Movies From A Hat #1
by acharpentier2010 | created - 23 Aug 2012 | updated - 17 Dec 2012 | PublicMy wife & I choose 40 films (20 we've seen, 20 we haven't, 20 each), mix them up, and watch them in order. These are the 140-character reviews that result.
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1. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Western
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy
Votes: 232,768 | Gross: $14.50M
A Fistful of Dollars doesn't live up to my memories and Laura gave it an "eh" immediately following the credits. Eastwood's good, though.
2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
R | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
With a plan to exact revenge on a legendary shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 210,984 | Gross: $24.01M
The Life Aquatic has some strong visuals and laughs, but oddly misplaced violence and an abrupt ending that left us feeling cold.
3. Watchmen (2009)
R | 162 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman
Votes: 582,654 | Gross: $107.51M
Easily one of the greatest comic book adaptations ever put to film, Watchmen is near-flawless if you can allow for the LONG run-time.
4. Tremors (1990)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Horror
Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.
Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross
Votes: 150,584 | Gross: $16.67M
Tremors was better reviewed by my younger self and was less appealing upon second viewing. We couldn't bring ourselves to finish it.
5. Almost Famous (2000)
R | 122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand
Votes: 293,485 | Gross: $32.53M
Almost Famous is a long, self-indulgent feel-good movie with an identity crisis that should have taken bolder, more mature turns.
6. Darkness Falls (2003)
PG-13 | 86 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
Director: Jonathan Liebesman | Stars: Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield Ford, Antony Burrows, Lee Cormie
Votes: 33,391 | Gross: $32.55M
Darkness Falls is not the suspenseful thrill-ride that I remember. It's dull yet overwrought and filled with stock characters.
7. Mr. Brooks (2007)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego.
Director: Bruce A. Evans | Stars: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, William Hurt, Dane Cook
Votes: 156,327 | Gross: $28.48M
I love Mr. Brooks except the ending. I understand that it was supposed to be part one of a trilogy, but would have enjoyed a definitive end.
8. The Gift (2000)
R | 111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A fortune teller with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi
Votes: 74,789 | Gross: $12.01M
The Gift has nothing to offer with one MAJOR exception --Keanu Reeves is surprising and shocking as an abusive hillbilly husband.
9. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
TV-14 | 115 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it's up to the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit.
Directors: Shin'ichirô Watanabe, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Tensai Okamura, Hiroyuki Okiura, Yoshiyuki Takei | Stars: Beau Billingslea, Melissa Fahn, Nicholas Guest, Kôichi Yamadera
Votes: 53,155 | Gross: $1.00M
Cowboy Bebop doesn't work at length and most of the film felt like filler and an excuse for the amazing soundtrack to stretch its legs.
10. The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet
Votes: 94,021 | Gross: $20.98M
The 2nd X-Files movie and I are just not compatible. I was never a die hard fan of the TV show and the ending is telegraphed way too early.
11. Mimic (1997)
R | 105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini
Votes: 55,685 | Gross: $25.48M
Mimic is filmed like Seven but without any decent acting to lighten the melancholy or strengthen the slow pacing. This is a terrible movie.
12. The Expendables (2010)
R | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A CIA operative hires a team of mercenaries to eliminate a Latin dictator and a renegade CIA agent.
Director: Sylvester Stallone | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren
Votes: 364,769 | Gross: $103.07M
The introspective moments added to The Expendables DC should've been left out. It doesn't need to be a think piece. Stick to the theatrical.
13. Megamind (2010)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Evil genius Megamind finally defeats his do-gooder nemesis, Metro Man, but is left without a purpose in a superhero-free world.
Director: Tom McGrath | Stars: Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey
Votes: 295,937 | Gross: $148.42M
I love Megamind and continue to be surprised by the very adult turns the film takes from time to time. Everyone does an outstanding job.
14. Kelly's Heroes (1970)
GP | 144 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines in WWII France to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor
Votes: 53,718 | Gross: $1.38M
Kelly's Heroes was boring, the anachronisms were too many and often, and if you've graduated high school, I'd say skip it.
