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What he said was really ridiculous. He said "I know exactly where they're coming from." He hasn't got a damn idea where we're coming from! I like the Peppers, they're a band I've always liked, but as far as I'm concerned, musically we're nothing like them at all. I think they're really great, with their attitude and all they've done, but musically they're not like our big idols. It's not like they're such great musicians or their songs are so fantastic. So it didn't hurt that...
...called innocent so-called Golden Age, movies were objects of public controversy or rejection. In Medved's favorite film year, 1939, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was condemned by many U.S. Senators and editorial writers, and Gone with the Wind stoked a furor with its use of the word damn. Today, other tendencies in Golden Age movies -- the stereotyping of blacks, gays and other minorities -- seem vicious in retrospect. Back then, the middle class was in charge, and they made fun of those below. Now films are a minority pleasure, so the majority is the butt of harsh humor...
...damn polls, Dick, economy thing -- Reagan Democrats, Clinton Republicans, every which way. Get the jobs out to the ZIP codes, Jim says, or it's January in Kennebunkport, too cold for golf...
Needless to say, he's damn good...
Writer-producer-director Michael Mann's biggest previous accomplishment was producing "Miami Vice," and it shows. The movie is visually self-indulgent: every vista is sweeping, every valley is shrouded in mist, every stream plunges impressively down a rock face. Any minute, you expect to see those damn flamingos. The soundtrack is equally overblown, with swelling orchestration to hammer every point home. There are no quiet bits; there is no restraint whatsoever. If "Dances With Wolves" was masturbatory, "The Last of the Mohicans" experiments with autoerotic asphyxiation. Motorhead, playing Wagner, would be more subtle...