Despondent after the disappointment of playing Batman in Batman & Robin, Val Kilmer chose The Saint, based on the character best remembered from books at the 70s TV-series, which offered more acting opportunities, rather than return to being swallowed up in a rubber suit in another Bat-sequel. The Saint is certainly better than Batman Forever, but by less than you might expect.
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Taking the basic idea of the United States Government covering up a scandal by starting a fake war, but changing the events and the scandal from Larry Beinhart’s novel, screenwriter David Mamet‘s 1997 darkly humorous satire casts Robert De Niro as governmental fixer Conrad Brean hired to steer media coverage from reports away from the President sexually assaulting a young girl in the Oval Office long enough for him to win re-election.
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The third film to star Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor was generally panned when it hit theaters in 1989. However, for a kid who saw this in theaters, the comedy featuring Wilder as deaf and Pryor as blind, thrown together as an odd couple both mistaken for killers and hunted by both the police (Alan North and Louis Giambalvo) and real killers (Joan Severance and Kevin Spacey) for an invaluable coin they don’t even know they posses falls squarely into the guilty pleasure category.
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Yikes! Who thought this was a good idea? Michelle Rodriguez stars as as professional hitman Frank Kitchen who, after killing the wrong person, is given a sex change against his will and released back into the world. Don’t you hate it when that happens? Rodriguez plays both versions of the character offering her some interesting acting challenges but this translates to almost nothing of interest on-screen.
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Any resemblance Geostorm has to reality appears completely accidental. In a disaster movie that makes Armageddon look like a NASA documentary, Gerard Butler stars as the talented but problematic creator of a system of climate-controlling satellites. Fired for having standards and speaking truth to power, Jake Lawson (Bulter) is recruited back into the program by the same estranged brother (Jim Sturgess) who fired him when things start to go wrong.
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