1988 Directed by Steve De Jarnatt
After 30 years of searching, Harry (Edwards) has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!
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Film #3 of the March Madness 80s Sci-Fi Movie Challenge!
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The film is dated, acting barely tolerable, predictable schlock through and through and yet.. there is a scene involving the la brea tar pit that even now still chokes me up!
"People are gonna help each other, won't they? I mean, rebuilding things, the survivors I mean."
"I think it's the insects' turn."
It starts out as a romantic comedy about a guy meeting his dream girl and trying to go into a date and suddenly turns into a sometimes absurdist but well imagined end of the world scenario that somehow never forget its romantic center. The last act beautifully moves toward an acceptance of doom that is very affecting (and in its own very particular way deeply romantic) despite all the genre trappings and absurdist touches. It is probably the greatest date movie ever to end with an explosion. This one is a real great odditity, imaginitive, full of well earned detours, good character acting, a nice sense of desperation as Los Angeles slowly but credible spins out of control.
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Don't you love it when a romantic comedy all of a sudden turns into an end-of-the-world nuclear panic thriller?
I clearly made the right decision not reading anything about Miracle Mile before I watched it. I can't even remember how much I read about it to include it in this project in the first place, but I'm just glad I forgot it, whatever it was. If you've not seen, don't read this review. Go on, piss off. I'm doing you a favour.
Because this was not what I was expecting at all. When Anthony Edwards receives THAT phone call, I actually expected it to keep being a romantic comedy and…
(ambiguous spoiler alert) Testament to how invested in the characters I was that the ending kind of pissed me off.
There's nothing else quite like this. It's a real diamond.
Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.102
Apparently the script for this film was considered for the Twilight Zone film. And that's exactly the type of film this is, it's the kind that could have started with: 'Submitted for your approval: A man picks up a ringing payphone and hears things he shouldn't hear, the world is about to end because a nuclear war will start today'.
Twilight Zone episodes always require a healthy dose of suspended disbelief and this film is no different. If you allow yourself to go along with the story, with the frantic attempts of Anthony Edwards to get to his girlfriend after he hears the news, you're in for a very entertaining ride.
What I…
What a strange, woefully misguided mess.
Watch young, irritating Anthony Edwards:
-creepily try to hang out with kids on a field trip at a museum
-share three smiles with a girl who has a horrible haircut and deduce she's "one in a million"
-pay $1200 for lobsters just to throw them back into the ocean
-take one drag from a cigarette and then fling it off a balcony at a homeless person
-show up 4 hrs late to a date and expect the girl to still be there
-display a complete inability to take keys with him after leaving a car
The setup has so much potential and Jarnatt flirts heavily with capturing the quirky night from hell real-time energy…
Um casal, um míssil nuclear, uma hora restante de vida.
Já há alguns milhares de anos que se tenta condensar toda a história do universo em um meio limitado (pinturas em igrejas, livros milenares, grandes escritos científicos, etc). Acho que Miracle Mile é o único que conseguiu. Ou, pelo menos, o único que atingiu o nível de grandeza que a iniciativa pressupõe.
Go into this movie completely blind and have one of the greatest viewing experiences of your life
A work of pure genius, really. I think you could make a case for this as the great American movie of the 1980s - or, at the very least, it's a representative example of the unique spark of creative ingenuity that you see throughout the decade. It's aesthetically assured (the shattering of melancholic, late night stillness; Tangerine Dream; Cinematography that ignores cliches of the era, like neon bleeding out of a smoke machine), versatile, charmingly commercial and yet entirely uninterested in conforming to formulas or utilizing cliches. It's wickedly funny and breathlessly exciting, yet also deeply morose and hauntingly spare. A movie about the end of the world that explores all of the avenues one could take in a moment…
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We all know that love goes hand in hand with bombs, but what about with the extinction of the human race?? Here, is the answer (it does!) Nothing is more romantic than whispering to your SO, "I think it's the insects' turn." SERIOUSLY though this movie is a banger, a bomber, a BLAST. Just watch...
¡AAAAH! 😱 ...¿pero que acabo de ver, porque este filme no es más conocido? Realmente me dejó aterrado con ese final.
Llegué a él completando mi lista de filmes de Sci-Fi de los 80s, no puse mucha atención pero lo agregué, decidí verlo esta noche cuando leí esta review en la mañana (Gracias letterboxd) explotándome la curiosidad...
Un filme que empieza de lo más meloso cuando un chico parece conocer a la chica de sus sueños, pero de pronto ¡BOOM! La trama gira de manera impresionante y se vuelve una locura, paranoia pura en plena guerra fría durante los 80s, es increíble el suspenso con el que te tiene hasta el final de la película y aún así acaba y te quedas preguntando ¿Qué sucedió? .____.
Um. Oh my fucking god. If you plan on watching this, read no descriptions, don't watch the trailer. Apparently this cost $4 mil and only made $1 million, every director wanted to make this, and took 10 years to make.
You think you're watching a rando light 80's rom com. No. Think tone massacre. Blender style. Wtf did I just watch. Why is this not in our culture?
Taking the notion of "poisoned love letter to LA" to its literal extreme. If ever a movie needs rewatching now it's the one where Goose goes "It's the insects' turn." the film stands as the definitive time-capsule of Reagan-era apocalyptic dread, richly populated by the nocturnal riffraff of L.A.—with its gallery of lonely waitresses, homeless lunatics & neon-spandexed bodybuilders scrambling desperately to escape the impending black rain.
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