sunday, august 14, 8:30 pm: pirate cinema's top 3 hollywood movies of the 1990s - #3

[pirate cinema berlin]

While we're certain that no-one has ever mistaken Pirate Cinema for an arthouse 
theater, we've just decided to fill some of the Sommerloch with a program that 
is a bit more populist than usual. It's called "Pirate Cinema's Top 3 Hollywood 
Movies of the 1990s" (*) -- and obviously, even though not more than maybe one 
of our picks will usually show up on such lists, all three are quite fantastic.

Our #3 is the only proper action film in our program. It's part of a hugely 
popular series, the kind of stuff that kids like to watch when on airplanes. 
From the first minute on, it is clear that the filmmakers love the city their 
movie is set in, as the entire plot is driven by the joy of having things blow 
up in it. This is what makes it a 90s film more than anything else, since post 
9/11 Hollywood movies, even if they still do it, don't do it like this anymore. 
If all the action wasn't confined to a single metropolitan area, this could be 
a James Bond movie -- it has the ticking timers, the German villains, and
culminates in a bank robbery so ambitious that Grand Theft Auto V modeled its 
final heist mission after it -- but of course, there is no James Bond movie, 
and hardly any other 90s big-budget action cinema, that comes even close.

(*) excluding the usual suspects: nothing by Martin Scorsese or David Lynch,
    obviously no Quentin Tarantino, and no film we have ever screened before,
    which rules out Heat, Point Break, Showgirls, Bound and Twelve Monkeys.

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                                                            pirate cinema berlin
                                                                u kottbusser tor
                                                      sunday, august 14, 8:30 pm

                                                                  12 seats, rsvp
                                                          first come first serve
                                                       location in separate mail

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