‘Bugsy’ highlights video hits
oy uerry Benz
Staff Reporter
There were no new releases for th is
week, but other recently released vid
eos included some big names and
eagerly anticipated titles.
“Shining Through,” starring
Michael Douglas (“Basic Instinct”)
and Melanie Griffith (“Pacific
Heights”), is a comedy-suspense spy
thriller set during World War II.
Griffith has a shining performance as
a secretary who believes her boss
(Douglas) is actually a spy for the
Nazis.
The film features some decent
“cloak-and-dagger” intrigue, if you
can accept some of the leaps of faith
and preposterous happenings that oc
cur in the movie.
“Bugsy," directed by Barry
Levinson also arrived recently. It is a
very powerful film with equal im
pressive performances from Warren
Beatty as Bugsy aeigei, wmen may
have been one of the best perfor
mances of his long career, as wells as
Annette Bening (“The Grifters”) as
the woman he desires.
Nominated for several Oscars, the
movie was one of the best of the year
and is definitely worth checking out.
Finally, we have “Star Trek 6: pie
Undiscovered Country” with thequint
essential Enterprise crew including
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy,
DeForest Kelley and James Doohan,
all reprising their roles of Kirk, Spock,
McCoy and Scotty. We also have
Christopher Plummer as a Klingon
with a fondness of quoting
Shakespeare and Kim Cattrall as a
Vulcan officer onboard the Enter
prise.
Set up as the last “Star Trek” movie
of the series, it isn’t a letdown to any
of the Trekkies in the world, and has
some good comedy lines as well as
some terrific special effects.
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William Tell Overture”), and “2001:
A Space Odyssey” (the bone becomes
a spaceship and the black building
block is full of disco lights).
Stan. Buddy. Come back to us.
Come back to the pack. We’ll take
care of you.
3. “Fantasia” — We’ve got self
actualized broomsticks, dancing
hippos and crocodiles (or were those
alligators? 1 never could keep those
straight, something with the snout),
and a centaur colony under attack by
a big dude on a thundercloud, what
more of a hint do you need?
The animation is superb, and has a
soundtrack to match. The movie has
stood the lest of lime, for today I still
refuse to watch this movie if I have
had so little as Nyquil in my blood
stream. It’s just too much to digest.
2. “Altered Slates”—Here, we’ve
got William Hurt (in his first major
motion picture, back in 1980) por
traying Eddie Jessup, a scientist in
search of the first and ultimate truths,
which he believes are buried deep
within the DNA structure of the hu
man body. He attempts to do so with
the combination of a sensory-depri
vation lank and an “ancient South
American mushroom solution” at the
same time.
This movie has so many mentally
fantastic concepts of the “true self,”
and so many truly incredibly visual
effects, not to mention the plethora of
religious symbolism that Jessup cn
duresduring several of hiscarlicr tank
trips, that it had the potential to be at
the lop of the list.
1. “Pink Floyd, The Wall” —The
granddaddy of them all; the movie
synonymous with the phrase “You
can’t understand it unless you’re ci
ther drunk or stoned.” Definitely the
most depressing movie of the whole
bunch, but has possibly the most popu
lar music related to a movie of all
....
lime; after all, the movie was formed jv
around the music, instead of the usual
reversal. A very powerful and dis
turbing movie, and possibly the sec
ond-highest midnight movie in terms
of popularity and repeat visits.
This movie is a clear cut from the
“bizarre” genre. Do NOT watch this
movie in an attempt to relieve depres
sion, it could bring Mousekclccrs to
new lows.
Also, check your brain at the door
before the movie starts. (In other
words, don’t try to follow a plot or
series of events, just kick back and t
experience weirdness at its best.)
Other movies that are worth men
tioning that didn’t make the list are
“The Adventures of Buckaroo
Banzai,” the recently-released “Na
ked Lunch,’’ “The Toxic Avenger”
and any movie with Gamera, Rodan
or Godzilla in the title.
Beltz Is a senior language-arts education
major and a Daily Nebraskan staff reporter
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