The movies

[Dave Monroe]

I'm not even so sure about Tim Burton.  Ed Wood and Pee-Wee's Big
Adventure are brilliant; Beetlejuice, and, to a lesser extent, Mars
Attacks! and, to an even lesser extent, Sleepy Hollow were entertaining
enough; even Frankenweenie and Vincent were nice little films, but
Edward Scissorhands I disliked intensely, I don't even want to get
started on those Batman films.  I have trepidations about Planet of the
Apes (Apes loom[s] large in my legend), but, well, Tim Roth, AND a
Charlton Heston cameo (AS a damn, dirty ape) ...

Oliver Stone AND Joel Schumacher I could do without, but I liked Luc
Besson's Le Dernier Combat (no dialogue, but plenty of sound), La Femme
Nikita, The Professional (Leon in Europe), even Subway ... and there are
things to be said about The Fifth Element, even (never saw The Big Blue,
and, yes, The Messenger was a disaster).  Hm ... Susan Hayward (no, not
THAT Susan Hayward ...), Luc Besson (rev. ed.  Manchester: Manchester
UP, 1999) ...

And I like Frank Miller's art okay, but that Batman: Year One series was
about the last thing post-Watchmen (q.v., and it's killing me that the
Tery Gilliam film is just not likely to ever happen now) I actually
enjoyed in superhero comics.  Whatever happened to Dave Mazzuchelli
(pencils, inks)?  Or Richmond Lewis (colorist), for that matter?  That
was a great looking book.  I haven't kept up much, but I AM sporting a
nifty Green Arrow t-shirt today (speaking of Neil Adams) ...

--- lorentzen-nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
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> Thomas Eckhardt schrieb:
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> > Joel Schumacher is the second worst director under
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> > sun (the crown, of course, still sitting firmly on
> Luc Besson's head).
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>         what about oliver stone? kfl
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And then there's this Steven Spielberg A.I.  One of these days, we'll be
able to digitally Kubrickize it, but ...