| Overall Grade: |
C |
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| Story: |
B- |
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| Acting: |
C |
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| Direction: |
C- |
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| Visuals: |
B- |
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OBSOLETE DISPOSABLE POP
by (movies profile)
Jun 29, 2008
4
of
5 people found this review helpful
Man, what a downer, like visiting your old childhood neighborhood, a once magical place, only to find a Wal-Mart parking lot … or like running into an old flame, now fat, grey, and droopy.
Things change … world spins round and round … no going back. What 26 years ago seemed a delicious pop lollipop is now dated, slow, predictable, pretentious. Movies have gotten so much better, faster, denser, so much more interesting to look at, so much better written, edited, scored, and shot.
This movie belabors the obvious. Its hipness has faded, turned passé, stale. The once cute and mysterious, dark or beautiful, is now silly, prosaic. The opera diva’s lip-syncing is terrible. The creepy shaved-head bad guy, wearing sunglasses and an ear bud, is now about as creepy or dangerous as a high school sophomore playing at being tough. Action, movement, are sparse, too long-delayed, while talk, posturing, go on forever. Never truly original, the movie dealt in stylistic clichés, once new, now not.
Only critics, fools, cowards, holding on to what precious little they know or feel, submit to the dead past. Better to leave memories alone, not try to relive them. |
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