David Fincher’s Alien 3 is the best example of a very flawed film that was improved in a longer version, while still retaining all of those very same flaws. The theatrical cut, running just under two hours, has very little character development. And, therefore, apart from Sigourney Weaver’s character, Ripley, doesn’t make you care about […]
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Lookin’ to Get Out vs. Lookin’ to Get Out: Revisionist History Vol. 1
Monday, July 6th, 2009
Tags: 1970's, 8 Million Ways to Die, Adam Lippe, Alien, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, aliens, Ann-Margret, Baby Geniuses, Back to the Future, Being There, Bert Remsen, Black Christmas, Blackjack, Bob Clark, Bound For Glory, Burt Young, CGI, checkered suit, Coming Home, concierge, Crispin Glover, David Carradine, David Fincher, director's cut, Elliot, Elliott Gould, Emanon, Eternity, eyepatch, Fever Pitch, Fight Club, gambler, gambling, gangster, gangsters, gas leak, gay, George Segal, Hal Ashby, Harold and Maude, homoerotic, homophobia, hotel, Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, Jane Fonda, Jean Pierre Jeunet, Jeff Bridges, Jon Voight, Karate Dog, Las Vegas, Lookin' To Get Out, Loose Cannons, Lorimar, Manhattan, MGM, MGM Grand, misogynist, misogyny, mob, movie review, mud wrestling, Neil Simon, Nevada, New York, NYC, Panic Room, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, plaid, quadrilogy, R rated, Randy Quaid, RegrettableSincerity.com, Repo Man, Richard Brooks, Ridley Scott, Robert Aldrich, Rocky, Ryan O'Neal, Second-Hand Hearts, sequel, Seven, Shampoo, Siegfried and Roy, Sigourney Weaver, slapstick, Steven Paul, studio interference, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Sylvester Stallone, The Choirboys, The Game, The Landlord, The Last Detail, The Legend of Lylah Clare, The Slugger’s Wife, trilogy, Turk 182!, villian, Warner Brothers, Warren Beatty, Wrestling
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Lookin’ to Get Out vs. Lookin’ to Get Out: Revisionist History Vol. 1
Monday, July 6th, 2009
Tags: 1970's, 8 Million Ways to Die, Adam Lippe, Alien, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, aliens, Ann-Margret, Baby Geniuses, Back to the Future, Being There, Bert Remsen, Black Christmas, Blackjack, Bob Clark, Bound For Glory, Burt Young, CGI, checkered suit, Coming Home, concierge, Crispin Glover, David Carradine, David Fincher, director's cut, Elliot, Elliott Gould, Emanon, Eternity, eyepatch, Fever Pitch, Fight Club, gambler, gambling, gangster, gangsters, gas leak, gay, George Segal, Hal Ashby, Harold and Maude, homoerotic, homophobia, hotel, Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, Jane Fonda, Jean Pierre Jeunet, Jeff Bridges, Jon Voight, Karate Dog, Las Vegas, Lookin' To Get Out, Loose Cannons, Lorimar, Manhattan, MGM, MGM Grand, misogynist, misogyny, mob, movie review, mud wrestling, Neil Simon, Nevada, New York, NYC, Panic Room, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, plaid, quadrilogy, R rated, Randy Quaid, RegrettableSincerity.com, Repo Man, Richard Brooks, Ridley Scott, Robert Aldrich, Rocky, Ryan O'Neal, Second-Hand Hearts, sequel, Seven, Shampoo, Siegfried and Roy, Sigourney Weaver, slapstick, Steven Paul, studio interference, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Sylvester Stallone, The Choirboys, The Game, The Landlord, The Last Detail, The Legend of Lylah Clare, The Slugger’s Wife, trilogy, Turk 182!, villian, Warner Brothers, Warren Beatty, Wrestling
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On Cold Fish:
Though the 16 year old me described the 1994 weepie Angie, starring Geena Davis as a Brooklyn mother raising her new baby alone, as “maudlin and melodramatic,” Roger Ebert, during his TV review, referring to the multitude of soap-operaish problems piling up on the titular character, suggested that it was only in Hollywood where Angie would get a happy ending. “If they made this movie in France, Angie would have shot herself.”
Well Cold Fish was made in Japan, where Angie would have shot herself and that would have been the happy ending.