The only “real” pro-war movie I can think of is The Green Berets. But Starship Troopers is also pro-war, even if it’s, well, startlingly so. I mean, the scene where Casper Van Dien grins after getting his battlefield promotion, following a colleague’s horrific death, is a fine example.
What Verhoeven does here, in Starship Troopers, is […]
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Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven)
September 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Edward Neumeier· Paul Verhoeven· Robert A. Heinlein· Tri-Star Pictures· ★★★★
District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp)
September 4th, 2009 · 8 Comments
I’ve never seen a movie before where the vanity producer (Peter Jackson) came before the studio who put up the money for said vanity producer.
Wait, this movie is supposed to be about apartheid? Director and co-writer Neill Blomkamp is from South Africa and adoring critics can’t stop making the comparison.
It starts in 1982. Mandela didn’t […]
Tagged: Neill Blomkamp· Peter Jackson· Terri Tatchell· Tri-Star Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Universal Soldier (1992, Roland Emmerich)
July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Universal Soldier is nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be. The beginning is exceptionally painful, as Roland Emmerich does a Platoon impression. As bad as Charlie Sheen was in that film, however, nothing compares to Jean-Claude Van Damme as a farm boy from Louisiana or Dolph Lundgren’s attempts at conveying […]
Tagged: Christopher Leitch· Dean Devlin· Richard Rothstein· Roland Emmerich· Tri-Star Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Squeeze (1987, Roger Young)
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments
I was wondering why, for such a cheap-ish movie, The Squeeze looks so good. Its budget almost doubled, allowing for some really expensive looking sequences on an aircraft carrier, a decent amount of New York photography and… I don’t know, something else. It also almost starred Jenny Wright in the Rae Dawn Chong part, which […]
Tagged: Daniel Taplitz· Joe Pantoliano· Michael Keaton· Roger Young· Tri-Star Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
88 Minutes (2007, Jon Avnet)
April 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Al Pacino has reached the point William Forsythe has supporting roles in his movies. That facet just about sums up 88 Minutes, which would have been a great late 1990s Dimension movie, maybe even with Pacino, and all those young actors Miramax had on call (I’m thinking it would have been most effective with Neve […]
Tagged: Al Pacino· Gary Scott Thompson· Jon Avnet· Tri-Star Pictures· ★
& A (1990, Sidney Lumet)">Q & A (1990, Sidney Lumet)
April 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Sidney Lumet’s awkward examination of political corruption and race in New York City hits some bumps it shouldn’t. One of the major problems–because the film, after all the minor problems, only has two major problems–is the ending. Lumet has a perfectly well-intentioned ending, but he doesn’t quite get it. There’s not enough groundwork for it […]
Tagged: Charles S. Dutton· Edwin Torres· Nick Nolte· Sidney Lumet· Timothy Hutton· Tri-Star Pictures· ★★★
Runaway (1984, Michael Crichton)
March 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Given the star and the director, it shouldn’t be surprising Runaway is rather conservative. And, given the endless kissing montage over the end credits, it also appears to have been geared toward female viewers (but with Selleck, that one isn’t a surprise either). As science fiction, Runaway is very, very safe. It’s an unexciting safe. […]
Tagged: Michael Crichton· Tom Selleck· Tri-Star Pictures· ★
