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Written by James M. Tate / 5/13/2020 / No comments / elizabeth ashley , exploitation , geneviève bujold , horror , lois chiles , michael crichton , michael douglas , mystery , richard widmark , science-fiction , seventies , thriller , tom selleck

MICHAEL CRICHTON DIRECTS 'COMA' WITH MICHAEL DOUGLAS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold investigates in Michael Crichton's COMA Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
</tbody></table><p>The best damsels-in-distress are those tough cookies in complete denial of being damsels, and you can take your distress and shove it because they don't need help from anyone, especially not males, and especially in the 1970's... <br />
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Enter Geneviève Bujold as Dr. Susan Wheeler who, with a chip on her shoulder about being the only female doctor in an old school men's club type of hospital, has a kneejerk reaction for anything easygoing boyfriend Dr. Mark Bellows, played by Michael Douglas, has to say; particularly “Can you get me a beer?” <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lois Chiles as a gorgeous Patient X in COMA</u></td></tr>
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</div><p>Her feelings of insecurity are shielded with a narrowed countenance — the pushy and contrived feminist viewpoint making it difficult to root for her character... It's almost as if she's bitching out the <i>entire</i> audience...<br />
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But she's <i>really</i> onto something as patients at the hospital, including her best friend (a perfect looking Lois Chiles followed by a perfect looking Tom Selleck), are slipping into comas following routine procedures...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jefferson Institute is the Death Star of comatose patients from COMA</u></td></tr>
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</div><p>Here’s where the intentionally overbearing anti-heroine becomes more relatable as the investigation kicks into gear. And novelist turned director Michael Crichton has a mechanical approach to directing films that, whether written by himself or in this case, source author Robin Cook, are intentionally farfetched...<br />
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But when Susan gets in over her head, searching through files in the hospital and eventually finding the place where the patients are being sent, the mystery/suspense peaks too easily, and conveniently...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold and a dead ringer for Data from Star Trek years earlier in a deep COMA</u></td></tr>
</tbody></table><p>In one scene she overhears two maintenance men discussing everything needing to know i.e. what the comatose bodies... suspended in a spooky warehouse within a formidable white building while overseen by monotone and robotic, steely-eyed Elizabeth Ashley... are being used for...<br />
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With thirty-minutes left it’s all about Susan escaping for her life in scenes liken to a television potboiler, and especially when she's under the knife of villainous surgeon Richard Widmark that the fingernails are worth biting: finally providing the backseat Douglas a chance to possibly save his once stubborn, reluctant girlfriend who finally needs saving.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold investigates in Michael Crichton's COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tom Selleck would star in Michael Crichton's Runaway here a cameo in COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tom Selleck as Sean Murphy the Comatose Adam to Lois Chile's Eve in COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold starring in COMA </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold starring in COMA </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold COMA with Michael Douglas</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A cold Elizabeth Ashley with a Yoda mouth in COMA </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lance LeGalt is the bad guy's henchman in COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michael Douglas first billed yet backseat w/ Genevieve Bujold in COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ed Harris gives some deathly ideas in Michael Crichton's thriller COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Geneviève Bujold sneaks around through Michael Crichton's thriller COMA</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"1, 2, Mars, Venus.. We don't need no Stinkin' Penis!" Feminist Aerobics in COMA w/ Lois Chiles</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lois Chiles with Geneviève Bujold in COMA with who looks like Leigh-Taylor Young</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The perfect Lois Chiles is put into a not-so-perfect coma in Michael Crichton's COMA</u></td></tr>
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MICHAEL CRICHTON DIRECTS 'COMA' WITH MICHAEL DOUGLAS

Geneviève Bujold investigates in Michael Crichton's COMA Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 The best damsels-in-distress are those tough cooki...

