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Welcome to Ice Cubes In My Coffee :: The Caffeinated Movie Guide. I love movies and I have strong opinions about all of them. When they are great, they can change your life. And when they suck, you can at least have fun ripping them to shreds. I have seen a million movies and I have a bunch of movie facts and trivia stored up in my head - it's time to share. I'm going to be filling this movie guide with reviews on an ongoing basis, building up a large library of reviews so YOU, the movie-watching public, will know what movies are essential viewing and what movies you must avoid at all costs (hint: anything with the words "Starring Dane Cook"). I will also be posting some interesting articles and lists along the way as well. So grab a cup of joe and settle in for some movie talk!
      -- Mr. Coffee

Tank Girl

Starring: Lori Petty, Ice-T, Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts
Director: Rachel Talalay
Year of Release: 1995
 Rated 4 cups

Tank Girl is based on a popular underground comic by future Gorillaz visual artist Jamie Hewlett. It was indie and gritty and nothing like a Hollywood flick at all. So why did it then get made into a Hollywood flick? I doubt anyone was eager to see this turned into a live-action mess. Probably this movie was trying to ride the wave of “cyberpunk” cool that existed in the mid-90s as the internet was growing in popularity and fears of the end of the millenium was closing in. There were several similar “cyber-future” flicks around this time and they all sucked. It wasn’t until The Matrix that someone actually got it right.

Lori Petty is good as Tank Girl and she is pretty cute most of the time. But the story is a farce, the action is silly, and the “mutant kangaroos” are way stupid. It all feels so forced and pointless. It should have been animated if made at all, skip it.

Filed Under (Movie Reviews, T) by admin on 02-08-2008 | Read More

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