Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quaint northeastern port the summer after they apparently run over the town recluse. Filled with a superficial story line, adolescent unknowns for actors and a serial killer armed with a lethal fisherman's hook, I Know What You Did Last Summer keeps the suspense to a minimum and the plot to a formula. The movie sounds perfect as an 80s horror flick, but pales in the wake of Scream's splendor...
...ranks of London's lower classes to escape from the police and to search for Gavin, who Felix spots alive after his purported murder. Certainly Felix's short sojourn on the London streets is well-written and memorable, but it scarcely seems central enough to the book's plot to justify the title. The time Felix spends on the streets between the murder and his subsequent arrest is quite brief, and the one friendship Felix strikes up with a fellow drifter seems gratuitous, as if a mechanism for adding another death to the slowing plot of the mystery...
...makers were so enamored with themselves for creating swarms of giant bugs, big fancy spaceships and massive explosions, and so sure the audience would be equally taken, that they neglected to make a passable movie. The effects are not supported by any other aspect of the movie: plot, directing, editing, characters or acting. If you've seen the preview, than you've enjoyed it considerably more than anyone who had to sit through...
...late July, I was channel surfing, looking for something sufficiently mindless, when I came across a Charles Bronson film festival. "Chow Down With Chuck!" ordered the WABU 68 announcer, so I did. Ah, the campy violence! The atrocious special effects! The liberal use of the bluescreen! The painfully illogical plot! The script wrought with Dadaist precision! In a fit of foolish idealism, I blurted to my roommate, "You know, we sure have come a long way, at least in terms of action films...
...plot" is as follows: a Russian crime lord wants to assassinate an American dignitary in revenge for an FBI hit on his brother. He enlists the help of The Jackal (Bruce Willis), the world's greatest assassin. The FBI gets wind of this and seeks the assistance of Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere), former IRA terrorist and winner of this year's Most Ridiculous Character Name Award. Mulqueen and friends spend the movie trying to track the wily Jackal, who eludes them time and time again. Finally, a climactic scene occurs. In the interim, there is plenty of gore to tide...