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Showing posts with label Sylvester Stallone. Show all posts
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9/21/2019

Rambo: Last Blood (2019) or, Rambo: Mexico Cleanup!

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Sylvester Stallone's Vietnam hero's arguably becoming a Halloween-type revenge-set human ghoul is obvious in this stylized, great poster for Adrian Grünberg's Rambo: Last Blood

Vietnam veteran John Rambo has build a quiet life for himself on his Arizona ranch, but as a step-father for young woman Gabrielle, he now must alert himself to new strife, as she insists on exploring her alienated father in Mexico.

Rambo: Last Blood is written by Matthew Cirulnick (Paid in Full (2002)) and co-writer/star Sylvester Stallone (F.I.S.T (1978)), with Dan Gordon (The Hurricane (1999)) supplying story elements, and directed by Adrian Grünberg (Get the Gringo (2012)). It is the 5th film in the Rambo franchise that has previous chapters; First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988) and Rambo (2008).
Stallone returns with impressive physique, especially since he is 73 years old today, and his face is a chapter in itself; the hang-dog expression, bulges and furrows that make him look like no other 73 year-old: certainly a life of training, violence (most of it staged), steroids and who knows what cosmetic alterations have made Stallone's face unique to the point where he almost appears a new Halloween monster, right up there with Karloff's Mummy, Dracula and Freddy Krueger.
The first scenes show us that Rambo still feels impelled to help out his fellow man when possible, saving a young woman in a raging storm on a mountain. His life with live-in maid Maria and adoptive daughter Gabrielle is as close to idyllic as this traumatized killing machine will ever get. But Rambo lives mostly in his dirt cave system underneath the ranch, a clue to understanding the depths of his knowledge of human darkness.
Gabrielle's rebellious trip to Mexico doesn't end well, (the film teaches us to never trust anyone by the name Gizelle, and also shows us that all Mexican men, (which are almost restricted to cops and cartel gangsters in Rambo: Last Blood), are violent, misogynistic rapists. SPOILER Rambo tries to save Gabrielle but the gangsters' evil claims her life, apparently necessary for the elaborately creative death-trap plans that Rambo then sets up at his ranch, luring evil home for his bloody reckoning.
No one expects a masterpiece with Rambo V. And there are plenty of things to wonder about and half-way flaws in the writing: Where is the violent rainstorm, when Rambo has ridden back to his ranch on his horse? Why does a casual line from one of the villains about 17,000 girls trafficked by them in a year not get followed up? How did the convoy of armed villains drive straight into the US and to Rambo's ranch? And so on and so forth.
These objections are not too important, but what does impede the film are other elements: Paz Vega (Not Forgotten (2009)) is a Mexican journalist, who lost her sister to the cartel and who helps Rambo, - but then leaves the story again. The main cartel villains are two brothers, but as characters and villains they are wholly forgettable. Gabrielle's ordeal and the story on the whole could have done with some more brains; clever writing and unforeseen developments are not Rambo: Last Blood's main forte. But it brings the violent carnage that its pulpy title promises and is still better than the franchise's lowest ebb quality-wise, Rambo III.

Related post:

Adrian Grünberg: Get the Gringo/How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2012) - Mexico is just a little merrier with Mel Gibson







Stallone talks about the film in a 3-minute video here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: Unknown yet
= Unknown yet
[Rambo: Last Blood premiered 18 September (Indonesia) and runs 89 minutes. Pre-production was started and stopped several times with different plot ideas since the flop of Rambo (2008). Shooting took place in Bulgaria and Spain from October - December 2018. The film is opening against other major releases Ad Astra and Downtown Abbey. It is opening next week in France, Chile, Colombia, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and Spain and in Argentina 10 October. Talks of the Rambo franchise's future, coming from Stallone, center on a prequel about the character before and during his time as a soldier in the Vietnam War, which may or may not come to fruition. Grünberg does not have an announced next directing gig. Stallone is announced to star in 3 upcoming films; Tough as They Come, The Expendables 4 and Scarpa. Rambo: Last Blood is rotten at 36 % with a 4.58/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Rambo: Last Blood?

