lance-62
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Take one part Three Stooges, one part Indiana Jones, one part...I dunno...The Time Machine? Baron Munchausen? The Fifth Element? The DaVinci Code? Then make all of your characters 25% or more insane, eat a bag of psychedelic mushrooms, and shoot for the stars. Voila! You have the Adventures of Hudson Hawk - the most underrated movie on IMDb.
The insanity level of this movie cannot be overstated. From about 5 minutes in, the film begins to careen into a world of zany improbability. This is embraced rather wholeheartedly by all involved, from Sandra Bernhard and Richard E. Grant, to James Coburn and Andie MacDowell, to David Caruso (in a non-speaking role) as Kit Kat, and the rest of the candy bar crew.
But don't write it off for its madness. What action adventure tale isn't far-fetched? So why not go for it, with the pedal to the metal in terms of wildness? Why wouldn't master cat-burglars use popular songs as a way to time out their burglaries? Sure they would! (Or, as Danny Aiello's character says, "Fucking airbags! Would you believe it?!") There are so many ways to end the sentence "Hudson Hawk is worth watching just for...". Here are a few: Hudson Hawk is worth watching just for...
...Sandra Bernhard at her something-est.
...James Coburn and the candy bar CIA crew.
...the outrageous adventure.
...the wise-cracking comedy.
..."Hey mister -- are you gonna die?"
...Bruce Willis channeling David Addison.
...Andie MacDowell's "speaking with the dolphins", and other delirious exclamations ("You must pay the rent! But I can't pay the rent!")
...and so on.
There's nothing like Hudson Hawk. It should've inspired a franchise, if you ask me. (Which you implicitly did.)
Tommy: "So what do you say Eddie...2 and a half minutes to save Anna, 3 and a half minutes to save the world...?"
Eddie: "6-0-0. 'Side by Side'?"
Together: "Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money/We may be ragged and funny/But we'll travel along ('Hit it Eddie!')/Singing a song {missile launch}/Side by side..."
The insanity level of this movie cannot be overstated. From about 5 minutes in, the film begins to careen into a world of zany improbability. This is embraced rather wholeheartedly by all involved, from Sandra Bernhard and Richard E. Grant, to James Coburn and Andie MacDowell, to David Caruso (in a non-speaking role) as Kit Kat, and the rest of the candy bar crew.
But don't write it off for its madness. What action adventure tale isn't far-fetched? So why not go for it, with the pedal to the metal in terms of wildness? Why wouldn't master cat-burglars use popular songs as a way to time out their burglaries? Sure they would! (Or, as Danny Aiello's character says, "Fucking airbags! Would you believe it?!") There are so many ways to end the sentence "Hudson Hawk is worth watching just for...". Here are a few: Hudson Hawk is worth watching just for...
...Sandra Bernhard at her something-est.
...James Coburn and the candy bar CIA crew.
...the outrageous adventure.
...the wise-cracking comedy.
..."Hey mister -- are you gonna die?"
...Bruce Willis channeling David Addison.
...Andie MacDowell's "speaking with the dolphins", and other delirious exclamations ("You must pay the rent! But I can't pay the rent!")
...and so on.
There's nothing like Hudson Hawk. It should've inspired a franchise, if you ask me. (Which you implicitly did.)
Tommy: "So what do you say Eddie...2 and a half minutes to save Anna, 3 and a half minutes to save the world...?"
Eddie: "6-0-0. 'Side by Side'?"
Together: "Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money/We may be ragged and funny/But we'll travel along ('Hit it Eddie!')/Singing a song {missile launch}/Side by side..."
Bulworth is a rolling nervous breakdown, and we're invited to the last 48 hours of his until-now pointless life as a U.S. Senator. And C-Span is along for the ride as well, doing a "24 Hours on the Campaign Trail" feature, following Senator Jay Billington Bulworth as he spouts (and then raps) uncommonly frank (and decreasingly lucid) truths to his local supporters, and a nationwide audience. Oh, and he dabbles in flirtation with from-the-streets Nina, through her finding perhaps a reason to stay alive after all...
The result is: some of the most laugh-out-loud funny scenes in the history of political satire; some very brash statements about American political reality ("If you don't put down that malt liquor and chicken wings, and get behind someone other than a running back who stabs his wife, you're NEVER gonna get rid of somebody like me!"); an intensely compelling (and very funny) performance by Warren Beatty; and an uneven but extremely worthwhile experience. At the very least, Bulworth (the man) is one of cinemas great characters, exploring a very unique arc--and that alone is reason to take a chance on Bulworth (the movie).
The result is: some of the most laugh-out-loud funny scenes in the history of political satire; some very brash statements about American political reality ("If you don't put down that malt liquor and chicken wings, and get behind someone other than a running back who stabs his wife, you're NEVER gonna get rid of somebody like me!"); an intensely compelling (and very funny) performance by Warren Beatty; and an uneven but extremely worthwhile experience. At the very least, Bulworth (the man) is one of cinemas great characters, exploring a very unique arc--and that alone is reason to take a chance on Bulworth (the movie).
