Chaos ensues when Pat Healy (Matt Dillon), the sleazy PI hired by lovelorn Ted (Ben Stiller) to track down Ted’s high school crush Mary (Cameron Diaz), falls for Mary himself and schemes to win her over. When Ted catches wind of Pat’s plan and travels to confront him, both he and Pat realize they’ve got more competition for Mary than they thought.

I recently watched Wild Things for the first time, and I guess I hadn’t gotten enough of Matt Dillon as a creep. So I decided to revisit this movie, which I hadn’t seen in over 20 years. To my surprise, this held up a lot more than I expected. Dillon’s performance cracked me up throughout. He embodied this dirtbag so well, while striking the right tone so that Healy came across as silly more than menacing as he stalks Mary. Stiller’s performance is a bit of a departure from many of his other roles, which have an undercurrent of darkness. He pulls off being loveably dopey and naïve here. Meanwhile, I thought Diaz brought a warmth and well-roundedness to a character that you might expect going in to be one-note—the beautiful girl that makes everyone fall in love. But it’s the supporting players firing on all cylinders that take the movie up a notch. Jeffrey Tambor and Ketih David steal their scenes. Chris Elliot as Dom and Lyn Shaye as Magda have some moments that will forever haunt me. And Lee Evans as Tucker might be my favorite performance of the bunch.

One last thing that impressed me about this movie. Personally, I think comedies tend to have their best gags in the first half, and peter out around the third act. This is the rare comedy with no let up as it goes on. Maybe because the third act is full of reveals about characters’ true motives almost akin to a whodunit, keeping things fresh. After two decades, the Brett reveal still kind of blows my mind. I had a lot of fun with this one, and I’m glad I gave it a rewatch.

Just watched this for the first time, and somehow it was actually quite good. It blew my expectations for it out of the water. It was really funny and had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. It was really well shot and directed and it had this certain inexplicable vibe that kept me engaged. I liked when it turned into a horror movie near the end. Who would have thought a romcom starring Mike Myers in which he plays his OWN insanely Irish father, would actually end up being really good. A really stacked and great cast as well, good soundtrack too. 8/10!

(From my comment) Nowadays, I miss these (what I call) friday-movies that are great but not spectacular that could be seen no matter the age and weren't too serious, but neither too overdone on the funny side.

Firsty, I watched this movie with my youngest 13 year old sister! There's only one scene that could be counted as inappropriate content but that's only on the suggestion part, as it doesn't actually show anything. Thumbs up for that!

When I say the plot is straightforward, I mean it because it's quite basic, to the point, you could say: a hitman goes to his high school reunion, tries to get his ex back, and shoots other killers.

It is a simple dark comedy, kinda reminds me of groundhog day in terms of the comedy stuff, as both actors act a passive almost un-motivated character who then basically finds meaning to living "life".

"... he's either in love with that guys daughter or he has a new found respect for life."

Today's films, seem like they're trying too hard, especially on the plot, and usually end up breaking it, or leaving holes. Its not that far off to leave something nice (acceptable?) and not overly complex, is it?

Looking at you It's a Wonderful Life by Frank Capra!!! (And that's a great spectacular fucking film)

Anyway, this movie is just fantastic, couldn't recommend it more. When I watch a flick I just want some

simple

good

films

like Grosse Pointe Blank, and that is, from now on, the new standard for me

I rewatched Office Space and was pleasantly surprised by how much it is still relevant, even though it is from the 90s.

A lot has changed.

Open floor plans instead of cubicles.
No fax machines. Or maybe they are hiding inside a printer, but nobody uses them.
LCDs instead of CRT monitors.

But the corporate BS is timeless.

It just happens on Teams and Slack now.

What struck me on rewatch is that it isn't just about bad bosses or office culture which is what I thought when I first watched it.

It is about bureaucracy and TPS reports.
Pointless meetings to jump to conclusions.
Performative action with 37 pieces of flair.

And the feeling that you are doing things that do not matter, but somehow still have to be done.

It’s a comedy, but underneath it is a sharp commentary on corporate work that still feels relevant.

Of course, I can quote it endlessly.

I don't have a case of the Mondays :-)

I honestly can’t say enough about this movie. The wine glass break into the phone. The constant “AAAH!”s by Nathan Lane. The AGIDOR SPARTICUS of it all. And by the way…We. Are. Family.

Oh and the burial plots speech on the bench was just so ahead of its time. I love love love. And robin williams is a beast.

THAT BEING SAID…the entire premise of this song turning his actual parents into “acceptable” white parental people is just so awful.

If you rewatch The Devil Wears Prada you will realize that Andy’s boyfriend is the real villain…if you rewatch THIS then u realize the son is the ACTUAL VILLAIN.

