Date: Wednesday 2nd January
Film: Ghost (1990)
Director: Jerry Zucker
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg
Running time: 02 hours, 07 minutes
Rating: 9/10
I love Ghost. I have done since I was a kid. I can't remember the first time I saw it, I just know that I spent most of my childhood being scared out of my wits by Willy Lopez and the mad subway ghost. They still creep me out now.The CGI hasn't aged well, the demons from below are brilliant examples of something that was the height of sophistication (and child scaring) in the early 90's but now will just make you chuckle.
It's almost guaranteed that I will develop a serious case of 'something in my eye' around the first "ditto" and will be in floods of tears by the final goodbye.
The saddest bit about Ghost? The realisation that my childhood dream of marrying Patrick 'King of the Mullets' Swayze will never come true. I guess it's back to my original plan. Move over Miss Piggy, Kermit is MINE.
Challenge day: 99
Challenge time: 06 days, 02 hours, 38 minutes
Challenge film total: 76
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Thursday, 10 January 2013
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
All the great themes have been used up and turned into theme parks.
Date: Saturday 27th October/Sunday 28th October
Film: Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Director: Allan Moyle
Starring: Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis
Running Time: 1 hour 42 minutes
Rating: 8/10
After overdosing on Empire Records, Luce and I decided we needed a little more Allan Moyle in our lives so we settled in for the night with a spot of Pump Up the Volume. As great as this movie is (and who doesn't love 90s Christian Slater), it was late, we'd had a long day and it was very warm and comfortable lying on that bed, we might have fallen asleep less than halfway through.
Alas, for me, all was not lost. Sunday evening, prior to Sunday Night Film Club, I had just enough time at home to watch the rest of the movie. It's a good job this was a film I've seen a fair few times, so the 18 hour break in the middle of viewing didn't leave me confused!
Pump is a comedy-drama about a loner high school student, Mark, who runs an illegal radio station from his bedroom. The station is his chance to anonymously tell people what he thinks of school, community and American society. The station, and his alias Happy Harry Hard-On, gets more and more popular and one student, Nora, uses her detective skills to work out who is running the station, and gets involved with Mark, just as he is starting a revolution amongst the other students.
I like Pump Up the Volume, it has a great cast and a story that has potential to be a bit like every other 'loner hates high school' movie, but somehow manages to seem original. It is witty, dark and has a solid soundtrack. Maybe I'm just a really big Allan Moyle fan!
Challenge day: 34/35
Challenge time: 1 day 16 hours 7 minutes
Challenge film total: 22
Film: Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Director: Allan Moyle
Starring: Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis
Running Time: 1 hour 42 minutes
Rating: 8/10
After overdosing on Empire Records, Luce and I decided we needed a little more Allan Moyle in our lives so we settled in for the night with a spot of Pump Up the Volume. As great as this movie is (and who doesn't love 90s Christian Slater), it was late, we'd had a long day and it was very warm and comfortable lying on that bed, we might have fallen asleep less than halfway through.
Alas, for me, all was not lost. Sunday evening, prior to Sunday Night Film Club, I had just enough time at home to watch the rest of the movie. It's a good job this was a film I've seen a fair few times, so the 18 hour break in the middle of viewing didn't leave me confused!
Pump is a comedy-drama about a loner high school student, Mark, who runs an illegal radio station from his bedroom. The station is his chance to anonymously tell people what he thinks of school, community and American society. The station, and his alias Happy Harry Hard-On, gets more and more popular and one student, Nora, uses her detective skills to work out who is running the station, and gets involved with Mark, just as he is starting a revolution amongst the other students.
I like Pump Up the Volume, it has a great cast and a story that has potential to be a bit like every other 'loner hates high school' movie, but somehow manages to seem original. It is witty, dark and has a solid soundtrack. Maybe I'm just a really big Allan Moyle fan!
Challenge day: 34/35
Challenge time: 1 day 16 hours 7 minutes
Challenge film total: 22
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