and has some really amazing shots.

My favorite part is seeing Kurt Russell’s Wyatt Earp just finally snap and go after the Cowboys.

Overall, just a fantastic big-budget crowd pleasing Hollywood Western they sadly don’t make much anymore.

By Jove, what a gorgeous film. You simply can’t by accident make a movie like this. You need to go into it knowing you’re focusing on flowers, on very nuanced details. What a magnificent adaptation of the novel. What stupendous acting! It’s a real shame it’s so difficult to find this on physical media. Furthermore, there are several scenes that are so gorgeous that I don’t believe you could even write them into the screenplay, for instance the gentle rowing down the river in the middle of the film. The morals behind the movie.

What can I say about this gem? We have Marc Singer from the old TV show V if anyone remembers that as a taller more athletic Mark Hamill warrior who can talk to animals and Tanya Roberts and her magnificent breasts who most people would recognize from That 70s Show.The movie feels like a mix of the Conan movie and the He Man cartoon but somehow even crazier and more over the top.

I remember catching this on TNT as a kid and loved every minute of how unapologetically straight the characters are played.It may not be a perfect movie, but it’s one of those classic fantasy films that gets forgotten but that’s just as entertaining the whole way through and has character charm that makes up for how low budget it feels today.

Plus there's a sequel where he gets teleported to 80s Los Angeles but that's a whole other should we have? Probably not. But we did anyways thing

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A movie that has always remained as an outlier in Bruce Willis filmography as one of the few family films he ever did (unless you count him voicing Spike in Rugrats Go Wild), and even now when you speak about it, there's a chance it'll either be described as A. A reverse version of Bruce Willis doing "The Sixth Sense", B. Bruce Willis doing a movie about interacting with his younger self 12 years before doing Looper, or more accurately C. That time Disney basically made feature film off a premise that's basically from The Twilight Zone, and is weirdly a lightheaded adaptation of the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare as a Child".

That said, a film that I've revisited many times in my life, and while I can't call it a long list masterpiece, I can say it's a well done product of its time.

In starring as the lead Russ Duritz, Bruce Willis brings a comedic charm to the stock Disney archetype of the jerk "Workaholic" adult, that while playing on its familiar tropes he's more than capable of making it his own. What works is in the chemistry he shows when interacting with his younger Rusty played by Spencer Breslin. I continue to be of the opinion, that in the first half of the movie while not sticking the landing is able to be charming purely off of Bruce Willis and Spencer Breslin interactions. Adult Russ who just wants to go on with his life as an image consultant is freaked out about seeing his literal 8 year old self magically appear, and young Rusty has no idea how he became such a shell of person as an adult. The comedy is pretty route Disney family friendly stuff, but thankfully their chemistry works and the movie wisely never devolves into overt slapstick fare that was very common with family films of this time. The scenes might not always work, but they wisely understand that its about two people who are trying to make sense off of seeing parts of themselves that neither are proud of (shout out to the Matthew Perry cameo probably one of the funniest scenes in the movie).

Where the movie really shines is in its second half when after adult Russ severs a relationship with a woman who he couldn't bring himself to admit he loved, it finally dawn's on him, that Rusty didn't travel in time for him to fix his younger self, he came so he could finally begin to make peace with his childhood trauma. I always loved this scene where Russ is talking with Jean Snart's character, a woman he meet at the start of the movie and gave some advice to and in turn she sets him straight on where he is, how in reconciling your past with your present self sometimes the only thing you can tell the younger you is everything is going to be fine.

It's here where through the magic of finally being able to delve deep into the childhood memories he's repressed that Russ is finally able to address his childhood trauma that's stuck with him all his life, and well magically time travel to where it all went wrong. There's a look that Bruce Willis gives when he sees his deceased mother for the first time in decades that just stays with me. It shows how much Bruce was making this film work even though him doing a Disney film was kinda uncharted territory for him. If all cements how for as much as the movie is kinda shaky in that first half, it truly becomes something beautiful in its second half.

When Russ is able to console Rusty that sadly they would lose their mother barely a year later, how those harsh words his father told him while damaging were sadly the words of someone who was scared of losing his wife and raising his son alone, and while even in finally beating up the school bully, there's still a lot they must live through, but hey at least that they've worked through something very pivotal.

