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Film Grades
A+Extraordinary; Masterpiece
A very Good
fl Entertaining; Worth the Money
C Flawed; lots Of Reservations
D Seriously Flawed; Not Recommended
F Horrific; Disgustingly Bad
By DAVID BOWDEN
Assistant Carolina Life Editor
This is the first movie column
of the fall semester, and it makes a
certain amount of sense to take an
overview of the summer's movies.
I'll try to fit as many movies in as
possible so the world will know
exacdy where I stand on the Summer
Movie Issue (try to get that
out of Judge Souter).
Air America: Stupid, preachy
Vietnam-era flick. Robert Downey
Jr. is a naive CIA pilot in Laos.
Mel Gibson is his cynical gunrunning
friend who turns out to be
a swell guy in the end (I think his
character was named Han Solo).
The movie gives new meaning to
the term predictable plot. D
Another 48 Hours: Awful sequel
to Eddie Murphy's first movie.
Murphy's latest movie is stupid
and misogynic, with a plot everyone
has seen a thousand times before
in a thousand better movies.
Murphy has sunk so low he
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to be funny. It's the worst movie
of the summer. F
Arachnophobia: Great horror
film, well directed by Frank Marshall
and well-acted by Jeff Daniels
and John Goodman (among
others). I hate spiders so this Film
truly scared me. A
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Back to the Future HI: It was an
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Days of Thunder. Some call this
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far better than that. The racing
enes are so good I forgot that
is was supposed to be NASCAR.
Tom Cruise is great, but Robert
nvall steals the movie as the
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actor nomination. A
Dick Tracy: Sorry, pretty sets
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of a good movie. It was
K, but it creeps along very
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le visual style and A1 Pacino's
eat acting salvage what would
herwise be average fare. B
Die Hard II: Well-done sequel
the classic original. Excellent
ecial effects, but the plot is so
tally preposterous that it disicted
me. There is a difference ^
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sci-fi movie) and suspending the
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Flatliners: In a phrase, style
er substance. This unimaginative
)k at the afterlife wastes the tans
of lots of people. You know
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