One of the most amusing things about the influx of Bourne-style action movies is that it puts the filmmakers in a peculiar bind. The Bourne films take themselves very seriously, but amidst their constant globetrotting (I’d imagine Jason Bourne manages to fill up even his fake passports with travel stamps), they tend to stay in […]
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Quantum of Solace
Monday, July 20th, 2009
Tags: A View to a Kill, Adam Lippe, Billy Bob Thornton, Bolivia, car chase, Casino Royale, Chinatown, Christopher Lambert, Clint Eastwood, Crank, Crank 2, Crash, Daniel Craig, desert, Diamonds Are Forever, Die Another Day, Doug Liman, Dr. No, drought, establishing shot, Europe, Fever Pitch, fist fight, For Your Eyes Only, George Lazenby, Giancarlo Giannini, Goldeneye, Goldfinger, Guy Hamilton, Halle Berry, hand-to-hand-combat, In the Valley of Elah, Jack Nicholson, James Bond, Jason Statham, Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench, Lina Wertmüller, Live and Let Die, Luc Besson, M, Marc Forster, Martin Campbell, Mathieu Amalric, Matt Damon, MGM, Million Dollar Baby, Monster's Ball, Moonraker, movie review, Neal Purvis, Never Say Never Again, No Escape, Octopussy, passport, Paul Greengrass, Paul Haggis, PG-13, Pierce Brosnan, planetarium, product placement, RegrettableSincerity.com, Robert Towne, Roger Moore, Roman Polanski, Russia, Sean Connery, sequel, series, Seven Beauties, Stay, Stranger Than Fiction, Swept Away, Taken, Teflon, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Kite Runner, The World is Not Enough, third world, Timothy Dalton, Transporter 2, Transporter 3, Walker Texas Ranger
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Quantum of Solace
Monday, July 20th, 2009
Tags: A View to a Kill, Adam Lippe, Billy Bob Thornton, Bolivia, car chase, Casino Royale, Chinatown, Christopher Lambert, Clint Eastwood, Crank, Crank 2, Crash, Daniel Craig, desert, Diamonds Are Forever, Die Another Day, Doug Liman, Dr. No, drought, establishing shot, Europe, Fever Pitch, fist fight, For Your Eyes Only, George Lazenby, Giancarlo Giannini, Goldeneye, Goldfinger, Guy Hamilton, Halle Berry, hand-to-hand-combat, In the Valley of Elah, Jack Nicholson, James Bond, Jason Statham, Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench, Lina Wertmüller, Live and Let Die, Luc Besson, M, Marc Forster, Martin Campbell, Mathieu Amalric, Matt Damon, MGM, Million Dollar Baby, Monster's Ball, Moonraker, movie review, Neal Purvis, Never Say Never Again, No Escape, Octopussy, passport, Paul Greengrass, Paul Haggis, PG-13, Pierce Brosnan, planetarium, product placement, RegrettableSincerity.com, Robert Towne, Roger Moore, Roman Polanski, Russia, Sean Connery, sequel, series, Seven Beauties, Stay, Stranger Than Fiction, Swept Away, Taken, Teflon, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Kite Runner, The World is Not Enough, third world, Timothy Dalton, Transporter 2, Transporter 3, Walker Texas Ranger
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Whenever there’s a genre parody or ode to a specific era of films, such as Black Dynamite’s mocking of Blaxploitation films or Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, the second half of Grindhouse, the danger is that the film might fall into the trap of either being condescending without any particular insight, or so faithful that it becomes the very flawed thing it is emulating.
Black Dynamite has nothing new to say about Blaxploitation films, it just does a decent job of copying what an inept [...]
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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.