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Here's
another 3-D IMAX film with really cool computer graphics
and a lamer-than-lame story assembled to hold the
animated clips together. A wacky professor (Stuart
Pankin) and his Gazoo-like sidekick robot show viewers
the history of 3-D film - from the Lumiere brothers'
1903 clip of a moving train to the modern presentations
shown at popular theme parks.
Some of the stuff had me ducking in my seat.
I'd
watch a root canal procedure if it were in 3-D, but the
sections in 3-D Mania with Pankin and his robot
were awful. To make matters worse, Pankin's scientist tries to create
something called "Real-O-Vision," which is
really just the ghoulish grandma, Elvira (as in The
Mistress of the Dark). Warning - you can actually go blind from seeing Elvira's
cleavage in the third dimension. (0:32
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but contains some potentially scary stuff for kids)
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Nicolas Cage
stars as Tom Welles, a private investigator hired to
track down a girl that appears to be murdered in a
"snuff" film found in the private wall safe of
a deceased wealthy businessman. For those of you that
don’t know, a "snuff" film is a violent
porno flick, usually involving a brutal rape and
eventual murder of its female lead. If that’s the kind
of thing that interests you, then 8mm should be
right up your alley.
Directed by
Joel "The Guy That Ruined Batman"
Schumacher and written by Se7en scribe Andrew
Kevin Walker, the film leads Welles further and further
into the slimy depths of the porno underworld, meeting
such sleazy characters as Joaquin Phoenix (Return to
Paradise), James Gandolfini (The Sopranos)
and Peter Stomare (Fargo). Sound familiar? It’s
about the same story as Payback and probably even
more violent, but doesn’t try to get chuckles out of
its unnecessary savagery like the Mel did in his bungle.
(2:03 – 
for brutal violence and rape, adult language, adult
situations and clips of XXX movies)
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