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#93
8-Way Tie
Points No. of Lists Average Rank 4 1 N/A Box Office N/A Awards N/A
Maltin's Take:
Far Off Place, A (1993) C-105m. ★★★ D : Mikael Salomon. Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Randall (Embry), Maximilian Schell, Jack Thompson, Sarel Bok, Robert Burke, Patricia Kalember, Daniel Gerroll. Borderline-slow, but head-on-straight, Disney kids’ adventure about a young Bushman guide, a game warden’s daughter, and a visiting city boy who flee across the desert from murderous poachers. Frank treatment of death makes this iffy for young kids, but older children should find it rewarding. Based on the books A Story Like the Wind and A Far Off Place by Laurens van der Post. Juan Ruiz-Anchia’s magnificent photography is a standout. Panavision. [PG]▼●Q
Just Another Girl on the IRT. No Review.
Bound by Honor (1993) C-180m. ★★ D : Taylor Hackford. Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Enrique Castillo, Victor Rivers, Delroy Lindo, Tom Towles, Carlos Carrasco, Teddy Wilson, Raymond Cruz, Lanny Flaherty, Billy Bob Thornton, Natalija Nogulich, Ving Rhames. Ambitious look at Chicano gang life concerns two half-brothers and a half-white cousin who evolve into a drug-addicted artist, a narcotics detective, and a repeat-offender prisoner. Despite lots of screen time (and a passable beginning), this violent film gives top-heavy emphasis to the cellblock portion of the saga. Script was predominantly written, with shared credit, by acclaimed poet Jimmy Santiago Baca. Video title: BLOOD IN BLOOD OUT. [R]▼●Q
Madadayo (1993-Japanese) C-134m. ★★★ D : Akira Kurosawa. Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyoko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro. Kurosawa’s final film, made when he was 83, is a gentle and contemplative series of vignettes depicting two decades in the life of a revered professor—his retirement in 1943, the bombing of his house during an air raid, building a new home, finding and losing a stray cat, etc.—all centered around a string of birthday parties thrown for him by his ex-students at which he shouts ‘‘Madadayo!’ ’ (‘‘not yet!’ ’) to indicate he’s not ready to be taken by death. A warmhearted and life-affirming finale to the career of a cinematic master. Released in the U.S. in 1998. ▼Q
Splitting Heirs (1993-U.S.-British) C-86m. ★★ D : Robert Young. Rick Moranis, Eric Idle, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta Jones, John Cleese, Sadie Frost, Stratford Johns. A loser (Idle) learns he’s really a duke and tries to reclaim his title from the bogus heir (Moranis). Strained comedy in the Monty Python tradition, filled with puns, sight gags, and silliness—only some of which is funny. Idle executive produced and coscripted. [PG-13]▼●Q
The Legend. No Review
The Young Girl at 25 No Review
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Ticks. No Review
Programmer's Note: Just reminding folks that Gene Kelly was a stone cold fox. 
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Points No. of Lists Average Rank 3.5 3 28 Box Office 56.5M DOM Awards N/A
Maltin's Take:
Rookie of the Year (1993) C-103m. ★★★
D : Daniel Stern. Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, Albert Hall, Amy Morton, Dan Hedaya, Bruce Altman, Eddie Bracken, Daniel Stern, Robert Gorman.Amiable film for kids about a boy who, after breaking his arm, turns out to have an incredible fastball pitch, which earns him a spot as the new star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. Benign (almost to a fault), sometimes broad comedy/fantasy has a paper-thin plot, but makes all the right moves to entertain the youthful audience it’s aiming for. First-time feature director Stern gives himself the silliest part in the film, as a dimwitted pitching coach. John Candy appears unbilled as an excitable Cubs broadcaster. Similar in premise to a 1954 film, ROOGIE’S BUMP . [PG]▼●Q
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Points No. of Lists Average Rank 3.25 2 N/A Box Office N/A Awards N/A
Maltin's Take:
My Boyfriend’ s Back (1993) C-84m. ★1 ⁄2
😧 Bob Balaban. Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Danny Zorn, Edward Herrmann, Mary Beth Hurt, Matthew Fox, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Austin Pendleton, Cloris Leachman, Jay O. Sanders, Paul Dooley, Bob Dishy, Paxton Whitehead, Renee Zellweger.Terminally moronic comedy about a teen (Lowery) who is killed and comes back to life to take pretty Lind to the prom. Easy- to-please 13-year-olds might like it; others, beware. Talented cast is wasted. [PG- 13]▼Q
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#96
3-Way Tie
Points No. of Lists Average Rank 3 2 N/A Box Office N/A Awards N/A 
The Heroic Trio. No Review.
