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Originally Posted by sputnik
then i watched vanilla sky and almost puked. one of the suckiest remakes i've ever seen.
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Seriously? Even if it's a remake, Cameron Crowe did an outstanding job, adding layers of subtle symbolism through image & sound, which the original didn't have.
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Breakdown (1997), by Jonathan Mostow, at home => On a cross-country road trip, Kurt Russell gets his wife kidnapped by a gang of redneck truckers. A solid 90s thriller, good stuff.
Anaconda (1997), by Luis Llosa, at home => Mmmh, not much to say here. It's enjoyable if you're into this kind of thing. It's also all kinds of unrealistic. Seriously these guys have to be the least prepared film crew in the universe... The most interesting thing, I believe is that they elected to use voice artist extraordinaire Frank Welker as the "voice" of the anaconda instead of recording snake sounds...
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988), by Alan Myerson, on DVD => Somewhat watchable. The same old tired unfunny jokes, and a couple of somewhat funny and downright stupid new ones (like the
Jaws scene). A few shots from the final "chase sequence through the Everglades" scene were actually really impressive. But all-in-all I guess there's a problem with the movie when you're rooting for the bad guys.
Waitress, at home => My second time watching this. I still don't know if it deserves all the praise it got, but one thing's for sure, as far as pregnancy movies go, this one has a lot more emotion than that suckfest,
Juno.