Half Moon Street is supposed to be funny, right? No one’s supposed to believe it’s serious, they can’t. Certainly not with Sigourney Weaver’s performance–it’s got to be the worst thing she’s ever done, but it’s amazing because she certainly never gave the impression she’s capable of such an atrocious performance. The script’s full of these […]
Entries Tagged as 'Sigourney Weaver'
Half Moon Street (1986, Bob Swaim)
February 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Bob Swaim· Edward Behr· J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors· Michael Caine· Sigourney Weaver· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
WALL·E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
July 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
WALL·E might be the first major Hollywood production not to feature a speaking protagonist in a while. I can’t remember the last one. WALL·E, the robot, makes some emotive sounds and mispronounces his girlfriend’s name, but he communicates through action, not through verbalization. It’s rather effective, since the robot’s supposed to be adorable and Pixar’s […]
Tagged: Andrew Stanton· Jim Reardon· Pete Docter· Sigourney Weaver· Walt Disney Pictures· ★★★½
Alien: Resurrection (1997, Jean-Pierre Jeunet), the special edition
February 16th, 2007 · No Comments
Joss Whedon has never met a cheap, cheesy one liner he didn’t like. He also feels the need to revise future technology based on modern developments (androids with wireless modems, which they would have had in the first Alien movies… except the lack of that technological possibility when said films were made). The first problem […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Dan Hedaya· Jean-Pierre Jeunet· Joss Whedon· Michael Wincott· Ronald Shusett· Sigourney Weaver· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Ice Storm (1997, Ang Lee)
January 17th, 2006 · No Comments
When I was a wee lad, I loved Ang Lee. I loved him only for The Ice Storm, never having seen Sense and Sensibility or his Chinese language films. I avoided Ride With the Devil after the reviews (both professional and from peers) and Hidden Tiger, Crouching Dragon was a truly sleep-inducing experience. I gave […]
Tagged: Ang Lee· Fox Searchlight Pictures· James Schamus· Joan Allen· Kevin Kline· Rick Moody· Sigourney Weaver· ★★★★
Dave (1993, Ivan Reitman)
December 6th, 2005 · No Comments
I love scenes where actors eat. There’s a great scene in Dave with Sigourney Weaver eating a sandwich. Great stuff.
It occurred to me, while watching the film, that, while it’s still cute, it’s already a relic and it’s only twelve years old. The idea of a person wanting to be President in order to help other […]
Tagged: Ben Kingsley· Charles Grodin· Frank Langella· Gary Ross· Ivan Reitman· Kevin Kline· Laura Linney· Sigourney Weaver· Ving Rhames· Warner Bros.· ★★
Eyewitness (1981, Peter Yates)
October 8th, 2005 · No Comments
Eyewitness gets a lot of abuse.
Peter Yates has become a punch-line to many a film joke, usually by people who love Breaking Away and don’t remember he did it. Eyewitness is an incredibly odd film–and not entirely successful, the protagonist (William Hurt) tends to talk to Sigourney Weaver straight from the id, no filtering. Her character […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Christopher Plummer· James Woods· Morgan Freeman· Pamela Reed· Peter Yates· Sigourney Weaver· Steve Tesich· William Hurt· ★★½
Alien³ (1992, David Fincher), the assembly cut
February 20th, 2005 · 1 Comment
So, I guess David Fincher wasn’t that upset about the “Assembly Cut” Fox did of Alien³ for their moronically-titled “Alien Quadrilogy” DVD set a few years ago, because he left his name on it. Fincher’s always badmouthing Alien³ but hasn’t got the balls needed to Alan Smithee a film (like Michael Mann has). Now, was […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Charles S. Dutton· Dan O'Bannon· David Fincher· David Giler· Larry Ferguson· Ronald Shusett· Sigourney Weaver· Vincent Ward· Walter Hill· ★★½
