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Semi-true story of John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer), dispatched to 1890s Africa to build a railway. Unfortunately, the project goes awry when two lions (the “Tsavo maneaters”) begin lunching on the workers. Professional hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas) helps Patterson hunt down the predators.

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In Hawaii, Rick Richards (Elvis Presley) runs a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny Kohana (James Shigeta). Unfortunately his many woman problems threaten to derail everything.

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That Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a box office success and launched a film franchise is hard to believe in retrospect. The jab “Star Trek: The Motionless Picture” is all too true. There are many reasons: in the late seventies, Paramount was working on Star Trek: Phase Two, a new television series that was prematurely aborted. A one-hour television episode V’Ger story was hurriedly expanded into a feature film after the unexpected success of Star Wars. The rest of the movie’s running time is filled with a large, nebulous cloud of pointlessness.

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The Last Mimzy is a strange movie. It’s for kids, but has a mildly entertaining science fiction center. My biggest complaint is the answer to what the heck is going on is basically blown in the first five minutes. I feel it would have been more suspenseful to withhold the “answer” until the end of the film.

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By this juncture, The Karate Kid series has become (as many series do) cheese-ball and unintentionally funny. There’s a glimmer of the original film’s greatness but many aspects in Part III are decidedly off, round-kicking it into definite so-bad-its-good territory.

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I’m not an Adam Sandler fan, but do find some of his movies entertaining (50 First Dates, The Wedding Singer). Click, however, I didn’t care for. Sandler plays suburban everyman Michael Newman who’s given a magic remote that can control reality. I have a remote control for my DVD player, and I probably should taken a cue from the film and watched Click at 2x speed and with mute on. That would have saved an hour - and the film would have been just as understandable.

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Today, Valley Of The Dolls, based on the book of the same name, comes off as darned campy which wasn’t the original intent. Many of its topics (drug addiction, homosexuality, pornography, and the cruel show business machine) once controversial and shocking, now seem tame. So we have actresses looking dour and pensive regarding matters Lindsay Lohan would consider sobriety. The result is overacting (camp) and at worst, much ado about nothing (boring).

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Here’s a light snack respite from the bad movie celebration for - a new bad movie. Well, not super-bad, just dull and predictably boring. Which is a shame, because one of the film’s highlights is Catherine Zeta-Jones with a dab of tiramisu on her lips. It’s a simple romantic comedy based on the German film Mostly Martha (which I haven’t seen).

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