Good Movies to Review
If you had to pick a batch of movies to recommend, it could likely get taxing real fast. In a fit of performance anxiety before the movie starts, you have to ask for the specs. Certain movies set the tone for whatever precedes or follows it.
Date movies, for instance, are different from horror movies. If you want to impress your date, romantic comedies have replaced romance films. Perhaps this is a sign of the times.
Good Romantic Movies to Review
In times past, The Way We Were, Love Story, and other amazing films left audiences full of hope, singing along or quoting film content. Audiences had high romantic expectations. "Love means never having to say you're sorry" has stayed in the hearts and mind of movie goers through generations.
A Star is Born is another remarkable film that resonates about the complexities of romance. If the romance is good, it should make you tenderhearted with song from start to its end, bursting nonstop like birds at the dawn of a new day. Some good romances are merely in the wrong place at the wrong time, as in True Romance. Other romances are "weird on top" as in Wild at Heart, or insanely, tear-jerkingly sentimental as in Con Air, otherwise known as Flight of the Bumbling Bunny.
Good Romantic Comedy Movies to Review
Instead of going with the romantic flow, romance movies have backtracked to the friendship zone with romantic comedies. You can safely take your friend to the movie and it's not like a date since the film is not focused strictly on romance but adds touches of lighthearted, casual fun. Whether life imitates art or vice versa, "Singles" is a fantastic film that probably ushered in the new genre. Representing a group of casual and not so casual slacker types who ease in and out of life's commitments.
Commitment--the fear of, in the case of Jerry Maguire is what Tom Cruise's character must face to move forward into his evolved sense of self. What's a person to do after "Hello"? Surely, not say goodbye. The Goodbye Girl is another phenomenal film, which features Richard Dreyfuss.
Unlike contemporary films, many films of that era were based on stage plays, and pulled in stage honed actors and writers. Crafted dialogue, well developed characters engaging in life like relationships with average people doing average things. Characters talked out their differences and worked together to stay together. They were passionate about life and each other. Fast forward to action packed explosions, and explosive outbursts against fellow humans, or beast versus man.
Good Horror Movies to Review
On the other end of the spectrum, contemporary horror movies have dissolved into variations of primal, overly graphic, insensitive violence that wantonly hacks plot, characters, or logical suspense. Audiences may leave leery of cruel injustice. In Halloween, the villain's back story makes perfect sense. And of course, with such devilish behavior from movie scene to movie scene, of course he must be the spawn of Satan.
Rosemary's Baby was a seminal film about the birthing not of baby Jesus, but baby Beelzebub. Birthing the devil and the meaning for mankind sends chills without graphic details. The Omen is the devil just past ankle-biter stage. The cinematography plays eerily as a moody character casting creepy shadows every where you look.
Everywhere that Carrie looks turns out to be a misery for the delusional teen, who just wants to have fun like all the other girls. But piggish ways thwart her attempts, led by none other than John Travolta himself. Since pig grease was the word, tie him to the musical hip grinding festival with dazzling performances in Grease.
More Good Movies to Review in Other Genres
Not nearly as scary in the suburbs as Carrie but quirky in the metro city are other movie genres. Pulp Fiction kicks down the cinema doors with an oddball ensemble cast in bizarre circumstances, and retro style.
The Usual Suspects can be discovered in the gritty city. Anything can happen including a Lizzie Borden style outburst by a stuttering altar boy in the Richard Gere legal drama Primal Fear.
If fear of the court system isn't enough, stay out of the taxicab if you know what's good for you. In Taxi Driver, meet Travis Bickle, the young, mohawked Robert De Niro, who has a chilling question for you.
It seems movies are set out to scare viewers in the burbs and in the city, so it should come as no surprise that viewers should stay away from national parks. Grizzly is there to substitute for Yogi Bear or Smokey so he can take a whack at you for treading on his environmentally pristine campground.
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