I'd always felt that he had an innate ability to instantly command a room in whichever role he played, but in this, he seemed shrunken, small, and broken, and believably so.
I thought he was believably so, but appropriately inconsistent. Sometimes you could see the Major, sometimes you could see the man. Sometimes you could see what it had all done to him. I loved that -- when he first is
ignored by Shaw, his face shifts from businesslike to crushed
to something inbetween in a scant second. I loved that moment.
Is there a pull for the movie besides the cast and being a special effects extravaganza?
More often than not, SFX movies suck ass, but every once and a while, they don't. Look at the original Star Wars for example. (And on the whole, SW didn't really have the cast thing going for it).
Potentially, I see a lot of similarities between Sky Captain and Star Wars; specifically, a young director who sees the full potential of making movies with new technology and runs with it.
Hey, I loved that Miguel Ferrer plays a character named Garrett. So funny. Not exactly the Tony Danza syndrome -- but similar.
I just saw a commercial for it, and i had no idea...Alien vs Predator is a real thing? I thought it was a video game. It's really a movie? Is it supposed to be funny?
Alien v. Predator
is many things, including, I think, a video game. Most recently, a movie upon which I heaped disdain.
Then I noticed it starred Sanaa Lathaam, Colin Salmon, and
Raoul Bova.
Huh.
It has the makings of a classic.
It's set in Antarctica, how naked can Bova get? Without being humiliated, I mean.
Maybe they'll have to decontaminate on re-entering the base. He looks full of hard-to-reach places.
I'm so glad I don't have to see Alien vs. Predator.
