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cressida-jayoungr · 1 year

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One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

The Muppet Christmas Carol / Gonzo the Great as Charles Dickens

It's been well documented that the costumes in this movie are more detailed and accurate than they have any right to be, including (or especially) on the Muppet characters. Here is Gonzo as Charles Dickens in all his glory. Look at his patterned waistcoat! His beautifully fitted greatcoat and top hat! His striped socks, which don't even show unless the trouser legs are specially pulled up! And just imagine being in the workshop chuckling to yourself while creating this costume, assuming nobody but you and a few costume nerd friends would ever notice the level of craftsmanship, unaware that large portions of this newfangled thing called the internet would be squeeing over them thirty years later. Ann Hollowood and Polly Smith, I salute you.

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zachfett · 4 months

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Bad Lieutenant (1992) Directed by Abel Ferrara Cinematography by Ken Kelsch

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adamwatchesmovies · 4 months

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The Lawnmower Man (1992)

The Lawnmower Man is a film at odds with itself. The story hates and fears computers while attributing magic abilities to them. The special effects department loves computers and uses them at every opportunity, even when practical effects would’ve been far easier. In the middle is the audience, forced to suffer through terrible dialogue and a laughable plot that entertains - but only in unintended ways.

Dr. Larry Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) works for Virtual Space Industries, using psychoactive drugs and virtual reality to augment the intelligence and combat effectiveness of his test subjects. After a chimpanzee goes on a rampage, Dr. Angelo pivots his research to focus solely on the intelligence-boosting treatments. He recruits his intellectually disabled greenskeeper, Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey) as a new test subject.

Even if this film was faithfully adapting Stephen King’s 1975 short story, he would’ve wanted his name removed. It boils down to a clumsy mash-up of Flowers for Algernon and Carrie (or Firestarter). When Jobe begins the film, he looks like Harry Dunne from Dumb and Dumber. He’s hanging out with his neighbor, a kid whose cartoonish father abuses his wife and son nightly. You know it’s only a matter of time before bad dad gets his comeuppance and that it’ll probably be a gruesome lawnmower-related death. Why else would the camera linger on its ridiculous design for so long? Then again, maybe he’ll get torn apart by Jobe’s emerging telekinetic powers. As far as superpowers go, they’re pretty useful, particularly once he also learns to read minds and project his thoughts. Meanwhile, his IQ skyrockets to genius levels. Too bad all of these skills fail to impress “The Shop”, the clandestine group funding Dr. Angelo’s research. What results they were after, I don't know. Their original plan of raising an army of ape soldiers pales compared to the destructive power Jobe now wields. It must be an ego thing, as “The Director” always appears on a giant TV screen the size of an entire wall when he’s holding meetings. Whenever he shows up, his camera’s zoomed in so close he’d be a shoo-in for Big Brother.

It’s hard to tell which is more comically evil; "The Director" or Jobe’s abusive adoptive father, Father Francis McKeen (Jeremy Slate). His death is one of the film's biggest disappointments. It shatters any leftover good faith you might’ve had towards the movie. Throughout, we see many shots of virtual reality that are about as enchanting as you'd expect considering the film was made in 1992 and only had a $10 million budget. Your kind heart wants to give the movie a break, thinking "It’s the best they could do at the time." Then, Father McKeen gets it and the effect is pathetic. Worse, it’s the sort of thing that has been done better thousands of times before and since. If director Brett Leonard can't get this simple thing right, there's no point giving The Lawnmower Man the benefit of the doubt; it's a bad movie.

The villains give you plenty to laugh at. The question is, will you laugh harder at them, the random bully that works at the gas station who continuously picks on Jobe, or at the intellectual titan’s girlfriend, a wealthy divorcee who makes bad inuendos and lounge around in her nightgown all day. It’s some of the least erotic material I’ve ever seen, which makes her scenes a riot.

This movie keeps getting wilder and dumber the longer it goes but also overstays its welcome. 108 minutes is too much - though it makes me wonder what the 142-minute director’s cut is like. What else prevents The Lawnmower Man from being a true bad movie classic? Mostly, the fact that the movie is "almost there" far too often. Though you’ll get a chuckle out of the dated special effects, you can tell they might’ve been impressive way back when. It’s not like the tombstone in Plan 9 from Outer Space. Also making you feel slightly bad for laughing at the picture is the ending, which is well done.