Written by James M. Tate / 7/27/2017 / No comments / albert finney , darryl hickman , eighties , james coburn , kathryn witt , leigh taylor-young , michael crichton , neo noir , science-fiction , susan dey , suspense , terri welles , thriller , tim rossovich

MICHAEL CRICHTON CREATES A REAL 'LOOKER' WITH TERRI WELLES

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LOOKER Year Released: 1981</u></td></tr>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">Michael Crichton was a great writer and a good director with some great scripts. His style was to make just about anything not only believable but entirely mundane in whatever near-future it takes place... </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">This includes one of his more obscure movies, LOOKER, centering on how TV Commercials are worse than simply inconvenient... </span></span><br>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The plot takes about half the film to unveil and the other to wind-down, or when it comes to the main antagonist, wind-up: Enter Albert Finney as a cosmetic surgeon who did subtle procedures on three already-gorgeous young models, including the initial doomed Terri Welles in what's more Thriller than Action with a touch of the Noir "Wrong Man" template, causing Finney to discover, perhaps too quickly, what's going on and, most important, who killed his former patients...</span></span></span></span><br>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The LOOKER process, learned by Finney while on a tour of the facility run by charming mogul James Coburn, is initially quite original and intriguing, having to do with electrolytes connected to commercials, leading the viewer to be able to concentrate solely on the product. But most important, LOOKER is the name of a futuristic gun that, when flashed in the target's eyes, renders him blind for a minute. Him, not her. He, not them... </span></span></span><br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Teri Welles gets the ball rolling in LOOKER</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Terri Welles as Lisa Convey in LOOKER</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tim Rossovich as Lisa Convey in LOOKER</u></td></tr>
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MICHAEL CRICHTON CREATES A REAL 'LOOKER' WITH TERRI WELLES

Title: LOOKER Year Released: 1981 Michael Crichton was a great writer and a good director with some great scripts. His style was to make...

TOM SELLECK IN MICHAEL CRICHTON'S RUNAWAY

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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tom Selleck is a police 
officer whose niche is to take down runaways: robots who stray from 
their jobs. These particular gizmos are killing people. The best scenes have Selleck's Ramsay, an intrepid cop whose only fear is heights, taking down several rogue machines: one in particular has killed off the family it works for, making a suspenseful scene as he moves on in. This is a scene straight out of your standard cop film or TV show, only there's a robot at the end of the tunnel.</span><br>

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TOM SELLECK IN MICHAEL CRICHTON'S RUNAWAY

Tom Selleck is a police officer whose niche is to take down runaways: robots who stray from their jobs. These particular gizmos are kill...

HELEN HUNT & BILL PAXTON & PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN IN TWISTER