3/20/2018

First Blood (1982) - Stallone and Kotcheff's powerful Vietnam War classic

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Sylvester Stallone, a star so great at the time that his first name is simply left out on the top of this poster, poses with a machine gun against a thundering sky on this dramatic poster for Ted Kotcheff's First Blood

John J. Rambo, a Green Beret veteran of the Vietnam War, gets into a deadly fix back in his own country, when an uncouth sheriff targets him, and his survival skills and commanding officer get involved in the affair.

First Blood, written by Michael Kozoll (Hill Street Blues (1981-87)), William Sackheim (The Competition (1980)) and co-writer and star, great New-Yorker filmmaker Sylvester Stallone (Zookeeper (2011)), based on the same-titled 1972 novel by David Morell (The Naked Edge (2010)), and directed by great Canadian filmmaker Ted Kotcheff (Life at the Top (1965)), is an excellent Vietnam War movie. I esteem it at level in quality with Michael Cimino's great The Deer Hunter (1978), only whereas Deer Hunter is a war drama, First Blood is a war actioner.
Stallone is terrific as Rambo, a character who experiences getting treated as trash in the country he went to war for, and one that allows him to react by striking a proper punch again; (First Blood was released after his three first, wildly successful Rocky boxing movies, which came out in 1976, 1979 and 1982.) First Blood is gripping because it portrays so forcefully how completely inefficiently society treated, - and in some cases still treat, - returned war veterans.
In First Blood's supporting parts, Richard Crenna (Joshua's World (1980)) plays Rambo's colonel with subtle refinement, and Brian Dennehy (Welcome to Paradise (2007)) is good as the mean sheriff.
First Blood is a true classic. 

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Mentioned movie: The Deer Hunter (1978) - Cimino's great, colossal Vietnam epic 






Play this video to listen to a great piece from Jerry Goldsmith's score for the film

Cost: 15 mil. $
Box office: 125.2 mil. $
= Mega-hit
[First Blood was released 22 October (USA) and runs 93 minutes. Morell's novel's rights were sold for 75k $ in '72, and several big names tried to put together a film of it, before Stallone and Kotcheff began filming, among them Richard Brooks, Martin Ritt, Sydney Pollack, John Badham, John Frankenheimer, countless stars and writers, and reportedly 18 script versions. Stallone decided that Rambo must survive at the end of the film. Shooting took place in British Colombia, Canada from November 1981 - ?. More than 50 of the firearms that were imported into Canada for the shoot were reportedly stolen from the set. The film opened #1 to a 6.6 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed #1 for 3 consecutive weeks and spent a further 4 weeks in the top 5 (#2-#2-#3-#3) and grossed 47.2 mil. $ (37.7 % of the total gross). It was the 13th highest-grossing film in North America of the year. Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, translating to a notch harder than this one. It was neglected completely in terms of awards. Kotcheff returned with Uncommon Valor (1983), and Stallone with an uncredited walk-on in Staying Alive (1983) and a starring part in Rhinestone (1984). First Blood started the Rambo franchise that continued with Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988) and Rambo (2008), all with Stallone, who canceled a 5th Rambo film in 2016 and said that he was retiring the character. An animated series, Rambo: The Force of Freedom, was released and canceled in 1986, and an Indian remake is in the makes for a late 2018 release. First Blood is certified fresh at 88 % with a 7.1 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of First Blood?

6/16/2016

The Expendables (2010) - Stallone's unification of action legends is great fun

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2 Film Excess nominations:

Best Director: Sylvester Stallone (lost to Sofia Coppola for Somewhere)
Best Practical Effects (lost to Inception)
 
+ Best Action Movie of the Year
+ Best Ensemble of the Year



The fierce, gun-crazed poster for Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables

The Expendables are a team of mercenaries, about four older guys and one Chinaman (Jet Li (War (2007)), and they get hired by a man named Mr. Church to take down a South-American dictator.

