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Terminator Salvation (2009, Joseph McGinty Nichol), the director’s cut

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Ok, no joke, what idiot thought adding Christian Bale to Terminator 4 was a good idea? Was it McG? Without the dumb connection to the previous films–if it had just been the adventures of Anton Yelchin’s Young Kyle Reese–it might have been fine. Nichol’s direction isn’t anything spectacular (it’s solid enough, surprisingly), but he doesn’t […]

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Tagged: Gale Anne Hurd· James Cameron· John Brancato· Joseph McGinty Nichol· Michael Ferris· Warner Bros.· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

The Terminator (1984, James Cameron)

August 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I remember The Terminator being a lot better. Even as it started–I think during the first chase sequence (Michael Biehn in the department store)–I thought about the great highway chase sequence at the end. Then, as things went sour during, I kept waiting for that sequence, sure it would bring things around.
But it doesn’t bring […]

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Tagged: Bill Paxton· Gale Anne Hurd· Harlan Ellison· James Cameron· Lance Henriksen· Orion Pictures· Paul Winfield· ★½

The Abyss (1989, James Cameron), the special edition

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Running almost three hours, the special edition of The Abyss manages to be too long in an interesting way. It forgets its story. There’s about an hour there with the valiant undersea oil workers battling the psychotic military man–there’s fight scenes and chase scenes and drama scenes and all sorts of scenes… just nothing about […]

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Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Ed Harris· James Cameron· Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio· ★★

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985, George P. Cosmatos)

February 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Rambo’s pretty awful. It’s not terrible–not too terrible to watch anyway (at least once, though New York Times critic A.O. Scott should probably be fired for supporting it to any degree). The main technical fault lies with George P. Cosmatos, who somehow managed to stock the crew with capable people (editor Mark Goldblatt is no […]

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Tagged: David Morrell· George P. Cosmatos· James Cameron· Kevin Jarre· Sylvester Stallone· Tri-Star Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

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