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Prehysteria! (1993)
Served its purpose
If you are a six-year-old boy who's into dinosaurs, you will love this movie. If you are anybody else, you'll be rolling your eyes about every 15 seconds. If you want to start picking on things like the acting, the special effects, the dialogue, or the absence of a coherent plot that makes even the slightest amount of sense, you'll have plenty of material. If all you want is a safe dinosaur fantasy movie for your kid, it will do just fine. That said, there's a lot of kids' entertainment out there that's much smarter, and some of it is even bearable or enjoyable for adults. Unless your child is in an uncompromising dinosaur mood, you're probably better off looking for something else.
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Brilliance
One of the best, most underrated movies I've ever seen. Witty, zippy, action-packed, funny. At the same time, meaningful, but without being sappy. The dialogue is expertly written, intelligent and often hilarious. There is never a dull moment in this movie.
Fargo (1996)
Tragic and funny
"Fargo" is one of the best movies I've ever seen because it takes tragic subject matter and gives it a sometimes light, sometimes dark, and always subtle treatment that somehow leaves you a little unsettled at the end. You watch the story of this bungling car salesman unfold, watch as we are taken deeper into his sad, shallow and cowardly mind, and see how his "simple plan" slowly strangles him as the circumstances spin out of his control. The body count grows and we get more and more a feeling of senselessness to it all, which the hero sums up so well with her lecture to the criminal at the end. The barren and unforgiving wasteland in which the movie is set is a perfect backdrop to this story of isolation, but the hero's constantly perky disposition is the perfect antidote, a reminder that human nature can be as good as it wants to be.
Meanwhile, the movie manages to be funny, with most of the laughs coming at the expense of the goofy lingo of the Minnesota locals and the dorkiness of Steve Buscemi's character.
This is a movie that makes a real statement, and keeps you entertained in the process. William H. Macy, Frances McDormand and Buscemi are all brilliant in this movie.