The Expendables, written by Dave Callaham (Doom (2005)) and co-writer-director-star Sylvester Stallone (Rocky II (1979)), is an event in and of itself. It brings together the heaviest artillery in the American action genre in a way that hasn't ever been seen before: Stallone, Li, Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator (1984)), Bruce Willis (Die Hard (1988)), Dolph Lundgren (The Punisher (1989)), Mickey Rourke (Bullet (1996)), Jason Statham (The Transporter (2002)) and more. In a movie that - for a fan of the genre mind you - really works. Just about everything explodes, while the dialog is sharp and the rock rumbles on the soundtrack.
"Looking for wörk?", as Arnold asks at one point in the film. - And 'hell yeah', we might respond as grateful, action-loving audiences!

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Cop Land (1997) - Stallone faces corruption and turns in some good acting in fine crime drama 
Demolition Man (1993) - Romantic sci-fi popcorner from the good ol' action days of yore
Cobra (1986) - Stallone and Nielsen glitter in lowbrow action fare
Death Race 2000 (1975) - AIP's dystopic car smash






Here are the stars of the film at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con to promote it

Cost: 82 mil. $
Box office: 274.5 mil. $
= Box office success
[The Expendables premiered August 3 (Hollywood) and runs 103 minutes. The film is a reworking of a 2005 script by Callaham titled Barrow. Filming took place from April - July 2009 in Brazil, Louisiana and LA. The film opened #1 with a 34.8 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed on top for another week with about half as big a take, grossing 103 mil. $ (37.5 % of the total gross). The film's 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were China with 31.7 mil. $ (11.5 %) and the UK with 15.9 mil. $ (5.8 %). The Expendables is rotten at 41 % with a 5.2 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of The Expendables?

8/11/2015

Death Race 2000 (1975) - AIP's dystopic car smash

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The totally awesome poster for Paul Bartel's Death Race 2000

QUICK REVIEW:

In the year 2000, the US has become a semi-Nazi police state, where the greatest sports heroes are called Frankenstein and Machine Gun Joe, who compete at who can kill the most people in the Death Race.

Death Race 2000 is written by Robert Thoms (Crazy Mama (1975)) and Charles B. Griffiths (The Wild Angels (1966)), who wrote the finished shooting script. It is based on the short story The Racer by the recently passed Ib Melchior (The Angry Red Planet (1959)). It boasts an original idea for a car sci-fi action movie, which is well-executed here by director Paul Bartel (Carquake (1976)).
Producer Roger Corman (The Terror Within (1989)) is in his element behind this kind of film, and David Carradine (Kung Fu (1972)) is perfect in the role as the killing machine Frankenstein, while his soon-to-be superstar co-actor Sylvester Stallone (Stop! Or Mom Will Shoot (1992)) mostly just yells ugly things.
The effects are fun, and the film is morally indefensible as entertainment for its core audience, young people, which is the case for most of the edgy 70s exploitation flicks. Death Race 2000 rocks!




Cost: 0.3-0.53 mil. $
Box office: 5-8 mil. $
= Huge hit
[The shoot had been plagued by script problems, bad weather, a stressed-out star (Carradine) and big time restraints due to the low budget. Death Race 2000 became one of Corman's American International Pictures' biggest successes.  They made a comic book series based on it in the 90s, and it was remade in 2008, (a much inferior film.) Carradine was paid 10 % of the gross, which AIP only did with him and Ron Howard. Roger Ebert changed his opinion about the film, from his original zero-star review, to later calling it part of "a great tradition of summer drive-in movies". The film is fresh at 85 % on Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Death Race 2000?

