June '93
 
Lost in Yonkers
C
6/10 2:40 $4 Town Center
I think this was a Neil Simon thing.  Anyhow it's a character study
and not very interesting at that.  Dreyfuss plays an exciting character
but he's not the star; the story revolves around two children who are
forced to stay with their evil grandma for a year while Dad works as
a traveling salesman.  (The mother's dead.)  It's set in 1942, all the
young men are off to war or are criminals or are too handicapped to
serve.  Actually the women in the film are all pretty much handicapped,
too.  It's rather slow and boring in places, but it seems to capture
life in 1942 pretty well.  I found myself asking, "Why didn't I go
see Jurassic Park instead?"
 
Guilty As Sin
B+
6/11 4:55 $4 Delray 10
This is your typical Don Johnson flick-- his great acting, stuck in
a B-movie.  Frankly, I miss Miami Vice; that was more exciting.  The
plot here is Johnson plays a womanizer who allegedly killed his rich
wife, and he schmoozes this female lawyer to defend him in court.  His
real game is romancing the chick, tho', and his character is a lot
more complex and intelligent than originally appeared.  Sadly, there
wasn't much nudity in it.  The lawyer does bear a striking resemblence
to Hillary Clinton, tho', so if you wanna drop acid and view the film
as an "evil man bashes Hillary" movie, it's quite a trip.
 
Jurassic Park
B
6/12 7:30 $6 Delray 10
No Barney and Baby Bop here-- that is made apparent right from the start,
as the main character describes in gory detail how ancient dinosaurs
would tear up a boy's belly and spill his intestines.  This is a very
exciting movie, and is strikingly a lot like the movie "Jaws".  There's
a lot of critics saying "you might want to leave the kids home..." but
that's a load of bullshit.  Kids are used to such violence and excitement
these days.  You might want to leave grandma home tho', she'll wet her
Depends Undergarments.  Plot?  Doesn't matter.  Dinosaurs running around
chasing and eating people, nifty special effects.
 
Last Action Hero
A-
6/18 7:45 $6 Delray 10
This was a great flick.  Exciting, colorful, and packed with violence.
It ran for 2h 15m, which may have been a bit long.  The premise here is
that this young kid gets magically thrown into the movie "Jack Slater IV"
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.  The movie "Jack Slater IV" is excellent,
and the real film "Last Action Hero" would have been better if there was
no kid, just the "Jack Slater" movie.  But since there's the kid, we get
to see what the movie universe is like, and it's full overdramatic scenes,
overfictionalized characters, and (the best part) filled with allusions
to other movies.  For example, the kid is riding a bicycle and an explosion
sends him flying through the night sky, where we get to see his silhouette
against the moon, like in "E.T.".  Near the end of the movie though,
the last 45m or so, things take place in the "real world", and the pacing
is broken.  Lots of funny and exciting things still happen, but it's not
as magical.  So I gave it an A- instead of an A.  This is also a great
party film to rent when the gang's over to visit.
 
Sleepless in Seattle
B+
6/27 5:00 $4 Delray 10
For me, this was a most angstful film.  Being single, and watching Tom
Hanks magically find a perfect mate, well, led me to hope and dream that
someday something similar could happen to me.  There were many single
women attending this movie, too, one sat 2 chairs away from me.  This
is a romance, a feel-good kind of movie.  It's not stupidly mushy, like
a typical women's film, which makes it worth watching.  Hanks of course
gives a very good performance.  One fault with the movie is that it isn't
very realistic, and it tries to be.  But that aside, it's a good and
entertaining way to spend a couple hours.