Word: flicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only major problem lies in the script itself. The abrupt, anticlimactic denouement fails to resolve all the political and moral issues it raises. But as entertainment, Pass the Butler is more than satisfying. Fans awaiting the next Python flick should not pass this Butler and miss the antics of these would-be Pythonites...
...idiotic film about the conflicts of several young people just out of college. Along with a painfully awful script, St. Elmo's features the undistinguished acting of such screen luminaries as Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy and, of course, Judd Nelson. One of the ludicrous features of this flick is that it is billed as an "ensemble" piece, ensemble being used here to signify several uninteresting storylines which are connected with no common theme and only the most superficial circumstance. A more ludicrous feature is the fact that the makers of this turkey used a wretched single...
...crumbling. They look as if a large tar-eating animal had been chewing at them from the shoulders, inward toward the center line. A vehicle therefore speeds demonically down the dead center of a two-lane road, like a rhino charging. The driver waits until the last instant to flick the steering wheel to the left (British rules, drive on the left -- Did Moses derive the left-handed theory from that?) to swerve around the onrushing bus. The wildest animal on the road is the matatu, a jitney designed to carry about eight passengers. Instead, it customarily holds 20 Africans...
...cynical lot who can resist such blandishments. The political content of art has always been secondary to its crowd-pleasing appeal; the same audiences who saw Rambo two years ago the Top Gun last year are now flocking to Platoon, simply because they like a good heavy-calibre war flick...
...hush fell upon the hallway. Slowly, slowly, the scarred door swung open. Dave stood still, like a slasher-flick teenybopper about to get the axe. Destruction had ceased to be a good thing...