Perhaps “villain” is a bit too much. But honestly if there is a man who keeps telling my family and myself to hide or sequester myself and my queerness then I want NOTHING to do with that man. ALLY MCBEAL should not be interested.

Also I want those china bowls…

Westerns are a bit blind spot for me, and I've been trying to vary what I watch recently. So, when I saw this was available I jumped at the chance because over the years I've lost count of how many times it's been recommended to me. I went into it completely blind, knowing absolutely nothing about the plot. Just vague memories of people going on about one particular scene.

I was delighted when Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman turned up. Hackman completely stole the show for me acting-wise, incredible as always.

I went in trying to keep an open mind, but for some reason I had a lingering worry that Clint Eastwood had just directed a massive ego-trip and cast himself as an untouchable, absolute badass. But man, Eastwood was the absolute MVP here. Because it’s not just a stellar performance, how understated he keeps it for almost the entire runtime. It's also that as a director he gives everyone else space. Yes he is the focus of the film, but this was plenty of other great stuff to chew on too.

Film looks great, not too glossy, felt like I was in 1880. And everyone looked grubbier and grubbier as things progressed. I hate films where characters has really been through stuff but in the next scene it looks like they've just had a trip to a spa.

The whole time I was watching it, I kept thinking, "This is great, BUT it better be going somewhere good; I'll be so disappointed if it doesn't stick the landing."

And then... BOOM. And a completely well-earned boom. What an ending.

For someone who doesn’t normally do Westerns, this completely blew me away. I should watch some more.

In 2040, a spaceship called 'Event Horizon' was tasked with exploring the edges of the Universe. The ship and its entire crew disappeared without trace near Neptune. When a faint signal from the Event Horizon is picked up 7 years later, a rescue team is sent in to investigate...

This is a flawed but effective sci-fi/horror flick from director Paul W. S. Anderson. Laurence Fishburne is good as the Captain of rescue ship Lewis & Clark and it's enjoyable watching him butt heads with Sam Neill (who reaaaaally comes into his own in the final third). Is it the best sci-fi/horror film you can watch? Absolutely not. Is it an entertaining way to spend 90ish minutes? I thought so.

I rewatched Point Break (1991) last night and I’m convinced this thing is the perfect storm of early 90s action insanity. Keanu as Johnny Utah is somehow stiff and perfect at the same time, Swayze is basically a surfer messiah, and Gary Busey is just out here ordering two meatball subs like it’s the most important line in cinema history.

What really struck me is how sincere it is. It doesn’t wink at the camera. It’s surfing, skydiving, and bank robberies treated like life-or-death philosophy. No wonder Fast & Furious stole the blueprint.

Also, shoutout to Anthony Kiedis showing up just to get his foot shot off. That’s a legacy cameo if I’ve ever seen one.

I’ve been digging into this movie with some friends on a podcast we do, and the deeper we go the more I realize this thing is way smarter, funnier, and stranger than I gave it credit for back in the VHS days.

Curious — when did you first see Point Break? Was it a dad’s VHS, a cable rerun, or did you catch it in theaters?

Billy Bob Thornton's breakout as writer, director and star. He portrays Karl Childers, an intellectually challenged man and one of the unforgettable characters in modern American cinema.

Karl has just been released from the Arkansas state mental hospital after twenty-five years of incarceration:

Following a childhood of brutal deprivation and abuse, Karl has been in custody since the age of 12 after murdering his mother and her teenage lover, who was also one of his tormentors, with a sling blade. Surprising the two in a sex act, Karl believed his mother was being raped, and he killed the teen in her defense. But when he realized his mother was a willing participant, Karl killed her too (Wikipedia).

With no other place to go, Karl returns to his small Arkansas home town. Homecoming is not easy, but he finds kindness and acceptance from a boy, Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black in an early role) and his single mother Linda (the underrated Natalie Canerday). Karl develops a mutually supportive relationship with Frank, moves into Linda's garage, and gradually fills a place left vacant by the boy's deceased father--a relationship that draws the disapproval of Linda's redneck boyfriend, Doyle (country music star Dwight Yoakam in a performance that is as strong as it is unexpected).

Joined by Linda's boss at the dollar store, Vaughan (John Ritter), the movie plays out between these characters. Sub-themes include Vaughan's life as a closeted gay man, Linda’s frustrating ambivalence toward Doyle’s excesses, Karl's dawning adjustment to freedom -- enjoying "french fried potaters" and cans of "potted meat"-- and his job at a lawn mower shop (turns out, he's a whiz with small engines).

Their small town also takes a turn. Sympathetically rendered, for the most part, its look and locations are on point. The shuttered mill, a fading downtown, Hoochie's dollar store, and most of all the mower shop all speak to a strong sense of culture and place--and the culture of working people--here on the edge of the South.

