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Ricochet (1991)
One of the worst movies I have ever seen.
The characters have absolutely no depth, the good guy too good, the bad guys too bad, nothing to make them anything more than cartoon characters, and every performance was overacted.
I rented this with a group of people and I think it cost us about 50 cents a piece.. and I still wanted my money back.
Horrible
Summer of Sam (1999)
Brought me back...
I was ten years old, living in Brooklyn in the Summer of 77... it was 22 years ago...Summer of Sam made it feel like yesterday. Spike Lee has been criticized for his overgeneralization of the outer borough street tough (in this case Italian) but I recognized these guys as people I've known, and the punk adrift in a sea of disco dynamic was about as dead-on as it could possibly be. (Just ask my friend who was repeatedly jumped for sporting an early eighties mohawk). I remember standing outside all night with my neighbors during the blackout.. people coloring their hair to avoid the brunette curse, the escalation of chaos brought on by overall bad financial times, the oppressive heat and most of all the climate of fear that ran through the city in the summer of 77. Cinematic strengths (the baba-o-reilly scene was wonderful) and character weaknesses (I really didn't see Mira Sorvino and John Leguzamo's characters as a realistic couple) aside, this film paints a perfect picture of a scary time, and rang totally true to someone who lived through it. The only complaint I had was the "taco bell" animation moment.. cut that and its a brilliant movie.