Posted on 10/03/2004 3:15:16 PM PDT by baltodog
"Man on Fire" starring Denzel Washington.
10 times better thanwhat I thought it would be.
Kidnapping and revenge and action.
Anyone else seen it?
Yeah I saw it and liked it. I thought there was a good amount of character development. Not a bad film for flying a little under the radar.
What coincidence! Bought same movie, found it a cliffhanger.
Denzel is good in just about everything he's ever done. I still think Training Day was probably his best. Glory has to be up there, too.
Denzel Washington gives a much more solid performance in 'Man On Fire' than his Oscar Winning 'Training Day', baltdog.
Check out the 1980s original with Scott Glenn under the name. You won't be sorry.
Jack.
Saw it last night too.
It was great.
Yeah-pretty good , although my favorite actor in it was Dakota Fanning-always been a big fan of hers. She's not just a good child actress, she's a great ACTRESS!
Moderately entertaining, highly predictable.
The new Man on Fire is better than the original, though neither is better than the book. The book remains one of those un-read classics.
I agree. One of my favorite books. Original movie was appalling. Denzel's movie was OK, but still a big come-down from the book.
The same author wrote another book that I think would make an even better movie, Siege of Silence. However, it would require a moviemaker who could portray modern American soldiers as unambiguous good guys, which might be tough to find.
Ever see the old movie "hopscotch" with Walter Matthau?
BETTER MOVIEto rent (or buy)
DC-9/11.
It is seen as a PRO-BUSH movie,
but only because it is ACCURATE!
Obviously a man of taste. This might interest you...
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/
Saw the title; thought it was a Richard Pryor biography...
Read the novel, 'Hopscotch' by Brian Garfield. Saw the film a few years later, gortklattu.
Walter Matthau is very good as the superattenuated agent who doesn't like guns. With Sam Waterson as his protege. Lots of clever guile instead of explosions and violence.
Very much like Burt Lancaster in 'Scorpio'. Though 'Scorpio' is grittier and has better locations.
While nothing can touch the Alec Guiness/George Smiley series for the seedy side of espionage. I'd love to see a realistis, true to the book film done on Ross Thomas's 'Cold War Swap' or 'Twilight At Mac's Place'.
Jack.
Thanks for the recommnedations. I need a good book to read; I've read "Sho-Gun" five times over the last 20 years......
I love a great book.
Holy crap a ROSS THOMAS fan!
Yes!
Yes, durasell:
No one wrote like Ross Thomas. Many have tried. None have come close for dialogue, location and just plain great story telling.
I started reading Ross in the 1970s with 'The Cold War Swap'. Then, 'The Fools In Town Are On Our Side'. After that, I became voracious for anything he'd written. Love the team-up of Mike Padillo and Mac McCorkle. I now have all 26 novels. Including those written under his pseudonym, Oliver Bleeck.
Thank God publishing houses are finally putting his books back into print!
Jack.
The Seersucker Whipsaw has one of the greatest openings of any modern novel. However, Chinaman's Chance and Out of the Rim remain my favorites.
Thomas Trivia...The original title for The Cold War Swap was The Christmas Help
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