They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for July, 1982
The Road Warrior (1982)
It’s funny how these things happen. Just two days after seeing Hal Needham’s half-assed futuristic motorcycle movie MegaForce, I arrived at The Road Warrior. If the earlier film was a hapless void with action fit for a TV commercial, then George Miller’s film is a work of pure action that puts most every other action […]
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
There is a song early in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas that I think illustrates the basic problem with this movie. It says of the title bawdy house: “There’s Nothin’ Dirty Goin’ On.” You can’t help but agree. Given that title, one might expect something along the lines of a dirty joke book, some […]
The World According to Garp (1982)
The World According to Garp is based on the only John Irving book that I ever read. I read it in college and all I can say is that nothing in it made me want to look further into his work. It was a strange fantasy, a journey through the life of a very strange […]
TRON (1982)
I have the exact same praise and the exact same problems with TRON that I had with Blade Runner. Both are marvels of technology and production design. Both create an entire world that seems inhabited rather than construction. And both are lacking in humanity and character. And YET . . . I give the edge […]
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
When Don Bluth and several other animators resigned from the Disney studios in 1979, feeling that the studio had mismanaged Walt’s legacy and were now making inferior product rather than art, they wanted to set things right again. Running his own animated studio, Bluth is now trying to set things right. I think Walt would […]
