An American romance directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger.
A woman who works at an art gallery falls in love with a man wearing a long coat.
I had to turn this off, mostly because the audio was bad on the copy I got. Besides that, I don't like romance (or war) and the pacing was dreadfully slow. Mickey Rourke looked like Christian Slater when he was young. I really prefer him in Spun (2002) and Sin City (2005). If it's romance or war and I can't hear it, I'm not watching it. In accordance with my resurrected turnoff policy, I rate this shit. Do not watch!
An American drama directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Kim Basinger.
A young and poor white rapper is trying to start a musical career.
Okay, since you want to rhyme mean. we'll do it different today
Eminem I think your movie was not O.K.
You talk trash in a mic at a stupid little club
I just don't get what's with all the hubbub
The plot left me so bored I snored on the floorboards
Characters so shallow and predictable, by stupid American pop culture they're adored
Don't get me talking about video style
New Hollywood too perfect looks like a shit pile
Mic check one two one two
You didn't do it and I couldn't hear any of you
It's a good thing there were subtitles
So I could just read your lackluster recitals
Everything just seemed so forced and contrived
When the credits roll, the viewer needs to be revived
IMDB 7.1 out of 10
AllMovie 4 out of 5 is 8 out of 10
Rotten Tomatoes 75% Tomatometer 54% Audience Score
metacritic 77 metascore 8.7 userscore
You can call this a dis or you can call it a taunt
but a C- grade is not something I'd flaunt
Fuck Hollywood, pop culture and Eminem
Every aspect of your movie? bad I rate all of them
An American science fiction comedy directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger and Jon Lovitz.
A scientist sends a beam far into outer space, attracting an alien to the Earth. The alien appears as a beautiful woman who tries to get the scientist to send the beam again and save her planet.
Typical of the time. I appreciated the drama element of the film more than the comedy. Some of it was vaguely funny, but nothing stood out. The special effects were a little bit lame, but generally convincing. The eye puppet in the alien's purse was kind of cool and I liked how the alien manipulated physics on the scientist's daughter. The physics effects would be easy to do with modern software, but must have been more complex to create in 1988. I thought it was a relatively simple and mediocre movie. I rate it o.k. and would recommend it if you get into late '80s mainstream cinema.
