Jarhead Has every great war movie that was ever possible already been made?? Certainly Apocalypse Now in 1979 set the bar so high that it’s obviously clear it will never be topped, and pretty much every war movie made in the last 10 to 15 years has mostly been crap (Hurt Locker notwithstanding), full of […]
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday When Paramount Pictures (who had often considered the Friday The 13th Series to be a laughable, yet highly profitable low rent, low budget film franchise for them) sold off the rights for the Jason Voorhees character (but not the actual Friday The 13th name) to New Line Cinema, […]
Jason X Prior to his big showdown with Freddy Krueger, The Jason Series just had to hit its nadir first. Having teased the big showdown with Krueger in the also awful Jason Goes To Hell, it would take another 10 years before a workable script was finally prepared to be filmed, but in the meantime, […]
Jaws The cinematic oeuvre of Steven Spielberg is one to behold. Undoubtedly the most financially successful filmmaker of all time (by far), a closer look at many of his biggest films reveals major flaws in his storytelling and style, from a super sappy artificial sentimentality that overwhelms much of the true meanings of the films […]
Jaws 2 The original 1975 Jaws remains arguably the best and most pure piece of cinema ever achieved in the storied career of one Steven Spielberg, so much so that the overwhelming box office numbers simply DEMANDED that a sequel be made. Spielberg of course would laugh off the offer, partly because he deemed it […]
Jaws 3 After the smashing box office success of both Steven Spielberg’s Jaws and its immediate follow up we saw a literal cornucopia of other “shark attack” quasi horror flicks with somewhat varying degrees of success. Naturally, Universal Pictures couldn’t help taking the bait for the inevitable third installment of their franchise, using the 80s […]
Jaws The Revenge When it comes to picking the worst sequels in the same franchise, some varying factors need to be considered such as: What is more faithful to the spirit of the classic original film? What has the better actors and performances? Which one is easier to sit through as being cheesy fun as […]
Jekyll And Hyde Together Again After the phrase “political correctness” along with its meaning and definition was coined in the mid 90s at the height of The Clinton Regime, people tended to forget pretty quickly that in the realms of 1970s and 80s pop culture including movies, music and television, there were plenty of instances […]
The Jerk Many people might not realize this, but Steve Martin in the 1970s had essentially become one of the most famous individuals in the country based solely on his reputation as a stand up comedian, with his only national media outlet being frequent guest hosting appearances alongside the legendary Not Ready For Prime Time […]
Jerry Maguire We’ve all seen varying degrees of the Tom Cruise Movie Genre (Golden Boy faces adversity, overcomes odds, gets the girl, and wins the day), but this 1996 effort from Cameron Crowe could certainly be considered one of the best written of its kind. As a slick, fast-talking sports agent who gets a crisis […]