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Gunmonkey presents: “Back to the ’90s!”
The other day Slate.com posted an article making the argument that the 1990s were one of the best–if not THE best–decade of the 20th century. This got me thinking about doing a retrospective of ’90s...
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In the 1990s beautiful women terrorized us all: “The Temp”
So, the first installment of “Back to the ‘90s” feature (for no reason other than I had it in my iTunes rental queue) is 1993’s The Temp. If forced to come up with a reason for the significance of...
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In the 1990′s the future was really lame: “Johnny Mnemonic”
Okay, now this film is instructive indeed. It shows us a glimpse of a very specific moment in time—1995, in fact—when the world arrived at the intersection of science and culture. It was the moment...
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In the ’90s we were totally okay with statutory rape (we weren’t really okay...
So, we’re back on the misogyny of the 1990s—well that was quick—but it’s hard to escape, what with the decade being so rife with it and all. 1993’s The Crush was no doubt sold to studio execs as...
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In the ’90s we thought this was a good idea: “Harley Davidson and the...
So, um, who thought green-lighting this movie was a good idea? I mean, really, what was the selling point here? I just…I’m sorry, I can’t figure out why an actual movie studio—you know people whose...
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In the ’90s, John Woo came to Hollywood…and then had to work with Jean-Claude...
Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo pretty much defined a genre and re-defined action movies on a global scale. He brought an almost heretical stylization to action sequences that went beyond Sam Peckinpah’s...
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In the ’90s we were really worried about killer robots wielding sex toys:...
In 1990’s Hardware inexplicably got a theatrical release. I’m not sure why. It was clearly made on shoestring budget with no bankable actors, but, whatever. George H. W. Bush was in the White House,...
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The movie that predicted the ’90s: “I Come in Peace”
Here is a little-seen gem of an action movie. 1990’s I Come in Peace (released internationally as Dark Angel) didn’t make much of a splash when it was released in theaters (it was actually released in...
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