#ticketstub — Public Fediverse posts
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AKA The Professional. Really enjoyed this at the time. Hasn't aged well though — for a number of well-documented reasons. Stylish as anything, mind.
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AKA The Professional. Really enjoyed this at the time. Hasn't aged well though — for a number of well-documented reasons. Stylish as anything, mind.
#AdmitOneDaily #Leon #1990sMovies #TicketStub #Cinema #FilmHistory #MovieTickets
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The film that made me cut my hair short.
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Harrison Ford returns as the best Jack Ryan and once again doesn’t disappoint. Rewatched this recently and it still absolutely holds up.
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Meg Ryan as an alcoholic wife and mother would probably hit a lot harder for me now than it did in 1994. Back then booze just felt like something you did on a Friday and Saturday night rather than something that could properly derail people’s lives.
#admitonedaily #WhenAManLovesAWoman #1990smovies #ticketstub
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I love this film, but Schwarzenegger never remotely convinces as an ordinary suburban husband. The whole joke is meant to be that he’s an unnoticed everyman living a secret life, when in reality he looks like he could bench press the family car. Still enormously entertaining though.
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Like The Young Americans, this had all the gloss and energy of an American studio movie, just filtered through a very British, very mid-90s panic about ram-raiding, delinquency and disaffected youth.
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We’re not going to be able to move for Beatles films when Sam Mendes’ Fab Four quadrilogy hits next year, but they’ll have to be good to top this early 90s take on the Hamburg years. And no one has ever out-Lennoned Ian Hart.
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Feels like this was an attempt to turn Ray Liotta into a major mainstream movie star following Goodfellas. Never really happened for him in that way, which was probably for the best as he was such a great character actor.
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Debra Winger more than holds her own next to Sir Anthony Hopkins in this eminently watchable tearjerker from Sir Dickie Attenborough.
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Robert Altman’s follow-up to The Player featuring another all-star ensemble cast. Seems it was very well received at the time, although its sprawling overlapping stories didn’t really make much of an impression on 23 year old me.
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There was definitely a period in the mid-90s where “based on the John Grisham bestseller” was basically its own genre. Big stars, prestige directors, glossy legal thrillers, loads of Washington corridors and morally compromised lawyers.
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Spielberg reminding everyone he was capable of much more than blockbuster entertainment.
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Back before Mr Bates vs The Post Office, it was films like this that turned miscarriages of justice into mainstream entertainment.
#admitonedaily #InTheNameOfTheFather #1990smovies #ticketstub
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Oliver Stone’s follow-up to JFK didn’t really resonate with 23 year old me. I was probably a bit emotionally immature for its heavy themes.
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My overriding memory of this is an almost unrecognisable Sean Penn stealing every scene in a curly blonde wig. Anyone who’s seen One Battle After Another knows he’s still stealing scenes over 30 years later, albeit without the blonde wig.
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You can’t beat a good lookie-likey film, and this is a good lookie-likey film.
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Just think how good all Quentin Tarantino films could be if they were directed by Tony Scott instead of Quentin Tarantino.
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London, 1993. Before Britpop, Trainspotting and all the Cool Britannia stuff. The Young Americans kicked things off with a slick, American-style thriller that, for the first time, made London look dangerous and cinematic. Plus that David Arnold/Björk soundtrack.
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I remember this being the first John Woo/Chow Yun-Fat film to properly cross over in the west - or at least for me. I don’t think Woo ever bettered it with any of his big-budget Hollywood efforts.
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I remember this being something of a surprise blockbuster at the time, and that reputation seems to have endured. I don’t recall being quite as taken with it myself.
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Part of that late 80s/90s period when Hollywood made adult romantic comedies into genuine mainstream events rather than disposable streaming filler.
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My main memory of this is that Ike Turner really didn’t come out of it very well. An uncompromising biopic from a time before music movies became carefully managed brand extensions. Something the recently released Michael could probably learn from.
#admitonedaily #WhatsLoveGottoDowithIt #1990smovies #ticketstub
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If they remade this now it would be an eight-part mini-series dragged out over weeks. Sydney Pollack shows that with a tight script and a great cast you can do it all in two and a half hours.
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Clint Eastwood was 63 when he starred in this Wolfgang Petersen actioner, so there’s still hope for me.
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Staring Keanu Reeves & Richard Briers. What’s not to like?
#admitonedaily #MuchAdoAboutNothing #1990smovies #ticketstub
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Would have been excited for this because John McTiernan was directing rather than for Arnold. Schwarzenegger blamed the disappointing box office on it opening too close to Jurassic Park, but the fact I’ve never felt the need to rewatch it probably tells a different story.
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As I’ve got older I’ve become more and more claustrophobic. Not sure I could watch this now.
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I blagged my way into the press screening for this, so this must have been my second viewing.
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If you’re only inspired to watch one film from Admit One Daily, make it this one. Wonderful film. Criminally underappreciated. It’s a warm, affectionate and funny film about cinema itself.
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Looking back at this, I was sad to discover that co-writer/director Jim Abrahams died in 2024. I was a huge fan growing up — Airplane!, Police Squad and the criminally under-appreciated Top Secret! were endlessly rewatchable. I’ve not seen the new version yet, but I gather it’s actually not bad.
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It’s really all about the barbershop scenes, isn’t it. Rick Baker’s make-up and Eddie Murphy’s performances — the perfect combination. I’d have happily paid £2.50 just for that.
#admitonedaily #comingtoamerica #eddiemurphy #johnlandis #1980smovies #ticketstub
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Who knew this particular ’80s body-swap flop was written by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais of Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet fame? I certainly didn’t.
Also, this makes two films in a row where someone takes a blow to the nards.
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The Goonies mashed up with classic movie monsters, written by Shane Black and directed by Fred ‘Night of the Creeps’ Dekker. Right in my late-’80s wheelhouse. Currently available on Amazon if you fancy it.
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It’s interesting looking back at which films outgrow their original release. Hairspray is clearly one of those.
I would have gone to see the original because it was a John Waters film, but I don’t really remember how much I enjoyed it.I’ve never seen the stage musical nor the 2007 remake.
#admitonedaily #hairspray1987 #johnwaters #movies #tickets #ticketstub
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From a time when if Billy Crystal was in it, you’d go see it.
Feels like this one’s largely been forgotten.#admitonedaily #throwmommafromthetrain #billycrystal #dannydevito #movies #tickets #ticketstub
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I have no recollection of this movie. The Wikipedia synopsis sounds bonkers and the trailer on YouTube looks terrible.
Although judging by the comments, some people seem to have very fond memories of it.
https://callsheetapp.com/movie/35151
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Another baby movie, but a considerably more successful one.
But then what do you expect with Selleck, Guttenberg & Danson holding the baby, and Spock calling the shots.Don’t expect to see Three Men and a Little Lady in a future post.
I didn’t go and see that.