Date: Sunday 2nd December
Film: Scrooged (1988)
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen and John Forsythe
Running time: 01 hour, 41 minutes
Rating: 7/10
Christmas and Bill Murray, what's not to love?
The story is one we seen plenty of times, but this modern take on A Christmas Carol is well done. Anything that mixes Bill Murray with ghosts gets my vote.
Plus, Bobcat Goldthwait pops up, and he instantly makes any film 20% more wonderful.
Challenge day: 70
Challenge time: 03 days, 13 hours, 02 minutes
Challenge film total: 46
Showing posts with label 1988. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1988. Show all posts
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
I wish I were big.
Date: Sunday 2nd December
Film: Big (1988)
Director: Penny Marshall
Running time: 01 hour, 44 minutes
Rating: 8.5/10
If you don't love Big, we can't be friends.
Excuse me, I need to go find a giant piano...
Excuse me, I need to go find a giant piano...
Challenge day: 70
Challenge Time: 03 days, 11 hours, 21 minutes
Challenge film total: 45
Friday, 2 November 2012
Rule Number Two: the living usually won't see the dead
Date: Wednesday 31st October
Film: Beetlejuice (1988)
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Michael Keaton
Running Time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Rating 9/10
It's Hallowe'en therefore it is only appropriate that the movie choice is something a little bit spoooooky.
After finding myself bereft at discovering (more than halfway through) that Film 4 was showing the The Addams Family (which, as an aside, I am really miffed that I cannot seem to find on DVD in any region), I reached for my staple Hallowe'en movie; Beetlejuice, another example of Tim Burton being brilliant.I did intend to double bill this with the other great Hallowe'en movie, Hocus Pocus, but time ran away from me - I should have picked a quicker dinner.
Beetlejuice is brilliant. Yes, it is a little dated, but the bright colours and brilliant stop motion and puppetry do add a sense of fantasy to the story.
I will admit that I have a really big soft spot for Tim Burton's early films, and this is just another example why, when working with great material, Burton can excel as a filmmaker.
Challenge Day: 38
Challenge Time: 1 day 22 hours 04 minutes
Challenge Film Total: 26
Film: Beetlejuice (1988)
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Michael Keaton
Running Time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Rating 9/10
It's Hallowe'en therefore it is only appropriate that the movie choice is something a little bit spoooooky.
After finding myself bereft at discovering (more than halfway through) that Film 4 was showing the The Addams Family (which, as an aside, I am really miffed that I cannot seem to find on DVD in any region), I reached for my staple Hallowe'en movie; Beetlejuice, another example of Tim Burton being brilliant.I did intend to double bill this with the other great Hallowe'en movie, Hocus Pocus, but time ran away from me - I should have picked a quicker dinner.
Beetlejuice is brilliant. Yes, it is a little dated, but the bright colours and brilliant stop motion and puppetry do add a sense of fantasy to the story.
I will admit that I have a really big soft spot for Tim Burton's early films, and this is just another example why, when working with great material, Burton can excel as a filmmaker.
Challenge Day: 38
Challenge Time: 1 day 22 hours 04 minutes
Challenge Film Total: 26
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