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Summary: Fun Movie. Fast and Brainless. What's wrong with that?
Review: I love this movie. Was a favorite ever since I first saw it in the theater. Cool locations and sets. Good cast and funny circumstances. The bar scene in the beginning cracks me up and Lester the bad guy is awesome. Not Raiders of the Lost Ark, but well worth your time.
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Summary: Hokey but Great Fun.
Review: I Really liked this Sci Fi b-movie. Made with real stars and great fun. Lester cracks me up.
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Summary: i thought it one of the best melanie ever made!
Review: i wish i could find a copy of the movie. i have been looking for a long time, but to no avail. maybe later,
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Summary: Historic Footage
Review: I'd wager few of the viewers of Cherry 2000 are aware of one of the historic location sets of this film. Part of the film takes place in a bad-guy's hideout called Sky Ranch. Well, Sky Ranch is none other than Ash Meadows Sky Ranch, a legal Nevada brothel which closed around 1973.Ash Meadows was more than just a brothel. It was a resort, as Cherry 2000 shows, if only a little bit. In its heyday, Ash Meadows had the main house, a motel, the large pool area shown, a golf course, and an air strip. In fact, the air strip was depicted on VFR aviation charts for many years after the place closed. The location was southwestern Nevada, right on the border with California. The closest town was Death Valley Junction, and there was a dirt and gravel road to Ash Meadows from there. Oddly, there is a brothel depicted in Cherry 2000. It's the little gas-and-go shack run by Ben Johnson, and nothing like the luxurious Ash Meadows. No, I never did get to visit Ash Meadows Sky Ranch while it was open. I phoned once, ascertained it was open, and then went for a visit a couple of weeks later. Unfortunately it was closed by then. I got to the gate and was met by a couple of very fierce, and very loud dogs. I was delighted to catch a glimpse of the place in the film Cherry 2000. If nothing else, the film shows an historic location, even if it isn't clear what you are seeing unless you know it in advance.
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Summary: Once again just for kicks.
Review: I've already reviewed Cherry 2000 once. I just thought of something else I wanted to say. Tim Thomerson plays the "BAD" guy in this flick. Lester is his name and he ends up smack-dab against one of the female marble statues (a la Las Vegas) mounted like stalagmites in this wasteland. If ya gotta go, you could do a lot worse. I got lucky and got another VHS copy at an EBay auction for ten bucks. My favorite lady 'Judy' talked me out of my first VHS. My favorite place: the GLU GLU Club. By the way "Who did invent Vaseline"?
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Summary: Good Mindless Fun!
Review: If you are looking for an Intellectual Challenge or the Meaning of Life, then "Move Along". If you are looking for good mindless entertainment, then this may well be for you. Cherry 2000 is a VERY sophisticated 'Blow Up Doll' which essentially blows a fuse. This leads her Master to hire Melanie Griffith to hunt down the required 'spare parts' to get her working again. Its simple minded and promises nothing more than mindless entertainment, which is just great if thats what you're looking for! I personally really enjoyed this movie.
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Summary: Romance isn't Dead, it's just different.
Review: In a world in which romance seems dead, in which one must bicker and fight over the details of each specific act on a date; dinner, show, holding hands, a kiss, more?, a few men have found an alternitive to this cold, harsh reality - they own female androids, machines which can introduce into their lives that almost graceful, elegant sense of romance as envisioned by golden-age films. The problem, such machines are no longer produced. When the android owned by the male lead of this feature (Ben Johnson) malfunctions, he is faced with a decision between the bitter reality of life, or an extreme risk, hiring a mercenary to break into an abandoned android factory in a forbidden zone in order to replace his synthetic beloved. Is romance worth a risk of life? When this mercenary turns out to be a Mustang-racing, red-headed, well-shaped Melanie Griffith, might our hero find real love? While, as Science Fiction, this feature may seem more camp than anything else, its special effects on-par with many low-budget films from the 1980s, at its heart there is a true romance story, a story about people, well performed by the two lead actors, which makes up for many of the films other shortcomings. Well worth your time.
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Summary: Exceptional view of the relationship between the sexes.
