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Liquid Sky (1982)
Possibly the most awful, incompetent movie of all time
Some of the reviewers here must have serious mental issues; they actually talk about the supposed merits of this piece of absolute garbage of a movie. It HAS no merits. It's TRASH. WORTHLESS.
Horribly written. Horribly cast. Horribly acted. Horribly lit. Horribly scored. ATROCIOUSLY edited.
I had to laugh when one reviewer on here actually said that the editing was "sharp."
That would be fine if he had meant, "The editing cuts abruptly to and from scenes with no sense of story or continuity whatsoever," but that's evidently not how this person meant it. He meant it in a complimentary way, which leads me ineluctably to the conclusion that he is on the same cocktail of trendy drugs that the characters are on
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Looking back, this was a DUMB movie
OK, I'll admit that when I saw this movie upon its release, I thought it was the most awesome cop movie I had ever seen. It's only upon looking back with the benefit of 21 years of experience that I can say it truly is a dumb movie, one that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. A total departure from "real life".
I don't know why they bother to make these brainless movies. Are they made just to placate the dumb crowd, who wouldn't know real police activity if it jumped up and arrested them? This series got stupider and stupider as it went along -- more insulting to the viewer's intelligence in each installment. Eventually they became a political vehicle for a gun control message. Showing the public the evils of "cop-killer bullets" -- you know, the handgun-caliber ammunition that can punch right through the blade of a front-end loader. *groan* Yeah, right.
I'll never watch one of these movies again. They're for idiots.
Breaking the Rules (1992)
Not what I expected, and I ended up liking it
On this lazy Sunday afternoon when I should be cleaning my house, I ended up turning on FOX t.v. and this movie was already in progress. Since that's one of the few channels that comes in on my antenna, I just left the t.v. on for company as I made something to eat.
Of course, I recognize the fact that I was missing something by turning on in the middle, and I didn't know what was really going on in the movie for a while. I remember standing in the kitchen hearing the '90s soundtrack running and thinking of how awful '90s movies were in many cases because of that. I returned to the living room to eat and casually watch the movie and thought to myself, "Why on earth did some idiot programming director decide that THIS would be the movie they'd show this afternoon?!" Oh, then I watched further and found out that Phil was dying. And I'm a sucker for the make-you-wanna-cry movies. I'm no sissy; and I've put it together, and realized that movies like this that make you confront someone's impending death help me little by little to find peace about my own mother's death in 2001.
I was so touched by the way this movie dealt with death and friendship, that I went from thinking it was horrible and dumb to thinking it was thoughtful, evocative, sentimental, heartfelt and touching (if not totally realistic). And another thing, I went from finding the dialog utterly '90s-moronic and goofy, to finding it appropriate and well-done. (This was after the middle part of the movie in which it is treated as just another buddies-on-a-trip goofoff.) Other movies may deal with death, and may do it better on occasion, but none of them have the incredibly sympathetic Jason Bateman as the dying person. His character and his portrayal are 90% of what I ended up enjoying about Breaking the Rules.