Posted on 07/18/2005 3:32:19 PM PDT by rang1995
"Who in the world is Gary Johnston????????????????"
Top Gun Actor! Former Broadway star, now secret agent with Team America, heck yeah.
That's all spying really is -- acting. And Gary's the best.
Most of these Hollywood 'blockbusters' can be summarized in a paragraph or two - and now they are...
If you have to know a movie's plot or outcome go to themoviespoiler.com - takes a nickel out of H-wood's pocket and makes you realize that the movie probably wasn't worth wasting your money on.
"Gary Johnston is the kind of guy who knows that when you ..."
Does anyone know how long it took Hollywood to produce a war movie after Pearl Harbor? I'd wager (if I wuz the wagerin' type) that it didn't take over two years.
There are no heroics in 'War of the Worlds'!
What ARE you talking about?
The Thunderchild?
The gunner?
I should have said heroics that actually pays off in the long run. What eventually saves humanity is sheer chance. Human beings are up against something completely beyond their ability to combat. Again in this movie you have the American military acting honorably and saving civilians even though they know that they don't really stand a chance.
There were films as early as 1942. However back then the Studio Heads were in direct contact with the Federal goverment and produced such films on demand.
And those films supported the war effort.
This film doesn't? It's about the way American react in times of calamity. Koepp is trying to get European audiences to flock to the movie. Spielberg has made statements in support of invading Iraq.
He's a hack with one good movie...his first.
Duel....he's a small screen guy and should have stayed there.
Doesn't know how to paint a picture with a wide lens.
He's no David Lean, certainly.
Most people aren't. Anyway Lean was a pictorialist with no overridding themes. See 'Empire of the Sun' which was a tribute to Lean. Anyway SS has one of the most astonishing visual imaginations in movie history so I don't know where you get that. You can take his movies to a film school to teach directorial technique. Very few scenes in his movies are routinely directed. Look at the D Day scene from SPR. As a picture of Hell on Earth that's equal to Guernica.
Perhaps we are just pointing out what moves us.
Whoops...I meant to add that I can't stand Picasso except for a few of his Blue pieces.
I'm a Van Gogh, Degas, Seurat type of guy and wouldn't walk across the street to see Pollack or Picasso.
astonishing visual imaginations in movie
Translation: He's just another an AFI film-head who copies those better than himself and hopes nobody notices.
You can say that about all the filmmakers of his generation I guess. The difference his relationship with the 'classics' of the field was much less troubled then say that of Coppola or Scorsese. But I'll say it again his command of the language and grammar of his medium is akin to Mozart. No real formal traning. Just a complete natural.
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