May 28, 2004 - Six years ago global warming became a Hollywood disaster movie with The Day After Tomorrow. This special effects laden apocalyptic drama featured an all-star cast trying to survive a modern ice age. Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal are stand-outs amongst the cast. Directed by Roland Emmerich the film was a huge hit for 20th Century Fox, but opened #2 at the box office behind the second weekend for Shrek 2. At The Movie House rating *** stars
May 28, 1999 - Eleven years ago the charming Julia Roberts/ Hugh Grant romantic comedy Notting Hill opened. This was the first film I walked out on in years, not because the movie was bad, but because I got sick. I had to wait for home video to see the ending. This whimsical comedy was a written by the author of Four Weddings and A Funeral and the comedy and romance is just as fresh.
At The Movie House rating **** stars.
May 28, 1998 - Twelve years ago Sandra Bullock starred in the romantic melodrama Hope Floats about a woman who returns home to forget about one love, and hopefully find another. Directed by actor Forest Whitaker the film was a hit for Bullock, who produced it. At The Movie House rating - not rated.
May 28 1993 - Seventeen years ago four movies opened for Memorial Day:
First up was a terrible knock-off of Walt Disney's Snow White called Happily Ever After. This film picks up the story after Snow White is rescued by the prince. Terrible animation, songs and writing, the film only made $3 million and went straight to home video. At The Movie House rating - not rated
Next up was the big budget production of the Nintendo video game Super Mario Bros. Dennis Hopper chewed up every scene it was in this big budget film cost $42 million to make, but only collected $20 million at the box office. At The Movie House rating - not rated
Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson starred in Made In America, an opposites attract comedy. The interaction between the stars is great, but they could use better material. Audiences turned out and the film made $44 million. At The Movie House rating ** stars.
And Sylvester Stallone gave his career a huge boost with the preposterous Cliffhanger. John Lithgow stood out as the villain, but everything else sucked in this mountain climbing action movie. At least I thought so, movie goers didn't with ticket sales of $84 million. At The Movie House rating ** stars
May 28, 1982 - Twenty-eight years ago Sylvester Stallone returned as Rocky in Rocky III. The best thing about this film was new-comer Mr. T as the brutal Clubber Lang. The script worked to make Rocky the underdog again and gave the world a new #1 pop tune, Eye Of The Tiger. It was a big enough hit to spawn three more sequels. At The Movie House rating ***stars.
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