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redfiona99) wrote2003-04-15 12:20 am
redfiona99) wrote2003-04-15 12:20 am
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Air Force One (3rd attempt at posting this)
You know sometimes I worry about me. I didn't like the Patriot but I did like this bunch of equally idiotic mess. But then again it did have like half of my favourite actors list in it somewhere along the line.
Seriously, did someone just round up every actor who has ever been in a film like this and stick them on.
Oh and I must remember not to get Robert Davi and Andrew Davidoff confused with each other, no matter how similar they look and the fact that they both always play swarthy, trigger happy bad guys.
Dean Stockwell was in there as well. Yipee! (Sorry) Actually, it was quite funny, because he was being all pragmatic about what was going on and my Nan was accusing him of being in league with the bad guys.
Oh and if the film expects me to use character names rather than actors names, then they should make the names clearer.
Wolfgang Petersen did a very good job despite the crudy script. Plus, I can't see any other director making the bad guys quite as reasonably unreasonable as this. And before anyone says anything, yes, the bad guys were evil, wicked, naughty. But they were idealists and there's nothing more dangerous than an idealist.
Must mention Jurgen Prochnow as General Radek. Given that he says not one word, he's incredibly charismatic, and the scene where his soldiers salute him is just as powerful as the various salutes directed at President Marshall.
Then again Jurgen Prochnow could give a caterpillar charisma and depth.
And I literally did sit there waiting for either William H Macy's character's name or his imminent demise. I'm not saying which happened.
There was one scene, or rather one long run of scenes, that were scored to L'Internationale, which is one of the most beautiful tunes ever written. And what made it even better was how they set it up, because the Russians were releasing Radek and all his followers still in the jail started singing it, and Gary Oldman's character turns up the volume on the plane and just stands there in utter awe and jubilation.
And then the death of a dream happens. Quite poigniant, really.
I'm not saying it was perfect or anything. There were whole gaps in logic that defied every rule of storytelling like, given how much of the first half was spent saying how undamagable Air Force One was it did seem to damage rather easily at the end.
But yeah, it was good.
One thing of which I am now firmly convinced however is that, even though he looks nothing like how I imagined Sirius Black, Gary Oldman should do a bang up job of it.
Seriously, did someone just round up every actor who has ever been in a film like this and stick them on.
Oh and I must remember not to get Robert Davi and Andrew Davidoff confused with each other, no matter how similar they look and the fact that they both always play swarthy, trigger happy bad guys.
Dean Stockwell was in there as well. Yipee! (Sorry) Actually, it was quite funny, because he was being all pragmatic about what was going on and my Nan was accusing him of being in league with the bad guys.
Oh and if the film expects me to use character names rather than actors names, then they should make the names clearer.
Wolfgang Petersen did a very good job despite the crudy script. Plus, I can't see any other director making the bad guys quite as reasonably unreasonable as this. And before anyone says anything, yes, the bad guys were evil, wicked, naughty. But they were idealists and there's nothing more dangerous than an idealist.
Must mention Jurgen Prochnow as General Radek. Given that he says not one word, he's incredibly charismatic, and the scene where his soldiers salute him is just as powerful as the various salutes directed at President Marshall.
Then again Jurgen Prochnow could give a caterpillar charisma and depth.
And I literally did sit there waiting for either William H Macy's character's name or his imminent demise. I'm not saying which happened.
There was one scene, or rather one long run of scenes, that were scored to L'Internationale, which is one of the most beautiful tunes ever written. And what made it even better was how they set it up, because the Russians were releasing Radek and all his followers still in the jail started singing it, and Gary Oldman's character turns up the volume on the plane and just stands there in utter awe and jubilation.
And then the death of a dream happens. Quite poigniant, really.
I'm not saying it was perfect or anything. There were whole gaps in logic that defied every rule of storytelling like, given how much of the first half was spent saying how undamagable Air Force One was it did seem to damage rather easily at the end.
But yeah, it was good.
One thing of which I am now firmly convinced however is that, even though he looks nothing like how I imagined Sirius Black, Gary Oldman should do a bang up job of it.