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Archive for August, 1987
House II: The Second Story (1987)
I actually kind of liked the first House movie. It was kooky and unsettling in a very enjoyable and trashy way. So, with that, I can say that just about the only enjoyable thing about the sequel is that its not really a sequel. Rather it anthologizes the title and sets off on a venture all […]
Hamburger Hill (1987)
Hamburger Hill is a very good movie that has the misfortune to drop just a few weeks after Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and just a few months after Oliver Stone’s Platoon won the Oscar for Best Picture. The impact of those films do not dampen the impact of this one, but one tends to […]
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Dirty Dancing seems to be a movie that is made for people that don’t watch a lot of movies, or in fact know much about movies in general. That’s would explain why it employs a plot that would have seemed worn out in about 1959. Seriously, you could have made this movie in the blissful […]
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
I know this is going to sound like sanction for the people responsible for this movie, but The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is something so seamy, so gross and so repellent that it made me rethink my chosen profession. I’m not being glib. often a movie will come along that makes me question whether the movies […]
Disorderlies (1987)
Disorderlies lost me when the trailer started with footage of The Three Stooges. Clearly this lowest-common-denominator comedy which features the popular rap group The Fat Boys was suppose to be either an homage or a cash-in to the Stooges. Actually, it’s both and that’s not a good thing. What Michael Schultz has given the group – […]
North Shore (1987)
The closest thing that I have to a trip the beach is that I shower every day. I’ve never been a beach-goer, I’m more comfortable in a swimming pool. At least I know what’s going in the water that way. Given that, my hope for North Shore was that I might learn something about surfing, and/or […]
Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)
Can’t Buy Me Love is not a John Hughes movie but – boy howdy! – do these filmmakers wish it were. It’s got all the framework of a Hughes movie but without the characters, the motivations, the heart, the ideas, the wit or the intelligence. Director Steve Rash tries his damnedest to wrench some kind […]
The Monster Squad
I am not entirely sure the target audience The Monster Squad. Sure, it’s meant to be a junior-league Ghostbusters with a bunch of kids teamed up to battle monsters. But strange inserts of foul language, and violence which included kids with guns make me think that parents would be shocked by this. I wasn’t shocked, but […]
