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Movie Reviews of Hardcore
Movie Review: an investigation in two "hardcore" worlds
Summary: 5 Stars
In this movie, we see the dichotomy and similarities of people who live "hardcore."
First we see the "hardcore" world of straightlaced Jake VanDorn (George C. Scott.) He lives in a world so structured that everything in his life is alphabetized in his hardcore religious faith. It is such a world that drove away his wife and drove away his daughter to seek warmth in another world equally as hardcore- the sleazy world of the sex industry.
These two worlds collide in the movie "Hardcore." The worlds are completely alien to each other. There is no compromise in either of the worlds. Although the whore Scott befriends and uses (Season Hubley) attempts to draw similarities in these worlds, (Jake feels so little about sex that he dose not even do it and she feels so little about sex that she dose not care who she does it with,) both attiudes are extremely jaded.
You get the feeling of nostalgic timebase in this movie. This was before the videotape and internet sex revolution. This was the times of the smaller church congregations, before the 10,000 seat megachurches. This was before the times when men could see on the satellite television what used to be shown in peepshows and 8 mm films.
lots of symbolism was shown in this film. My favorite example was after the snuff film producer "Rattan" was shot. He stumbles down the sidewalk bleeding to death then smashes his head in a window display of a porn theater. The next window display has a pornographic image, and the writing above it "love act". Could it portray the death of Rattan as a love act in his twisted world?
Movie Review: Moralists DO make the BEST porn...
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this film on TV about 15 years ago. Cable edited a bit here and there, I could tell. But overall, the movie was preserved. I'll have to buy it soon to see it again.
A scathing attack on the recent 'legalization' of pornography when it was made, it ends up being titillating in a disturbing way. And so over the top, it gets funny, even though the subject is anything but.
An overbearingly religious man loses his daughter and then goes into the underworld that swallowed her, trying to hold onto his own soul as he goes through what he percieves as 'hell on earth' or pretty close to it. The film's only flaw is that it showed nothing of the reason why his daughter went from a college student to a dead-end porn actress during a 4 hour tour in NYC. And the Dad was potrayed as being too heroic. I've met his equivilant in RL, at coffeshops. Imagine thinking a pyscho Gacy-like cannibal/homosexual is stalking you, then finding out they are just bible-thumping Christians, then almost wishing they were the former psychotic types as they rave their church of one-one dozen?
Agree or disagree with it, this is an excellent, well acted, well written movie.
Movie Review: One of the better "man searching for missing girl" filma
Summary: 5 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Better than Taken, 8MM, or (dare I even say it?) The Searchers in showing how the obsessive quest to find a lost girl in a seedy milieu corrupts the man trying to find her, Hardcore is perhaps sometimes guilty of exploiting the pornographic material it wallows in, but it's a powerful film that deals in shades of moral ambiguity and is all the better for it; writer-director Paul Schrader--who penned Taxi Driver--brings the audience another dehumanizing urban environment with this film and delivers quite a memorable movie.
3.5/4
Movie Review: Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids exposed!
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally, someone made a movie about this strange place of Grand Rapids, MI in which, I call home as of now, but hope not to in near future. This place sucks and is run by these Dutch CRC people. To bad I didn't know about this movie 20 years earlier. It exposes this cult type religion and there business ventures who try to control the city. DeVos, Van Andel, Meijer and all you DeVries people, this movie exposes your puke like life style. You guys and this town make me sick!Movie Review: I was there
Summary: 5 Stars
This was filmed in Grand Rapids, MI durung the winter and spring of 1976. Paul used many locals in the film, I was one.