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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Moviegoing sheep have made this movie a success
It never fails to amaze me what passes for genuine and groundbreaking in our culture. That goes double for film...it seems the American film audience are akin to lemmings, jumping off the cliff at the debut of the latest "masterpiece". This time around, it's the "Blair Witch Project", an innocuous piece of tripe that I wouldn't be so angry about if it was screened in a film class or a free showing down at the YMCA. Instead, I'm bombarded by magazines and newspapers proclaiming it to be "the scariest movie ever made!" Critics I used to respect have absolutely sold out by hyping the film's originality and brilliance in not actually showing the "boogeyman" What that left me with was one and a half hours of watching completely charisma-less actors screaming obscenities and bugging their eyes out. How entertaining. Between the shaky camera (intended to convey the fright experienced by the actors, but actually succeeded in making the woman next to me vomit)and the extreme closeups of the principals, I was starting to feel queasy...queasy that I plunked down $7 for this amateurish home movie. Scary? Frankly, I'm more frightened by the prospect of a sequel!
Bound by Honor (1993)
typical Hollywood garbage
I don't know where the previous review of this abomination came from, but any sensible person will see this film as a pathetic attempt to honor some stereotypical "Latin brotherhood" ethic. It even panders to the point of including prolonged prison scenes where a bunch of Latino actors get to wear shirts buttoned to the top, flash a lot of gang signs, and call each other "ese" and "homes" way too often. The film's design is laughable (the film is supposed to take place from 1973-1984, but all the hairstyles and clothes look early '90's). Worst of all, this turkey honors the age-old insult of having a Caucasian actor (the blank-staring blond robot playing Miklo) as the central character in what is, ostensibly, a Hispanic story. What a joke...I'm just glad I caught this on premium cable and didn't fork over four bucks to rent it.
Basic Instinct (1992)
The most pretentious murder-mystery ever filmed
Read a good book, take a walk, visit your local dairy farm to see how milk is produced...do anything else with your time other than subsidizing the careers of anyone remotely connected with this crime against culture. Between the competition among the principals to see who can overact most notably and the god-awful script (which reinforces the notion that Joe Esterhas did way too many drugs in the 70's and thinks he's Jim Thompson), I found myself gagging in the theater. I remember the controversy which surrounded the film's release...it had to do with the treatment of homosexual characters in the story. The controversy should have been how this script was green-lighted in the first place!If not the worst film of the 90's, then a close second to Waterworld