Two movies to talk about. The Reef. Best shark movie since JAWS. 89 minutes of tension. A simple set-up, a stomach-churning 70 minutes of characters in the water with the sharks. All made on a shoe-string budget. Why does it work? Six things that make this a must-see white-knuckle ride… 1) Notice how, when they’re [...]
Check it… Interesting. You have to wonder how some of these things (especially Ermy’s rant) laid out on the page. Was it ‘Drill instructor lays into recruits,’ or were there dialogue queues? Or did Kubrick (also credited as writer) just tell Ermy to ‘go for it’? In today’s Hollywood, it just wouldn’t work for a [...]
Interesting article over at the NYT. Everything that’s wrong with Hollywood. One thing they DON’T mention in the article is WHAT audience is to blame? Basically, it’s the the young men and the man-children that drive these testosterone-fueled SFX extravaganzas and really… for that crowd, those movies are perfect. M A R K