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Notes: When I was a kid, I watched this flick and I just loved it. For Paul Verhoeven, the great Dutch master, it was his ticket to Hollywood and it was a downright success. You see on a regular basis promising European directors hired by Hollywood but most of those features are just disappointing. Not this one though. Indeed, even though it is a studio feature, Verhoeven managed to keep his twisted violent vision and gave us a relentless action flick. The last time I watched it, it was the unrated version and not only my step-son was watching but also my wife and she was rather shocked about how violent the whole thing was. Indeed, nowadays, the violence in action movies is terribly toned down so when you watch a good old action flick from the 80's, you have to adjust a little bit because the blood is coming out in liters, the heads are exploding and the limbs are flying in the air, all in close-up. Furthermore, there is a lot of pitch black humor and the combination with the violence was pretty unique, awesome and really true to Verhoeven's style. I have to admit that even though Robocop looked pretty cool, when he walks, he did look pretty cheesy and the special effects in general were pretty cheesy as well. Still, it is a well made SF flick, no doubt about it.
“I have always been a huge fan of Michael Moore's work and, if I recall it correctly, I saw this movie some time after I saw ‘Bowling for Columbine’ which is still, by far, his very best movie. Anyway, 8 long years after ‘Roger & Me’, Moore was finally coming up with a new documentary and” read more
“To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick. In fact, back then , the main reason I wanted to watch the damned thing was because Robert De Niro was involved and, at the time, I had no idea that Alfonso Cuaron would turn out to be one of the most interesting directors of his genera” read more
Notes: Throughout his career Kevin Costner has made 3 baseball movies and, in my opinion, this one was easily the best of them and, actually, pretty much the only one I actually really enjoyed. Indeed, ‘For Love of the Game’ was universally panned and was pretty lame but ‘Field of Dreams’, usually considered the best of the bunch, was actually rather underwhelming. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, I thought that Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon were both pretty good and Costner has never been better than when playing such melancholic characters. Furthermore, there was an interesting grittiness and I liked how realistic the movie looked and sounded. Indeed, the characters were really three dimensional and I enjoyed the fact that the story was down to earth and entertaining at the same time. 
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“Back then, when it was released, it was a big a critical and commercial flop and I actually already saw the damned thing but since it was a while back and since I had it on DVD, I thought I might as well give it a 2nd chance. Well, it turned out to be even worse than I remembered. I mean, with suc” read more
Failed movie franchises (50 movies items)"@Deanmon, I know, I already put a clear comment about this... It is even supposed to be released in 9 months from now and, yet, they still don't have a director right now so I wonder if it will be mad"
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“To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this flick, especially after it turned out to be a flop at the box-office. I mean, it is all very nice that Disney keeps milking their catalog with these live-adaptations but nobody was really asking for a sequel for this movie, especially 6 long years la” read more
“To be honest, even though ‘The Hunt for Red October’ is pretty much a classic, I always had some rather mixed feelings about the damned thing. Eventually, for some reasons, Alec Baldwin decided to not come back for this sequel and he was therefore replaced by Harrison Ford. Apparently, the fact ” read more
“To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this movie and I should definitely re-watch it at some point. It is apparently Francis Ford Coppola's personal favorite of his movies. Eventually, the only reason this movie didn’t get the love it deserved was probably the fact that Coppola was r” read more
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“Just a couple of weeks ago, I saw ‘The Intern’, also starring Robert Ne Niro, also playing a widower, and I was amazed about how underwhelming the whole thing turned out to be. Well, even if this movie with a rather similar character for De Niro was nothing really amazing, at least, it was sligh” read more
What would we do without gay people? (14 person items)"You mentioned that Jude Law played Oscar Wilde in 'Wilde' but that's incorrect. It's actually Stephen Fry who played Oscar Wilde and Jude Law had a smaller part playing one of Wilde's lovers, if I'm n"
