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6/10
Bizarre but serious horror film
1 November 1998
Bizarre but serious horror film that piques your interest from the opening scene. Maintains a unique and colorful atmosphere throughout. The depths of human evil are depicted here as if one were watching a fairy tale with witches and goblins (thus the Jack of nursery rhyme is chosen here). Great score, by the way, that helps to create the atmosphere throughout.

I recommend it as a good Halloween treat, but definitely not for children.
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1/10
Lobotomy Day
27 October 1998
Here's the plot of this story: Aliens in (what else?) flying saucers come to earth to take no prisoners and to destroy our major cities in seconds. They succeed unhindered. Billions of people die in horrible deaths and life as we know it has ceased.

Meanwhile, in America, Will Smith cracks jokes, people get married and everybody is really happy. Even the dog didn't die!

Now, here comes three Americans to the rescue: a moronic wisecracker, a drunkard, a U.S. President who looks like a used-car salesman that just turned 30, and, of course, a brilliant scientist who nobody knows is brilliant!

In a few hours, the scientist has it all figured out: create a computer virus and put it into the mainframe in the mother ship! The Aliens use Microsoft too, after all! And we don't have to worry about security or passwords! Heck they won't even see us flying around! And even though they have psychic powers, we will be undetected! When we are done, we will just fly back to Earth. And the Aliens are so stupid that they don't use Norton's Antivirus software!

The wisecracker chips in by figuring out how to fly a 40-year old alien spacecraft that he never saw before (and which was conveniently found in - where else! - Roswell). Then the drunk and the President decide to fly around a little and destroy those big ships. The Americans have won again and tell the rest of the world how easy it really is. Just recruit the local neighborhood drunk and send him straight up into the weak spot (never mind that the ship is as long as Manhattan Island and has death rays that can obliterate an entire city in seconds). Heck, you can get rid of a few neighborhood drunks too while you're at it!

At one point in the movie I shuddered a scream! Hollywood has done it, they really have done it!! They have succeeded in lobotomizing America.

Where's Ed Wood when you need him?
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
1/10
Horrid film
27 October 1998
There are only three movies which I have rented that I refused to watch from beginning to end. One is Natural Born Killers, another is Blazing Saddles and the third is this piece of trash - Pulp Fiction. Which of the three is worse, I can't say for sure.

Suffice it to say, however, that anyone that has the stomach to sit through this jumbled, nonsensical, celloid wasteland of obscenity, violence, lasciviousness, drug abuse, immorality, and thuggery, ought to get a quick reality check before all is lost.

If there is a hell, it is being forced to watch this movie over and over again. Not only is it horrid to watch, but it makes not an ounce of sense.
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1/10
Worst of the Worst
27 October 1998
It goes without saying that if it is made by Oliver Stone - its baaaaad baby!

But this is beyond bad, this is utterly hopeless. I have seen thousands of movies, but I can't say that I have ever seen anything worse than this.

MY VOTE FOR WORST EVER!!
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Cop Land (1997)
6/10
Bad ending
26 October 1998
A movie is as good as its ending. With this rule of thumb in mind, Copland clearly blows it. Nobody wants to invest 2 hours of their time only to be left with an empty feeling, but this is the case here.

This could have been a terrific movie. The beginning scenes are as good as any I've seen in a long time, while Stallone's character and the basic premise of the movie were compelling. Unfortunately, too many threads are left dangling at the end (such as Stallone's romantic interest and future career). An old Western-style shoot-out is used as a quick (let's not spend any more money) deus ex machina ending, and Stallone's decision to just shoot everyone is utterly indefensible. That an upstanding and sincere sheriff who always wanted to be a cop would all of a sudden decide to shoot fellow cops, dirty or not dirty, is utterly indefensible and, of course, unbelievable. It is also cheap, as in short-changing a poor viewer. Too bad. When will Hollywood ever learn.

Also, Liotta's character was distracting and confusing. What was that all about?!
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5/10
Prototypical Hollywood in the 90's -
26 October 1998
Prototypical Hollywood in the 90's - great concept with an interesting beginning, but an unsatisfying, quick ending (see Copland as another example). The tensions that are developed earlier on are forgotten as the producers tried to end the movie quickly. What could have been an engaging conflict between the various cast members in the blackout setting deteriorates into an unbelievabable, sentimental one-on-one in the waning moments. Everything else is dropped and we are left wishing for more.
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