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Reviews
Striptease (1996)
Why the hating? It was fun!
It may not have mirrored the book, but it has its own charm. I haven't read the book, so maybe that's why I can judge the movie on its own merits.
Ving Rhames is terrific-- honestly, has he ever had a clunker of a performance? Demi is luscious (the dance scenes, and the cute scene where she's getting dressed/dancing after a shower), and Burt Reynolds is hilarious. I really loved the congressman character meeting the right wing group slathered in vaseline. "Fresh, hot, lint!" indeed! Give it a whirl... it ain't Citizen Kane, but it ain't Battlefield Earth either.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The best of the 3
I had very high hopes for this one, and was not disappointed. There were touch points I had visualized (the Cracks of Mount Doom, the Grey Havens) and they were done with exquisite beauty. What is amazing to me is that PJ can forge the tale onscreen with the SFX and majesty of overwhelming scope and power, while at the same time present Sam's sacrifice and the pain of Frodo with heart-rending humanity.
Hats off to the best trilogy of all time.