Saw this with a group of people last night. Some had not seen it. Told them that at the time of release there were protests and studios refusing to release it and all in all it feels really funny in retrospect that the state of media at the time was to get all up an arms about a poop monster movie.
But it also holds up really well. The first four Kevin Smith movies all hold up pretty well decades…
This is so batshit insane that it’s kind of crazy it was released in theaters. This is a direct to video/cable thriller with effects to match. Out of EDDIE, DRAGONHEART, SPY HARD and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and this movie, Siskel & Ebert liked this one the best because it “had ideas”. Alien signal movies and giant satellite finales would be better represented later in the summer of 1996.
From a FORCE AWAKENSing perspective, pretty disappointing to have those characters barely show up with no explanation. In fact, the last half is pretty disappointing once you realize where it’s all going. But little girl Spengler is a worthy new character and I suppose you can toss the rest out the window. I like that Ray listens to Podcast’s podcast. Really pays off how close they are in the next one. But instead of the ghost Egon mystery box stuff, it should have been Ray mentoring the new batch from the start. He’s the heart of the Ghostbusters.
Never seen this but was always curious. It’s a nice little movie that gets to a lot of things before other more famous movies did and nobody talks about this. Even in a post-D&D, Game of Thrones, Shrek, Lord of the Rings fantasy positive world. It had the first fully digital main character in a movie before Jar Jar and Watto. And with Sean Connery voicing and the fun code of honor and ethics (the title has an actually meaning!)…
Whoopi Goldberg is completely asleep in this. You could tell this was a concept in development hell for a long time. Some ordinary schlub gets to coach the Knicks to glory. Whoopi must have been the 17th choice down the line. They didn’t even bother changing the title. She’s not even doing anything outrageous or insane here to merit the novelty. She calls a player a little roach at one point. I’m sure Pat Reilly has said worse. Patrick Ewing…
A living nightmare reconstructed in reality in a way I haven’t seen in movies for a long time. Genuinely scary and creepy. These good horror movies of the summer make me feel legitimately bad while watching them which I suppose is a compliment. Best to go in as fresh as you can. Could be shaved down and be much more of a taut story but the wandering around oblivion does just add to the misery.
It has its moments like the real Ray Charles driving the bus from SPEED but it’s mostly pretty dull. It’s the first Freidberg and Seltzer parody movie so it’s not that surprising. Most jokes are parodies of movies from 1993/1994 but for some reason there’s an extended Macaulay Culkin parody and he had already been absent from theaters for two years at that point. Half star for the Weird Al opening song and for Andy Griffith saying the words “Mortal Kombat”.
This movie is a complete nothing. Especially now that it’s not even an ending. They dismantle everything good about TOY STORY 3’s phenomenal ending to keep churning these out and what we get is tv special level stories mashed together to make a release date after being delayed several times and several years. I read that the net profit from this was almost 400 million dollars so obviously it was worth it. It was originally written to kind of be…
At the time this was released (May 2006), it was the most expensive movie ever made inbetween KING KONG (December 2005) and bested just a few months later by PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2 (July 2006). You can see it in the movie. It has Marvel’s very first shot at the de-aging technology that no other franchise can seem to pull off. The Golden Gate Bridge scene holds up pretty well. It doesn’t show in other ways (Beast make up,…
Was always curious about this. But when it isn’t being grating and obnoxious it’s being unbearably depressing and dark. And it ends exactly like a NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET movie. Complete with house with red door. Phoebe Cates deserves better than this and PRINCESS CARABOO.