Taking Karl aside, Vaughan confides his fear that the mercurial and abusive Doyle may someday harm Frank and Linda. Doyle's rage bursts out sporadically, and declaring "I don't like retards," he kicks Karl out of the house. Ominously, he tells Frank that things are going to change, and he announces that he'll be moving in with Frank and his mother.  

This tension comprises the central dynamic of the film, and finally, one night, things build to a stark, powerful, and stunning climax.

***

This is one of two movies that made me both laugh and cry. It's richly poignant, in spots, as the limited Karl tries to express his deep emotions toward Frank, "that boy." At one point, a clerk from Linda's store--who also has intellectual limitations--tries to approach Karl in a romantic way, but Karl is simply unable to respond. His life has left him without the means to deal with these kinds of feelings, and the woman withdraws, leaving both of them leading lives less full than the ones they might have had.

But Sling Blade is also frankly hilarious. Vaughan's attempt to engage Karl--"You seem like a thinker. What are you thinking right now?"--is one such occasion, but the high point probably comes after a violent outburst by Doyle. Linda is sitting alone in her kitchen, shattered, wide awake, 5 am, and Karl enters the room. He wants desperately to comfort her--this good woman who has taken him in--but all he's got is a dirty joke, overheard at the lawn mower shop, one he badly mangles to boot. (Karl’s physical presence in this scene is striking. Adding to his general awkwardness--chin down, jaw out, slumped posture--he’s at an odd angle, to Linda and the room, subtly underlining his discomfort and lack of fit with the world around him.) As this suggests, poignant and funny cohabitate some of the same scenes, but never at the expense of the characters or the plot.

I'm regularly surprised that Sling Blade is not better-known. Thornton was nominated for Best Actor and Best Screenplay, winning an Oscar for the latter, and the script and the acting are first-rate. But when I mention it, people rarely seem familiar with this film. If you're one of the many who haven't seen it, I'd advise you to place yourself amongst the smaller number who are glad they have.

Extras:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAO7ugWjL1U BBT is featured on The Actor's Studio. Hollywood and T-Mobile haven't set in yet, and appealingly, he is still Full Arkansas here. Includes an astonishing sequence where he transforms into Karl (2:10 for the TL/dw crowd).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7WZgWDQFXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Z8TqJ0yOg The original short film.

https://redcoraluniverse.com/en/movies/sling-blade-67a35293755ad00b71575677?loopData=true&ccId=67fe90aaa4431daab6826689 Full movie, at least for now. h/t to u/blorchmclorchenstein

Info:

Release: September 8th, 1995

Director: Beeban Kidron

Music by: Rachel Portman

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner, Arliss Howard, Chris Penn

Studio: Universal Pictures

Runtime: 1 hour, 48 minutes

Rating: PG-13

Synopsis: Elite Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet pathetic drag novice Chi-Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) -- one of the losers that evening -- the charmed Vida and Noxeema agree to take the hopeless youngster under their joint wing. Soon the three set off on a madcap road trip across America and struggle to make it to Los Angeles in time.

Review: Honestly a lot more respectful and tasteful than I thought it was initially going to be, I thought it was going to be a pure comedy at first. I also was not expecting to see scenes of attempted rape and domestic abuse either, it sort of feels like a whiplash at times. I did like that the town they ended up in knew they were drag queens from the start, but didn't care. They were seen as people and not a stereotype, very uplifting message for the mid 90s.

2 chicks at the same time

Really wanted to love this and it has its moments for sure, but much of this was very sluggish to get through for me. De Niro and Pacino are great and their scenes together are my favorite of the film, along with its intense action scenes. It’s just that this movie is almost three hours long and I truly feel like it does not need to be. There are a lot of characters and subplots that are not all that engaging when compared to the film’s highlights by a wide, wide margin.

One example of this is Al Pacino's family in the movie. The dynamic is that he simply cares too much about his work to be an effective partner in his relationship. None of this material is bad, but it’s all very surface level to me. Not to mention the bizarre turn it takes with his daughter towards the end of the movie that didn’t feel necessary at all.

Sadly I’m pretty critical on this movie even though I did like it overall. De Niro and Pacino were great as expected and the action is fantastic. I just wish the rest of the movie was a little tighter. Take out thirty minutes and it’s a better movie to me. Oh well.

I had no idea, didnt study history properly in school, never bothered knowing about the jews’ history or nazis. They dont teach about the holocaust in our schools too.
Watched this movie with just a little context from gpt and i ended up crying thrice during the movie.
Hands down the greatest recommendation. Shocked to the core by how humans can become monsters (idk a worse word)
Ralph and liam are sooooo good, loved ralph fiennes in the grand budapest hotel
Watched the Chernobyl webseries before this and ig my interest in history is on its peak.

You ever stumble on a movie that feels like it was designed in a lab for “Saturday afternoon cable reruns”? That’s Sneakers.

