Touches You

People are voting emotionally.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It's a nice little movie. Comes off more dated with the musical score but the talent discovered for this flick alone is worth the watch. Swayze, Lowe, Howell, Cruise, Estevez, Macchio, Lane and Dillon. All young. All green. Sometimes dialogue is hard to follow and I found myself backtracking a few times to catch lines the 2nd time around. Young actors in a story by a young writer. Guilty pleasure. Glad I watched it.

After watching 20 minutes of this, i wanted to pull all of my hair out. Many important scenes were missing, and the "acting" was horrible. The movie is not a worthy adaptation of the book, as it follows no proper sequence of events. Do i recommend it? That's funny.

Many characters from beginning of the movie and there's no proper introduction to them. I think book readers should enjoy this movie, but if you didn't read the book then there's just no proper familiarization with the events. Also Tom Cruise does not have a big role here and is just like 5 minutes throughout this 2 hour movie. This movie is about 2 gangs who are rivals and looks quite realistic. There are a few interesting moments here - 1 - first fight between gangs, where one of the main characters kills an enemy, 2 - fire in the church, 3 - big fight between gangs. **Spoilers** There are also different scenes, which show that some of the gang members don't really want to fight and are against violence, while others are hyped by the upcoming fight, which is interesting. Also it shows 3 brothers who love and protect each other. **However, it is interesting that this movie has a really good video quality for 1983 movie. Almost like 2018 movies, so don't worry about that.

Some people love the movie because of the actors, others hate it because they want a "hit", but it should be judged on what is in the movie. And sorry to say, much of the material was feeble. Not sure the lead character helped, but it's almost as if the director wanted to make a romance. The result is a film that stumbles its way through 100 minutes, wasting so much potential. If the movie didn't mope and whine its way through, trying too hard to be a tearjerker without showcasing any real emotion, it could have actually been special. Not to forget it attempting to bash some moral story onto the viewer, but not knowing what was the moral story it wanted to bash into people in the first place. The result is a movie containing nothing to love, or hate. A vacuum.OK, it wasn't all bad, it was simply without direction or purpose. Some decent cinematography, a few flashes of potential in individual scenes. But not enough to make a movie. The director needed to pick a direction, and didn't.