A year in review: A lookback at 1990 part 1
October 16th 2010 09:34
I turned 13 years old in 1990 and started my love fair with movies. I loved how you could go to a different place and get away for a couple of hours and enjoy a good movie.
1990 saw alot of great movies released in that year. I would like to talk about the ones i enjoyed.
The list comprises movies that were released in the first quarter of 1990.
#5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
As an unsolved crime wave rises in New York City, April O'Neil (Judith Hoag), reporter for Channel 3 Eyewitness News, covers the reports and rumors of a mysterious 'Foot Clan,' which seems to be the organization that is plaguing the city, much to the ire of Chief of Police Chief Sterns (Raymond Serra), who refuses to acknowledge that they exist. April is attacked in an alley by a group of punks who are quickly taken down when a weapon flies through the air, knocking out the street light. While police are investigating the attack, April finds the sai responsible for knocking out the street light and takes it. One of her rescuers, from the cover of the sewers, watches this and curses himself for his bad luck.
#4 Tremors
Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Basset (Fred Ward) work as handymen in Perfection, Nevada, an isolated ex-mining settlement that contains only fourteen residents, among them survivalist couple Burt (Michael Gross) and Heather (Reba McEntire) Gummer, and Walter Chang, owner of the general store. A new arrival is Rhonda LeBeck, a graduate student conducting seismology tests.
Val and Earl tire of their hand-to-mouth existence and leave for Bixby, the nearest town. They discover a man dead at the top of an electrical tower. Jim Wallace, the town doctor, announces that he died of dehydration. As they are leaving again, the duo discover sheepherder Old Fred and his flock horribly butchered. Val and Earl return to Perfection, thinking that a murderer is on the loose. They warn two road-construction workers they encounter, but after Val and Earl leave something pulls one of the workers underground, while a rock slide kills the other and blocks the only road out of town.
#3 Hard To Kill
Mason Storm (Seagal) is a police detective who is investigating a mob meeting taking place by a pier. He spies on them with a video camera, and captures on tape a shadowy figure telling the other people that they can rely on his political support, emphasizing this by saying "And you can take that to the bank!" Storm is spotted, but manages to get away. Driving home, Mason informs first his partner then his friend Lt. O'Malley (Coffin) that he has evidence of corruption (unaware of another pair of cops listening in), and will be bringing the tape to them soon. He goes into a store to get drink and a teddy bear to give to his son. The store gets robbed by men, one of them shooting the clerk. Mason manages to stop them; afterwards, he goes home, intent on celebrating with his wife Felicia (Bonnie Burroughs). Before he does anything, Mason hides the tape in a small hole in his kitchen wall. When he goes upstairs, though, corrupt policemen, including Jack Axel (Boswell) and Max Quentero (Richmond), working for the politician break in and proceed to murder Mason's wife and shoot him. Mason's young son Sonny, (Rosencrantz) manages to hide until the danger passes (at the same time, Storm's partner is shot by a masked assassin whilst seated beside his window). At the hospital, Mason is found to be alive, but in a coma. Lieutenant O'Malley informs the medics to tell people that Mason died, to prevent anyone from coming back for him later. Mason is set up by the corrupt policemen as having murdered his wife and committed suicide.
#2 The Hunt for Red October
Captain First Rank Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) is the commanding officer of Red October, a new Soviet submarine whose caterpillar drive renders it undetectable.
The year is 1984. Ramius receives orders to take the boat to sea for exercises with the submarine V.K. Konovalov, commanded by his former student Captain Tupolev (Stellan Skarsgård). Ramius murders political officer Ivan Putin (Peter Firth), the one man not under his command and the only man aboard besides himself who knows the sub's orders, then burns the orders and tells the crew they will conduct nuclear missile drills off America's east coast. The Dallas, an American submarine on patrol nearby, detects Red October but loses contact once Ramius engages the silent drive.
#1 Pretty Woman
Edward Lewis, a successful businessman and "corporate raider", takes a detour on Hollywood Boulevard to ask for directions. Receiving little help, he encounters prostitute Vivian Ward who is willing to assist him in getting to his destination. After a car conversation, Edward ends up hiring Vivian to stay with him for a week as an escort for social events, Vivian advises him that it "will cost him", and he gives her $3000 and access to his credit cards. Vivian then goes shopping on Rodeo Drive, only to find that she is snubbed by saleswomen who disdain her because of her hooker appearance. Initially, Hotel Manager Bernard Thompson (Elizondo) is also somewhat taken aback by her, but relents, and decides to help her buy a dress, even coaching her on dinner etiquette. Edward returns and is visibly amazed by Vivian's transformation. The business dinner is successful, but Edward is preoccupied with the deal afterward.
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