Posts Tagged ‘Clark Gregg’
Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
August 3rd, 1994
More like CLEAR AND PRESZZZZzzzzzzz, am I right, guys?
Oh, am I wrong? Maybe I’m wrong. I’m not the best judge, because I’m a heathen when it comes to Jack Ryan. My dad loved Tom Clancy books, my wife and many of my friends consider THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER to be one of the all time greats, many people love this character, I just think that gene skipped me. But here we are most of the way through our revisit of the summer of ’94 and it feels like we’re low on traditional blockbusters, so I was kind of excited to see CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER. There are plenty of things to like about it, especially when discussing it, but unfortunately I found it mostly dull to watch compared to PATRIOT GAMES, which I somewhat enjoyed and respectfully labelled “Adult Contemporary Action.”
This, too, is for the older folks that want some of the fantasy of Exceptional Men Who Get Shit Done but without the classless excess of flying kicks or other cool shit. It begins by massaging the Adult Contemporary Action erogenous zones, showing people in uniforms operating various types of machinery on a submarine and a US Coast Guard vessel. The inciting incident is the Coast Guard boarding a suspicious yacht in the Caribbean and discovering its American businessman owner has been murdered by Colombians. Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford between THE FUGITIVE and SABRINA) is a CIA analyst who looks into it and discovers the American got offed by a cartel because he was laundering money for them and tried to embezzle some. (read the rest of this shit…)
Tags: Adult Contemporary Action, Ann Archer, Ann Magnuson, Belita Moreno, Benjamin Bratt, Clark Gregg, Dean Jones, Donald E. Stewart, Donald Moffat, Harris Yulin, Harrison Ford, Henry Czerny, Jack Ryan, James Earl Jones, Joaquim de Almeida, John Milius, Lynne Marie Stewart, Miguel Sandoval, Phillip Noyce, Steven Zaillian, Ted Raimi, Thora Birch, Tom Clancy, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Willem Dafoe
Posted in Reviews, Thriller | 30 Comments »
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
June 29, 1994
I LOVE TROUBLE is a romantic comedy mystery thriller about two reporters at rival Chicago newspapers competing to get the scoop about a series of deaths of people connected to a particular project at a chemical company. Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte, 48 HRS.) is a womanizing columnist so famous and “off the charts hot” that he’s in Gap ads and constantly recognized in public. We meet him when he’s dropped off at work by a very satisfied groupie he picked up at a signing for his new novel White Lies. Meanwhile, Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts, THE PLAYER) is new in town, introduced into the movie pumps and legs first, noticed for her looks but quickly establishes herself to the point of having a full-sized photo on the side of a delivery truck that crosses paths with the one that has Peter’s photo on it. I wondered if somebody saw the introduction to Siskel & Ebert and thought, “Hmmm. What if one was a lady, and they fell in love? And solved a mystery?”
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Tags: Adam Bernardi, Charles Martin Smith, Charles Shyer, Clark Gregg, David Newman, Eric Poppick, Frankie Faison, James Rebhorn, Jane Adams, Julia Roberts, Keith Gordon, Nancy Meyers, Nick Nolte, Nora Dunn, Olympia Dukakis, Paul Gleason, Paul Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Saul Rubinek, Walter Murch
Posted in Reviews, Comedy/Laffs, Mystery | 22 Comments »
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Marvel has been on a roll for a while now. I guess it’s inevitable that when you release extra colorful and ambitious movies like GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2, SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, THOR: RAGNAROK, BLACK PANTHER, and AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR all within two or three years then some of the other stuff you put out is gonna seem less impressive. Like, DOCTOR STRANGE was pretty good fun and ANT-MAN AND THE WASP has plenty of laughs and now we have CAPTAIN MARVEL, a perfectly fine movie I enjoyed watching similar to how I enjoyed watching the first THOR. Like that one it’s a pretty cool, well-cast new character who comes to our world from sort of an iffy fantastical one, has some pretty cool, sometimes funny fish-out-of-water interactions with humans, and fights some bad guys from her world in a small town without many people around.
Not bad, but how are you gonna get ’em back on THOR once they’ve seen RAGNAROK? We take the cool characters for granted now and we expect better style, better jokes, better spectacle. At least that’s how I feel. It’s worth mentioning that most of the women I’ve talked to about it liked CAPTAIN MARVEL better than most of the men I’ve talked to, so there may be things we’re not appreciating. (read the rest of this shit…)
Tags: Anna Boden, Annette Bening, Ben Mendelsohn, Brie Larson, Clark Gregg, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Jude Law, Marvel Comics, Meg LeFauve, Nicole Perlman, Ryan Fleck, Samuel L. Jackson
Posted in Comic strips/Super heroes, Reviews, Science Fiction and Space Shit | 313 Comments »
Friday, May 17th, 2013
I got a ticket to the opening film of this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, a movie called MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, from the director of THE AVENGERS and the writer of HAMLET. Yes, idolized big brother of the internet Joss Whedon had some time off after directing the highest grossing non-James-Cameron movie of all time so he invited all his actor friends to his house to do a low budget William Shakespeare movie. It was so low budget he had to do it in black and white even though it was on a RED camera.
The cast includes Reed Diamond from Homicide: Life On the Street, the younger sister that was added later on in Growing Pains, two people from the LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT remake, and nobody else you ever heard of except for like ten or fifteen people that starred in Joss Whedon’s TV shows. A couple of them got intrusive applause when they showed up on screen or after their scenes were over, and to be fair at least nobody in the audience was dressed up like Firefly characters, but come on people, it’s called self control, and it can be yours. I believe in you. (read the rest of this shit…)
Tags: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Clark Gregg, Fran Kanz, Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Reed Diamond, William Shakespeare
Posted in Comedy/Laffs, Reviews, Romance, SIFF | 35 Comments »