What do you do when faced with what you fear? Death, defeat, the unknown, commitment, danger, the gaping maw of nature's wrath, Cary Elwes and his corporate sponsors...and sure, tornadoes, if you want to be all surface about it. But really, "Twister" is about fear, and how people choose to deal with it. The uptight girlfriend flees, while the weatherman can't resist his past life as tornado chaser, and lover of the heroine, tornado-obsessed Helen Hunt, who has formed her life around trying to make sure that no other little girls will have to live in fear of their father getting sucked away while he tries to hold the storm cellar door closed.
To do this, she forms a motley crew of character actors (Twister does for the motley tech crew what Die Hard did for the action hero) who are as crazy and thrill-obsessed as her, drives away her dirt-smelling Bill Paxton husband and then steals him back from panicky reproductive therapist Jamie Gertz, drives multiple trucks into the heart of a tornado, and relives the formative experience of her life repeatedly in the quest to finally kick nature in the cojones.
The scientific accuracy of the tornadoes is completely irrelevant - they aren't real-life tornadoes, they are a symbol for the ultimate threat, the unknowable void. Do tornadoes work just like they do in the movie? I don't know - most of the tornadoes I've seen up close are in my imagination, or as portrayed by someone else's. And that's the point of tornadoes in Twister, or the disaster in any natural disaster movie. These are the ultimate in devastation - "the finger of God", as said in the movie - and as such they represent our fear of being at our weakest and most vulnerable state. (Case in point: Helen' Hunt's character, young version.)
I think this theme is executed fairly well considering that it's in the context of a big-budget effects thriller. Audiences may not be thinking all this stuff over - and certainly the movie doesn't say much if any of this stuff explicitly - but I think they feel it, and that's why people feel drawn to watch this movie repeatedly, despite its essentially basic and predictable nature. Would you dive into the thrashing pit in order to help save others from future devastation? How would it feel to have Mother Nature literally rip your father from your life...and then continue to stalk those you know and love with the same threat? Would you fight back? Would you give your life to fight back?
If you did, you'd be well-put to get yourself a classic nutty motley tech crew headed up by Philip "Dusty" "Barnburner" Seymour Hoffman. Though he probably fetches a slightly higher wage these days.
The movie has imperfections - the movie's own physics seems cheated to the point of distraction a couple times, and there's at least one action from our heroes which seemed reckless toward others (I like to knock before I drive through someone's house.) But "Twister" manages to create an effectively threatening villain in an ambitious visual rendering of the classic man vs. nature story. I'm not sure what more we should hope to expect from a movie about tornadoes.
To do this, she forms a motley crew of character actors (Twister does for the motley tech crew what Die Hard did for the action hero) who are as crazy and thrill-obsessed as her, drives away her dirt-smelling Bill Paxton husband and then steals him back from panicky reproductive therapist Jamie Gertz, drives multiple trucks into the heart of a tornado, and relives the formative experience of her life repeatedly in the quest to finally kick nature in the cojones.
The scientific accuracy of the tornadoes is completely irrelevant - they aren't real-life tornadoes, they are a symbol for the ultimate threat, the unknowable void. Do tornadoes work just like they do in the movie? I don't know - most of the tornadoes I've seen up close are in my imagination, or as portrayed by someone else's. And that's the point of tornadoes in Twister, or the disaster in any natural disaster movie. These are the ultimate in devastation - "the finger of God", as said in the movie - and as such they represent our fear of being at our weakest and most vulnerable state. (Case in point: Helen' Hunt's character, young version.)
I think this theme is executed fairly well considering that it's in the context of a big-budget effects thriller. Audiences may not be thinking all this stuff over - and certainly the movie doesn't say much if any of this stuff explicitly - but I think they feel it, and that's why people feel drawn to watch this movie repeatedly, despite its essentially basic and predictable nature. Would you dive into the thrashing pit in order to help save others from future devastation? How would it feel to have Mother Nature literally rip your father from your life...and then continue to stalk those you know and love with the same threat? Would you fight back? Would you give your life to fight back?
If you did, you'd be well-put to get yourself a classic nutty motley tech crew headed up by Philip "Dusty" "Barnburner" Seymour Hoffman. Though he probably fetches a slightly higher wage these days.
The movie has imperfections - the movie's own physics seems cheated to the point of distraction a couple times, and there's at least one action from our heroes which seemed reckless toward others (I like to knock before I drive through someone's house.) But "Twister" manages to create an effectively threatening villain in an ambitious visual rendering of the classic man vs. nature story. I'm not sure what more we should hope to expect from a movie about tornadoes.