There's maybe a total of two good minutes in Big Man on Campus' 105 minute run time. And those minutes are achieved seconds at a time and not until past the midpoint of the movie. Most youth market movies at least try to justify why the protagonist in their movies are involved in things they really shouldn't be and wouldn't credibly be (Disney got pretty good at this with the Dexter Riley movies in the 1960s, and Encino Man coasted…
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Risky Business 1983
A carefully modulated satire full of grounded but not quite naturalistic performances and sharp but not showy dialogue. Writer/director Paul Brickman shot this, his directorial debut, in his hometown with a sense of knowingness in the setting and inhabitants. Brickman never offered up another such achievement but in Risky Business Tom Cruise slid into pop culture consciousness and never left.
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Passing Strange 2009
Filming a stage play is a fool's game; you can't capture the power, intimacy and intensity of a great live show. Spike Lee played that fool's game and won. This is an amazing film.
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Rocco and His Brothers 1960
There is a lot of great filmmaking in "Rocco and His Brothers" and some great acting but I remained unconvinced of the core principle of the film; that Rocco would sacrifice love, happiness, and the woman he loves for a brother who is selfish, brutal, hateful, destructive, and ungrateful. The movie asserts the primacy of family above all in the most despicable way.
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