#1996 movies

[movieseverymonth]

Bound (1996)

dir. The Wachowskis

#bound 1996 #1996 movies #movies #cinemetography #jennifer tilly #gina gershon #crime #thriller #wlw

[verecore]

"Fear" 1996

Dir. James Foley

Reese Witherspoon as Nicole Walker

Mark Wahlberg as David McCall

#Fear 1996 #1996 movies #drama film #reese witherspoon #mark wahlberg #james foley #90s movies

[sumoscorner]

Haru (1996) dir. Yoshimitsu Morita

#cinephile #film #cinematography #film stills #yoshimitsu morita #Haru #1996 #1996 movies #japanese #japanese cinema #Eri Fukatsu #Seiyo Uchino

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Black and White October

The Portrait of a Lady / Nicole Kidman as Isabel Archer

I've never seen this movie, and it doesn't seem to be available anywhere for streaming or even for rent! But the pictures of this dress intrigued me, and I did find a good analysis of the costumes over at Frockflicks. It looks like Isabel wears a good deal of white in the early part of the movie and moves into darker colors as the story progresses; this dress, then, would represent the beginning of darkness creeping into her life, story, and wardrobe. The vine-y patterns, while beautiful, do give a feeling of snaking in to entangle her. And maybe the parasol is like a spiderweb?

...But of course, if you ignore the symbolism, it's quite a pretty dress! And the parasol makes it extra-striking. The costumes were designed by Janet Patterson, who also designed The Piano, among other films.

#the portrait of a lady #black and white october #nicole kidman #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #period film #isabel archer #victorian era #victorian style #victorian fashion #1996 films #1996 movies #henry james #1870s fashion

[randomcapz]

Feeling Minnesota (1996).

#Feeling Minnesota #Cameron Diaz #1990s #90s movies #1996 movies #Steven Baigelman #screencaps #screenshots #random screenshots #movie screenshots #movie screencaps #1990's

[adamwatchesmovies]

Dragonheart (1996)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. This accomplishment deserves recognition. With that established...

Dragonheart may be a nostalgic darling for many, but not for me. Look beyond the beloved childhood memories and you’ll see it for what it is, a badly-written plot filled with flat characters and fantasy clichés.

After her son is critically wounded, Queen Aislinn (Julie Christie) begs a nearby dragon for help. Draco (Sean Connery) saves the boy's life by giving him half his heart. Years later, Einon (David Thewlis) has plunged the land into despair. Holding dragons responsible for the tyrant's behavior, knight Bowen (Dennis Quaid) has nearly wiped them out. When Draco and Bowen find that they have a common enemy in the ruthless king, they become determined to set the land free.

While the film had good special effects for the time, they have not aged well. That’s not a big deal when you have a top-notch screenplay. Too bad you won't find one here. Watching Dragonheart made me realize that Hollywood's determination to make dragons awesome has made them impossible to work with. Medieval drawings of dragons showed horse-sized lizards with extra eyes, too many (or too few) legs and dog-like faces. I can picture a man with a spear and armour taking that down. Take a look at the beast in this movie. Draco can fly, breathe fire, his tail can split full-grown trees with one swoop, he’s got foot-long claws on his hands and feet, a mouth big enough to swallow a man whole, can swim, is as intelligent as a human and can camouflage himself to the point of near invisibility. The thing’s a flying cataclysm! We hear his kind are regularly slain by knights, but we never see it done because the film knows how powerful Draco is. He single-handedly turns the tide in the last act when the peasants under Einon’s brutal rule finally decide to stage a revolt. If the creature had any brains, the creatures would bathe every inch of soil around them in flames, never land, and rule the world. The movie would’ve never even happened.

Dragonheart doesn’t know what it wants to be. While Draco comically goofs off, people are getting their eyeballs burned out, Dina Meyer is threatened with rape and peasants are being massacred en-masse by knights. A significant amount of the running time has Draco and Bowen learning to set aside their differences while conning entire villages out of their money. You wonder when they'll stand up to the one-dimensional Einon, who probably spends his night strangling puppies for fun. He’s every other kind of evil, so why not?

I could keep complaining about the way characters have to act a specific way for the film to end the way the  writer Charles Edward Pogue wants to, but that's a detail. What matters are the characters. They’re either over-the-top, unlikable, or stupid. Sean Connery may be memorable as Draco, but is it because of the role, or is it his voice?