The twist of who technically orchestrated the event that would lead kid Rusty to meeting adult Russ also adds to the charm of the movie. And the clever thing is technically the movie gives it's twists in the opening credits and the more you pay attention, said twist is out there in the open all throughout the movie. And in the end, makes Russ being able to say goodbye to Rusty all the more powerful.

The movie isn't perfect, and I'll be honest I often wish it being a Touchstone movie as opposed to a Disney movie would probably have helped in making its first act work better and not feel to dependent on the typical Disney movie silliness that was common of its time, but the second half is so great it makes me forgive a lot of my complaints.

Before Disney would become known for riding Marvel comics, Star Wars, and their own animated legacy to the ground, there was a time when if you were lucky you would get movies like The Kid, Holes, and Remember the Titans where even with their fluffy feel good nature the stories grappled with adult contexts and sensibilities that feels alien to imagine now. I mean how many Disney movies exist that actually look into not only childhood trauma, but also delve into things like financial embezzlement and the media's role in laundering awful people's reputations via image consultants?

Bruce Willis never really made family films like this ever again and its honestly sadly unfortunate giving how well he plays Russ, but I guess it also makes it all the more fortunate for one of the few times he was able to show he was more than Die Hard.

Number 129 in my A-Z watch. Last Crusade is the third installment in the Dr. Jones franchise, chronicling his and his father's hunt for the legendary Holy Grail.

Easily my favorite of the three films. Almost feels the most "Bond" of the movies, which (to my understanding) is how the films came to be in the first place. Spielberg wanted to direct a Bond movie, but wasn't allowed to. So Lucas gave him the Jones franchise to make into a Bond inspired series.

Genuinely, the opening scene of this film feels like it could be expanded on to become its own full film. River Phoenix plays an exceptional young Indy "Everybody's lost but me" . It's also fun to see that so many of Jones' traits and triggers are established throughout the sequence.

I feel like searching for The Holy Grail is such a perfect ending for the series. I mean, it literally feels like The Holy Grail of franchise endings. The writing is outstanding, you really immerse yourself into solving the mystery along with Indy and Co.

You gotta talk about how perfect Connery (former Bond) was as Jones Sr. His comedic timing is on point, the chemistry between him and Ford is palpable. Two of the greatest movie stars together working under one of the greatest directors in cinema, and it all lays out incredibly well.

10/10 The film moves at a great pace, nothing ever feels like it lulls or is unnecessary. The stunts are also absolutely terrific, Indy lances a mofo! And the growth between the two Joneses is so natural. Sr.'s "Indiana! Let it go." really hits hard. And to have everyone literally riding off into the sunset is such a cathartic way to end the series.

The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long trip across 8000 kilometers, while the world was waiting for the result of the trip. The film tells about the origin of the idea, the preparations, and the events on the trip. The "Kon-Tiki" was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, and "Kon-Tiki" is an old name for this god. Heyerdahl filmed the expedition, which later became the Academy Award winning documentary in 1951, and he wrote a book about the expedition that was translated into 70 languages and sold more than 50 millions copies around the world. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times, although most anthropologists now believe they did not. Anyway he proved that it was possible by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at that time. The trip took 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before the "Kon-Tiki" crashed onto the dangerous reefs outside Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947. All crewmen survived, and the "Kon-Tiki" was taken back to Norway. She is now featured in the Kon-Tiki Museum.

It is a beautifully cinematic movie & the story is really interesting. Thor Heyerdahl has flawed scientific theories but it still provides for an intriguing premise. I always find the courage to carry on scientific expeditions to be one of humankind’s greatest strengths.

is a teen comedy about a valedictorian who unexpectedly confesses his crush on the most popular girl in school during graduation. Hayden Panettiere brings charisma and warmth to Beth Cooper, helping elevate the film’s mix of awkward humor and coming-of-age moments. The movie leans heavily on over-the-top situations and immature comedy, which can feel inconsistent at times. Overall, it’s a light, nostalgic teen film with enough charm to make it an easy casual watch.

