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Mac and Me (1988)
"It's the Real Thing, Coke Is.. MAC and Me sucked big time!
I can't say I have ever seen a more foolish movie that "MAC and Me". I think the biggest star in this absurd film was Coca-Cola. It seemed to be the center of everything. Even the aliens were drinking Cokes! Then there was a very strange and unfortunate dance sequence at the local McDonalds that didn't seem to really make much sense, either. Long story short, where were the screen writers and the director trying to take us? As many folks have pointed out already, ET is not even a distant cousin of this film. It was way better and far more realistic. (Believable). Sears made a few appearances along with Skittles, Volkswagen, and Ford, to name a few. What I found most laughable was the end, but I will save that for anyone who wished to watch this (fast forwarding to the end of the movie would be your best bet) so they can the true nature of stupid in a motion picture. Oh yea, a few amusing scenes in the movie where when the little girl from next door takes a trip across the floor, up the wall, across the ceiling and back down the opposite wall. The person looked pretty fake and the track for the vacuum was extremely obvious. The scene with the little goofball alien in a toy car going down the street with all the dogs chasing him was a rather strange departure from the film. I guess my biggest problem was that nothing in this film made any real sense. It was 90 mins of foolishness that really shouldn't have been made. It cost 13 million dollars to make this movie and it barely made back 45% of that in ticket sales. Maybe Coca-cola and McDonalds should have thought a little harder about where to put their money. For me at least, since Coke cans kept turning up in the movie, especially where you wouldn't expect them to be, this was more like a lengthy Coke commercial.
Tornado Valley (2009)
Ah, hell! This had Hallmark Channel written all over it.
Beside a plot in desperate need of a story, Actors who needed a much better script and lousy special effects that couldn't convince a cow that there was a tornado in the pasture, this film was terrible. Classic Hallmark Channel fare, everyone's in a mess at the beginning then things drag through and hour and a half to end up nice in the end. Tornado Valley leaves you wondering why the heck they even bothered to make this one at all. Very anti-climatic as well. Watch something else, you will be glad you did.
Vacation (2015)
THIS IS PURE GARBAGE!! Don't even bother, it's not worth it. NOT FOR CHILDREN!!
I am glad I only paid a dollar for this at a garage sale, it was hideous to say the least. An attempt to revive the original classic Vacation from the 80's just didn't work at all. Way to much profanity, especially by the children in the film. A plot that is lost in all kinds of stupid trashy types of situations and worst of all, way to much toilet humor. I can't even rate this because it doesn't even deserve a single star. I watched it once and threw it in the trash. Thank God it's out of my house!
The Pink Panther (2006)
Still as goofy as the original.
I am not going to bore you with a long list things that I did or didn't like about The Pink Panther. To sum it up, the Original Pink Panther movies were never intended to be serious movies. They were always based in slap-stick humor which why Peter Sellers was so funny. He had the gift for making us laugh. Steve Martin, while not the same as Peter Sellers still made this version of the Pink Panther funny. When you go into a movie with a specific expectation and it turns out being the opposite, you have ruined the movie for yourself. Having seen all of the original Pink Panther movies growing up, I pretty much understood what this one was going to be like. I had a good time watching Steve Martin be Inspector Clouseau with all of the funny slap-stick humor this movie had to offer. I only wish that Kevin Kline had done more to be like the original Chief Inspector Dreyfus. All in all, if you are into good humor, this movie won't let you down. No one can replace the original Inspector Clouseau who was the late Peter Sellers.
RV (2006)
Not the right movie for Robin Williams
I think back to Chevy Chase and "Vacation" remembering how funny that was. Chevy Chase and the rest of the cast hit the mark perfectly in "Vacation."
Fast forward to 2006 and the same type of movie has Robin Williams in it. Robin Williams was a legendary actor. This film just wasn't right for him to be the father in. Somehow it's seemed awkward and almost restraining for him at times, trying to be funny without really being able to really be himself. Williams was much better than what this script gave him. I only wish the director had allowed him to be more like Robin Williams and less molded into something he couldn't fit into comfortably. It would have helped the movie a lot.
The rest of the movie seemed rather dull, trying hard to be like "Vacation" but not really being able to pull it off. To much toilet humor tends to ruin a script and turn folks off. It's really not that funny. Casting was way off the mark too, making it difficult at best to be believable that Robin Williams family were all related somehow.