While Dragonheart had its time in the spotlight and even spanned a minor franchise, the film has no staying power - and not only because of the dated special effects. (On DVD, February 11, 2018)

#Dragonheart #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Rob Cohen #dragons #Charles Edward pogue #Dennis Quaid #David Thewlis #Pete Postelthwaite #Dina Meyer #Julie Christie #Sean Connery #1996 movies #1996 films

[kevinsreviewcatalogue]

Review: Jingle All the Way (1996)

 Jingle All the Way (1996)

Rated PG for action violence, mild language and some thematic elements

<Originally posted at https://kevinsreviewcatalogue.blogspot.com/2023/12/review-jingle-all-way-1996.html>

Score: 3 out of 5

Now this is a Christmas movie I am nostalgic for. In its day, Jingle All the Way was a film that critics roasted on an open fire, seeing it as a symbol of Arnold Schwarzenegger's career decline in the '90s after years as the man who redefined what an action hero was, and it's easy to see why. It's a broad, farcical spoof of holiday consumerism with a ridiculous plot, Schwarzenegger playing for broad laughs instead of the straight man roles he excelled in when he normally did comedies, and a shamelessly schmaltzy ending, one where the only way to enjoy it is to recognize that you're watching a live-action Saturday morning cartoon. But it's also a film that knows what it is and does absolutely nothing to get in the way of that enjoyment. Schwarzenegger acquits himself surprisingly well playing the funny man for a change, the outrageousness of some of the directions the story takes are amusing just on the face of it, and while it's kind of wobbly for much of the first hour, it pulls itself together in the third act, ironically just as the plot goes really off the rails. It's easy to envision a much better version of this movie, but the film we got still has a lot to like about it, be it for your kids or for your inner child.

Schwarzenegger's character is named Howard Langston, but it would probably be easier to just call him Movie Dad, because that's basically the broad, instantly recognizable family movie archetype he's playing here: the upper-middle-class suburbanite father who's successful on the surface but is so caught up in his job that he constantly disappoints his wife and son back home, and has to learn a hard lesson about how to be a family man and not let work consume him. His wife Liz is starting to fall for the affections of their lecherous divorced neighbor Ted, who seems like he could become everything that Howard isn't when he's not hitting on every other woman in the neighborhood, while his son Jamie has found a surrogate father figure in Turbo-Man, the TV superhero whose action figure is the hottest toy this Christmas. Problem is, it's already the night of December 23, and even though Jamie told his dad what he wanted for Christmas weeks ago, Howard still hasn't picked up the toy. Thus begins his long quest on Christmas Eve across every mall and toy store in Minnesota to get his hands on a Turbo-Man action figure and hopefully salvage what's left of his relationship with his son.

The main body of the movie is mostly non-stop gags. Ahnold fights other shoppers more than once, chases a little girl at the Mall of America who accidentally snagged his ticket for one store's limited run of action figures, discovers a conspiracy of mall Santas and elves selling bootleg toys from Mexico, gets in a fight with a reindeer, and crosses paths several times with Myron Larabee, a blue-collar mailman played by Sinbad who's also looking for a Turbo-Man action figure and becomes Harold's main rival over the course of the film. The film tilts at satirizing the commercialism of the holiday season, from Myron's story about how watching "Santa" give the rich kids more presents ruined his life growing up to the requisite sappy ending about how the true meaning of Christmas is about family rather than having the hottest toy for Christmas, but it's all pretty shallow. This is as straightforward a family comedy as they come, a movie packed with gags that often hit thanks purely to how over-the-top they are, culminating in a finale at a parade where, thanks to shenanigans, Howard winds up actually becoming the fictional superhero Jamie idolizes and he's spent the entire movie looking for an action figure of.