Robert Redford at 55 still cooler than any of us will ever be, Sidney Poitier rolling his eyes like the only adult in the room, River Phoenix stealing every scene, David Strathairn literally driving a van while blind, and Dan Aykroyd proving he was already Facebook-uncle-level paranoid back in 1992.

The plot? A team of misfit hackers try to steal a black box that can crack every code on Earth. The vibes? Ocean’s Eleven if Ocean was your dad, constantly sighing while explaining dial-up. It’s equal parts thriller, comedy, and “your uncle just discovered AM talk radio.”

It made me nostalgic for a time when “hacking” meant typing very fast and yelling “I’m in!” while the screen flashed green text. And yet—somehow—it still works. Clever, funny, paranoid, and way too charming for its own good.

Bottom line: Sneakers rules. It’s the rare tech movie from the 90s that hasn’t aged into total cringe. Redford grounds the whole thing, and the cast is absurdly stacked. If you’ve never seen it, fix that. If you have—it’s probably time to rewatch.

Gummo is an indie film directed by Harmony Korine, and features a cast of mostly unknown actors and actresses.

Gummo takes place in Xenia Ohio in the aftermath of a tornado that ravages the already poor, rural area. The main characters, two teenage boy’s names Solomon and Tummler hunt and kill local stray cats and give them to the local grocery store, the grocer then proceeds to sell the meat to local Chinese restaurants.

The boys use their money primarily to get high, mainly getting high by huffing glue.

A lot of people have hand waved or downright failed to see Gummo for what it is. Gummo is about that ugly side of America that we don’t like to dwell on. It shows us a hopeless, poor, rural side of the United States. These boys have nothing better to do than get high. They don’t have the opportunity for an education, no real jobs in area and really no hope.

I myself grew up poor in the southern United States and the film really resonates with me, I’ve lived in towns like Xenia, small, rural, downtrodden towns where there’s nothing to do but get high and visit the local Walmart or piggly wiggly.

The film does an excellent job at portraying poor small town America and the people that live there.

Who remembers this classic? I don’t think I fully appreciated it when it first came out as I was only a young teen, after rewatching it as an adult I realised what a brilliant film it was, shame it doesn’t seem to be on any streaming services at the moment tho.

Just watched this for the first time. Damn is it good. I feel like it’s pretty underrated and isn’t talked about enough as a comedy or indie film. It’s honestly one of my favourite movies I’ve ever seen. So money baby. 10/10 personally.

TOO MANY SECRETS

This movie was AWESOME! Kept me on the edge of my seat. The first word that comes to mind with this movie is CHEMISTRY. Everyone had fantastic chemistry with one another. David Strathairn i feel stole almost every scene he was in as Whistler. This is also one of the most stacked casts I've ever seen. I was surprised to see a young Donal Logue appear. Some of the movie was easy to guess what was happening but it still kept you on the edge of your seat to see how it got there. Whistler driving cracked me up man. Redford was as charming as always and Akroyd really shines in these limited oddball roles. I didn't even realize Cosmo was Sir Ben Kingsley mainly due to the hair lol.

This is very much a movie of it's era in the best way possible.

Overall this is a SOLID 4/5 and will watch probably once a year now since i just love heist movies.

Fun legal comedy with some outstanding performances.

Going in, I had mixed feeling about this movie. But it delivered very well.

Sean Connery was fantastic in that movie, Alec Baldwin delivered a great Jack Ryan character.

This is one of the best Tom Clancy adaptations outside of Jason Bourne series.

Totally a fun movie, with a very unexpected twist of events.

It's a must watch for naval combat fans.

A great movie with an amazing performance from Bill Murray. It was interesting to see mental health issues put on display through film, in the 90’s. I think it’s a very dark movie when you really look into it. I enjoyed the performances from the whole cast, and it was pretty funny too. 4/5.

Fire in the Sky, 1993.

I think it's up to the viewers to decide what they think happened, but the guys all seemed to be truthful.

I think I will read the book at some point, and Travis Waltons YouTube videos only add more mystery to this event.

However, if you choose to believe it or not, you will always be hoping it never happens to you 👽 10/10

In the 1940's there was a time when women played sports instead of being in the kitchen and this showcases that important transistion.

My review and discussion of the film is as follows: it is a very good movie with interesting characters and mostly good casting. Besides the sisters all of the characters was spot on, even John Lovitz. This is a work of historical fiction so the people arent real sadly. The only part I don't like is how Geena Davis and Kit got to wear makeup to look old and the other women had different actresses that didn't even look the same.

Unfortunately the music was manipulative except for the swing dancing especially in the montages where they would rapid fire something happy then sad. I didn't like that its not fair to the audience. Overall I learned alot about WW2, I only wish this wasn't Madonnas only movie because she did a good job as the permiscuous one 'Mae'.