Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell
Um. This movie sucked. I was ready to shoot myself in the face about 15 minutes in.
I thought Mel Brooks made good movies???
Archive for November, 2006
John Lithgow, Christopher Collet
Another 80’s movie. Sweet.
Unlike The Last Starfighter, this movie really did suck.
Why is it that in movies like this, high security government buildings can be broken into by teenagers?? Is that realistic at all?? The main character breaks in using NAIL CLIPPERS and FRISBEES. And what kind of building with high tech, top secret stuff employs one inept, 86 year-old security guard??
After he breaks in, the kid steals highly toxic materials (which he handles wearing nothing but rubber KITCHEN GLOVES) using a remote control car. What the hell is that?? Why didn’t he just carry all that toxic crap out in his bag to begin with??
I also don’t get why the nerdy guys in these 80’s high school movies end up with the hot chicks. That is NOTHING like real life. In my high school, the nerdy kid who could have built his own atomic bomb routinely got the crap kicked out of him by my 12 year old sister. No high school girl would every think that was cute or in any way attractive.
After the kid gets caught and is being interrogated by the government, several of his nerdy peers break him out of the hotel room by turning off the lights and spraying the feds with fire extinguishers. Are we really supposed to believe this??
And for god’s sake, the atomic bomb he builds runs on Duracell batteries.
I hate it when movies think I’m stupid.
Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart
I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and thinking it was one of the greatest movies of all time.
I must have done drugs as a kid.
Not really. I think this falls into the category of “This movie was awesome in the 80’s before sweet graphics started to kick ass and make crappy movies at least look cooler.” Actually, this movie was the first movie to have all its special effects (except explosions) done on the computer.
Most every scene around the video game machine and scenes involving Maggie and Alex rate incredibly high on the unintentional scale. The writing is awful. Character development is terrible. And it’s just sad that an entire trailer park rallies around a kid who is going to break the high score on a video game.
I really think watching this movie again now has ruined it for me. Because really, most movies that you thought were awesome in the 80’s really sucked. And it’s because when you were a kid, everything seemed cooler. Especially when it was projected onto a screen that seemed like it was 100 miles high.
While you may look back on this movie and think it’s not as cool as you thought it was, you can at least remember it as the movie that launched Lance Guest’s to B-Star status.