15. Donnie Darko (2001)
R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne
Votes: 850,279 | Gross: $1.48M
I prefer the richness of the director's cut of Donnie Darko sans the terrible CGI transitions but the theatrical cut is still satisfying.
16. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
PG | 135 min | Western
Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney
Votes: 79,865 | Gross: $31.80M
Watching the bloated, corny Outlaw Josey Wales, I immediately felt nostalgic betrayal pains. It has some great moments but drags as a whole.
17. The Beguiled (1971)
R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller, War
While recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris
Votes: 19,214
The Beguiled is a psycho-thriller more than a historic drama, covers taboo subjects, and kept us watching despite everyone being unlikeable.
18. Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
PG | 112 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau
Votes: 147,473 | Gross: $43.00M
Escape From Alcatraz, a definite precursor to The Shawkshank Redemption, one of Clint Eastwood's most charismatic roles, and a must-see.
19. Honkytonk Man (1982)
PG | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A boy with a music talent goes on a journey with his uncle for a stage concert.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Alexa Kenin
Votes: 9,470 | Gross: $4.48M
Honkytonk Man is boring rubbish. Clint Eastwood stars as a drunken, thieving, dying bastard and nobody should care. Don't waste your time.
20. White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
PG | 112 min | Adventure, Drama
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell, Norman Lumsden
Votes: 13,220 | Gross: $2.32M
White Hunter ends without the characters or the film's audience changing or learning. I suffered through till the end, so you don't have to!
21. Bronco Billy (1980)
PG | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 12,728 | Gross: $24.27M
Bronco Billy is Honkytonk Man set in a circus. Eastwood is BORING and there are no other characters. We didn't finish & you should skip it.
22. Densha otoko (2005)
101 min | Comedy, Romance
The supposedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervenes when a drunk man is harassing several women on a train. The otaku ultimately begins dating one of the women, ... See full summary »
Director: Shôsuke Murakami | Stars: Takayuki Yamada, Miki Nakatani, Ryôko Kuninaka, Eita Nagayama
Votes: 2,429
I think a teenage audience would find more to empathize with in Train_Man than I did. The manic protagonist has few obstacles in his way.
23. Coogan's Bluff (1968)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Arizona Deputy Sheriff Coogan is sent to New York City to escort an escaped fugitive back for trial.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling
Votes: 18,920
Coogan's Bluff was a boring and sexist first draft of Dirty Harry that we couldn't bother finishing.
24. In the Line of Fire (1993)
R | 128 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott
Votes: 113,756 | Gross: $102.31M
In the Line of Fire is a great action/thriller and despite starting to look his age, Eastwood is tough as nails and brings his "A" game.
25. Dirty Harry (1971)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.
Directors: Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
Votes: 168,331 | Gross: $35.90M
I confess this was the first time I had watched Dirty Harry from start to finish. It was great and deserves all the praise it's been given.
26. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, Romance
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley, Victor Slezak
Votes: 88,933 | Gross: $71.52M
A "chick-flick", yes , but The Bridges of Madison County is not an awful movie & were I forced through a 2nd viewing, I would not die.
27. Mystery Team (2009)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
Director: Dan Eckman | Stars: Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson, Dominic Dierkes, Aubrey Plaza
Votes: 9,747 | Gross: $0.08M
Mystery Team is a smellier piece of *beep* than Scooby Doo. We didn't finish it. No one should see it. The premise is great, and that's all.
28. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
R | 132 min | Drama, Western
Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a gang of outlaws led by a psychotic Mexican bandit, who is plotting an audacious bank robbery.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Mara Krupp
Votes: 274,755 | Gross: $15.00M
Unless I'm given a very good reason to return to For a Few Dollars More, my experience with Fistful was bland enough to give it a pass.
29. Cat Girl Kiki (2007)
68 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Yoshirou, a secluded teenager, brings back home a stray cat after a car accident. The next morning the cat has turned into a nice girl, Kiki, who wants to be his girlfriend... Will catnip get in the way of their love?
