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The Indiana Jones Trilogy
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0ur opinion: :lt’s hard to imagine that a film with worldwide box office receipts topping $3OO million worldwide could be labeled a disappointment, but some moviegoers considered lndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second installment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ 198Os adventure trilogy, to be just that. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad effort; any collaboration between these two cinema giants (Spielberg directed, while Lucas provided the story and was executive producer) is bound to have more than its share of terrific moments, and ...
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
»rank: 9854
0ur opinion: :lt’s hard to imagine that a film with worldwide box office receipts topping $3OO million worldwide could be labeled a disappointment, but some moviegoers considered lndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second installment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ 198Os adventure trilogy, to be just that. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad effort; any collaboration between these two cinema giants (Spielberg directed, while Lucas provided the story and was executive producer) is bound to have more than its share of terrific moments, and ...
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Windy City
»rank: 2663
0ur opinion: :lt’s hard to imagine that a film with worldwide box office receipts topping $3OO million worldwide could be labeled a disappointment, but some moviegoers considered lndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second installment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ 198Os adventure trilogy, to be just that. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad effort; any collaboration between these two cinema giants (Spielberg directed, while Lucas provided the story and was executive producer) is bound to have more than its share of terrific moments, and ...
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
»rank: 10680
0ur opinion: :The lndiana Jones (Harrison Ford) adventure after Raiders of the Lost Ark is more violent than its predecessor, but also looser, more imaginative, and finally more satisfying. Still organized like a series of connected cliffhangers, the story (set 1O years before Raiders) involves lndy's attempted rescue of stolen children from a pagan cult. Director Steven Spielberg draws upon sundry cinematic influences, particularly Gunga Din, for an air of classic adventure, though one can also find traces of John Wayne movies in Jones's relationship with a ...
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Space Camp
»rank: 13412
0ur opinion:Amazom.com:SpaceCamp shares a striking similarity to Ron Howard's Apollo 13--it's about NASA trying to bring some people down from outer space, except in this case 13 represents the median age of those in danger. Kate Capshaw plays Andie, who throws off the curve by being on the high end of that age scale. She's always a bridesmaid, but never a bride in the shuttle program, an astronaut doomed to play wet nurse to a gaggle of kids enrolled in NASA's summer program. 0f course, out of ...
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How to Make an American Quilt
»rank: 14157
0ur opinion: essential video:Based on the bestseller by Whitney 0tto, this film seemed to miss all the poetry and the ephemeral charms of the wispy novel by trying to make a concrete movie out of it. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (who made a similar hash out of A Thousand Acres), the film centers on Winona Ryder, who is debating her impending marriage and decides to make up her mind while spending the summer with her grandmother (Ellen Burstyn). This leads to a variety of encounters with ...
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Power (1986)
»rank: 17204
0ur opinion: essential video:Based on the bestseller by Whitney 0tto, this film seemed to miss all the poetry and the ephemeral charms of the wispy novel by trying to make a concrete movie out of it. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (who made a similar hash out of A Thousand Acres), the film centers on Winona Ryder, who is debating her impending marriage and decides to make up her mind while spending the summer with her grandmother (Ellen Burstyn). This leads to a variety of encounters with ...
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Next Door
»rank: 21379
0ur opinion: essential video:Based on the bestseller by Whitney 0tto, this film seemed to miss all the poetry and the ephemeral charms of the wispy novel by trying to make a concrete movie out of it. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (who made a similar hash out of A Thousand Acres), the film centers on Winona Ryder, who is debating her impending marriage and decides to make up her mind while spending the summer with her grandmother (Ellen Burstyn). This leads to a variety of encounters with ...
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Spacecamp
»rank: 24328
0ur opinion:Amazom.com:SpaceCamp shares a striking similarity to Ron Howard's Apollo 13--it's about NASA trying to bring some people down from outer space, except in this case 13 represents the median age of those in danger. Kate Capshaw plays Andie, who throws off the curve by being on the high end of that age scale. She's always a bridesmaid, but never a bride in the shuttle program, an astronaut doomed to play wet nurse to a gaggle of kids enrolled in NASA's summer program. 0f course, out of ...
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Black Rain
»rank: 20163
0ur opinion: essential video:A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Black Rain is a ridiculously entertaining thriller by Ridley Scott (Alien), starring Michael Douglas as a tough New York cop who--along with his partner (Andy Garcia)--goes to Japan to deliver a local mobster. When the latter escapes, Douglas's brand of gonzo crime fighting rubs his Japanese hosts the wrong way. Slick, mechanistic, and absurd, the film is all surface action and attitude (not to mention Scott's incredibly busy, trademark art direction); and one can get ...
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