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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Oh dear, oh dear
This film really deserved to do as badly as possible. Phantom Menace is style over substance, with a script as weak as over diluted tea. The story is pathetic, the actors woefully miscast and the computer characters are annoying and a really bad idea - a really bad idea.
The film's idea is good, but in practise it just does not work. Sorry Mr Lucas, but you have made a cold turkey.
The Opposite of Sex (1998)
Not as good as it thinks it is
This film is sassy, cool and witty as well as being rather too reliant on Ricci. Her narrator job becomes teeth-grittingly annoying by the end, as does Kudrow's attempt to be the "Anti-Pheeb".
Kudrow simply sounds and looks too much like Pheobe. Her performance here is light. When Lucia swears, Pheobe is swearing.
I laughed, I cringed and I enjoyed. But this film thinks it is clever. And it is not.
The Ice Storm (1997)
Fantastic
The Ice Storm is as good as you can get. Cold, moving, disturbing and funny. You have to see this, it really is good.
The Faculty (1998)
Oh dear....
Cliched American garbage which does very little for the psuedo-Scream-wannabes out there. The ending is awful, the "gore" is laughable and as for the script.....
Please only see this if you really, really don't mind a bad film done badly. Scream and I Know What Yoy Did Last Summer has done this all before, except they did it with style.
On connaît la chanson (1997)
Very good/ Tres Bon!
This film is funny, witty and most importantly it works both as a serious film and a homage to Dennis Potter. Great acting, wonderful songs and an undercurrent of wit. One of my favourite French Films of recent times.
American History X (1998)
Its not right, but its okay
On the very front of it, AMX is a typical American sloshy film about how even racists can suddenly become reformed characters. That idea stinks. Hollywood seems to always do this; the strongest storylines have to always end up with the bad guy reformed or the good guy winning.
AMX is not that bad, it does hit chords. But the overall feeling is that while the punch is hard, there is no wound. And that's a problem.
Sunset Beach (1997)
Some soaps are good, some are bad....
......and then there's Sunset Beach.
How bizzare can one soap be? It's funny, mad, weird, kitsch, camp, awful, surreal, brilliant, silly, cool and terrible all at the same time.
I can't believe this show exists. It's so bad, it's got to be good.
La haine (1995)
Fantastic
This is a superb film. Not "Trainspotting" French style but close. Very strong idea and acting, and the whole story seems to hang really well. A great film, one I recommend.