Director: Akiyoshi Sugiura | Stars: Yui Kano, Teruaki Uotani, Minami Aoyama, Katsuya Kobayashi
Votes: 74
[THIS REVIEW IS FOR PRETTY MAID CAFE] Pretty Maid Cafe has the same high quality control of most student films. If you have higher standards, leave this turd in the toilet.
30. The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
PG | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London.
Directors: Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt | Stars: Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Martin Freeman
Votes: 51,428 | Gross: $31.05M
Pirates! Band of Misfits just isn't very entertaining or worth watching it all the way through. It probably would have been a decent short.
31. The Messengers (2007)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An ominous darkness invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon family is torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and murder.
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, Kristen Stewart, John Corbett
Votes: 41,212 | Gross: $35.37M
My pick. We hadn't seen it. Sort of the bastard child of Kubrick's The Shining and the American remake of The Grudge, this movie was cliched and boring, telegraphing most turns fifteen to twenty minutes in advance. Neither of us liked it but we were occupying ourselves in other ways and managed to watch it all the way through without too much bloodshed. Performance-wise, there are no standouts and most of the actors perform adequately. John Corbett is particularly C-grade, providing his usual hammy, polite persona before the twist and then menacing badly , much like Richard Gere's every failed attempt to shout with appropriate passion. The father/daughter relationship between Dylan McDermott and Kristen Stewart is notable for being skeevy and they never establish a believable rapport. Kristen Stewart, by the way, is fine and perfectly capable of acting outside the realms of Twilight and Edward. Penelope Ann Miller (here, Kristen Stewart's "mother") is terrible, but so is the writing. Also, the title sucks and the movie ends with the family sharing a happy sun-shining day on the farm, presumably with four corpses still buried in their cellar and waiting to be exhumed . It is, I think, one of the most noticeable plot holes I've seen. Laura agrees.
32. Pale Rider (1985)
R | 115 min | Drama, Western
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Sydney Penny
Votes: 64,715 | Gross: $41.41M
Laura's pick. I've seen it, Laura hadn't. We were bored by this simplistic melodrama-by-way-of-Disney's-films-that-feature-a-character-saying- -"Pa"-like-"Paw" (ooh, or The Rifleman!). It's a very gee wiz tale about a stranger that shows up to set things right without anything interesting happening. Neither of us paid much attention during the firefight sequence at the end and weren't surprised that we didn't miss much. Or did we even finish it? It was so boring I don't remember. Laura pronounced the movie "okay," with a shrug, high marks because it features Clint Eastwood Eastwooding the Hell out of the role and she's a big fan, but I wouldn't waste your time since I already wasted mine.
33. The Cider House Rules (1999)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Romance
A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine, Delroy Lindo
Votes: 104,821 | Gross: $57.55M
Laura's pick. I hadn't seen it, Laura had. This movie was really captivating and aside from the disability that Toby Maguire suffers (His boyish voice, which completely lacks authority or passion, but somehow exacerbates whinyness into some kind of mega-bitch that leads me to believe a team of doctors and nurses had to sedate the doctors and nurses that delivered him and they were, in turn, sedated, since his initial cry after escaping the womb must have pushed the homicide button inside of all those present.) and nearly everything that Michael Caine does is heart breaking, heart warming, and generally heart-tugging. Charlize Theron is good and Paul Rudd is surprising, but the real star of the show is the story, a pro-abortion tale that somehow hasn't suffered a negative reemergence in the current political atmosphere. I dug it (dug the origin of the title, too) and Laura, understandably, loves this movie.
34. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
R | 130 min | Drama, War
Hard-nosed, hard-living Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn
Votes: 48,211 | Gross: $42.72M
Laura's pick. I hadn't seen it, Laura had. Heartbreak Ridge was a fantastic "war" movie, though I wouldn't recommend it if you aren't a fan of Clint Eastwood, since he chews the scenery like a woodchuck chuckin' wood, or actual war, since the Grenada incident encompasses all of twenty minutes in the final third of the film and features some of the most atrocious shooting and unbelievably bad camouflage work I've seen in a movie. If you find yourself wondering if and when the characters will ever shut up and take cover, they won't, but don't worry --they won't get shot, even by a tank. Someone dies but I forget who and nothing of value was lost. Most of the film is about Clint Eastwood's looming retirement, his drunk-numbed P.T.S.D. and some of the most hilarious drill sergeanting since R. Lee Ermey. Laura practically swoons over poor Clint Eastwood and I agree that he's a charmer when sober, sells the story like the Prince of All Hucksters, and provides the better part of the stars (rating stars) that this movie receives. I'd also like to add that this movie is very, very date friendly, at least much more so than Full Metal Jacket (our second date movie...and for that I am sorry).
35. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
G | 103 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi
Votes: 165,598
Kiki's Delivery Service is a quiet, beautiful film if you choose the Japanese dub over the poppy English one, but slow and conflict-free.
36. Play Misty for Me (1971)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch
Votes: 31,922 | Gross: $11.80M
Laura's pick. I hadn't seen it, Laura had. Laura is a fan of this sub-genre of suspense films featuring an unbalanced stalker (almost always female) and I have no disdain for them, so we enjoyed Play Misty from beginning to end. I would consider this a Dirty Harry movie if Harry were on ambien, prone to seducing women with polite humor and college boy charm, and more apt to let a psychotic run free if he's able to sleep with her (Dirty Harry would have been a very different film in retrospect). I would definitely recommend it to Clint Eastwood fans and fans of the aforementioned sub-genre.
37. The Accused (1988)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi
Votes: 40,036 | Gross: $32.07M
Laura's pick. I hadn't seen it, Laura had. This is an Academy Award Winner and I have no doubt why. Time To Kill by way of The Brave One, The Accused is a gripping tale and Jodie Foster deserves accolades for playing the trashy barfly-turned-victim-turned-accuser so well. Laura loves this movie and now so do I.
38. Red State (2011)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman, Michael Angarano
Votes: 67,239 | Gross: $1.10M
My pick. We've seen it. On the first go-round I was disappointed by this, Kevin Smith's first attempt at a new genre film outside of his typical comfort zone, but that may have been too caustic. This time, I thought Red State was a bit clunky and the reversals were disappointing and in one case downright unbelievable, but the dialogue was tight, the acting was brilliant, and the direction proved Kevin Smith to be a seasoned professional despite the dick and fart jokes typically prevalent (and not altogether absent here) in his films. Laura gave a polite "okay", perhaps biased in her opinion since she's a fan of the man (Kevin Smith) if not this particular film but she watched it straight through without wavering. The ending is definitely a conversation starter and I would recommend this film to everyone except babies.
39. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A prince of the mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth. Hellboy and his team must fight to stop him from locating the all-powerful Golden Army.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Alexander
Votes: 285,987 | Gross: $75.75M
My pick. We've seen it. Hellboy 2 was, upon this second viewing, simpler than I remember, and I had forgotten that the makeup had taken a turn for the bright and flashy. Gone, for the most part, is Hellboy's animatronic tail, his lifts that made him a breadth taller than everyone else, and his dull red epidermis, replaced by CG and a bright, cartoonish red. It's fine, just jarring, and all the acting, plot developments, and brilliant creature design make up for it in spades. This is a movie that could be enjoyed by children as well as adults, carrying a very heavy fantasy/folk tale vibe through to the end. I love this movie and Laura seemed to enjoy it quite a bit.
40. Demolition Man (1993)
R | 115 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.
Director: Marco Brambilla | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne
Votes: 193,409 | Gross: $58.06M
My pick. I've seen it, Laura hadn't. This movie is an odd mix. A polished Utopian future, a future where culture has been reduced in favor of happiness, excess in favor of health, and then then Wesley Snipes arrives doing his very best R-rated Snidely Whiplash and Sylvester Stallone follows riding a bulldozer through every set and likely killing a lot of Utopiates. It's a decent ride and Sylvester Stallone is believably flabbergasted by the ridiculous future world around him, but neither his character nor Wesley Snipes's are believable human beings and the plot sort of drags in the middle. Laura didn't like it at all but tolerated it until the very end. I recommend it to fans of 80's action movies and fans of the science fiction, Utopian/Dystopian future sub-genre as a decent enough watch if nothing else is available, but it's entirely skippable and I'll try to remember not to watch it again.
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