A lame psycho stalks and kills women in this Bronson’s 70s style thriller where the viewer is never emotionally connected with any of the characters.
Plus the poster sucks.
Month: March 2016
#391 Top Gun (1986)
The best promotional video ever paid by US Navy, Top Gun is one of the defining movies of the 80s that cranks up all the speed, emotions and entertainment values to the max.
#390 Quicksilver (1986)
A solid workmanship of 80s cinema and a rare movie about cycling, Quicksilver is ultimately kept from greatness by its far too long and serious scenes of paper thin interpersonal drama.
#389 Road House (1989)
It’s a solid and entertaining A-class B-class movie, but for a movie about bar brawls Road House’s neither the fight scenes or Patric Swayze’s oiled muscles are impressive at all.
#388 Yentl (1983)
Yentl, a musical about eastern european jewish girl posing to be a man in the early 20th century might not be a bad movie per se, but there just wasn’t anything here to interest me.
#387 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese’s 3-hour spectacle is a daring and controversial film probably best appreciated by those who enjoy biblical drama.
#386 The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Both Timothy Hutton as self doubting Boyce and Sean Penn as Lee, a small time crook trying to be a big shot give terrific performances in this treason thriller based on real events.
80s-o-meter: 68%
Total: 85%
#385 Mutant aka Forbidden World (1982)
Mutant, a 1982 Alien ripoff replaces the alien with a fatter one and throws in some tits, and at times seems to work, but the lack of originality and inspiration soon get the best of it.
#384 Big (1988)
Tom Hanks shines as the lead in Big, a fantasy tale that back in 1988 offered us kids a peak to the adults’ world, and now in 2016 it reminds us again what was it to once be a kid.
#383 Caddyshack II (1988)
Caddyshack 2 copies all the concepts and characters from the first movie and replaces them with inferior versions. Except for that theme song by Kenny Login, which rocks!.
#382 Caddyshack (1980)
Caddyshack is a comedy that enjoys huge following still to date works well and feels timeless – but only when it concentrates on its golf humor bits with Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight, while many of the other parts have not aged that well and feel more like distracting fillers.
#381 Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Notable for being the first movie starring Madonna, Desperately Seeking Susan introduces numerous mediocre plot lines, but never quite follows through any of them.
#380 An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
People get illusioned (and disillusioned) to finally come to realise who they are – and are not. ’An Officer and a Gentleman’ is a rare treat: A totally watchable movie about love.
#379 The Boogens (1981)
Like so many horror movies of the eighties, The Boogens feels like an amateurish monster film done with ’us too’ motive and is outshadowed by better executed films of the era.
#378 Amadeus (1984)
The story of Mozart, told through his rival composer Antonio Salieri is a masterpiece and a triumph for both Milos Forman and Tom Hulce as the prodigal Mozart.
#377 Steel Dawn (1987)
Steel Dawn is a weird mix of class B post apocalyptic Madmax, goofy speedups and silly neo-punk characters PLUS total awesomeness, sword fights and all-around bad assery.
#376 Smooth Talk (1985)
Smooth Talk is on the other side an infomercial about dangers of sex and on the other a realistic portrayal of a girl on the verge of adulthood getting burned in adult world.
#375 Death Spa (1989)
Cheesy, but not enough so to entertain, Death Spa is a collection of gruesome kills and nekkid tits, and the scenes between feel like fillers to make it to the 90 minute mark.
#374 Death Hunt (1981)
Death Hunt, an early 80s manhunt movie set in 30s Alaska starts strong, but keeps on making one bad storytelling decision after another and ultimately ends up a disappointment.
#373 The Package (1989)
At first seems to have mediocrity written all over it, but this cold war conspiracy action film proofs out to be one of the tightest, most underrated thrillers of the late 80s.