New on the DVD rack 9/15/04
Man On Fire.
I'm really looking forward to watching this. Everyone knows I'm a huge Denzel Washington fan (okay, smart aleck, I'm just plain huge, but that's not what I meant and you know it), and this looks like one of his better roles in a while. Director Tony Scott blows hot and cold — he's done some films I really enjoyed (including Crimson Tide — another Denzel film — Enemy of the State, True Romance, and Top Gun — yes, I said it, I liked Top Gun) and some I found embarrassingly weak (one of the worst sports-related movies ever made — The Fan, with Wesley Snipes playing a San Francisco Giants superstar who couldn't be more closely modeled on Barry Bonds if the screenwriter tried, and Robert DeNiro more or less reprising Rupert Pupkin from The King of Comedy as the unbalanced fan who stalks the ballplayer — comes immediately to mind, as does Beverly Hills Cop II). Writer Brian Helgeland has also written (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River) and directed (A Knight's Tale, Payback) some very fine pictures.
Man On Fire is a remake of a decent but little-seen film of the same name made in the late '80s, with Scott Glenn in the Denzel role.
I'm really looking forward to watching this. Everyone knows I'm a huge Denzel Washington fan (okay, smart aleck, I'm just plain huge, but that's not what I meant and you know it), and this looks like one of his better roles in a while. Director Tony Scott blows hot and cold — he's done some films I really enjoyed (including Crimson Tide — another Denzel film — Enemy of the State, True Romance, and Top Gun — yes, I said it, I liked Top Gun) and some I found embarrassingly weak (one of the worst sports-related movies ever made — The Fan, with Wesley Snipes playing a San Francisco Giants superstar who couldn't be more closely modeled on Barry Bonds if the screenwriter tried, and Robert DeNiro more or less reprising Rupert Pupkin from The King of Comedy as the unbalanced fan who stalks the ballplayer — comes immediately to mind, as does Beverly Hills Cop II). Writer Brian Helgeland has also written (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River) and directed (A Knight's Tale, Payback) some very fine pictures.
Man On Fire is a remake of a decent but little-seen film of the same name made in the late '80s, with Scott Glenn in the Denzel role.
SwanShadow was randomly pounding the keyboard at 4:36 PM
3 insisted on sticking two cents in:
Re: okay, smart aleck, I'm just plain huge,
???
Umm...girthy. Rotund. Portly. Abundantly proportioned. Chunky. Substantial.
You know...huge.
AH! Since I've never seen a pic of you, didn't understand the reference.
Thanks!
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