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Written by James M. Tate / 8/14/2023 / No comments / action , adventure , body count , charlie sheen , frank mcrea , harry dean stanton , jennifer grey , johh milius , lea thompson , powers booth , war , william smith

JOHN MILIUS DIRECTS 'RED DAWN' STARRING PATRICK SWAYZE

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOEEf9-VoH8pGxBqdBaSTog_W0gLDEJd-RPKhwqRhOnq3fmIcLpjobTn1W56UZMu0QR3Y2SYFqB_d4NTVBlG5jYFMeWjLKV8e3RRWW0mTP7fRteyMeMsCxjjx5aPdyoxhZFIOhSl9dH0CmkC7kipwJzJzuX5w0MWUQUcNrNLnX5iHOJEWwDETS2WIZjxG/s2506/366355594_1784408195321682_5276256121142775162_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="2506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOEEf9-VoH8pGxBqdBaSTog_W0gLDEJd-RPKhwqRhOnq3fmIcLpjobTn1W56UZMu0QR3Y2SYFqB_d4NTVBlG5jYFMeWjLKV8e3RRWW0mTP7fRteyMeMsCxjjx5aPdyoxhZFIOhSl9dH0CmkC7kipwJzJzuX5w0MWUQUcNrNLnX5iHOJEWwDETS2WIZjxG/s16000/366355594_1784408195321682_5276256121142775162_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: RED DAWN Year: 1984 Director: John Milius Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time Powers Booth's Air Force Lt. Col. Andy Tanner is found near his crashed jet fighter plane, and then begins helping a band of young rebels fighting against an insanely unanticipated World War III, it seems like John Milius is finally directing the film he wanted to make all along... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which is basically an old-fashion war picture, in this case beginning with a high school's perspective of being attacking by commandos, destroying and ultimately taking over the connected rural small town...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, body count, charlie sheen, frank mcrea, harry dean stanton, jennifer grey, johh milius, lea thompson, powers booth, war, william smith

JOHN MILIUS DIRECTS 'RED DAWN' STARRING PATRICK SWAYZE

Title: RED DAWN Year: 1984 Director: John Milius Rating: ***1/2 By the time Powers Booth's Air Force Lt. Col. Andy Tanner is found near ...

DUTIFULLY DEFENDING THE DEADLY DISASTER OF 'JAWS 3D'

<p><i><u></u></i></p><i><u><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkvYZFaSiVJ23IMdZB0NcvWhm-Fe07P0ed0ZaSN17vpZq2U82P3V0qQKSYY3nJdqK9vk2GAwV5GeHfQlwMPb855IiQLHQlGltrRC-7-8jxxpdhZCDcItLgQ1X6ym0Srg47B_KydUWa8JqcBGqWKJDSd07VblVkvL__FFdqx6-CW82ZHAI2L28TicDGTR-s/s1567/Jaws3-D_B2_Japan-7-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="1567" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkvYZFaSiVJ23IMdZB0NcvWhm-Fe07P0ed0ZaSN17vpZq2U82P3V0qQKSYY3nJdqK9vk2GAwV5GeHfQlwMPb855IiQLHQlGltrRC-7-8jxxpdhZCDcItLgQ1X6ym0Srg47B_KydUWa8JqcBGqWKJDSd07VblVkvL__FFdqx6-CW82ZHAI2L28TicDGTR-s/s16000/Jaws3-D_B2_Japan-7-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: JAWS 3D Year: 1983 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Just when you thought it was safe to go back... to Sea World!? A Deadly New Attraction, indeed, and who’d have thought the third JAWS would abandon Amity Beach to take place at an oceanic theme park, relying on 3D to make stuff ranging from dolphins, killer whales, spears and sea monster decorations come at you on the big... or at this point, small screen... </u></i><br>
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Directed by Joe Alves, the former production assistant who brought the shark to life in the first two outings (and can be very fitfully deemed The Wizard of Jaws), this isn’t as bad as 1980's cinematic history may lead you to believe... </i></div>
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3D, bess armstrong, creature, dennis quaid, disaster, eighties, franchise, joe alves, lea thompson, louis gossett jr., sequel, shark, simon maccorkindale

DUTIFULLY DEFENDING THE DEADLY DISASTER OF 'JAWS 3D'

Title: JAWS 3D Year: 1983 Rating: *** Just when you thought it was safe to go back... to Sea World!? A Deadly New Attraction, indeed, and w...

CAMERON CROWE FOLLOWS FAST TIMES WITH 'THE WILD LIFE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdFixvoTRCxMWF0KjLcP_ESdlxEYn5hrQzgaz1SW210rBdwgfzPgNdwkhZvGr6Bz-HBEeUludy4g26lfRET7aZNZ6z8Cw7X0s9DmVOSbbHLHR2WGx35K31bkaFP5a4DM2EyrMbYJQ0seCNZShAhrtPVA6kmdaPWw_YLE0EvAB6vZNlM55wcwB6n3sSZA/s1519/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-01%20at%204.00.03%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1519" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdFixvoTRCxMWF0KjLcP_ESdlxEYn5hrQzgaz1SW210rBdwgfzPgNdwkhZvGr6Bz-HBEeUludy4g26lfRET7aZNZ6z8Cw7X0s9DmVOSbbHLHR2WGx35K31bkaFP5a4DM2EyrMbYJQ0seCNZShAhrtPVA6kmdaPWw_YLE0EvAB6vZNlM55wcwB6n3sSZA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-01%20at%204.00.03%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE WILD LIFE Year: 1984 Writer: Cameron Crowe Stars: Chris Penn, Eric Stoltz Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>THE WILD LIFE, an underrated, extremely unappreciated and relatively obscure and unknown teenage summertime sex comedy directed by Art Linson and written by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/11/fast-times.html">FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH</a> creator 
Cameron Crowe has a somewhat deliberately facetious, misleading title...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Although
 two of the main characters — Chris Penn as Tom Drake, channeling brother Sean’s Jeff Spicoli in jock form, and  Ilan Mitchell-Smith as stoner kid Jim 
Conrad — are rebellious enough, the buried lead goes to Jim’s big brother Bill, who, played by Eric Stoltz, moves into an apartment complex for his twenty-something independence...</p><span></span>

