12-04-2018, 06:23 PM
Matinee (1993)
Delightful comedy love-letter to 50s/60s B-Movie creature-features, set against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis. Explores the oddities around why kids love to be pretend-scared but adults hate being really scared. Director Joe Dante takes the last act a little too far into wacky and unbelievable territory, if I was being picky. I loved the movie-within-a-movie 'Mant!' and it's wonderfully observed bad dialogue. Conforms to the rule that all 90s films shall feature 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' on the soundtrack
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Delightful comedy love-letter to 50s/60s B-Movie creature-features, set against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis. Explores the oddities around why kids love to be pretend-scared but adults hate being really scared. Director Joe Dante takes the last act a little too far into wacky and unbelievable territory, if I was being picky. I loved the movie-within-a-movie 'Mant!' and it's wonderfully observed bad dialogue. Conforms to the rule that all 90s films shall feature 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' on the soundtrack
