For a disaster movie to succeed, I suppose all it really has to do is keep you interested for its running time. The Towering Inferno runs almost three hours and manages that task, so much so, the ending seems a little abrupt . It’s not like the first act breezes by, either. In fact, it […]
Entries Tagged as '20th Century Fox'
The Towering Inferno (1974, John Guillermin)
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Dabney Coleman· Faye Dunaway· Frank M. Robinson· John Guillermin· Paul Newman· Richard Martin Stern· Robert Vaughn· Steve McQueen· Stirling Silliphant· Thomas N. Scortia· Warner Bros.· William Holden· ★★
Commando (1985, Mark L. Lester), the director’s cut
October 19th, 2009 · No Comments
There are a couple good things about Commando–the opening titles and James Horner’s score. Otherwise, I suppose Schwarzenegger isn’t bad in the film, which takes his being Austrian into account, something the majority of his blockbuster roles do not.
What’s interesting about the film–and it’s hard to find anything to keep the brain occupied for the long […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Dan Hedaya· Jeph Loeb· Mark L. Lester· Matthew Weisman· Steven E. de Souza· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Transporter (2002, Corey Yuen)
September 12th, 2009 · No Comments
Matt Schulze worked again? Wow, I’m a little surprised. Schulze’s performance in The Transporter–wait, hold on, physical presence might be a more accurate description–is one of the worst things about the film. There really aren’t very many good things about it, though, to be fair to Schulze (is he worse than leading lady Shu Qi, […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Corey Yuen· Jason Statham· Luc Besson· Robert Mark Kamen· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Wing Commander (1999, Chris Roberts)
September 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Watching Freddie Prinze Jr. court Saffron Burrows feels like some kind of archaic punishment. It’s the filmic equivalent of the rack.
Thankfully, not all of Wing Commander concentrates on the courtship, which might very well be the anti-Christ of screen romances–trying to decide if it’s Prinze or Burrows who gives a worse performance (Prinze through his abject […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Chris Roberts· Jürgen Prochnow· Kevin Droney· Matthew Lillard· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Phone Booth (2002, Joel Schumacher)
September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
IMDb doesn’t mention it, but I thought one of the problems with getting Phone Booth made (it went through countless potential leading men) was the script and screenwriter Larry Cohen’s contract–i.e. no one could be brought in to make it, you know, good.
The film’s a piece of crap and it’s too bad because some of the […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Ben Foster· Colin Farrell· Forest Whitaker· Joel Schumacher· Kiefer Sutherland· Larry Cohen· Radha Mitchell· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
From Hell (2001, Albert and Allen Hughes)
August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
I had no idea Heather Graham was ever a lead in such a high profile project. I knew she was in From Hell, but she’s got a lot to do–and with an Irish accent. I suppose it’s the best performance I’ve ever seen her give, maybe because her character isn’t a twit and Graham tends […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Alan Moore· Albert Hughes· Allen Hughes· Eddie Campbell· Ian Holm· Johnny Depp· Rafael Yglesias· Terry Hayes· ★½
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003, Stephen Norrington)
August 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
There’s no doubt Stephen Norrington’s a lousy director but he’s not atrocious enough someone should retire from acting because he or she had to work with him–and Sean Connery didn’t even get the worst scenes in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It’s a stunt casting of Connery and, when compared to the source material–it’s no […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Alan Moore· James Robinson· Kevin O'Neill· Sean Connery· Stephen Norrington· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
