Joe Johnston never getting recognition for The Rocketeer astounds me. Johnston creates a perfect adventure film, a now neglected and abused genre. Additionally, Johnston never fetishizes the historical setting. The late 1930s, Nazis as villains setting is practically its own genre at this point (strange how after a half decade, there are so few choices […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ed Lauter'
The Rocketeer (1991, Joe Johnston)
July 22nd, 2008 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloThe New Centurions (1972, Richard Fleischer)
May 29th, 2007 No Comments
I was going to start this post saying complementary things about Richard Fleischer, something about how his mediocrity doesn’t get in the way of the film (and the film’s melodramatic mediocrity). Then he goes too far at the end, plunging the damn thing ever further into the muck. And The New Centurions is unbearably melodramatic. […]
