Norrin Radd

Spalding Gray is an amazing orator. They way he can interweave various story aspects into a narrative patchwork is riveting. As you can tell I'm a big fan of his work and this is probably his best. Directed by Jonathan Demme in a no frills to the bone style. The star of this concert isn't demme or gray, it's the elocution.

is it high art? no. but this movie will definitely find an audience on video. i had extremely low expectations for this movie, but wanted to see it for jason schwartzman. it starts with a symphonic version of Baba O'Reily which pretty much immediately won me over. this is definitely a guilty pleasure movie and it has a horrible title. but i think history will be kinder to it than most of it's other contemporaries fare. plus james king is smoking.

i'm a huge Arnold fan. the good news is he looks better in this movie than he has since true lies and the cast is great. the bad news is the action sucks and the plot holes in this script make battlefield earth look like american beauty. i really want to like andy davis as a director, but besides fugitive and perfect murder he's hacking out. as far as arnold goes, it infuriates me when movie producers can't figure out what to do with him. arnold is an action movie icon we go see his movies to see him kick ass and shoot off one liners. arnold is not an everyman. he's the terminator. i hope that with him doing t3 and conan the king that he also revives true lies and predator and rides out the rest of his career on a high. he's survived at the top of his game for over 20 years, ride the nostalgia into greener pastures. how great would it be if he hooked up with clint eastwood and took eastwood's place in front of the camera?