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Pulp Fiction is the most distinctive signature of the most original contemporary filmmaker and it most faithfully defines his screenwriting and directorial excellence. One of the films without which there would be no FilmBooster.

An overly sentimental and manipulative Hollywood tearjerker for the masses that’s diminished by its own lack of credibility. But as an emotional viewer, I was still moved by it.

A climb up to base camp, breathtaking bivouacking under an overhang, the beauty of the Karakoram Mountains and the bombastic music of Hans Zimmer. Despite its clichéd story and shaky physical credibility, K2 remains the best of the 1990s mountain adventures alongside Cliffhanger.

Inferno is one of Dario Argento’s traditionally dreamy, visually elegant horror movies, but it’s so “storyless” that you sometimes forget what it’s about.

If you see The Haunting not as a horror movie, but as a ghost story for the whole family, you’ll be okay with it. As a horror blockbuster with a stellar cast, which is what it was supposed to be, it’s a fiasco.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is a routine movie that is in no way exceptional, but it is skilfully and spectacularly filmed Hollywood entertainment for the whole family.

Though Hard Target’s screenplay is that of a standard Van Damme B-movie with dumb clichés in places, John Woo works wonders with it. Van Damme’s long hair flies through the air as coolly as he does after crashing his motorcycle into a jeep, Lance Henriksen in a black coat and wielding a stylish shotgun is the most ruthless and arrogant bad guy who loves playing piano, and Yancy Butler is a goddess of wild ONS sex. Van Damme’s best film!

GoldenEye is a colorful, spectacular Bond movie packed with great action and sexy women. And an excellent cast. There’s no trace of the traditional Bond atmosphere of the classics starring Sean Connery, but I don’t have a single complaint in terms of its entertainment value.

Godzilla is a bland cocktail of popcorn entertainment mixed up from dozens of older films about all kinds of lizards. Matthew Broderick is uninteresting in the lead role, Maria Pitillo is hysterical and the irradiated lizard, as tall as a mid-sized skyscraper, passes through the narrow tunnels of the New York subway without a single tremor or sound. So why am I giving Godzilla three stars? Because that’s the average between one and five. The duo of Roland Emmerich/Dean Devlin gets one star and the visual-effects masters get five. As does the laid-back Jean Reno, who justifies his participation in this fiasco with his sense of responsibility for the nuclear test explosions carried out by his native country in French Polynesia.

Get Carter wants to have a distinctive atmosphere and to be appealing with it original cinematography, but in the end, it very much comes across as a B-movie.