V for Vendetta is a film made by Americans about London. I mean, I can see how it’s all right, given it’s a big budget nonsense blockbuster, but there’s something so incredibly lame in the last scene of the film–I’m going to ruin it for you–the dead people, those murdered by the evil British state, […]
Entries Tagged as 'John Hurt'
V for Vendetta (2005, James McTeigue)
August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Alan Moore· Andy Wachowski· David Lloyd· Hugo Weaving· James McTeigue· John Hurt· Larry Wachowski· Warner Bros.· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Limits of Control (2009, Jim Jarmusch)
May 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Someone–Ebert maybe–is going to laud The Limits of Control. The nicest thing one can really say about it is it isn’t abjectly terrible. There aren’t many bad performances (Tilda Swinton’s lame and Bill Murray’s awful and Isaach De Bankolé is weak when he has more lines than the Terminator) and Jarmusch really does know how […]
Tagged: Bill Murray· Focus Features· Jim Jarmusch· John Hurt· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Dead Man (1995, Jim Jarmusch)
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Dead Man is not a strange film. I haven’t seen it in ten years and I’ve probably seen the majority of the Westerns I’ve seen in that interim. So the opening, as Johnny Depp watches the familiar Western trappings pass from a train window, probably didn’t resonate on my last viewing. What Jarmusch doesn’t get […]
Tagged: Billy Bob Thornton· Crispin Glover· Gabriel Byrne· Jim Jarmusch· John Hurt· Johnny Depp· Lance Henriksen· Michael Wincott· Miramax Films· Robert Mitchum· ★★★★
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008, Guillermo del Toro)
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Once I heard the concept for Hellboy II–Hellboy versus elves–I knew what was going on. Del Toro was going to make a (tonal) sequel to Pan’s Labyrinth instead of an actual one to Hellboy. As my wife said on the way home, there’s a big difference between demons and elves. It’s like del Toro’s psychic […]
Tagged: Guillermo del Toro· John Hurt· Mike Mignola· Universal Pictures· ★
Hellboy (2004, Guillermo del Toro)
July 8th, 2008 · No Comments
If I recall correctly, Mike Mignola never had Hellboy and Selma Blair’s firestarter get together (romantically) in the comics, even though Hellboy is flame resistant. That filmic development was all Guillermo del Toro’s. del Toro is responsible for everything successful in Hellboy and, subsequently, everything unsuccessful. Hellboy works, which is probably the film’s greatest achievement–it’s […]
Tagged: Columbia Pictures· Guillermo del Toro· John Hurt· Mike Mignola· Peter Briggs· ★★½
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008, Steven Spielberg)
May 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The biggest development, in terms of script, in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull might actually be George Lucas’s fingerprints. Between Last Crusade and this sequel, Lucas created the “Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” television series and introduced the idea of canon to the series. As an example, in Crystal Skull, Harrison Ford […]
Tagged: Cate Blanchett· David Koepp· George Lucas· Harrison Ford· Jeff Nathanson· John Hurt· Paramount Pictures· Ray Winstone· Steven Spielberg· ★★½
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984, Michael Radford)
May 18th, 2006 · No Comments
For well over an hour of Nineteen Eighty-Four, nothing much happens. John Hurt edits articles, writes in his journal, does his exercises, talks to people, meets a girl… I suppose the romance should have accelerated Nineteen Eighty-Four’s pace or gotten it moving, but it really didn’t. Instead, the film just continued on its gradual pace. […]
Tagged: Atlantic Releasing Corporation· George Orwell· John Hurt· Michael Radford· Richard Burton· ★★