Review: In my opinion this is one of the best films Melanie Griffith has ever done! She really acted in this film. Her gestures, without words, about the relationship her client had with a robot was a screenwriter's dream. We always strive to get the story told with few words, action and scenery. Melanie is young, beautiful, sexy and very smart. She didn't play the innocent little maiden that needs to be rescued. Instead she just got out there and made a life for herself. Steve's scene of the man in the hotel with the robot that didn't operate correctly was priceless. Since she didn't please him, he didn't even bother to put her clothes back on. He just sit her outside of the door. Steve really helped us to see how attached humans can be. Melanie's client was so attached to his robot that he kept the computer-chip to listen to his programmed sex-doll's voice. I guest he liked hearing what he wanted to hear. After all she was programmed to please him. The end of the movie was not a surprise. It had to show that Melanie's client was still human after all. How in the world could he be with a REAL flesh and blood woman like Melanie, and keep listening to that stupid computer-chip while longing for a robot doll. Thank you Steve for showing that women can be smart, beautiful and strong while still retaining our feminine qualities. I really enjoyed this film! I WAS ENTERTAINED, CRYED, LAUGHED AND TREASURED TALKING ABOUT IT WITH MY FRIENDS.
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Summary: There's a lot more to love than hot wiring.
Review: In terms of post apocalyptic sci-fi action type movies, this one isn't too bad. A little goofy for my tastes, but the humor was subtle and the action okay. David Andrews (Graveyard Shift, Hannibal, Apollo 13) stars as Sam Treadwell, as somewhat well to do individual in the post apocalyptic near future. He prefers the company of a highly sophisticated pleasure bot, a model called Cherry 2000, to that of the messy entanglements of a relationship with a woman. Only problem is, during a romantic interlude, his Cherry 2000 get water in her system and suffers a complete internal meltdown. Removing the personality chip which contains voice patterns, mannerisms, etc., he sets out to find a replacement, which is easier said than done, as that model is nearly impossible to come by, and highly coveted. He gets a tip that there is a whole warehouse of the Cherry 2000 model in a warehouse, problem is the warehouse is located in wastelands, a highly restrictive and dangerous area.
Sam decides to hire a tracker to go and retrieve him a new unit, and meets with Edith E. Johnson, played by Melanie Griffith. So Sam and Edith set off in her souped up Ford Mustang, into the wastelands. After a skirmish or two, they encounter one of the more feared groups of the wastelands, led by Lester, played by Tim Thomerson (Trancers, Who's Harry Crumb, Air America). Lester and his gang live what I would call a little suburb of the desert called Sky Ranch, and detest trackers. Why they hate trackers, I don't know, as it's never explained, but they do, so I went with it. Avoiding capture and also avoiding getting blown up, Sam and Edith eventually meet up with Six Fingered Jake, played by Ben Johnson, veteran actor of more western movies than I care to mention, and winner of an academy award for his role in The Last Picture Show (1971). He's a semi-retired tracker who provides a safe haven for Sam and Edith. After a short rest, the two start out again, but get waylaid by Lester and his gang, and Sam ends up getting kidnapped. Sam escapes from Lester, causing much damage to Sky Ranch, and Lester and his cronies pursue. Sam and Edith finally come to where the Cherry 2000 units are, with Lester and Co. in hot pursuit. Oh yeah, there's a sort of love interest between Sam and Edith that develops and is kind of important around the end of the movie.
A decent movie, but a couple glaring inconsistencies in the continuity. The biggest one I can remember is when Lester and his gang are chasing Sam and Edith through the desert, following in a Jeep and a small truck. They stop at some point, open the back of the truck, and four ATVs pull out of the truck. In the next scene, we see the jeep and about 10 to 15 ATVs. Unless that was some kind of magical truck with a transdimensional wormhole in the back, I have no idea where all the other ATVs came from. And the scene with the car hanging from the giant magnet attached to the crane...if one of Lesters men was operating the crane, why did he keep moving the crane? Lesters men were trying to shoot at the car hanging from the crane, but were unable to get a bead on it due to it kept moving...just made no sense. I found it interesting that Melanie Griffith made this movie well into her career, and after her much better movie, Something Wild. This type of movie just seems like one that an actor would be in before they became famous, like Jennifer Aniston in Leprechan.
