It’s the end of the movie when Carl Denham delivers the infamous line, saying “it wasn’t the planes; it was beauty that killed the beast.”; and with that King Kong – both the character and the movie – is finished.
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Normally I’m categorically against individual members of a band doing side or solo projects – think Wes Borland leaving Limp Bizkit, Ozzy Osbourne leaving Black Sabbath, or Gary Barlow leaving Take That. There generally ends up being friction between the artist, and his regular band, the side/solo project is normally a disaster anyway, and all involved agree it should never have happened.
Have you ever watched one of those riveting mini-series on TV that goes over 2 nights? You know the ones – they play the first night on a Sunday, and the second part the following Sunday, a week later; you spend the whole week thinking about the first part, and hanging out for the second part, and when you see the second part, you are thankful because you’ve just witnessed one of the marvels of modern entertainment.
There are many things the American people are renowned for. Hershey’s chocolate bars. Twinkies. War. The Bush Family. Celebrity culture. Jazz music. Arrogance and ego. Obsession with sports.
Go to Dictionary.com, and it will tell you that ‘guilt’ is defined as “self-reproach for supposed inadequacy or wrongdoing”. Watch The Machinist, and you might just see what extreme guilt can do to a man.
Keanu Reeves playing a hero stuck between the real world, and a world that lies just beyond the imagination, with no possible chance of going back.
I’d just like to start by telling you something. Closer – recently released to DVD, and starring Jude Law, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts and Natalie Portman – is an adult movie. Not in the sense that it is pornography.
I’ll try not to get too excited, but just for the record, Ethan Hawke is the man!
Turning in his second ‘action cops’ movie of the last few years (the first being the unequalled Training Day – but more on that later), Ethan Hawke stars as Jake Roenick, a cop thrust unwillingly into the middle of the action, as a group of thugs try to bust a prisoner, Marion Bishop (played by Laurence Fishburne), out of the cells.
If there is one thing that will always hack me off about Hollywood, it’s the fact that 9 times out of 10, the director will try to do too much. Take The Island, the latest film from action director Michael Bay – it had a great ending, about 20 minutes from the end. Yet, for the last 20 minutes of the film we had an extra ending which really didn’t need to be there.
I want to make something perfectly clear before we go any further: I liked Sin City, but I also didn’t like it.