Wayne’s World 2 (1993) C-94m. ★★ D : Stephen Surjik. Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Tia Carrere, Christopher Walken, Kim Basinger, Ralph Brown, Ed O’Neill, Harry Shearer, James Hong, Drew Barrymore, Chris Farley. The Party Boys return with Wayne organizing a Waynestock music festival, and Garth being seduced by Honey Horne ́e (Basinger, in a tailor-made role she plays to the hilt). Tired gags from first film run throughout, but occasional bits and cameos (especially from ‘‘the better actor’’) make it worthy. [PG-13]▼●Q
We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story (1993) C-72m. ★★1⁄2 😧 Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells. Voices of John Goodman, Charles Fleischer, Felicity Kendal, Rhea Perlman, Martin Short, Walter Cronkite, Julia Child, Kenneth Mars, Jay Leno. Amiable children’s animated feature about a quartet of dinosaurs given the opportunity to visit modern-day N.Y C., where they help two troubled kids—but fall prey to a devilish circus proprietor. Mostly fun, though slow at times, and the freakshow subplot is a bit eerie for younger kids. Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, the same year he made another well-known film about dinosaurs. [G]▼●
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#97
5-Way Tie
Points No. of Lists Average Rank 3 1 N/A Box Office N/A Awards N/A Maltin's Take:
Flesh and Bone (1993) C-127m. ★★1⁄2 D :Steve Kloves. Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scott Wilson, Christopher Rydell, Betsy Brantley, Julia Mueller. Moody but murky ‘‘sins of the father’’ drama, with Quaid well cast as a vend- ing machine supplier who discovers that the tough-luck case he’ s been driving around Texas figured in the childhood tragedy that has dominated his life. Absolutely no dra- matic payoff, but simply oozing in portent. Undeniable standouts are Philippe Rousselot’s photography and the performance of Paltrow as a sexy con woman. [R]▼●Q
Look Who’s Talking Now (1993) C-92m. ★★ D : Tom Ropelewski. John Travolta, Kir- stie Alley, George Segal, Olympia Dukakis, David Gallagher, Tabitha Lupien, Lysette Anthony; voices of Danny DeVito, Diane Keaton. Third entry in the series isn’t bad, thanks to some cute dogplay and the delightful voice-over work by DeVito and Keaton, as a kind of live-action LADY AND THE TRAMP, who wreak havoc on the lives of the Umbriacco family. Passable family entertainment. [PG-13]▼●Q
Once Upon a Forest (1993) C-80m. ★★ D : Charles Grosvenor. Voices of Michael Crawford, Ben V ereen, Ellen Blain, Ben Gregory, Paige Gosney, Elizabeth Moss, Janet Waldo, Susan Silo. Pro-social animated tale of young ‘‘furlings’’ who leave their forest home to find a cure for a friend who’s become ill breathing fumes from a chemical spill. Environmental message is imparted in a steady story with typically cute characters, but there’s nothing terribly compelling about the film. [G] ▼●Q
Poetic Justice (1993) C-110m. ★★ D : John Singleton. Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King, Joe Torry, Maya Angelou, Tyra Ferrell, Roger Guenveur Smith, Q-Tip, Tone Loc, Billy Zane, Lori Petty. Ambitious but fatally pretentious saga of a melancholy South Central L.A. beautician (Jackson), who has retreated from the world after her boyfriend’ s murder; mailman Shakur attempts to break through to her, with predictable results. Implausibly, the poetry this otherwise ordinary woman composes actually is the work of Maya Angelou (who appears on-screen as Aunt June). Jackson is OK in her screen debut. [R]▼●Q
Night We Never Met, The (1993) C-99m. ★★ D : Warren Light. Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Kevin Anderson, Louise Lasser, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Justine Bateman, Michael Mantell, Christine Baranski, Doris Roberts, Dominic Chianese, Garry Shandling, Ranjit Chowdhry, Katha- rine Houghton, Tim Guinee. Disappoint- ing romantic comedy in which about-to-be- married yuppie Anderson time-shares his rent-controlled N.Y.C. apartment with Broderick and Sciorra; all are strangers, and use the pad on alternate days. [R]▼●
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I won't front, I watched "Look Who's Talking Now" ALL the time as a child, cause there was nothing better than talking animals as a child. That was an automatic 10/10. (I also hope those child actor's didn't get converted to Scientology with BOTH Kristie AND John as the parents.)
- They arrested someone in connection with Pac's Murder in September. And word on the street is that Puffy/Diddy called for the hit. If you don't know, now you know.