9/18/2014

Cobra (1986) - Stallone and Nielsen glitter in lowbrow action fare

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Sylvester Stallone is both 'the cure against crime' and the 'strong arm of the law' in the tag-lines for George P. Cosmatos' Cobra

QUICK REVIEW:

Lieutenant Cobretti has a knack for figuring out the really ugly criminals and fight them, - with lead! Now, his assignment is to protect a long-limbed supermodel, while he is also fighting an army of psychopaths!
Sylvester Stallone (Cop Land (1997)) and Brigitte Nielsen (Red Sonja (1985)) were married at the time of shooting Cobra, and there is true romance going on between them here, which makes their scenes together all the more enjoyable.  
Cobra also offers solid action and one-liners galore. There's a terrific car chase and plenty of exciting shoot-outs and well-made fights. As to an explanation of what the psychopaths really want, or why they have organized themselves in a small, deranged army...! But ... Stallone wrote the film himself, and what it may lack in depth or societal insight, it makes up for in  action and hard-to-resist 1980's quality: One scene feels more like a music video, the pop and bobbed hairdos, - all is very 80s.
Curiously, it was axed by critics at its release, who were very upset by its violence and had a very hard time seeing the enjoyable aspects of the film. Its original edit was 130 minutes, but it was then shortened more and more to its present 87 minute playtime. Partly to dodge an X-rating, (the initial version was apparently quite gruesome), and partly to receive more show-times in cinemas. The cut that exists now is still pretty violent and has several scenes of women getting chased or attacked by maniacs. The long cut with all the more gruesome stuff is, grievously, lost. Among Cobra's contemporary fans are Danish master director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive (2011)).
Cobra was officially directed by Florentine director George P. Cosmatos (Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)), although some from the production have claimed that Stallone was Cobra's real director. It is even rumored that Cosmatos was used only as a ghost director and also served as such on Tombstone (1993), which star Kurt Russell is said to have really directed. Disregarding whether or not this is myth or fact, Cobra and Stallone definitely come out on top, compared to the flawed, boring and overly long Tombstone.

Watch the 80's-glistening, original trailer here

Cost: 25 mil. $

Box office: 160 mil. $
= Big hit

What do you think of Cobra?

8/30/2014

The Expendables 3 (2014) - Stars flock in really ugly action clonker

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+ 2nd Worst Movie of the Year


The impressive action ensemble - missing only Robert Davi - posing for Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3


One of the original, now defected expendables reappears in Somalia and makes a mess for mercenary leader Barney Ross and co. He then decides that young meat is the solution to the problem, but soon only lands himself and the Expendables group in deeper troubles.

 
The third Expendables movie has stacked a somewhat 'impossible' movie for itself suspense-wise, because the entry is so incredibly bizarre and over-stuffed star/character-wise. It lacks fun, it lacks excitement and thrills, it lacks chemistry, and the visuals are often as artificial and unappealing as the dialog scenes are wooden and unnatural. Digital recordings of varying quality are spliced together with uncalled for CGI solutions, and the photography generally lacks craftsmanship and finesse.
None of the veteran stars make a dent impression-wise here in paper-thin, phony, ridiculous parts.
The young, new actors in the film (Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Glen Powell and Victor Ortiz) also don't make much of an impression, (and could therefore all be killed off in the start of a 4th movie I think, if they are even brought back.)
Expendables 3 sporadically has action with some bite and enjoyment to it, and the sole heart here goes to its stunt team.
The film is directed by the young Patrick Hughes, who has previously made the action thriller Red Hill (2010).

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Here, another poster, - this time excluding new-comers Glen Powell and Victor Ortiz, - for Patrick Hughes' The Expendables 3

Watch the insane, and awesome, trailer - with The Colonel Bogey March and Eminem, - for the film right here

Cost: 90 mil. $
Box office: 214.6 mil. $
= Minor flop

What do you think of The Expendables 3?
Are you in agreement about the slack that we ought to cut it?
- Wanna see the franchise live on along with Film Excess?

