I’d forgotten grown men used to wear cut-off, midriff-revealing shirts. Adrian Pasdar does in the final scene of Vital Signs. It’s horrifying.
Pasdar also bulks up throughout the picture, maybe for his shirtless scenes in the late second act, or for that closing shot.
And even though Vital Signs is tripe, another failed studio attempt to launch […]
Entries Tagged as 'Jeb Stuart'
Vital Signs (1990, Marisa Silver)
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Jeb Stuart· Larry Ketron· Marisa Silver· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
December 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Talking about Die Hard is complicated for lots of reasons. Besides Aliens, I think it’s the best popular action film ever made and, given when it came out, it’s very familiar. It shouldn’t be full of surprises and, in many ways, is not (though Theo and Karl having a bet on Takagi is something new […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Alan Rickman· Bruce Willis· Jeb Stuart· John McTiernan· Roderick Thorp· Steven E. de Souza· William Atherton· ★★★★
Switchback (1997, Jeb Stuart)
November 8th, 2007 · No Comments
I’m having a hard time understanding certain aspects of Switchback. Primarily, Dennis Quaid’s terrible performance. I’m wondering if Jeb Stuart instructed him to imitate a log or if it was just Quaid’s read on the character. To be fair (to Stuart, not to Quaid), the character is a pretend protagonist. Stuart’s more interested in his […]
Tagged: Danny Glover· Dennis Quaid· Jeb Stuart· Paramount Pictures· ★½
Leviathan (1989, George P. Cosmatos)
April 9th, 2006 · No Comments
Leviathan has to be one of the few films where the hero punches out a woman for audience satisfaction, which is actually quite an achievement for the film, since it’s so derivative. Leviathan is Alien, John Carpenter’s The Thing, and Peter Hyams’ Outland rolled together, with an amazing 1980s cast kneaded into the dough–there’s Ernie […]
Tagged: David Webb Peoples· George P. Cosmatos· Jeb Stuart· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Peter Weller· ★½