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I won't front, I watched "Look Who's Talking Now" ALL the time as a child, cause there was nothing better than talking animals as a child. That was an automatic 10/10. (I also hope those child actor's didn't get converted to Scientology with BOTH Kristie AND John as the parents.)
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#98
Points No. of Lists Average Rank 2.5 1 11 Box Office 320M INR Awards 39th Filmfare Awards
Best Actor - Shah Rukh KhanBest Music Director - Anu Malik
Best Male Playback Singer - Kumar Sanu
Best Screenplay -
Robin Bhatt, Javed Siddiqui, Akash Khurana
Maltin's Take:
Baazigar - No Review.
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#99
2-Way Tie
Points No. of Lists Average Rank 2 1 N/A Box Office N/A Awards N/A Maltin's Take:
Faraway, So Close! (1993-German) C/B& W-140m. ★★1⁄2 😧 Wim Wenders. Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Willem Dafoe, Nastassja Kinski, Horst Buchholz, Lou Reed, Mikhail Gorba- chev. The perfect Wenders cast (if not the perfect Wenders movie) takes up where the more successful WINGS OF DESIRE left off; this time it is angel Sander who becomes mortal, joining old celestial pal Ganz—who’ s now married to circus performer Dommartin, with whom he’s raising a daughter and run- ning a pizza shop in unified Germany. Lighter going than its predecessor, but also more lightweight; it’s still a borderline ordeal in the beginning and final segments, despite having been trimmed from 164m.▼●Q 
Ramayana: The Legend Of Prince Rama No Review.
Programmer's Note:
This might ACTUALLY be my favorite U2 song.
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#100
Points No. of Lists Average Rank 1.5 1 13 Box Office 21.3M DOM Awards N/A Maltin's Take:
Coneheads (1993) C-88m. ★★★
D : Steve Barron. Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander, Lisa Jane Persky, Chris Farley, David Spade, Phil Hartman, Dave Thomas, Sinbad, Jan Hooks, Michael Richards, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Nealon, Adam Sandler, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Tim Meadows, Julia Sweeney, Ellen DeGeneres, Parker Posey, Joey Lauren Adams.
Unexpectedly benign (and good-natured) comedy based on the 1970s Saturday Night Live skits. The Coneheads (from the planet Remulak) land on earth in a botched mission and, to their own surprise, adapt to middle-class suburban life. A most enjoyable family film that combines silliness with some sly and unexpected gags. Amusing cameos by a gaggle of past and present SNL cast members. Watch for Drew Carey in a taxi. Aykroyd also cowrote the film. [PG]▼●Q
Programmer's Note:
Maltin's Daughter, at the panel, did mention that this film got a lot of play at the Maltin household.
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On 10/5/2023 at 2:14 PM, Claire of Themyscira said:
The silence...
Oh, y'all can't TAKE me.
to be fair, I was in a national park, with this cuties, with no cell phone service during that post.
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Good. Now do more. More concert films. Broadway Pro Shots. Season Premieres and Finales. WrestleMania. Live Sporting Events.
if the studios are in a send everything to streaming, then reclaim the movie theater as a communal gathering place.
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22 minutes ago, XXR's Eras Tour said:
My sweet, sweet prince. It's going to make Marvel vs DC vs Star Wars look like Bob Ross had a disagreement with Mr. Rogers.
It will be good for site traffic. Make sure to run a sale. 💀-
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Update on the 30 for 30: 1993 List.
My job completely just blew up this weekend. So there was a lot of real life things that were a keeping me off-line. I suspect it will probably start sometime next week if not before. I’m trying to get it ready so that I can basically post all of it without gaps.
But if we want to just start, then I certainly can post a little bit, and then they’ll be a long stop, and then a little more and then will be a little stop, and then probably post the rest of it.
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Saw the trailer again for this before Haunting in Venice. Looks phenomenal.
My problem is that I am so against AI, I’m having trouble reconciling with “the protect the AI kid” aspect of it. I’m just like kill it. Don’t let it grow. I don’t care that it’s probably a metaphor for something else, like we don’t need this machine propaganda. 😂
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2 hours ago, cannastop said:
Trolls nostalgia is skin deep. The movies barely resemble the ugly-ass dolls they're based on.
But NSYNC nostalgia is not.
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Took Mom and Grandma to Haunting in Venice today. Mom and I both really enjoyed it. Grandma said I had to be REALLY SMART to understand it.
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4 hours ago, Bob Train said:
Empire was right.
I believe the phrase is even a broke ass clo — wn is right twice a day
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Loved this. Loved how they leaned into a traditional supernatural story. Honestly don’t think I have been this excited about a horror film since The Others.
