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Movie Reviews of Hardcore
Movie Review: Hardcore
Summary: 4 Stars
It was an Good movie; then 8mm came out, 8mm was good but if you'd have seen Hardcore first you wouldn't have made it through the credits. Don't get me wrong I like N. Cage but how can he rate next to "Patton" in a similar storyline? It's an easy movie to watch, but in the end you really get to thinking about the situation. Glad it made it to DVD, it's worth a view.Movie Review: A Fathers Worst Nightmare
Summary: 3 Stars
Hadn't seen this movie in quite a few years. I thought I would check it out when it came out on DVD. This is a story about a Michigan man who is a single parent and lives in a good Christian extended family that he is very close to. His 15 year old daughter inexplicably runs away from home which leads the father to hire a private eye to find her. After several agonizing months the private eye comes to Grand Rapids and takes the father to a dirty movie theater he has rented out and shows him a pornographic film that his daughter is in. The father then goes on a quest to the big city to find his daughter.
George C. Scott is the star of the movie as the anguished father. Peter Boyle also shines as the private investigator. This movie is rated R for obvious reasons. It is a kind of fish out of water movie as this devout Christian father plummets into the depths of the seedy underbelly of the adult entertainment business in the 70's. It is a search that takes him to the most nasty of places, peep shows, massage parlors, S&M places and to the set of porno movies. He also meets and deals with all the people that are a part of this world. Scotts portrayal of the father is fascinating. Seeing him cringe and then become completely undone as he sees his daughters fate on screen is a fathers worst nightmare and he brings that thru to you. He also is like a powder keg as he deals with these scummy people knowing that his daughters life is at risk.
Boyle is the P.I. who is totally grey through out most of the movie. He is self serving and out for his own interest but he is also an ally to Scott who knows the underbelly of the big city and who and where to look. But he also has his own motives and is hardly a white knight who feels little sympathy for the fathers plite.
Pretty good movie. It is dated but that doesn't hurt this film because it shows the period and social stigmas and mores of this time. Check it out but its not for everyone. If you are a George C. Scott fan it is a must.
Movie Review: Silly Hardcore
Summary: 3 Stars
This film has much to recommend it not the least George C. Scott's commanding performance as the anguished Calvinist father searching for his teenage daughter through the seamy milieu of the porn world. The film's establishing shots of the Midwest Calvinist world are superb as well. It's when the film explores the porn world where the film get's silly. Watching Scott delve into this world in various Leisure Suit Larry get-ups going from peep-show to bondage house is laughable. The film seems more concerned about displaying every form of perversion than about finding Scott's exploited daughter. It's a credit to Scott's superior acting ability that the film and not he appear silly. It would also have helped that we knew a little more about his daughter for us to sympathize with his plight. Peter Boyle also gives a commendable performance as the sleazy detective Scott hires to find his daughter, lest people forget that Boyle was a superb character actor before he became a crotchety couch potato on "Everybody Loves Raymond". This film can also be viewed as a decent time-capsule curio of a time when red light districts thrived before the advent of home video and cyber-porn. If you want to see a better representation of the seventies porn world rent "Boogie Nights". I could also recommend this as a cult film but the exploitation of children by pornographers is too serious a problem.
Movie Review: Disappointing Search in 70's Underbelly
Summary: 3 Stars
I was disappointed with Hardcore because the combo of Schrader and Scott would seem to have all the makings of a loud violent machete hack through a seedy jungle. Instead it resounds limply, what with everything working out and real change, catharsis completely absent. Scott, despite glowing feelings from other reviews here, seemed bored to me. The direction too left much to be desired, as Scott seems, during one key scene, to be both out of it and riveted, seeing his daughter "perform." Scott also has a scene where, perhaps in deference to etiquette (or repressed curiosity?), he allows and "actor" to show off his wares. Then later in the game, in a scene between father and daughter there is a hole left gapping, as to what it was that drove her into such a world.
For a time piece, of a world where porn and sex weren't as in-your-face as today, Hardcore has significance. When porn films switched titles constantly and were cast out of the classifieds, Hardcore also has a weight. But when porno's were made in motels with the doors and window shades open, and conservative G.C. Scott kicks perfectly cast Peter Boyle out of his own apartment, Hardcore leaves a wimpy, this-is-not-Taxi-Driver-at-all taste.