Reviews

Like most Looney Tunes, I could watch "Rabbit Seasoning" over and over. It's my favorite one that doesn't include Marvin the Martian. The "wabbit season/duck season" argument between Bugs and Daffy is comparable to Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first" routine. Animation at its best.

I found a lot of things wrong with this film. First of all, Bond never gets this emocional about his work and always stays cool; the use of phrases such as "p**s off" just doesn't work in a Bond film. This film was also too politicaly correct; or at least politicaly correctness wasn't pulled off in this one as well as it was in the later Bond flick, "GoldenEye." This film is so P.C. that is actually has a Surgeon General's warning because Timothy Dalton smoked occasionaly (check the closing credits). And finally, the scene where Bond gets captured (and udderly dominated) by the ninjas. This is the first time I can think of where Bond gets beaten up, which just shouldn't happen. This was a decent film, however, it just wasn't as good as its predecessor, "The Living Daylights." Timothy Dalton does a good job, the action sequences are pretty good, and it was nice to see David Hedison reprising his role as Felix Leiter. It was also nice to see Desmond Llewelyn (Q) get a larger role. Good film, but just doesn't meet up to standards for a Bond film.

I cannot believe that they would actually make a movie this bad. I'm no movie expert (at least probably not by the standards of some of you that will read this), but this movie was horrible. It was a two hour version of that Popeye cartoon where Sweet-Pea was crawling around a construction site. And what was Joe Mantegna thinking when he signed on for this movie? Surely business wasn't that slow. Not that I don't like physical comedy, but this cartoonish type of comedy only worked for three people in movies: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Peter Sellers.

I can't say how much I love this movie. You have Melvin (Nicholson) the guy who everyone loves to hate because he loves to hate everyone else, Carol (Hunt) the stressed waitress who's with an ailing son, and Simon (Kinnear) the neighbor who's life is falling apart. Let's not forget Verdell the dog, because he's the catalyst that starts a chain reaction that changes the lives of all three people. I guess the reason I like this movie so much is that it's about the fact that life is not perfect.

Let's face it...this was a B-movie, Universal just put some more money into it. They massacred the vampire lore, but since this is a B-movie, it doesn't matter. Dennis Miller is hilarious as always; and what cheesy horror flick is genuine without Corey Feldman. The only discrepancy I have with this movie are the Cryptkeeper segments. They were just a remake of a Cryptkeeper segment from a TV episode. The only difference was that William Sadler was dressed up as the mummy instead of the Grim Reaper (a reprisal of his role in "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey").

Anyone who knows anything about Halloween will tell you that it was one of the most successful independent films of all time. Does anyone know what the first independnent film was to beat it? Brace yourself: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Doesn't that break your heart? The worst part of it for me is the fact that I contributed four bucks to the cause (I was only 9 at the time.) If you ever read this John Carpenter. Please forgive me.