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#101
9 Way Tie
Points No. of Lists Average Rank 1 1 N/A Box Office N/A Awards N/A Maltin's Take On The Entries
Boxing Helena (1993) C-107m. ★1⁄2 😧 Jennifer Chambers Lynch. Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton, Art Garfunkel, Kurtwood Smith, Betsy Clark, Nicolette Scorsese. Dreadful debut feature from the 24-year-old daughter of David Lynch, about an esteemed surgeon (Sands) whose obses- sion with sexpot Fenn leads to a bizarre set of circumstances. Tries to be provocative and shocking, but the result is unintentional laughter (when it’ s not boring). Originally NC-17, rerated after appeal. Super 35. [R]▼●Q
Children of the Corn II—The Final Sacrifice (1993) C-94m. ★1⁄2 😧 David F. Price. Terence Knox, Paul Scherrer, Ro- salind Allen, Christie Clark, Ned Romero. Barely based on the Stephen King story. Once again, the kids of an isolated Nebraska farm- ing community are killing the adults and no- body knows why. Nobody knows the reason for this movie’s existence either. Followed by five more ‘‘sequels’ ’! [R]▼●
Carnosaur (1993) C-82m. ★★ D : Adam Simon. Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jenni- fer Runyon, Harrison Page, Ned Bellamy, Clint Howard. Brilliant geneticist Ladd hatches man-eating dinosaurs from virus- infected chicken eggs and lets them run amok in an unsuspecting Midwestern city. Roger Corman produced this forgettable film, whose only notoriety will be its legacy as 1993’s ‘‘other’’ dinosaur movie (whichstarred Ladd’ s daughter, Laura Dern). lowed by two sequels. [R]▼●Q
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) C-115m. ★★1⁄2 😧 Walter Hill. Jason Patric, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman, Wes Studi, Matt Damon, Rodney A. Grant, Kevin Tighe, Steve Reevis, Carlos Palomino, Vic- tor Aaron, Stuart Proud Eagle Grant, Ste- phen McHattie, Richard Martin, Jr., Roger Callard, Scott Wilson. Stately, intelligent— but dramatically slack—chronicle of the U.S. Army’ s attempts to subjugate the great Apache warrior. Strong performance by Studi in the lead, and rich characterizations by Hackman (as General Crook) and Duvall (as a veteran Indian scout), sustain interest for quite a while—along with magnificent Moab, Utah, scenery. Eventually, the film’s point is made, and there’s nothing left to maintain audience involvement. Screenplay by John Milius. Panavision. [R]▼●Q
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Kika (1993-Spanish) C-111m. ★★★ 😧 Pedro Almodo ́ var. Peter Coyote, V eronica Forque, Victoria Abril, Alex Casanovas, Rossy de Palma, Santiago Lajusticia, Anabel Alonso, Bibi Andersson. Wacky, very adult story about free-spirited makeup artist Kika (Forque, whose performance is positively in- fectious) and the men in her life, including an American expatriate writer (Coyote) and a psychotic prison escapee. Almodo ́ var has given his favorite actress, Abril, the role of a lifetime: a tabloid TV hostess who cruises Madrid with a camera strapped to her head, seeking to capture criminal acts on videotape. Very funny, explicitly sexual film doesn’t quite sustain its momentum to the end, but remains fresh and certainly different. ▼●Q
Posse (1993-U.S.-British) C-109m. ★★ 😧 Mario V an Peebles. Mario V an Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles Lane, Tiny Lister, Jr., Big Daddy Kane, Billy Zane, Blair Underwood, Melvin Van Peebles, Salli Richardson, Tone Loc, Pam Grier, Vesta Williams, Isaac Hayes, Robert Hooks, Rich- ard Jordan, Paul Bartel, Stephen J. Can- nell, Nipsey Russell, Reginald V elJohnson, Woody Strode, Aaron Neville, Warrington and Reginald Hudlin. Noisy, violent, but politically correct Western about a mostly black posse who do battle with a pompous, racist colonel, and a vicious white sheriff who wants to take over a peaceful black frontier settlement. Game attempt at a new take on the Old West, but at its core it’s thoroughly conventional. Followed by a video sequel, LOS LOCOS: POSSE RIDES AGAIN. Panavision. [R]▼●Q
Sonatine (1994-Japanese) C-94m. ★★★ 😧 Takeshi Kitano. Beat Takeshi, Tetsu Wata- nabe, A ya Kokumai, Masanobu Katsumura, Susumu Terashima. Well-observed portrait of a middle-aged gangster who’s looking to his future when he’s asked to settle a dis- pute between two warring factions of ya- kuza on Okinawa. Writer-director-star Kitano (who acts under the name of Beat Takeshi) isn’t timid about depicting violence, but he does it with style. [R] ▼●Q
This Boy’s Life (1993) C-115m. ★★★1⁄2 😧 Michael Caton-Jones. Robert De Niro, El- len Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku, Chris Cooper, Carla Gugino, Zack Ansley, Tracey Ellis, Kathy Kinney, Gerrit Graham, Tobey Ma- guire. Harrowing but utterly absorbing story, set in the 1950s, of a young boy and his footloose mother who wind up living in a remote part of Washington state with a lout who both browbeats the youngster and beats him physically. Searing character study is a showcase for masterful perfor- mances (including an eye-opener for young DiCaprio), but what ultimately makes it work is learning that the story is true. Screenplay by Robert Getchell, from Tobias Wolff’s memoir . Clairmont - Scope . [R] ▼●Q -
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Points No. of Lists Average Rank 0.5 1 15 Box Office 24.1M DOM Awards N/A Maltin's Take:
Adventures of Huck Finn, The (1993) C- 108m. ★★ D : Stephen Sommers.
Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards, Ron Perlman, Dana Ivey, Anne Heche, James Gammon, Paxton Whitehead, Tom Aldredge, Curtis Armstrong, Mary Louise Wilson, Frances Conroy.
Utterly unimaginative rendering of Mark Twain’s perennial, which should re- main off-limits to Hollywood from this point on. As Huck, young Wood looks and acts too contemporary by decades, while Vance (as Jim) seems too young. Early scenes involving Huck’s brutal father may be too intense for very young children . . . and this a Disney release!
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A RETROSPECTIVE
Programmer's Note:
Hello! And Thank you for your patience. The work crisis is still ongoing, but the all consuming rage abided. It's now more a simmering fury. Taking the Pups to Acadia helped. My BFF and I watch The Greatest Film Of 1993 in Theaters tonight, so we're back focused and ready to go!
The List:
I received a total of 31 lists + my own! Thank You all SO MUCH for helping me reach my goal of 30 for 30 for 30! A total of 149 films were released, for a ranked list of 103.
The list was compiled by:
- Total Number of Points;
- Number of Lists as Tie Breaker.
I quite liked this system. I only had two ties in the Top 75, before it it turned into the "Movie Only Has 1 Vote" entries. It also made for a VERY competitive race. This went right down to the wire. Numbers 1-4 and Numbers 27-32 were constantly in flux in the last few lists came in.
Commentary:
This summer I had the pleasure of attending Leonard Maltin's "Argue with Leonard Maltin" Panel at SDCC -- which was actually really insightful and funny, not as cringe as it sounds. The premise is he invites you to "argue" with him about his old reviews. ("Yes, he knows, he didn't like T2 when it came out. Terminator is better."). I asked him during the Q&A, if he ever argued with himself. And I specifically mentioned we about to do a respective of 1993 cause "we were old." He replied that, "You are not old." He continued saying, he rarely went back and changed or re-reviewed films, because the reviews he wrote were how he felt about them in that moment. Reassessing them now, he's a different person. So it felt a bit like a cheat.
I liked that.
Buuuut... that doesn't mean we can't argue with him! I mean, Arguing With The List TM, Accusing Your Fellow Posters of Bad Taste, and Rage Quitting is a Right of Passage in these threads. So for the write ups, I tracked down Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (2010 Edition). Let's see if he agrees with our taste!
Full List:
103. The Adventures of Huck Finn
102. Nine-Way Tie
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18 minutes ago, Eric Ross said:
Very sad the boys were beefing in their heyday. A Stallone-Schwarzenegger action comedy would have been an absolute bop. Iconic. An easy contender for the biggest hit of 1987. It would have also likely been the gayest and straightest movie of all time.
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4 hours ago, Giorno said:
Someone should make a buddy cop action movie with Arny and Sly
As someone who just watched Last Action Hero and Demolition Man this weekend, that would’ve been so fun in the early aughts.
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Maltin's Take:
Little Buddha (1993) C-123m. ★★ D : Bernardo Bertolucci. Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda, Alex Wiesendanger, Ying Ruocheng, Raju Lal, Rudraprsad, Jo Champa.
Disappointing, dramatically muddled Bertolucci epic with obvious similarities to THE LAST EMPEROR, telling the parallel stories of an aged Tibetan monk (Ruocheng) who believes that a young Seattle boy (Wiesendanger) is the reincarnation of his respected mentor, and the young Prince Siddhartha (Reeves), who lived 2,500 years ago. Pretty to look at, but otherwise pretty much of a bore. Technovision (35mm), Arriflex (70mm). [PG]▼●Q