A lot of Pandorum is the best thing producers Jeremy Bolt and Paul W.S. Anderson have ever had their names on. It falls apart, after a weak open no less, at the end. The very end. It reminded me of Outland, the exit is so stupid. It totally invalidates the trials the protagonists went through […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ben Foster'
Pandorum (2009, Christian Alvart)
January 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tagged: Ben Foster· Christian Alvart· Dennis Quaid· Overture Films· Travis Milloy· ★½
Phone Booth (2002, Joel Schumacher)
September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
IMDb doesn’t mention it, but I thought one of the problems with getting Phone Booth made (it went through countless potential leading men) was the script and screenwriter Larry Cohen’s contract–i.e. no one could be brought in to make it, you know, good.
The film’s a piece of crap and it’s too bad because some of the […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Ben Foster· Colin Farrell· Forest Whitaker· Joel Schumacher· Kiefer Sutherland· Larry Cohen· Radha Mitchell· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Punisher (2004, Jonathan Hensleigh)
August 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Considering Dolph Lundgren got famous playing a blond Russian and can definitely act better than Kevin Nash, who doesn’t even have any lines and is terrible, it’s telling Jonathan Hensleigh didn’t bring him back for a small role, an acknowledgment of the far superior 1989 Punisher adaptation.
Whereas that film–and to some extent, the one following […]
Tagged: Ben Foster· Gerry Conway· John Romita Sr.· Jonathan Hensleigh· Lions Gate Films· Michael France· Ross Andru· Roy Scheider· Thomas Jane· Will Patton· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, Brett Ratner)
August 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Apparently all the X-Men movies needed was the vapidness of Brett Ratner. What’s strangest about his replacing of Singer is the mutation being a metaphor for homosexuality. Singer used it as a metaphor (poorly) for race in the first one. I don’t think there were any metaphors in the second one, but it works perfectly […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Ben Foster· Brett Ratner· Hugh Jackman· Michael Murphy· Simon Kinberg· Zak Penn· ★
Birds of America (2008, Craig Lucas)
October 9th, 2008 · No Comments
The sub-ninety minute indie film is practically becoming a genre (I’m assuming these short lengths have a lot to do with sales to commercial cable–ninety minutes fits perfectly into a two hour slot on TNT). Birds of America is both a part of this burgeoning genre and the post–Little Miss Sunshine indie dysfunctional family comedy […]
Tagged: Ben Foster· Craig Lucas· Elyse Friedman· First Look Studios· ★★½
30 Days of Night (2007, David Slade)
November 12th, 2007 · No Comments
30 Days of Night is a fine example of bad writing hurting a good idea, which is what I heard about the comic book source too–vampires in Alaska with no sun, Dracula versus Northern Exposure, sounds like a good idea. But it’s just an idea, it’s not a two hour movie. There are some other […]
Tagged: Ben Foster· Ben Templesmith· Brian Nelson· Columbia Pictures· Danny Huston· David Slade· Josh Hartnett· Steve Niles· Stuart Beattie· ★½
Hostage (2005, Florent Emilio Siri)
April 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Hostage, towards the end, plays a little like a Die Hard movie, which isn’t surprising, since Doug Richardson did write it (he also wrote Die Hard 2) and Willis, who’s good in Hostage, is usually best in… well, Die Hard movies, actually. Like those films, Hostage lets him emote and he does a good job […]
Tagged: Ben Foster· Bruce Willis· Doug Richardson· Florent Emilio Siri· Miramax Films· Robert Crais· ★½
