I saw Judge Dredd at a sneak preview. It was the first time I ever saw anyone walk on a movie.
It fits into a rather interesting category of disastrous would-be blockbusters–joining Flash Gordon, The Black Hole and Dune–where there’s this largely international cast–why are Jürgen Prochnow and Max von Sydow playing, basically, New Yorkers–and an overblown […]
Entries Tagged as 'James Earl Jones'
Judge Dredd (1995, Danny Cannon)
August 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Buena Vista Pictures· Carlos Ezquerra· Danny Cannon· Ewen Bremner· James Earl Jones· James Remar· John Wagner· Jürgen Prochnow· Max von Sydow· Michael De Luca· Steven E. de Souza· Sylvester Stallone· William Wisher Jr.· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Conan the Barbarian (1982, John Milius)
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments
John Milius takes Conan the Barbarian very seriously. The occasional use of slow motion and the endlessness of Basil Poledouris’s cheesy score signal Milius’s dedication. So do the long and frequent sequences of shirtless Arnold Schwarzenegger playing with big swords. At the beginning of the film, when it’s the prologue and Milius strange approach actually […]
Tagged: James Earl Jones· John Milius· Max von Sydow· Oliver Stone· Robert E. Howard· Universal Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Field of Dreams (1988, Phil Alden Robinson)
February 23rd, 2006 · No Comments
If asked, I’d probably blame MTV, video games, and CG for the downfall of American cinema. These reasons are my knee-jerk examples and, if they’re not the whole problem, they’re certainly the major contributing factors. However, following Field of Dreams, I think I’ll have to revise my answer. There’s a sense of cynicism about American […]
Tagged: Burt Lancaster· James Earl Jones· Kevin Costner· Phil Alden Robinson· Ray Liotta· Universal Pictures· W.P. Kinsella· ★★★★
Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
January 11th, 2006 · No Comments
Watching Star Wars as an adult–as a cynical adult–is an interesting experience. There are plenty of frequent reminders of the first film’s “faults,” from Alec Guinness and Harrison Ford deriding the dialogue to many of the second trilogy’s reviews citing it as a weak film. As near as I can tell, I haven’t seen Star […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Alec Guinness· George Lucas· Harrison Ford· James Earl Jones· Peter Cushing· ★★★★
Sneakers (1992, Phil Alden Robinson)
November 20th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Describing Ocean’s Eleven, Steven Soderbergh said he wanted to “make a movie that has no desire except to give you pleasure from beginning to end.”
He seems to have ripped off that idea from Sneakers.
Robert Redford is a lot more serious than I tend to think. So’s Paul Newman for that matter. We know the affable Redford […]
Tagged: Ben Kingsley· David Strathairn· James Earl Jones· Lawrence Lasker· Mary McDonnell· Phil Alden Robinson· Robert Redford· Sidney Poitier· Universal Pictures· Walter F. Parkes· ★★★
Matewan (1987, John Sayles)
August 22nd, 2005 · 2 Comments
What was that? Did anyone else see that? (Probably not, I’m watching the Canadian widescreen DVD).
Sayles actually ripped off the looking at the camera bit from The 400 Blows. He actually did it–while having the characters future self narrate the epilogue. I’ve been dreading watching Matewan for over a year, since April 2004 in fact. […]
Tagged: Chris Cooper· Cinecom Pictures· David Strathairn· James Earl Jones· John Sayles· Mary McDonnell· ★½
