Blast from the Past (1999)

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filmyjo
One of the best rom-coms ever! Had lots of laughs while watching it... Features Alicia Silverstone who never disappoints... Watching this, made my day! 7 years 2 months ago
Outrageous Buttocks
Absolute cinema at its most based and prescient 5 months 1 week ago
Siskoid
With Brendan Fraser playing one of his naive fishes out of water, and Alicia Silverstone very much doing some shade of Cher from Clueless, Blast from the Past has, with age, itself become a blast from the past. What I like about it is that similar stories usually just show us the "fish" reacting to their new world as a gag that reveals something about the "water", but here, we get the full context and spend a lot of time with Fraser's character Adam growing up in his parents' fallout shelter. Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek are both fun as a family perpetually stuck in 1961 culturally, and they remain a concern even once Adam goes out into the supposed atomic wasteland for provisions. We know it's a romcom even if Silverstone's Eve doesn't want it to be ("as if!"), and she's very good at that. Dave Foley as her gay brother is likewise a charm. More amusing than laugh-out-loud funny, Blast from the Past is - and this shouldn't sound like a knock - very cute, and an easy, breezy watch on a slow afternoon. Give me this over Fraser's other fish stories. 2 years 10 months ago