chris penn, comedy, edward van halen, eighties, eric stoltz, hangout, hart bochner, ilan mitchell-smith, jenny wright, lea thompson, rick moranis, ron wood, teen

CAMERON CROWE FOLLOWS FAST TIMES WITH 'THE WILD LIFE'

Title: THE WILD LIFE Year: 1984 Writer: Cameron Crowe Stars: Chris Penn, Eric Stoltz Rating: **** THE WILD LIFE, an underrated, extremely u...

BLASTING OFF THE GLOSSY TEEN ORBIT OF SPACECAMP

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Phoenix, Preston, and the rest... here at SpaceCamp YEAR: 1986</u></td></tr>
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In the midst of the bright neon 1980's, two of the most popular theatrical elements combined into the teenage/science-fiction hybrid of SPACE CAMP, which was an obvious inspiration for Clint Eastwood's SPACE COWBOYS years later — only in this one, our crew gets shot into the stars on accident...<br>
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That's the somewhat limp third act as the students, nervously led by trainer Kate Capshaw, are forced to become real astronauts in a contrived crash course: So it's on the ground, at the title location, where the movie shines brightest with a bubbly babe played by Kelly Preston, the proverbial Ginger to a much more serious, hidden-beauty tomboy in Lea Thompson's Mary Ann; the geeky yet smooth token black guy dude, Larry B. Scott; and Leaf (later Joaquin) Phoenix is a brainy kid with a robot, bullied one minute and the next defended by cool cat Tate Donovan, who, cruising his jeep through the opening credits to Eric Clapton's Forever Man, is the true lead (along with Lea) despite Capshaw's top billing: The grownups provide experience and exposition while the kids put a touch of BREAKFAST CLUB into SPACE CAMP.</div>

adventure, eighties, joaquin phoenix, kelly preston, larry b. scott, lea thompson, tate donovan, teen, tom skerritt

BLASTING OFF THE GLOSSY TEEN ORBIT OF SPACECAMP

Phoenix, Preston, and the rest... here at SpaceCamp YEAR: 1986 In the midst of the bright neon 1980's, two of the most popular theat...

AN INTREPID JOHN MILIUS DUTIFULLY DIRECTS RED DAWN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>On an Optimistic Note, He was Failing History YEAR: 1984</u></td></tr>
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Two toughest kids on the block... I guess, sooner or later, they're gonna fight.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There wasn't a more perfectly suited director for RED DAWN than John Milius, whose staunch, overboard bravado towards The Right most likely shocked The Left-leaning writers, directors, producers, actors, and even critics. But still referred to as a <i>very good</i> (if hit/miss) director, having done an eclectic reel from DILLINGER, THE WIND AND THE LION, BIG WEDNESDAY and garnering his first box office blast with CONAN THE BARBARIAN, he's mostly known as the <i>great </i>writer of APOCALYPSE NOW... So here's another War... The Next Step, the 1980's, and it takes Milius, with an original story/co-written by future FANDANGO (and WATERWORLD) director Kevin Reynolds, to not only make the Russians the bad guys but to kick the Cold War in the pants by moving Soviet and Cuban ground-troops up from Mexico, and taking over half of America...</span><br>

c. thomas howell, charlie sheen, eighties, jennifer grey, john milius, kevin reynolds, lea thompson, patrick swayze, powers boothe, war, william smith

AN INTREPID JOHN MILIUS DUTIFULLY DIRECTS RED DAWN

On an Optimistic Note, He was Failing History YEAR: 1984 Two toughest kids on the block... I guess, sooner or later, they're gonna ...

JOHN HUGHES PRESENTS 'SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The beautiful Mary Stuart Masterson is the Master of the credit title sequence in SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL</u></td></tr>
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By the time SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL hit theaters, and thereafter looped on afternoon cable television, John Hughes had already been a household name, and within his wheelhouse of motion pictures, including those he didn't direct but served as producer and, most important, writer, involving awkward kids with more secret confidence than the popular jerks whose open campus stardom has to do with good looks and money, and not in that order...<br>

comedy, eighties, elias koteas, eric stoltz, high school, john ashton, john hughes, lea thompson, mary stuart masterson, teen

JOHN HUGHES PRESENTS 'SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL'

The beautiful Mary Stuart Masterson is the Master of the credit title sequence in SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL By the time SOME KIND OF WONDER...

CHRISTOPHER PENN 'THE WILD HAS' HAS RELOCATED

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<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/11/THEwildLIFE.html">FOR THE NEW WILD LIFE LOCATION CLICK THIS SENTENCE</a><br />
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chris penn, comedy, eighties, eric stoltz, ilan-mitchell smith, jenny wright, lea thompson, teen