Schwarzenegger is game for all of it, the role playing less to his physicality than to his goofiness. Even the action scenes are staged for comedy, like they were written with a far less jacked comic actor in mind to play Howard. I bought him as a stressed-out suburban dad watching his life fall apart, the over-the-top manner in which he was playing it lending to the film's gleefully campy, farcical tone. His irrepressible Austrian accent does create a plot hole late in the film, but the presence of that accent in a Schwarzenegger flick is like the characters in a musical breaking out into song -- you just go with it and don't ask questions. Unfortunately, I can't say I enjoyed most of the supporting characters in the film. Sinbad was clearly having fun playing Myron and did his best to elevate him, but the way he's written often switched on a dime from somebody trying to be Harold's buddy to a stone-cold madman whose obsession with getting a Turbo-Man doll approaches Gollum levels. Given his role as the film's main antagonist, he deserved at least a coherent characterization. Rita Wilson, meanwhile, felt wasted as Liz, Jake Lloyd felt like background scenery as Jamie, and while Phil Hartman played a great sleazeball as Ted, his character barely affected the plot and deserved a much better comeuppance. The best supporting characters were the one-scene wonders who crossed paths with Howard, from Jim Belushi's mall Santa who runs a bootleg toy operation to the overeager technician who gives Harold a quick crash course in controlling the Turbo-Man suit he gets forced into wearing in the third act.

The Bottom Line

It's dumb fun, but it's still fun, and elevated by Arnold Schwarzenegger and its unapologetic embrace of how ridiculous it is. It's no classic, but it's still a nice, candy-coated Christmas treat.

#jingle all the way #1996 #1996 movies #comedy #comedy movies #christmas movies #holiday movies #family film #kids movies #arnold schwarzenegger #sinbad #phil hartman #jim belushi #rita wilson #jake lloyd

[nyaslashthreat]

shout out to when i told my dad about goncharov and he figured out it was fake because i told him "1973 martin scorsese film with robert de niro" and he said that wasn't possible because the godfather came out in 1972 and the godfather part II came out in 1974 and they wouldn't have had time to make a movie in between. a perfectly good jest, foiled by this man's weird and vast knowledge set

#edit i remembered this incorrectly #i confused robert de niro with al pacino he was actually what tipped my dad off #i'll be honest i've never seen the godfather? the only mafia movies i've watched are goodfellas and 1996 lesbian masterpiece bound #so i'm not really familiar with the genre lol #EDIT AGAIN IF ANYONE CARES: I HAVE SEEN GODFATHER PART I AND II NOW. I KNOW HOW WRONG I WAS. WHY DID THIS GO UP 500 NOTES IT'S BEEN MONTHS #goncharov #goncharov 1973 #eddie genius posting

[ya-prosto-super]

I haven't posted this here so now is the time to do it🎃✌🏻

#scream #scream 1996 #billy loomis #edward scissorhands #carrie #carrie 1976 #the craft #nancy downs #halloween #halloween 1978 #michael myers #horror movies

[xxviviennevincentxx]

Scream (1996)

SLC Punk! (1998)

Senseless (1998)

Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Scooby-Doo (2002)

Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

#Matthew Lillard #actors #Scream #scream 1996 #scream 96 #SLC Punk #SLC Punk 1998 #SLC punk 98 #Senseless #senseless 1998 #senseless 98 #thirteen ghosts #thirteen ghosts 2001 #five nights at freddy's #five night's at freddy's 2023 #fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf movie 2023 #scooby doo #scooby doo 2002 #stu macher #Tim LaFlour #Stevo Levy #Shaggy #dennis rafkin #William Afton #horror #comedy #I love him sm #i <3 matthew lillard

[verecore]

"Sleepers" 1996

Dir. Barry Levinson.

From left to right:

Brad Renfro as Michael Sullivan

Jonathan Tucker as Tommy Marcano

Kevin Bacon as Sean Nokes

Joe Perrino as Lorenzo 'shakes' Carcaterra

Geoffrey Wigdor as John Riley

#sleepers #1996 movies #jonathan tucker #kevin bacon #brad renfro #joe perrino #geoffrey Wigdor #robert deniro #drama film #90s movies

[jaredgriffin2002]

Ralph (1996)

Once upon a time, in a far away land, there lived an wrecker named Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly) whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying characters. They were all banished from their kingdom by the evil Lord Jafar (Jonathan Freeman). Determined to save their home -- not to mention his -- Ralph cuts a deal with Jafar and sets out to rescue Princess Merida (Mandy Moore) to be Jafar's bride. Rescuing the Princess may be small compared to her deep, dark secret.