7/23/2014

Cop Land (1997) - Stallone faces corruption and turns in some good acting in fine crime drama

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+ Best Crime Drama of the Year


Big leading men on the poster for James Mangold's Cop Land


QUICK REVIEW:

A taciturn cop in Garrison, New Jersey (Sylvester Stallone (First Blood (1982)) will have to be stumped on his feet many times, before he decides to clean up his town.
Cop Land is a very well-played cop crime thriller with a dream cast who all worked for scale to make it happen: Harvey Keitel (The Piano (1993)), Robert Patrick (The Sopranos (2000)), Robert De Niro (Casino (1995)) and Ray Liotta (Goodfellas (1990)) are some of the dirty cops, but Stallone trumps them all in his best acting performance to date. 
The film is well-written and directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line (2005)), who is unfortunately now fixed on throwing years of his career away into yet another superfluous Wolverine film. Before Cop Land, Mangold had only made one other feature, the romantic drama Heavy (1995).
Cop Land may not be unforgettable, but SPOILER the shoot-out at the end with the tinnitus is hard to forget and has real power, and it is a fine movie.
Paradoxically, considering its relatively small budget, this was a star-studded Miramax production with some very high pressure on its shoulders, and although it received good reviews and made money, it still wasn't considered enough. Stallone went out in 2008 to say that Cop Land "hurt" his career and started "the beginning of the end, for about 8 years". He's back in business now, and it's curious to think that he thought himself down for those 8 years considering the credits he still have from the period, but now, apparently, Stallone wants to risk career-slump again, because he is venturing out of the action genre for some 'real' acting again now in John Herzfeld's upcoming Reach Me (2014).

 

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Sylvester Stallone gained 40 lbs. to play Sheriff Freddy Heflin in James Mangold's Cop Land


Watch the trailer here

Cost: 15 mil. $
Box office: 44.8 mil. $ (US and Canada only)
= Big hit

What do you think of Cop Land?

5/23/2014

The Expendables 2 (2012) - An over-packed action hot-air balloon

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Explosive poster for Simon West's The Expendables 2

QUICK REVIEW:

The mercenary group of 'expendables' owe money to Church (Bruce Willis (Die Hard (1988)) and therefore take a job, which kills their young sniper.
After this, the plot seems like a rehash of some 80's left-overs; a maniac (Jean-Claude Van Damme (Bloodsport (1988)) with plutonium arrives, and there's also the obligatory revenge.
Unfortunately, this is a bad sequel to the energetic predecessor. The plot is unexciting and old hat. Mickey Rourke has vanished from the group without explanation, and instead we get an uncharismatic Chinese woman (Nan Yu (Beijing Love Story (2014)) and a lot of Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator (1984))-Bruce Willis-Chuck Norris (The Delta Force (1986)) interplay, which unfortunately just isn't very cool. They babble post-modernistic-style around old lines and other action movie references, which almost only works to blow even more air into an already floating construction, this rather bizarre gathering of action star veterans.


Front-man Sylvester Stallone (Rocky (1976)) has said that he thinks this film is much better than the first one, which only shows how wrong the person behind movies can often be about their own creations. - Right around now, he is telling folks in Cannes that with Expendables 3, - hitting cinemas everywhere in August, - they really got it right ... Well, we'll see about that.
Simon West (Con Air (1997)) directed The Expendables 2, which was biggest outside of the US, and particularly in China, where it beat The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spiderman with a stunning 54 mil. $ in its first 35 days there.
Trivia about the film includes that a stunt man got killed during its long location shoot in Bulgaria, where the film was also sued and fined for environmental damage in the cave seen in the film, where scores of endangered bats apparently died due to the production.
West's next film will be a Jason Statham-starring movie called Wild Card (2014).


Tasteless? - Oh yes. The Expendables 2 last supper advertising gimmick


Watch the trailer for the film here, which looks a lot more exciting than the actual film is

Watch the teaser currently out for The Expendables 3 here

Budget: 100 mil. $
Box office: 311.9 mil. $
= Big hit

What do you think of the first two Expendables films?
Are you looking forward to the coming third chapter?

7/06/2013

Demolition Man (1993) - Romantic sci-fi popcorner from the good ol' action days of yore

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+ Best Action Movie of the Year 


The over-the-top, funny poster for Marco Brambilla's Demolition Man

Demolition Man is a fun mix of romance, comedy, action and science fiction.

Bad egg LA criminal Simon Phoenix is caught by heroic cop John Spartan in the violent Los Angeles of 1996, but both are then frozen for 40 years. When Phoenix breaks out in 2036, Spartan is de-frozen to catch him in a dystopic, ultra-serene future metropolis.
 
