michael's movie reviews
1998
These are the movies I reviewed in 1998.
reviewed 1998.12.28
This is an animated movie about an ant who wants to free his colony from the repression of its own social order. Man, I feel like I just wrote this review, but that was A Bug's Life, the unfortunate twin of this that we saw just a couple of days ago. I sometimes wonder what the heck is the point of all this movie going.Anyway, our hero ventures out in the..
reviewed 1998.12.26
Ouch...
reviewed 1998.12.16
This is an animated movie about a desperate ant who wants to free his colony from the oppression of a gang of locusts...
reviewed 1998.12.15
Pretty...
reviewed 1998.11.28
This is a comedic movie with a softly dramatic core (like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles) featuring a fellow who gradually becomes aware that his life is a hermetically sealed reality show and that he is essentially property of the show's producers...
reviewed 1998.10.23
I wasn't expecting much from this vampire flick but I was happily surprised...
reviewed 1998.10.02
This weird little number is about a love triangle between a private school student, his young teacher, and the wealthy father of some of the other students...
reviewed 1998.09.28
This is a movie about a law student who is dragged back into the underground gambling scene when a friend gets out of prison...
reviewed 1998.09.09
This is a grim comedy about the plight of the poor, down-trodden masses and what happens when they've finally had enough and decide to start grinding up the rich and serving them to each other...
reviewed 1998.08.17
The dear old Earth is threatened with an extinction-event meteor impact, and only a pack of loser rough necks can help because reasons! Watch as very realistic characters played by Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, and many more men throw their lives away in the lowest-stakes ham-fest ever committed to film...
reviewed 1998.07.17
This is a screwball comedy designed to teeter at the edge of being too obnoxious...
reviewed 1998.07.12
I guess there must have been a contractual obligation at play here because I can't otherwise explain how John Woo got involved in this mess...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
reviewed 1998.06.28
This is the insane and loosely-factual telling of a two week period in "our foul year of the Lord 1971" when Hunter S Thompson went to Las Vegas on first one assignment and then another only to live a life of such excess that it would take on the sort of mythical status that they make a movie 25 years later...
reviewed 1998.05.21
This movie is about a loser in life who is struggling to get it right...
reviewed 1998.05.03
This was a surprisingly good movie about what appears to have been a catastrophic era for all involved: the 1970s porn industry in California...
reviewed 1998.04.17
This is a movie about the eternally crooked police department of Los Angeles...
reviewed 1998.04.04
This is a grim sci-fi piece about a man struggling to piece together his own identity and life...
reviewed 1998.03.29
This is a movie about a cop who sends off a killer, when he attends his execution. The killer really lays it on, coming across like Satan himself, reveling in all he's done. The cop thinks it's over, no one as thoroughly inhabited by that evil could not have been the killer and now the deaths are finished.Only, they aren't over and what's worse various other characters surrounding the cop seem ..
reviewed 1998.03.07
Thanks to a friend, I now own a copy of this video...
reviewed 1998.02.21
So bad, so deliciously bad! About a killer who gets dissolved by acid and on a molecular level is bound to ...
reviewed 1998.02.16
Only caught the last half of this, but it seemed a little stupid...
reviewed 1998.02.16
This little film from England starts off strong...
reviewed 1998.02.10
This is a typical Atom Egoyan film...
reviewed 1998.02.08
A well-shot but overly overdone flick by Martin Scorcese...
reviewed 1998.02.06
Awful...
reviewed 1998.02.01
Unfortunately amateur film-making...
reviewed 1998.01.25
This dull, obnoxious, and ridiculous movie had one or two touches, but it was mostly patronizing bullshit...
reviewed 1998.01.22
I'd listened to my roomates and good friend Jonathan on this one, assured all round that it was quite good...
reviewed 1998.01.16
I think Kevin whatsit (who did Clerks and Mall-rats) wants to be Canadian...
reviewed 1998.01.10
This movie has been in the theaters for months by the time I saw it, but the Carleton theater was full - and for good reason...
reviewed 1998.01.09
This film was good for a Dennis Quaid effort, but it was strangely slow and the dialogue predictable...
reviewed 1998.01.08
This flick suffered from "I read the book" syndrome in that I spent some time debating with myself on their choices for actors, etc (overall - good)...
reviewed 1998.01.07
This is an animated story about a young lady in China who disguises herself as a man to join the army in her aging father's place...
reviewed 1998.01.04
Named after a play (Cosi Fan tutti), this mildly funny 'romantic comedy' from Autralia by the fellow who made Murial's Wedding...