Tagged: richard donner

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1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Family

The Goonies (1985)

A huge fan favorite for those who watched this growing up, The Goonies makes up for its silly, predictable story and stereotypical characters (the portrayal of the murderous and thieving Italian-American family, the Fratellis (which means...

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1980s / Action / Romance / Science Fiction / Superhero

Superman II (1980)

Richard Lester (A Hard Day’s Night, The Three Musketeers) replaces a disgruntled Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, Conspiracy Theory) as the director for Superman II after many scenes, about three quarters of it, had been filmed by Donner...

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1970s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero

Superman (1978)

Heralded by some as the greatest superhero film of all time, Superman is an epic befitting a legendary, larger-than-life comic book deity.  No easy feat for a character so well-known and revered by millions the world...

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1980s / Comedy / Fantasy

Scrooged (1988)

Charles Dickens’ classic novel, “A Christmas Carol”, provides the backbone, and the backstory, for this modern update.  It’s become something of a cult classic for people to watch around Christmas time every year, though,...

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1980s / Action / Thriller

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

It’s difficult to divorce Lethal Weapon 2 from the first Lethal Weapon, as it assumes a certain familiarity with the characters that is crucial in order to understand their nature and motivation, as well as to relate...

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1990s / Comedy / Thriller

Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Gibson plays cabbie Jerry Fletcher, a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist, who finds government involvement in nearly everything, including assassinations, constant surveillance, and even water pipes breaking in the middle of the city.  In addition, Jerry...

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2000s / Action / Thriller

16 Blocks (2006)

16 Blocks is a passable time-waster thriller, reminiscent in its plot to the Eastwood flick, The Gauntlet, although darker in execution.  Director Richard Donner, who made some of the better cop action flicks of the...

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2000s / Adventure / Science Fiction

Timeline (2003)

A popular Michael Crichton novel gets the big budget movie treatment yet again, and like many of the other adaptations of his work, the results are only so-so.  Here, it’s fairly easy to see...

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1980s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Setting the standard for cop buddy movies for years to come, Lethal Weapon may not have revolutionized the genre, but definitely proves to be an exceptionally efficient example of how the formula can work when the...

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1990s / Action / Martial Arts / Thriller

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

LAPD Detectives Riggs (Gibson, Conspiracy Theory) and Murtaugh (Glover, The Rainmaker) are back on the streets, this time trying to bring down a Chinese Triad who are involved in importing Chinese slaves, and using them to counterfeit money...