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BMX Bandits (1983)
Cool movie!
I have similar feelings about this movie as a lot of the other reviewers.
As kids, my friends and I used to rent it at all opportunities. I can still remember fighting in the car over who got to look at the cover!
I watched it again a few years back. The plot seemed silly. The acting was no longer brilliant. Overall it dropped about 2 stars!
But I still enjoyed seeing it again. It was good memories. Of course having Nicole Kidman in one of her first movies ever is also great fun to watch. Who'd have known she'd go on to become such hot property.
P.s. She must spend a fortune keeping her hair straight!
Meet the Feebles (1989)
Wonderfully perverse
This movie is crazy!. It's a puppet flick full of drugs, sex, guns and porn. As an early Peter "Lord of the Rings" Jackson flick it also features a bit of gore. The puppets don't just die, they get mushed.
I really liked it however I imagine some people would be repelled by it. Jackson himself said in his Oscars speech that it was 'wisely overlooked' by the Academy. He's the first to admit that this type of movie simply aint going to be to everyones taste!
However if your open minded and looking for something a little 'out there' then I would check it out.
8/10
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
Good fun
*potential spoilers*
This is a good little doco. If you like skating or surfing I would recommend watching it just to get an insight into the histories of these sports.
I especially like the bit where these crazy new-school skaters go to the skate comp and are confronted with a flat square wooden area, i.e. a rink. They are used to thrashing apart empty pools and here is this skatecomp with nothing but flatness!.
The surfing where they weaved thru the abandoned pier timbers was pretty cool too.
It's just too bad many of them were such little b**tards. Amongst other things they laugh about how they vandalised cars, dropped concrete/glass onto outsider surfers, tied cans to cats tails etc etc. I get the feeling their egos were a little out of control.
Worth a watch
7.5/10
Dune (1984)
Dune 2 (the game) was better!
I must say I didn't like this movie very much. It didnt get off to a good start with the cheap looking crayon introduction.
It didn't seem like the future. It's supposed to be the year 10000 or something yet all the head honchos are all called Dukes, Barons or Emporers. Even in 1984 those terms had lost importance. It seemed more like some Bible epic at times especially given the strange music score.
Many commented upon how they loved the design. I found it ugly and wierd (why is everything gold/orange?). The effects were ugly and wierd too.
Overall it just seems really, really dated. I suspect it looked very dated the moment it came out.
Not recommended.
5/10
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Emporers New Clothes
I am not sure why this movie rates so high. Isn't it annoying when everyone loves a movie and you're left scratching your head over what all the fuss is about!.
I think if anything, Benicio Del Toros' unbearable voice should push the rating down!
7/10
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Immaculate Conception?!?! Cmon...
I didnt like this movie much (or the next one for that matter). The major problem was that it lacked any decent characters. You simply didn't care about any of them. When ObiWan died in Ep IV you feel sad. But when Quigon dies you dont care too much either way. Amidala was alright, but she is no Leah. Etc Etc
Also, Lucas overuses CGI. His CGI looks real fake because his direction of the virtual camera is undisciplined. There is way too much panning 1000ft in the air for it too be believable.
My final gripe is the Immaculate Conception of Anakin story. How lazy is that? What next, a great flood?
5/10
Airplane! (1980)
lay'er down an' smack 'em yack 'em!
I used to watch this movie with my friends when we were kids. We loved it!. We didn't get half the jokes, e.g. the 'manual inflation' of Otto, but we laughed along anyway!.
It's just one laugh after a another right until the very end. Truly a great movie and one that I will always remember fondly.
p.s. This movie is called Flying High! in Australia and this probably confuses some people.
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Ok, but not as good as original.
I believe I feel the way most people do about this movie. It's good, but it just doesn't leave the same impression as Matrix 1 did.
It has more fighting, more computer generated effects (bullet trails, crashing vehicles, keanu flying etc), but a much less interesting story.
3 out of 5