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This movie from 1994 is another perfect example that remakes rarely work. The original Les Choses De La Vie by Claude Sautet with Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli is a real masterpiece, but this is just a very boring version of it. This film lacks of inspiration with two leads who are horrible. Richard Gere is playing his usual romantic role and it just doesn't work as there's no chemistry between him and Lolita Davidovich. Even Sharon Stone seemed bored by Intersection...

You don't need Stanley Kubrick to remember that war is stupid and that it only causes deep inhuman traumas, but Paths Of Glory surely is a great reminder of that. It's a big mistery why this movie is rarely mentioned when people come up with big Kubrick-titles as this rather short film (80 minutes) is just perfect from the first tot he last second. Kirk Douglas stars as the officer who refuses to send his soldiers from the trenches into the field of death. The contrast between the privates who are just bullet meat and the officers who keep on partying like there's no war around are mindblowing. The ending scene with the singing German girl says it all. Still one of my all time favourites and I already lost the count of my rewatches.

In 85 minutes Kubrick not only shows why he's a genius director, but also why mankind is cruel. One of the best movies ever made......

Normally I am not such a fan of Jim Carrey, but this is only because of the fact that most movies he's starred in aren't what I'm really after. But hell, what a genius actor is this and I think this can bes een in Man On The Moon. I usually go for those who walk out the line and that is what Andy Kaufmann did and that's exactly how it's portrayed by Carrey. Recently I saw the documentary in where you can see that Carrey takes it really far and you can see that perfectly in this movie. You don't see Carrey, you just watch Kaufmann and that makes it a hell of a hommage. The movie surely made me cry. It's a real shame Milos Forman didn't make that many movies in his American years but they were one for one incredible masterpieces and Man On The Moon is surely one I regulary will rewatch many times in my life, or at least I hope. One of the best movies of the 90's!