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Video Classics
Films to
by Crain Campbell
The Collegian
It's the beginning of a new
semester and the homework is
piling up almost as last as the
snow is falling down. The next
thing you know', there’s five feet
of snow outside your window and
three papers due tomorrow. What
would a true Penn Slater do?
Wateh a few videos obviously.
Drop Dead Fred n
Phoebe Cates of Gremlins
lame stars in this film as a lady
who, as a child, had an imaginary
Iricnd named Drop Dead Fred.
Rick Mayall (who some of you
will recognize from the Young
Ones) plays her imaginary friend.
Calcs was the only one who
could see and hear Fred and
together they were terribly
destructive. They shaved the
neighbor’s cat, painted her friend's
grandmother and destroyed most
of her house - all in childhood
lun.
Cates is now grown up and
after losing her husband, car and
job, her ovcrprotcctive mother
brings her home and that's when
Fred comes back. Fred continues
to be as childlike and
destructively fun as ever as he
tries to help Cates put her life
back together and overcome her
fears.
This movie is hilariously
funny but it also lets us see how
important it is to lead our own
lives and not to let go of the
child inside of us all. Rent this
movie!
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Y'know I've often wondered
just how far an actor with no
talent and only moderate looks
can go. Well obviously Patrick
Sway/.c has gone pretty far. He's
made tons-o-films (of which
'Tiger Warsaw was made in my
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t' Ihe kind of movie Dean Lilley would watch
Siii The kind of movie you should skip class to watch,
C&w Tl,e ki,,d of movie Dave Shields would watch
The kind of movie Police and Safety would watch
hometown) and none of them
were any good.
This one is up to par though.
The only reason I rented this
movie is because the guy from
Bill and Ted's was in it, and also
because it's been a long time
since I've seen a movie about
bank-robbing surfers.
I don't mean to say that this
movie was terribly bad. It does
have a lot of action in it, and the
chase scenes are pretty cool, but
after about an hour the story
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Point Break
your cultural literacy
loses any potential that it
originally may have had.
If you're in the video store and
the only two videos left in the
store are lshtar and Point
Break...well y'know lshtar really
wasn't all that bad.
Terror at the Opera
This horror film was made in
Italy about 10 years ago and I've
been waiting for it to be released
in the United States for about 3
years.
It is directed by the genius
Dario Argcnto whose last film,
Suspiria , was really spooky, so I
couldn’t wait to get a copy of this
movie. I think over the years my
expectations kind of surpassed the
real film.
The film tells the story of an
up-and-coming opera star who is
being plagued by a psychotic
killer. The killer doesn't hurl her,
but he docs tic her up and
slaughter her loved ones in from
of her and, to make sure that she
watches the entire killings, the
madman tapes a row of needles to
her bottom eyelids; that way if
she closes her eyes she'll slice
them to bits'.!!
The film docs have some very
graphic and horrific scenes, but
the dubbing job is poor and the
plot isn't as great as it could be.
A true horror fan who likes
Argcnto will like this film, but
all others may or may not.
Thelma and Louise
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This movie didn't do very well
at the box office even thoimh it
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starred Susan Sarandon and Gccna
Davis. Hopefully the video
market will give this film the
attention it deserves
Sarandon plays an over
worked waitress who is going
with her friend, Davis, to the
mountains for a weekend
vacation. I'm not sure which is
Thelma and which is Louise, hut
that's not important right now.
What is important arc the
problems they run into that ruin
their vacation.
While at a bar, within a few
hours of their departure, both
Thelma and Louise have a few
100 many drinks and one ol them
(I think it was Thelma) gets just
a little too friendly with one of
the locals. He tries to rape her,
but Louise saves the day and
shoots the guy dead. Then
Thelma and Louise arc on the run
to Mexico.
This film is pretty good.
There aren't that many buddy
buddy movies starring women
out there. Go out, rent it and
watch it with a buddy while you
make your spring break plans.
Craig Campbell, a 4ih semester
communication major and the
future Entertainment Editor of
The Collegian, has nothing better
to do than to watch videos.
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