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Last Action Hero (1993).

It’s okay if all over the place with a jarringly inconsistent tone – too violent but not violent enough, it’s half a kids’ movie, half Lethal Weapon, which doesn’t work. Maybe they should have just stuck with the one genre or infused it with more magic, the escapism of the movie theatre and all that.

Spot the cameo helps pass the two-hour running time, and it has its moments when you think it could be relaxing into a movie that goes somewhere. But it doesn’t.

It’s stupid. But it’s not stupid-stupid. At least you get two Arnies for the price of one in this hit-and-miss deconstruction of action cinema. 

Good poster.

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Pretty Woman (1990).

What a load of shite this was, but it’s another ‘must see’ movie off my bucket list.

The premise is ludicrous, as is almost everything that takes place. And it’s pure cringe, from him taking a streetwalker into a fantasy hotel, the wincing reactions of the staff and the guests, the squirming montage of her on Rodeo Drive trying on the outfits to ‘Pretty Woman’ (how clever), to the tedious board meetings.

And the bloke who played George Costanza from Seinfeld is in it and he is rubbish. 

It’s embarrassing.

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The Witches (1990).

A boring prologue that goes on and on. Just cut to the chase, eh. I almost turned it off. But I didn’t. 

The ‘fun’ begins at the hotel, and thank fuck for Rowan Atkinson. He’s Basil Fawlty surrounded by hideous cauldron experts. You’ve got the quite brilliant effects work and the director rolling with the lunacy of the premise.

And Bruno makes this movie. “Well, I’m not too keen on being a mouse.” – Bruno. 

I hope a witch doesn’t turn me into a mouse. 

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The Lawnmower Man (1992). Brace yourself.

A.K.A. Rain Man with a Jeff Daniels Dumb and Dumber (1994) haircut indulges in some video games and all hell breaks loose.

This was so fucking atrocious, like … a verified stinker. It has some good ideas (for its era) going for it, but it’s just too unintentionally funny to not be godawful. It’s a right crapper that takes itself seriously, so seriously. Probably the only bad David Cronenberg flick not directed by David Cronenberg.

Pierce thinks he’s onto a winner here. The movie made quite the sum and most likely paved a road for Brosnan to be the (not deserved) victim of Mrs. Doubtfire’s exemplary fruit chucking, and then the Greatest Bond of All Time, so there is that ….

And Hank from Breaking Bad is here.

Not with a lawnmower.

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The Favourite (2018). Pish.

This was fucking awful. And so without worth. 

It’s pointless. It’s a sort of desperate black comedy with no laughs, and entirely populated by irritating cunts. And I have nothing else to add to this. 

Avoid. 

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Maudie (2016).

Belter.

This was one of those movies that surprise. You don’t expect much but it shirks the expected formulaic shite and it ends up a great film that should not be.

Nothing else to add but that it wasn’t rubbish and couldn’t really have been improved upon.

Ambulance (2022). The pain of watching this was real.

Always thought Michael Bay was/is a phenomenal visual stylist and technical master – he just requires a good script. 

Before he made Pearl Harbor (2001) he wasn’t just Mr. Hit & Miss, and The Island (2005) is a riot. The rest of his oeuvre is admittedly pish. And Ambulance (2022) is the last title for a film I’d imagine being made by the chieftain of mayhem. And fucking hell is it terrible.

It went on and on and on and on and an hour in it felt like the length of a David Lean picture but without any of the talent. This was ambulances, sirens, bullets, screeching, whizzing, more bullets, dreadful dialogue, shoddy acting, cop cars, choppers, more bullets, more noises, zero characterisation, and more noises. And all tied together with a jarring pointlessness, like, there is no bloody point to anything that happens. I’ve also experienced more captivating shites and once watched a French Bulldog lick its own balls and this was more absorbing than Ambulance.

I turned it off and then even gave up on the Wikipedia plot. 

What a load of wank!

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U-571 (2000).

It is tremendously well made, never boring, nothing special, and no Das Boot (1981), but what ever could be? 

And I have no idea what happened to Jon Bon Jovi in this movie, or why he is in it. 

It’s a mystery but not that much of a mystery that I will commence an investigation.

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The Revenant (2015).

The outrageous pointlessness of The Revenant (2015) annoyed me the most.

It borders on both the bathetic and pathetic, a twin cannon of self-imposed misery propped up with needless sequence shots for the sake of aping some Cobacabana club. But here the aesthetic is redundant as the story is a nothing matter and there are no characters for the duration. A bear makes an appearance and it’s the most colourful personality.

Such a terrible movie. It’s cold out there and the wilderness is cruel – we get it. 

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World War II: From the Frontlines (2023).

No revelations but the footage is immense.

It’s not The World at War (1973); it’s you experiencing the war as much as is possible from your sofa.

And the voice of Orson Welles makes an appearance.