The acting. Young Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson. The opening song by the Proclaimers, the filing location of Spokane, WA. And Steve. Everything about this film makes me smile.

My dad (born in '61) strongly recommended this one as it was one of his favorites growing up. Absolutely hilarious. Arkin and Falk two hander is just perfection, we don't get this type of subtle humor or performances like these anymore. There are many hugely absurd laughs, but the smaller moments between the two (and especially the arc of Falk chipping away at Arkin's cold shoulder) might be the funniest nuggets in this film. It clearly laid the groundwork for future comedies like The Naked Gun. I can't get "serpentine!" out of my head, that sequence was just too funny. Also Falk off rip talking about how he encountered huge flies on his expedition. Yearning to somehow write or perform in something as comedically dense and tight as this! I loved the lengths this went to, and how Arkin is eventually just along for the ride (much like the viewer) with Falk. Desperately wish they were both with us, or at least that I appreciated their performances more when they were still around. Also huge shoutout to James Hong, I also saw him recently as a butler in Chinatown. What a magnificent career he's had.

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A night in heaven has to be one of the most messed up movies I have ever seen, mainly not because of it's generic cheesy tv movie style production but also the climax, and some scenes that make absolutely no sense at all.

It all starts off with Robert Logan, the husband of Faye who is finishing his daily job at NASA whilst the opening credits play Bryan Adams Heaven over shots of him riding his bicycle from the NASA space station to home, where we are introduced to Faye played by Lesley Ann Warren. He asks do you want to play hookey, in which he never gets a response. Then it cuts to a cheesy shot of our main characters girlfriend over B movie style music, followed by Rick who had just had sex with another girl, which his mother played by Carrie Snodgress comes on screen. Hence in the next scene Faye turns out to be Rick's teacher who fails him after he cracks a joke. Then Faye's sister patsy comes at the dance practice. Faye's free-spirited sister Patsy takes her to a male strip club to cheer her up. The show features a performer called "Ricky the Rocket", who is none other than Faye's student Rick. This is the same place where Rick works on the side as a male stripper to pay for his fees. When he notices Faye in the crowd, he gives her a very special lap dance, kissing her in the process.

The next day, Faye and Rick run into each other at a school function. Initially, Rick is interested only in convincing Faye to allow him another chance at his final and is rebuffed. He realizes that she is attracted to him and begins flirting. Faye arranges to meet Patsy near her hotel, only to discover that she has been deceived into seeing another performance by "Ricky the Rocket".

Since Patsy has to return home a day early, she turns over use of her hotel room to Faye, who calls Whitney and lies that she and Patsy are staying at Patsy's hotel together. Coincidentally, Rick's mother Mrs. Johnson works in the same hotel, and while visiting his mother, Rick runs into Faye again; they return to Faye's room and have sex, in which Faye is fully clothed whilst Rick is completely naked. Faye must leave and in her absence, Rick invites his girlfriend Slick Ferguson to the room where she has sex with him as well. Faye catches them in the shower and, humiliated, escapes; she realizes that she has been deceived.

Returning home from an unsuccessful job interview, Whitney discovers that Patsy has gone home. Whitney travels to the hotel, where he catches Rick as the latter is exiting. He confronts and kidnaps Rick at gunpoint, takes Rick to a skiff at a small dock, and forces him to strip. Rick looks helplessly at Whitney, who gets angry because his orders were not followed exactly, and Rick sobbingly complies. Whitney threatens Rick repeatedly, but ultimately only shoots holes in the skiff, leaving a naked Rick aboard as it sinks in the middle of the river. I guess the boat sunk and we never find out what happens to Rick.

Then Faye returns home to find Whitney waiting for her, in which Faye tearfully, reconciles with him, and discuss how to resolve their marriage problems or whatever etc.

I'd say this movie was most likely a product of it's time. A lot of this movie probably ended up on the cutting table, because this movie ran into production trouble. This movie was originally titled Ladies Night, because this movie was meant to be directed by Nicholas Roeg at United Artist, but switched to John Avildsen. The thing is what I mean by it makes no sense is that the poster for this movie shows a disco, Rick and a lady's back who is dressed in a blue skirt, who does not appear anywhere in the movie.