*****AIRCRAFT CARRIER-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Danger Zone. 1986’s “Top Gun” isn’t exactly one of my favorite movies, to put it charitably. Back in the late 1980s, I thought it was a dumb, jingoistic US Navy recruitment film smothered in a slick coat of Hollywood production values. “Top Gun” wallowed in action movie cliches and shallow characters; ignoring…
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The director’s cut of “Dark City” (1998) is ‘tuned’ to near-perfection…
*****REALITY-BENDING SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Resetting Reality. The first I’d heard of director Alex (“The Crow”) Proyas’ “Dark City” was sometime in late 1997, where I might’ve seen the trailer and filed it away to be ignored later in my younger, stimulus-addled brain. Sadly, I was ‘one of those people’ who didn’t show this movie the proper…
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951): 70 years later, and still standing…
*****FLYING SAUCER-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** The Source Novella. The 1951 Robert Wise-directed sci-fi classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still” was based on a 1940 novella by Harry Bates. I first bought “Farewell to the Master” in a collection of other stories at a secondhand bookstore some 20-odd years ago. Already very familiar with the 1951 classic…
“The Rocketeer”: Disney’s underrated retro-rocketing adventure, 30 years later…
*****SOARING SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** In the summer of 1991, I went to the famed El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood; a gloriously gilded movie palace hailing from a different era (originally built in 1926), beautifully restored and refurbished. This old glamour of the venue was a perfect way to see “The Rocketeer”; a retro-styled, period piece-adventure set…