Strong performances by Lohman, Penn, Zellweger and especially Michelle Pfeiffer in a faithful adaptation of Janet Fitch's novel. Not hard to see why this one didn't attract more attention in theaters, since it lacks the ingredients that seem to characterize hit films nowadays -- such as action, violence, sex and stunning special effects. It's just a very moving story, well-crafted and well-acted. I'd recommend it to anyone.
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Ghost World
(2001)
Gem of a film about teenage outsiders and loneliness...
24 June 2002
... but definitely not a run of the mill teen movie. Despite my distaste for films based on comic books and video games, this one surprised me. Superb script -- clever, sad and funny all at once -- with strong performances from Thora Birch and Scarlet Johanssen in the female leads.
I remember the feeling of being an outsider so well. This film captured those feelings so well.
Cheerio, PUPPET MASTER
I remember the feeling of being an outsider so well. This film captured those feelings so well.
Cheerio, PUPPET MASTER
Krull
(1983)
Worth renting? Debatable, but yes, I rather enjoyed Krull.
24 June 2002
This one's worth a look if you're a sci fi/fantasy fan. It has a decent story line with some OK sequences, such as the one with the blind sage in the forest with the green crystal. However, the special effects (which seem to be the standard by which so many SF/fantasy films are judged these days) are so early 1980s that they may turn off today's younger fans, who are accustomed to eye-popping FX.
Contains an early appearances by Liam Neeson and Todd Carty, the English actor who plays Mark Fowler on East Enders! It had some good campy moments (at least I think they were supposed to be campy). Carty still had a full head of hair when he filmed this, and it's long hair at that. He occasionally dons that same sincere look of frowning concern that he uses so often in East Enders. Neeson's performance isn't much, but then they didn't give him much of a role, either.
I'm usually willing to give a fantasy film a chance unless it looks like a total stinker. I keep hoping I'll stumble across an undiscovered gem. That's what's led me to Legend (early Tom Cruise), Willow (lead character is a real-life dwarf ), Spacehunter (made in 3-D), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (Ray Harryhausen animation), both Conan movies and others long since forgotten. There were a ton of these made in the wake of Star Wars in the early 1980s.
Cheerio,
PUPPET MASTER
Contains an early appearances by Liam Neeson and Todd Carty, the English actor who plays Mark Fowler on East Enders! It had some good campy moments (at least I think they were supposed to be campy). Carty still had a full head of hair when he filmed this, and it's long hair at that. He occasionally dons that same sincere look of frowning concern that he uses so often in East Enders. Neeson's performance isn't much, but then they didn't give him much of a role, either.
I'm usually willing to give a fantasy film a chance unless it looks like a total stinker. I keep hoping I'll stumble across an undiscovered gem. That's what's led me to Legend (early Tom Cruise), Willow (lead character is a real-life dwarf ), Spacehunter (made in 3-D), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (Ray Harryhausen animation), both Conan movies and others long since forgotten. There were a ton of these made in the wake of Star Wars in the early 1980s.
Cheerio,
PUPPET MASTER
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