Sorry folks, but this flick didn't have that rhythmic flow that I usually see with Robin Williams in a movie. He was an outstanding performer and deserved an outstanding script. "RV" just couldn't find the right chemistry to make that happen.
Radio Flyer (1992)
More like an infomercial.
When I watched Radio Flyer, I felt like I was being slapped around so much that I wanted to start slapping it back. It was a script that should never have been made into a movie at all. Elijah Wood (Mikey) and Joseph Mozello (Bobby) face so many strange and unusual circumstances that it gets to be to much for the viewer to watch. Then there's the emotional side. Your really feeling happy one minute only to be dropped into the depts of sadness the next. The mother in this movie sure was clueless too. You'd think she would do better protecting her two boys from "The King", played by Adam Baldwin. Lastly, to make a strange movie even more bizarre, they add in a wagon that can fly. That goes beyond the bounds of even imagination. Young Bobby was lucky he was still alive after the trip down that hill and up the roof of a barn to take off, especially over a live airport. This film had way to much foolishness in it to really be about the topic of promises, which is where it started. Somehow, it missed the point of promises all the way through. One final thought, at the end they show the phone number for a child abuse hotline. Was this just an hour an a half long infomercial for children who were being abused?
The Ice Storm (1997)
A very good look back into the 70's.
If you weren't around during the Watergate years and the Nixon Presidency, then this movie will probably not be your cup of tea. I lived through all of it and "The Ice Storm" nails it. The mood, the feelings, the interactions between cast members, it's all very well thought out and extremely well portrayed throughout the film. That's why this movie is in the top 10 of my all-time favorites. It's a classic and does a remarkable job of telling the story of two upper middle class families with all their problems. The 70's, like the 60's saw so much change going on in the world and in the United States. While the parents from both the Carver and Hood family are having an affair, the children from the same families are experimenting with sexuality as well. The parents are miserable with their lives so it trickles down to there children and makes them unhappy as well. What gets me the most are the mood and feelings I get from the movie. I can relate to it in so many different ways, having been a child of the 60's and 70's. It's very hard to explain those feelings exactly because you really did have to be there to understand them.
Sunshine Christmas (1977)
Sort of like a Halmark Channel Movie, boring.
There's really not much I can say about "Sunshine Christmas" other than it was rather boring. It was fairly easy to figure out the plot from the beginning and know that the movie was going to pretty much flat-line for an hour and a half. Sure, they use a few John Denver songs in an attempt to spice things up, but in the end nothing really happens. The film basically ends the way it started. Acting, writing, plot all very dull. Reminded me of one of the endless and predicable Halmark Christmas movies.
13 Reasons Why (2017)
Needs to Be More Realistic.
*** NOTICE: This review contains spoilers.***
I watched the entire series over two weeks. As a person who has attempted suicide before, I felt that, "13 Reasons Why", started out on good footing but got lost rather quickly. I think that the producers needed to do far more research on teen suicide and the causes of it. "13 Reasons Why" didn't really offer much in the way of true information about the mindset of a suicidal person. There were some things that didn't really make sense in the story. An example would be Hannah hiding in the bedroom while a friend is being raped, then returning to the same house on a different night where a party is going on and letting herself be raped. In the real world, I don't think that would really happen.
I had a hard time finding Hannah to be real. I have never heard of someone making 6 1/2 hours of tapes calling out everyone who "ruined" her life. To me, suicide was a last ditch effort to escape life. At the time of my attempt, I didn't care what anyone else though nor did I think about leaving behind a 6 hour narrative on who did wrong to me. Thankfully, I didn't die in my attempt. I don't feel the back story with the tapes did the series any justice.
The other problem with "13 Reasons Why" is that they had too many trivial things happen to Hannah that didn't seem like they would cause her to want to kill herself. That's why I think better research on teen suicide would have helped make the story more believable instead of more Hollywood. I don't condone rape, at the same time, I am not sure that it would lead to suicide. That was the only real reason I could see that obviously hurts a person but it is something that can be lived beyond. They made Hannah to weak. They didn't address the real causes of suicide, instead they made it unrealistic and very flawed, not staying with the subject they started with. Suicide. No one in the series caused Hannah's death but Hannah.
The other thing that really bothered me was the fact that they never really brought any sort of closure to the story. That worries me because now I am wondering if they are planning yet another bizarre season of this show. I doubt it would help the first season if they did, they have it so wrong to begin with.
If you watch this series, please, don't take it too seriously because it doesn't really address the issues of suicide in the raw honest form the way a well researched series should.