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Ricochet is a thriller starring Denzel Washington as the good guy and John Lithgow as of course, the bad guy.
It starts out with a double cross gone bad and as the Hit man tries to escape, a girl comes out of a port-a-potty and says: "Hey Frank" to her off screen Frank boyfriend and gets turned into a hostage by the bad guy. Can't recommend having a boyfriend named Frank in a movie. It never works out. You're at the festival one minute enjoying the perfume of the plastic rolling toilet and the next minute you're looking a cop strip down to his underwear and shooting the guy holding you and his blood spatters all over you. Frank isn't going to stand for that. He's gone with the wind. Poof!
It's got a lot of twisty twists and then has Ice Cube come to the rescue and there's a big finale on the Watts Towers. It's a good movie.
Alien Trespass is a spoof of the 1950's SciFi movies with a lot of GIANT EYE MONSTER ACTION and lots of driving in the desert. It's got a famous scientist, the sheriff, some kids who never listen to the authorities and all the elements that you need for a classic 50's SciFi bonanza.
My favorite part: After all the characters are named, the Police Chief needs a posse and he says: "You, you and you Frank". Frank isn't in the credits and it's a very rare Frank & Tom movie with the "boy" named Tommy. Even Merlin the Wonder Dog has a credit.
Lots of nice Theramin music, which is always good!
It's a lot of fun and I highly recommend it.
I think I might have seen this movie before or maybe just the big, wild, over the top shootout at the end.
But the thing is that this movie from 1993 has all the over the top crazy actors - Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Tom Sizemore, Chris Penn, Samuel L. Jackson and Gary Oldman - Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are the stars and it was written by Quentin Tarrantino and directed by Tony Scott, so you know what to expect in Spades!
Plus a bonus: Franco the mobster killer, which adds another Frank movie to the growing list.
If you like a lot of blasting, punching, kicking, etc. and you love big acting and big dialog along with your action, then you will love True Romance.
This was kind of a lame movie - a true story about the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper? Whatever...
But it did have 2 redeeming qualities: Frank the Ford Engineer and Judge Franks. A double Frank movie is always worth watching, even if the story isn't that great.
Normally, I wouldn't review this movie, because you can't really make fun of it. It's a serious comedy with a bittersweet ending. It really is an excellent movie, especially if you like Alec Guinness.
The plot: George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. He decides to take the last holiday of the film's title and begins to find out that he was a more worthwhile and interesting person than he ever allowed himself to live.
Just one more thing to mention: He falls for a widow and her husband, who was killed in the War was named Frank. So I'm reviewing it because it has a Dead, Unseen Frank and that's good enough for me!
This is the best place to buy movie posters. They've got 27x40" One Sheet movie posters for lots of movies. I'd been trying to find a One Sheet poster for It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and I finally found it here.
Australia is an epic tale and romance set in WWI Australia. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman are the stars and lovers.
I think it was trying to be another Gone With the Wind, but it's a good movie, not a great one. I really liked the amazing scenery and the acting, but it was a bit long.
It's essentially about a widow coming from England (see fish out of water plot) to find out what her dead husband stuck her with and meeting Drover (Hugh Jackman - see hate at first sight turning into love at the end plot) and then falling in love with the desolate ranch, people and Drover. There is also the evil rancher trying to monopolize the cattle biz (Bryan Brown - see every other western movie ever made plot) and then throw in the Japanese bombing Darwin at the beginning of WWII. With a bonus of an aboriginal wizard, named King George doing his magic here and there.
If there is a ranch, there are always chickens, even in Australia and for a super surprise bonus, after 2 hours and 40 minutes of characters named: Nullah, King George, Drover & Mrs. Boss, appears out of the blue and priest saving some kids and guess what? His name is Brother Frank! What else?
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a blast, where I mean lots of things get blasted to smithereenies! It's not that different than the first Transformer movie - Giant Killer Robots from Space battle the other nicer Robots, who turn into cars & trucks, etc.
They added more comedy into this movie and I could follow which Killer Robots were which better this time. In the first movie, I could hardly tell who was fighting who and who was good and who was evil. Not that great for a fast moving CGI action movie. You want to know if the good guys are winning.
At the beginning, there is a dog named Frankie, so, of course, that makes it a good movie already.
Every time a movie is set in a Middle Eastern village, there are always goats and this movie had plenty of goats. Just as the bad Killer robots were about to show up, I heard a Rooster! YAY, Chickens must follow! They had very dynamic and fun chickens and I think they were using the Chicken Mortar, which everyone knows is set at 37 Degrees and will shoot a chicken across the screen from left to right at the exact angle that is ideal for looking at art work, where you eye sweeps from bottom left to upper right of a painting, for example. The Chicken Mortar does the same thing.
P.S Giant Killer Robots just hate chickens!
Ricochet is a thriller starring Denzel Washington as the good guy and John Lithgow as of course, the bad guy.
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