"Cocktail" is a movie that I watched over and over again as a teenager. It wasn't that I was a big Tom Cruise fan but that I really enjoyed the drinking and the drama! hahaha. . . and I now I enjoy the drinking and the drama in real life too. hahaha!
Brian Flannagan has just left the army and now needs a job. He tries to find a financial job, but finds himself working at the local bar with Doug Coughlan. Doug teaches Brian flare and together they become popular bartenders in New York. Until they argue and Brian head to Jamaica to work the bar there. He meets the girl of his dreams - Jordan, a US tourist. After a slight mishap with another lady he must head home to the US to fight for Jordan and reconnect with his old friend Doug.
"Cocktail" was made in 1988 and it smacks of 80's fashion and music, and not to mention the big hair!
Tom Cruise stars as Brian Flannagan. Australian Bryan Brown stars as Doug Coughlan and Elisabeth Shue plays the lovely Jordan. All three actors are very good and play well off of each other.
The fourth star of this movie is the cocktails themselves. Flare is the art of cocktail spinning, dancing, whatever you want to call it, and it's pretty impressive. hmmmmm. . . what else to say . . . ummmmm.
"Cocktail" is one of those movies that is funny and dramafilled. It doesn't take a lot of thinking - the movie does all the thinking for you. For me it's rather nostalgic to watch and fun. Plus I like that he gets the girl in the end (sorry for the spoiler there, but I haven't go much else to day about it.)
Watch it, go on. You'll enjoy it and have a good time. But if you choose not to then you won't have missed to much either.
"Con Air" is another movie that I've owned for a really long time - it's one of those movies that I loved and watched over and over again when I was younger.
Cameron Poe is a recently paroled convict heading home to meet his wife and daughter. To get there he hitches a ride on the convict airplane, but rather than going home, he finds himself caught up in the middle of a giant air heist by the countries worst convicts. Rather than ditching as soon as he can, he stays to help the agent on the ground to bring the plane and the convicts down.
Nicholas Cage stars as Cameron Poe. I'm not a big Nicholas Cage fan, I think it's his voice and his squinty eyes. But he is a pretty good actor and I generally like the movies that he does - he does pick pretty good movies to work on. He plays a very convincing good guy with a very odd southern accent.
Con Air has some very good actors to support Nicholas Cage - John Cusack as the government agent on the ground, John Malkovich - the leasd convict on the plane and Steve Buscemi as the most prolific convict that even the other convicts are wary of him. Together they pull off a very good ensemble cast that keeps the action going throughout the whole movie.
This movie is lots of fun and fast paced. Unfortunetly it looses pace a little bit at the end. You know when you get to a point and you think that it's a good place to end and it keeps going? Well, this movie is like that. It keeps going and going and going. After the plan crashes and takes off and crashes again and then they steal a fire truck. . . you start to get a little weary. The fire truck was completely unnecessary.
It can be a little cliche at times - mainly with one liners from Cameron Poe. But if you can overlook that (and it doesn't take much) you get a really fun, fast paced movie. Con Air is like Cocktail - fun to watch but you wouldn't be missing to much if you decided not to watch it. But you may get some good brownie points with the boyfriend.
Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer were the next movies on the list. Good thing the sequel is also second in the alphabet too, otherwise I'd perhaps be a little confused. As it was, I had to ask a lot of questions just to keep up. . .
When he was a small child Conan watched his family and village be killed by a warlord and his men. He is taken in to slavery and works until he is the only child left at age 18. He is groomed into being a fighter and is flaunted all over the land, until he manages to escape. Together with a slave and a thief that he befriends on the way, he sets out to take revenge on the warlord that killed his family when he was young. He finds himself falling in love with the beautiful Valeria and doing everything he can to save her from the warlord.
Conan the Barbarian was made in 1982 and stars a young and very buff Arnold Schwarzengger. It took me a long time to get used to the idea of a young and oh-so-smooth Arnie. He's so .... buff! All I can think of when I watch him is 'True Lies', 'Terminator' and that he's now the governer of California. Meanwhile, the only other actor I recognise is James Earl Jones - again, a much younger version than I'm used too.
This movie is a real boys movie - lots of blood, guts and sex. Definetly a R16 movie and not for the faint of heart.
Overall, it wasn't too bad and not the most terrible couple of hours I had thought I'd be watching. That is of course until I realised that I still had Conan the Destroyer to watch after this. Could I possibly watch more of a young Arnie, how could I cope without the beautiful Valeria to break the macho men cycle?!
From what I gather Conan was a character in a comic that they turned into a movie character, which then spawned multiple movies, comics, books, action heroes etc. So chances are that the men in your life have at least heard of him.
Should you watch it?! - You can get some mega brownie points from your boyfriend and enjoy a few hours of buff Arnie watching. Then if you must (because you've started an alphabetical movie project with your mate) you can watch the sequel - Conan the Destroyer.
So of course, next on the list was Conan the Destoyer. Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the buff Conan. This time he's out for revenge on the same warlord that killed both his family and his girlfriend. Only this time he's got a new band of ragtag misfits and is a lot PGer than before.
Grace Jones stars as the slightly crazy Zulu - a slave he helps to rescue on his journey. And once again, theres only one other actor that I recognise.
This sequel is a lot tamer and child-friendly than the original. In fact I believe my counterpart, JP, saw this at the movies before he saw the original, and I can understand why. There's no blood, there's no guts and there's no sex. Almost a bit boring by comparison. There's even an evil queen and a princess - it's heading in to fairytale territory, completely missing the mark of what the original set up. A shame really, because if they'd done it correctly the franchisee could have gone on to great heights. Oh well.
Should you watch it - nah, don't bother. Unless you're trying to impress the boyfriend, and even then I don't think he'd be impressed, but at least greatful that he had a cool enough girlfriend to sit and watch this with him.
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