As for extra features, there is a 'Making of...' documentary (cough, cough) if you can call it that. It's like six minutes long, 2 minutes of which is the trailer, and looks like a bad high school production. There is also a trailer for the movie. Watching the trailer, I noticed a few scenes not in the movie. One scene is where Lester shoots a woman in the head, and her body goes flying backwards into a pool of water. In the actual movie, we see Lester fire his gun in the direction of the woman who is off screen, and that's it. Also, in the trailer there is a scene where Edith is changing in another room, and comes out with her shirt unbuttoned, allowing us to see part of her chest (not all) in a view where she's facing the camera. In the movie, we get more of a side view and a much more limited view. Since this movie is rated PG-13, I am assuming that these two scenes probably got nixed from the movie to avoid an R rating, but nice to see they were put into the trailer.
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Summary: There's a lot more to love than hot wiring.
Review: In terms of post apocalyptic sci-fi action type movies, this one isn't too bad. A little goofy for my tastes, but the humor was subtle and the action okay. David Andrews (Graveyard Shift, Hannibal, Apollo 13) stars as Sam Treadwell, as somewhat well to do individual in the post apocalyptic near future. He prefers the company of a highly sophisticated pleasure bot, a model called Cherry 2000, to that of the messy entanglements of a relationship with a woman. Only problem is, during a romantic interlude, his Cherry 2000 get water in her system and suffers a complete internal meltdown. Removing the personality chip which contains voice patterns, mannerisms, etc., he sets out to find a replacement, which is easier said than done, as that model is nearly impossible to come by, and highly coveted. He gets a tip that there is a whole warehouse of the Cherry 2000 model in a warehouse, problem is the warehouse is located in wastelands, a highly restrictive and dangerous area. Sam decides to hire a tracker to go and retrieve him a new unit, and meets with Edith E. Johnson, played by Melanie Griffith. So Sam and Edith set off in her souped up Ford Mustang, into the wastelands. After a skirmish or two, they encounter one of the more feared groups of the wastelands, led by Lester, played by Tim Thomerson (Trancers, Who's Harry Crumb, Air America). Lester and his gang live what I would call a little suburb of the desert called Sky Ranch, and detest trackers. Why they hate trackers, I don't know, as it's never explained, but they do, so I went with it. Avoiding capture and also avoiding getting blown up, Sam and Edith eventually meet up with Six Fingered Jake, played by Ben Johnson, veteran actor of more western movies than I care to mention, and winner of an academy award for his role in The Last Picture Show (1971). He's a semi-retired tracker who provides a safe haven for Sam and Edith. After a short rest, the two start out again, but get waylaid by Lester and his gang, and Sam ends up getting kidnapped. Sam escapes from Lester, causing much damage to Sky Ranch, and Lester and his cronies pursue. Sam and Edith finally come to where the Cherry 2000 units are, with Lester and Co. in hot pursuit. Oh yeah, there's a sort of love interest between Sam and Edith that develops and is kind of important around the end of the movie. A decent movie, but a couple glaring inconsistencies in the continuity. The biggest one I can remember is when Lester and his gang are chasing Sam and Edith through the desert, following in a Jeep and a small truck. They stop at some point, open the back of the truck, and four ATVs pull out of the truck. In the next scene, we see the jeep and about 10 to 15 ATVs. Unless that was some kind of magical truck with a transdimensional wormhole in the back, I have no idea where all the other ATVs came from. And the scene with the car hanging from the giant magnet attached to the crane...if one of Lesters men was operating the crane, why did he keep moving the crane? Lesters men were trying to shoot at the car hanging from the crane, but were unable to get a bead on it due to it kept moving...just made no sense.
I found it interesting that Melanie Griffith made this movie well into her career, and after her much better movie, Something Wild. This type of movie just seems like one that an actor would be in before they became famous, like Jennifer Aniston in Leprechan. As for extra features, there is a 'Making of...' documentary (cough, cough) if you can call it that. It's like six minutes long, 2 minutes of which is the trailer, and looks like a bad high school production. There is also a trailer for the movie. Watching the trailer, I noticed a few scenes not in the movie. One scene is where Lester shoots a woman in the head, and her body goes flying backwards into a pool of water. In the actual movie, we see Lester fire his gun in the direction of the woman who is off screen, and that's it. Also, in the trailer there is a scene where Edith is changing in another room, and comes out with her shirt unbuttoned, allowing us to see part of her chest (not all) in a view where she's facing the camera. In the movie, we get more of a side view and a much more limited view. Since this movie is rated PG-13, I am assuming that these two scenes probably got nixed from the movie to avoid an R rating, but nice to see they were put into the trailer.
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