Coming Soon

#Ralph #1996 #1996 movies #20th century fox #blue sky studios #united saints studios #movie

[breathtakinglymiraculous]

Bound (1996) dir. The Wachowskis Movies watched in 2024

#bound #bound 1996 #jennifer tilly #gina gershon #the wachowskis #fyeahmovies #dailyflicks #userfilm #motionpicturesource #wlwsource #filmedit #movies #filmgifs #moviegifs #doyouevenfilm #useroptional #cinemapix #cinematicsource #romancegifs #dailylgbtq #blood tw #elsieedits #elsieedits24 #1kn

[zombie-jed]

“They didn’t give Afton a motive”

Did Norman Bates have a motive? Nope. Did they ever really decide why Hannibal Lecter liked to eat people? Don't think so. You see, it's a lot scarier when there's no motive, Sid.

#GUYS STOP TAKING THIS POST SERIOUSLY IM LITERALLY JUST QUOTING SCREAM DHGFJDK #he’s a child murderer what fuckin motive do you want him to have? #fnaf movie #scream 1996 #fnaf #william afton #five nights at freddy's #springtrap #matthew lillard #scream quotes

[adamwatchesmovies]

Up Close and Personal (1996)

While watching Up Close and Personal, I kept having the nagging feeling I’d seen all of this before and had just blocked out most of it. This romantic comedy is so bland it’s exactly the kind of movie you would watch once, sell for $1 at a garage sale and then accidentally buy again years later, only for the cycle to repeat itself.

Miami station manager Warren Justice (Robert Redford) sees something in aspiring news anchor Sally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) and hires her. She has no real experience but under his tutelage, she grows her talents as a journalist. Unfortunately, the natural drama of the news world and their attraction to each other threatens to derail her career.

The problem with the film begins right away. Robert Redford is a handsome guy but he’s not “get away with dating Michelle Pfeiffer” handsome. The dude’s 21 years her senior. It doesn’t help that he starts off as her boss, reinvents her for the television with a new name (Tally) and that when the movie begins, he’s already been married and divorced twice. Worst of all, they have no chemistry. I know the film is based on the life of Jessica Beth Savitch but between this film and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, I think the Will Ferrell film is more accurate. I didn’t do any research and in fact, Jessica Savitch died before I was even born but I can’t believe this film has any resemblance to the truth; it’s merely a collection of romantic drama clichés floating in a soup of TV journalism jargon. This movie isn’t interested in what it means to be a news anchor, what responsibilities come with that position, or anything like that. Everything about it is surface and by the time it tries to make a point, not only is it too late but what it has to say isn’t novel or provocative in any way so it feels unearned.

The film begins with Sally already a big success and the rest of the story is told in flashback. You’re so bored by the romance you think something else is going to happen, maybe a murder mystery, or a scandal, or something. There is an off-hand remark about a cross-dresser early on, and someone whispers something about a sex-change operation. You keep hoping something will happen. Even if it's bad or tasteless, it doesn't matter. You just want some sort of jolt of electricity to zap you awake. You don’t get any. The meat of the story is the mushy stuff and Sally’s big break? it won’t engage you because you already know she'll survive the dangerous situation she finds herself in.

I can’t criticize the actors necessarily for this film’s ultimate failure. Pfeiffer and Redford are well suited for these roles - they just don’t work together. The real culprits are writers Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne or, more likely, the suits who forced them to work and re-work this story until it became this beige soap opera - Touchstone Pictures a.k.a. the Walt Disney Company. At least the film features a great musical theme by the most beloved of Canadian musical treasures the world has seen: Celine Dion.

I guarantee you I won’t remember Up Close and Personal a few weeks from now -

*Wait*

I HAVE seen this movie before! I just didn’t see the old file saved on my computer because I spelled the title with an ampersand the first time! !@#$!@#!@!!!!! (May 20, 2022)

#Up close and personal #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #john avnet #joan didion #john gregory dunne #robert redford #michelle pfeiffer #stockard channing #joe mantegna #kate nelligan #glenn plummer #james rebhorn #1996 movies #1996 films

[santacarlahorrorshow]

Favorite Lines To Quote: Scream (1996)

#scream #horror movies #horroredit #horror #classichorrorblog #userbrittany #junkfooddaily #userstream #userbbelcher #filmedit #billy loomis #stu macher #sidney prescott #randy meeks #matthew lillard #skeet ulrich #neve campbell #scream 1996 #ghostface #quotes #my edit #blood tw #gun tw