The uncommon dystopia, where future people have simply become too nice and peaceful, is very interesting, and the future folk are certainly ridiculous in Demolition Man.
The film is heightened by gags, action references and comedy throughout, - like Sandra Bullock's (Gravity (2013)) 'sex scene' with Sylvester Stallone (Creed (2015)), or the three sea shell business, (no one who sees the movie seems to forget this funny detail.)
Along with being a fine action production, Demolition Man has a very entertaining cast that all give it their best: Stallone vs. Wesley Snipes (Blade (1998)) are both acting, in between shootouts, - Bullock and handsome Benjamin Bratt (Despicable Me 2 (2013)), Dennis Leary (The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)), Rob Schneider (The Animal (2001)) and the wonderful Glenn Shadix (Beetlejuice (1988)) in small parts. Shadix tragically passed away in 2010, but he is a joy in Demolition Man. He only has very few lines, but so many shots just of his many facial expressions and graceful movement adorning the screen.
The film is entertainment of a very high caliber, and anyone who says they haven't enjoyed watching it is, as far as I am concerned, a liar or should have their head examined.
Unfortunately, action movies today are very rarely as good or as fun as they used to be, and Demolition Man is a good example of this former glory.

To the right, Glenn Shadix, an extraordinary actor with an extraordinary look, here in Marco Brambilla's Demolition Man


Bullock was actually nominated for a Razzie for her part in Demolition Man. - Totally undeserved, as she clearly does everything possible with some very strange, silly and awkward lines, and manages to come across sweet and cool anyway.
The film's Italian director Marco Brambilla (Excess Baggage (1997)) hasn't done much since he suddenly popped up and did this huge movie as his debut feature, a curious feat in any decade. It is written by Daniel Waters (Batman Returns (1992)), Robert Reneau (Action Jackson (1988)) and Peter M. Lenkov (24 (2005), TV-series).
SPOILER The ending of Demolition Man is as over-the-top fun and exciting as the rest of the film: Upon kicking Snipes' frozen head off to shatter on the floor, Stallone runs out of the exploding building, screaming and jumping through iron bars that shatter as he touches them!!
The humor and many fine one-liners of the film mixed with its infectious unpretentiousness really makes it very futile to argue with all the strange coincidences in the plot. So just sit back and enjoy this one.

 

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Top 10: Best future-set movies

Benjamin Bratt, Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock in campy future uniforms in Marco Brambilla's Demolition Man

Here's an ad for the film from Russian TV! Apparently it is the best Youtube can do nowadays ...

Cost: 59-77 mil. $ (different reports)
Box office: 159.1 mil. $
= Box office success or a flop, depending on the precise cost figure (returned somewhere between 2.06 - 2.69 times the cost)
[Demolition Man premiered 7 October and runs 115 minutes. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal and Jackie Chan were initially sought out for the leads. General Motors supplied 18 concept vehicles for the future section of the film. Shooting took place from February - July 1993 in Kentucky and California, including Los Angeles and San Diego. The shoot and budget ballooned from 45 mil. $ to disputed heights. Taco Bell as the sole surviving fast food chain in the future was changed to Pizza Hut in post production for Europe, where Taco Bell was not widely known. The film opened #1 to a 14.2 mil. $ opening weekend in North America, where it spent three consecutive weeks at #1 and another week in the top 5 (#3) and grossed 58 mil. $ (36.5 % of the total gross.) A Hungarian sci-fi writer has claimed that the film is plagiary of one of his novels; however, he hasn't followed up with a lawsuit. A limited DC Comics adaptation, a video game and a pinball machine were made to further exploit the film's success. Brambilla returned with Excess Baggage (1997). Stallone returned in The Specialist (1994), Snipes in Sugar Hills (1993). Demolition Man is fresh at 64 % with a 5.6 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Demolition Man?

Eagerly anticipating this month ... (5-25)

Eagerly anticipating this month ... (5-25)
Kleber Mendonca Filho's The Secret Agent (2025)