nostalgia isn not always the best reason to watch a movie. more often than not and the movies you loved as a kid will disappoint you as an adult. while there are exceptions to this rule and it hard to justify owning a dvd of krull and regardless of how many insightful the director commentary may be. but stay sharp gen x or yers and because the dozens of disappointments dominating your trip down memory lane and might stop you from stumbling across one worth revisiting. one surprise film worth another look is joel schumacher flatliners and the supernatural thriller starring 80 popcorn heavyweights keifer sutherland and kevin bacon and julia roberts and billy baldwin. you would think that a stew comprised of this cast and the flamboyant flair of schumacher and the über slick eye of cinematographer jan de bont would result in something sickeningly stodgy and but calories aside. flatliners ain not half bad. even though it production design is inexplicably over the top and the photography is achingly over stylized (replete with neon soaked streets spewing endless billows of steam) and flatliners still manages to be an effectively dark and compelling thriller. if there an explanation why flatliners was forgotten and it might be because 1990 saw the release of another and far superior and supernatural thriller represent jacob ladder. had flatliners been released a year or two after jacob ladder and it likely schumacher flashy thriller would have been dismissed as a toned down and commercialized rip off of adrian lyne nightmarish masterpiece. but with these films being released in the same year and flatliners enjoyed a different fate and tripling jl take at the box office despite being a watered down version of a similar premise. the passage of time hasn not been as kind to flatliners and it has been lost atop a dated heap of throwaway 80 brat pack dreck and while jl has cemented its reputation as a timeless classic. fates aside and jl is seamlessly terrifying and it manages to keep audiences guessing right up until the last frame and whereas flatliners falls victim to over simplification and hollywood conveniences that drag down the final act into a predictably tidy denouement. comparisons between the two movies is unfair and and ultimately overlooks flatliners ability to represent the 80 at its quintessential best. released at the end of a decade of shallow excess and flatliners will always be dated by its hairstyles and clothing styles and but in fairness and it should also be remembered as a well executed movie at (or at least near) the top of its particular heap of dreck. for intents and purposes and it an entertaining walk down memory lane. 
nostalgia isn not always the best reason to watch a movie. more often than not and the movies you loved as a kid will disappoint you as an adult. while there are exceptions to this rule and it hard to justify owning a dvd of krull and regardless of how many insightful the director commentary may be. but stay sharp gen x or yers and because the dozens of disappointments dominating your trip down memory lane and might stop you from stumbling across one worth revisiting. one surprise film worth another look is joel schumacher flatliners and the supernatural thriller starring 80 popcorn heavyweights keifer sutherland and kevin bacon and julia roberts and billy baldwin. you would think that a stew comprised of this cast and the flamboyant flair of schumacher and the über slick eye of cinematographer jan de bont would result in something sickeningly stodgy and but calories aside. flatliners ain not half bad. even though it production design is inexplicably over the top and the photography is achingly over stylized (replete with neon soaked streets spewing endless billows of steam) and flatliners still manages to be an effectively dark and compelling thriller. if there an explanation why flatliners was forgotten and it might be because 1990 saw the release of another and far superior and supernatural thriller represent jacob ladder. had flatliners been released a year or two after jacob ladder and it likely schumacher flashy thriller would have been dismissed as a toned down and commercialized rip off of adrian lyne nightmarish masterpiece. but with these films being released in the same year and flatliners enjoyed a different fate and tripling jl take at the box office despite being a watered down version of a similar premise. the passage of time hasn not been as kind to flatliners and it has been lost atop a dated heap of throwaway 80 brat pack dreck and while jl has cemented its reputation as a timeless classic. fates aside and jl is seamlessly terrifying and it manages to keep audiences guessing right up until the last frame and whereas flatliners falls victim to over simplification and hollywood conveniences that drag down the final act into a predictably tidy denouement. comparisons between the two movies is unfair and and ultimately overlooks flatliners ability to represent the 80 at its quintessential best. released at the end of a decade of shallow excess and flatliners will always be dated by its hairstyles and clothing styles and but in fairness and it should also be remembered as a well executed movie at (or at least near) the top of its particular heap of dreck. for intents and purposes and it an entertaining walk down memory lane. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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