This is one of those movies where I really made an effort to enjoy it. I did. I mean it. I sat there and tried to force laughs at parts that were obviously intended to be funny, but I just wasn't feeling it. I don't understand why everyone's panties are in an uproar about this film. I didn't understand with Rushmore, either, which to me, wasn't at all funny. But then I thought Wild Wild West was a riot, so I guess you can't really trust my opinion. You might like it, I thought this movie blew until the last half hour, which was funny except patently unrealistic.
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Bowfinger
(1999)
The con may be on, but the comedy isn't until the last half hour.
10 September 1999
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
(1997)
See it for the mud fight. And Jade. Her too.
27 June 1999
Okay, reading the comments I'm thinking I'll see this movie again, but my current opinion of it is that...well...
Okay, I really liked the first Mortal Kombat. Watching it again I kinda changed my mind, but really, it's a fun movie to watch (why the hell was Reptile so easy to beat though!?). So I was pretty stoked about seeing MK Annihilation, because, hey, it had all the nifty characters.
...if ever there were a movie for lining the bottoms of bird cages, this is it. Robin Shou, who was pretty inept in the first movie, was an outright AWFUL actor in this one. Motaro was an idiot, they skipped over Kintaro if I remember correctly. Why they did that, I don't know, I thought Kintaro was hardcore in MK2 (and utterly overpowered in MK Trilogy). Oh well. He wasn't that important anyhow.
Two redeeming points in this movie, for men only: Sonya and Mileena (?) fighting in the mud, and Jade.
Female MK fans (all two of you) will not enjoy this movie. At all.
Skip this movie, it's not even worth rental money.
Okay, I really liked the first Mortal Kombat. Watching it again I kinda changed my mind, but really, it's a fun movie to watch (why the hell was Reptile so easy to beat though!?). So I was pretty stoked about seeing MK Annihilation, because, hey, it had all the nifty characters.
...if ever there were a movie for lining the bottoms of bird cages, this is it. Robin Shou, who was pretty inept in the first movie, was an outright AWFUL actor in this one. Motaro was an idiot, they skipped over Kintaro if I remember correctly. Why they did that, I don't know, I thought Kintaro was hardcore in MK2 (and utterly overpowered in MK Trilogy). Oh well. He wasn't that important anyhow.
Two redeeming points in this movie, for men only: Sonya and Mileena (?) fighting in the mud, and Jade.
Female MK fans (all two of you) will not enjoy this movie. At all.
Skip this movie, it's not even worth rental money.
It
(1990)
"Gimme a kiss, fat boy!"
20 December 1998
This was so completely worth the rental. You can't fathom how good this movie is. I've become a very recent Stephen King buff (Nightmares and Dreamscapes was nothing short of an astouding book), and had to rent this, coupled with The Tommyknockers. Both of these movies were good, but It was outright wicked, and it did scare me some. I strongly recommend it.
Wicked City
(1987)
Story as good as the eye candy.
15 December 1998
Wicked City is one of my favorite anime movies of all time, and here's why: if this movie didn't have a solid plot, it'd be hentai. As it is, it's borderline hentai. But what makes it so radically different is that the adult content is weaved in with the plot - there's only one scene of sex that has no pertinence to the story. This movie was ingeniously done. Solid story, great eye candy.
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