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Entries Tagged as 'Michael Madsen'

Green Lantern: First Flight (2009, Lauren Montgomery)

September 6th, 2009 · No Comments

There’s a certain amount of competence to the plotting in Green Lantern: First Flight. It’s too bad the filmmakers didn’t pay the same attention to the characters. The film basically lifts the plot structure from any number of established sources–Star Wars, The Matrix, a little Superman here and there–to tell this origin story about a […]

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Tagged: Alan Burnett· Gil Kane· John Broome· Kurtwood Smith· Lauren Montgomery· Michael Madsen· Warner Premiere·

The Natural (1984, Barry Levinson), the director’s cut

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

The Natural is a strange one. It’s a cheap success. The story is incredibly simple–you have the golden-haired hero and the evil monster who lives in the dark–and looking for anything more will leave one wanting. Even though the film taps into the baseball mythos, it’s superficial. The Natural is the superhero movie Robert Redford […]

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Tagged: Barry Levinson· Bernard Malamud· Joe Don Baker· Michael Madsen· Phil Dusenberry· Robert Duvall· Robert Redford· Robert Towne· Tri-Star Pictures· Wilford Brimley· ★★★

Die Another Day (2002, Lee Tamahori)

February 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Fun. I’m trying to think–besides the Ocean series–of fun Hollywood blockbusters these days. It seems like fun is out. Certainly with James Bond. Die Another Day is a lot of fun. In fact, unlike some of the other Bond movies–the ones I can remember well–it seems to be more concentrated on being fun than anything […]

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Tagged: Ian Fleming· John Cleese· Lee Tamahori· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Michael Madsen· Neal Purvis· Pierce Brosnan· Robert Wade· ★★

Wyatt Earp (1994, Lawrence Kasdan), the expanded edition

September 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Thirty-nine years old when Wyatt Earp was released, all Kevin Costner needed to do to de-age himself twenty years was smile. During the young Earp days, Costner looks younger than costar Annabeth Gish, not to mention Linden Ashby (playing his younger brother).
The extended version of Wyatt Earp clocks in at three and a half hours. […]

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Tagged: Bill Pullman· Catherine O'Hara· Dan Gordon· Dennis Quaid· Gene Hackman· Kevin Costner· Lawrence Kasdan· Michael Madsen· Tom Sizemore· Warner Bros.· ★★★★

Sin City (2005, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez), the extended version

January 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment

When Sin City came out in the theater, three people told me to go see it. One of them had an opinion of film I respect, one had an opinion of it I–at the time–had no argument with, and one had an opinion I most definitely did not respect. But I’d read interviews with Robert […]

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Tagged: Benicio Del Toro· Bruce Willis· Dimension Films· Frank Miller· Josh Hartnett· Michael Madsen· Mickey Rourke· Quentin Tarantino· Robert Rodriguez· Rosario Dawson· ★½

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