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Surf Ninjas (1993)
Well... I loved it as a kid...
It's true, this movie is not very good. I make no amends for it. It was low budget, I hesitate to call it an action flick, and made for kids, and even by kid movie standards it was bad, but, you know what? I still loved it. I must've watched it 2 or 3 dozen times as a young child, no matter that it was really idiotic, and there were much better kids movies to watch.
Another commenter mentioned that it came at a time when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were at their peak. I didn't notice this, nor do I even know if it is true, but it does make a lot of sense. I'm sure it was meant solely to cash in on the "Ninja Craze." Whatever. That doesn't matter to a kid.
So, yeah, it was dumb, it was badly acted, it was badly written, and I loved it. It makes me real nostalgic for my younger days to just think about it. I've got it on VHS somewhere... I think I may just go watch it again...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Good Clean Fun
Okay, so, it's not really clean, but whatever, it's still worth watching. I rented it the other day for the first time, and I have watched it 3 times already, and will probably watch it a few more times before I have to return it. I love this movie. Already entered into my Top 20.
Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro star as a journalist and his attourney on a trip through Las Vegas to, original, do a reporting job on a motorcycle race. Instead, they take an exorbitant amount of drugs and alcohol and from there everything goes straight to hell.
Save for the very basic plot set up to get the two main characters to Las Vegas, there really is no point to the story. It just meanders through the experiences of the two main characters as they take drugs, trash hotels, and act like total idiots.
The parts of the main characters are played extremely well by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. Johnny Depp is almost unrecognizable as Raoul Duke, using body language to get across the character, and Benicio Del Toro plays the paranoid addict to the T.
Terry Gilliam was perfect for this movie, using a large number of camera tricks to give the film a very surreal feel to it. The cinematography was
also done brilliantly for this movie.
So, in the end, if you have a twisted sense of humor, and find watching the psychedelic antics of two drugged out guys sound like a good way to spend a Friday night, then you should definitely see this movie.