There’s an idea in The Lawnmower Man; it never quite comes together. Though it has occasional moments where you can see what the film wants to be and it might even reach its potential, they're drowned out by dated special effects, laughable villains, failed attempts at eroticism and a plot that makes less sense the more you think about it. How they followed this up with a sequel, I have no idea. If it’s as fun as this, I can’t wait to see it. (Theatrical version, August 20, 2021)

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horrorwomensource · 2 months

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Virginia Madsen as Helen Lyle — Candyman (1992)

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shesnake · 7 months

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Winona Ryder in Dracula (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

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atomic-chronoscaph · 6 months

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The Crow concept art by Darren Gilford and Peter Pound (c. 1992)

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thevelvetgoldmine · 7 months

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CANDYMAN (1992) dir. Bernard Rose

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freshmoviequotes · 1 year

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Zebrahead (1992)

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anyataylorjoys · 11 months

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“I guess she’s sort of beautiful. I don’t know, those lips. You know, lips are supposed to be a perfect reflection of another part of a woman’s anatomy. Not that I’m a lesbian. Well, maybe I am. No, definitely not. I told my mother I was, just for shock value. She said “fine, just as long as you don’t smoke,” which of course is my main joy in life. I can’t imagine where she came from. I mean, none of the other girls that go to my school are that scangie. I really wish we could be friends.”

POISON IVY (1992) dir. Katt Shea

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cressida-jayoungr · 7 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

October: White Redux

Orlando / Tilda Swinton as Orlando

Orlando is seen trying on this gown soon after waking up in the eighteenth century as a woman. Frock Flicks objects to it on the basis that wide panniers of this sort were only for court dress. While this is true, we don't really know the context of why she is wearing the dress in the movie; she was accustomed to spend a lot of time at court in her earlier time as a man, so why wouldn't she have a court dress made, and perhaps spend some time getting used to walking around in it? I do agree that that central bit at the bottom of the petticoat looks a little odd, but I think it's trick of the light that makes it look shorter than it is.

I'm including a couple of shots of her shift and stays from the dressing scene. I've also included a close-up showing the texture of the material.

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branfraser · 1 year

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BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

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adamwatchesmovies · 1 year

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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

The way Sylvester Stallone ended up starring in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is much more interesting than the film itself. In the ’90s, the kings of action blockbusters were Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stallone. After reading the script by Blake Snyder, William Osborne and William Davies, Schwarzenegger knew it was awful. Knowing his rival would jump on the project if he feigned interest, Schwarzenegger told the press he was “very interested”. In no time, Stallone underbid him and got the role. Later, he would go on to call it one of the worst of his career. That's funny. This movie is not.

Sergeant Joseph Andrew Bomowski (Sylvester Stallone) dreads the upcoming visit from his mother, Tutti (Estelle Getty). When she attempts to illegally buy him a firearm, she witnesses a murder. Now the two must work together to determine who is selling high-powered weapons on the black market.

This movie (and the similarly awful Cop and a Half) is the ultimate bad buddy cop “one’s a” movie. We’ve seen movies where one’s a white cop and one’s a black cop, where one’s a man and one’s a woman, where one’s a young guy and one’s an old veteran, and so on. When they’re good, they deliver a compelling police action film and memorable bits of comedy that take advantage of the differences between the leads. When they're bad, you get this.

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was sold on the gimmick alone - they certainly didn’t have a stack of amusing scenarios in mind. There’s maybe a single joke that lands. The rest is painfully unfunny and unoriginal. It isn’t even a movie about a cop being paired up with an old lady; it’s a cop paired up with his overbearing, irritating mother. You know the kind. We're talking about a woman who sees a perfectly clean room and decides it’s filthy but then goes on to destroy prized possessions in her attempts to make everything “spotless”. All this at 3 in the morning because common sense is something that escapes her.

I understand the movie is a comedy but even so, its characters are just way too dumb. Sure the movie “had to happen” but you never believe this scenario would play out the way it would. Every attempt at hilarity just makes the film longer and fills you with resentment. You look at Stallone’s face and you can tell he knew exactly how bad a movie this was. He puts no effort into the role. Even Estelle Getty isn’t particularly good and she should be the star of the show!

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot feels like an episode of a TV show that would've been canceled after 15 minutes stretched out to an hour and a half. At most, This should’ve been a short skit parodying buddy cop movies. Maybe this began as a joke someone took too seriously or director Roger Spottiswoode had a vision that got lost on the way to the screen. Regardless, you’re sitting there, powerless to do anything about the barrage of anti-fun coming your way. You accept it’s going to be bad within the first few minutes. You hope you can somehow acclimate yourself to the level of dimwitted writing and just when you're about to, Stallone delivers a title drop that lands like a blue whale on an inflatable pool. It just drains away all of your remaining will to live. This was made in 1992? Good gracious. (On VHS, June 14, 2019)