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;">year: 1996 rating: ***1/2</span></b></td></tr>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">“It’s really hard to define yourself in this big movie competing with special effects,” actor Scott Thomson, who plays one of several storm chasers, said in a Cult Film Freak interview. “The star of the show is the TWISTER.”</span></i><br />
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And we can’t forget the flying cow that really made a lasting, iconic impression although there are many other great visuals: including an assortment of tornadoes that practically become living/breathing movie monsters...<br />
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The aesthetics aside, TWISTER is a character-driven film, literally. And while there are an assortment of storm riders aboard the dilapidated mobile caravan, the two leads are Bill Paxton’s Bill Harding and his soon-to-be-ex wife Jo, played by Helen Hunt.<br />
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The story begins with Bill seeking one last signature to finalize the divorce. Here we meet the intrepid team, highlighted by Philip Seymour Hoffman as Dusty, an energetic, classic rock blaring hippie slob, randomly goading the uptight Jami Getz as Bill's naïve, tagalong fiancé who is actually quite important: during most of the film, it's through her shocked eyes we experience what the others are completely used to....   <br />
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Especially Helen Hunt’s Jo, who, during the intense childhood prelude, loses her dad to a farmland tornado… Her story goes slightly beyond Bill’s determination to prove his contraption/invention <i>Dorothy</i> can, when whisked up into the sky, learn specific information so that, in the future, people will have more than a two-minute storm warning. In this story Jo has her own revenge angle... Tornado chasing is not only science, it's deeply personal! Then again Bill's idea had been ripped off by his corporate scheming rival (Cary Elwes), adding motivation and dimension to his character.  <br />
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A defining attribute of TWISTER is it's constantly on the go... At the same time, an impending sense of doom lurks throughout… Like when the people are on land in JAWS, we never forget where the real danger exists and what's always waiting for us. Thus this roving, suspenseful yarn – even during brief pockets of downtime – relies on the quirky crew stalking a formidable menace that normal folks hide from... And the audience rides shotgun the entire trip.  <br />
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Thankfully, executive producer Steve Spielberg wasn’t finished with author Michael Crichton after his sublime, successful adaptation of JURASSIC PARK… With TWISTER, SPEED driver Jan de Bont directed something special that, although maligned as corny and far fetched despite a huge box office draw, still holds up today: like an actual storm, the adventure begins with a breezy introduction, slowly escalates into a wind-swept cadence and eventually blasts off into several thrilling crescendos. <br />
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Sure, it's a bit much when the tornado becomes a determined, lone antagonist, chasing our two main characters like the end of a cliché horror flick, and the dialogue gets silly and downright contrived, but that's all part of the escapist fun that should keep you completely entertained from start to finish... if you let it! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: white;">Character Actor SCOTT THOMSON discusses working on the hit film TWISTER</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #666666; color: white;">This was a real ensemble... There were a whole lot of you on board...</span></b><br />
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Yeah, we’re kind of divided into two camps… Bill and Helen played the parents of all of us storm chasers… The other, Cary Elwes’ team, is the evil team with all the technology.<br />
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We’re the affectionate, scrappy, <i>we’ll do anything including risking your lives in the name of science</i> group, and the adrenaline rush of throwing yourself into a tornado… And yeah, that was a very tricky situation in which all of us on Helen’s team were kind of like, I don’t know... What’s that Greek mythology creature? The one body with the… oh, it’s the Hydra… We were kind of like a Hydra… We were all joined at the shoulders. <br />
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When I read the script, I thought, if I ever played Dusty, that’s the part to have because there’s something there to play… Philip Seymour Hoffman came in and did a bang-up job... We were kind of envying him because he had all the… You know, he had a lot of fun. <br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #666666; color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;">Your character is nicknamed The Preacher... What's the reason for that?</span> </span></b><br />
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It was never really defined, to my frustration… I tried talking to the director, Jan de Bont, a nice guy from Holland… His background is a cinematographer, basically, and he’d come out with SPEED and everyone had embraced him because that was an amazing action film, so he was recruited for TWISTER… <br />
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But he wasn’t really interested in getting into the minutia of our characters. I tried to get some time with him... I’d say: “I’m called The Preacher… So this is my take… I feel like I’m a preacher’s son who went over to the <i>dark side</i> of science and yet still had my roots in my Baptist Evangelist background.” But there was no time to explore that… And I tried, but, what are you gonna do?<br />
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I usually just tell people I was the guy in the cow suit. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: #666666;">"Philip Seymour Hoffman came in and did a bang-up job" Scott Thomson</b></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: white;"><i><b style="background-color: #666666;">And here's a bonus archived review, more of a write-up, actually, of a movie with the same title that probably has its own faithful following...</b></i></span></span><br />
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Let's just say that often, in the cinematic sense, weird has gotten a bad time. When weird is too weird, or weird for the sake of being weird, it's a complete waste of time.<br />
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But in the 1989 independent film, TWISTER, which has little to do with a tornado and nothing to do with the Helen Hunt movie about people chasing them (that came out several years later), gives weird a good name.<br />
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Centering on a dysfunctional, eccentric family in Cleveland living in a mansion: the father played by Harry Dean Stanton who owns a soda pop factory and his two kids: Crispin Glover, who sits around strumming his guitar and acting strange (like he does so well), and the self-involved daughter, Suzy Amis, who hates her life more than her boyfriend, Dylan McDermott, whose tough guy blue collar character gives the movie a firm "normal" base.<br />
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The title is liken to CHINATOWN, having little to do with the plot but everything to do with the unpredictable, spontaneously existential concept. So for fans of weird, this little gem is highly recommended. The dialogue is creative, perfectly suited for the quirky ensemble. And for fans of normal, perhaps it's a good change.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: #666666;">Back to the main TWISTER, here are the stars Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton for good measure...</b></span></span></td></tr>
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HELEN HUNT & BILL PAXTON & PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN IN TWISTER

year: 1996 rating: ***1/2 “It’s really hard to define yourself in this big movie competing with special effects,” actor Scott Thomson, w...

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THE HORRIBLE CAMP THAT IS CONGO

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THE HORRIBLE CAMP THAT IS CONGO

year: 1995 rating: * The worst Michael Crichton adaptation ever; this makes the abysmal SPHERE seem like JURASSIC PARK. We begin with ...

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PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF7PVcQGX08FJ9YC6yPXFafZhmy2r2ZqOUfaA70_HUND4Gd8C0udrQHBPlJ9saHTDdmy3aIckE6yqGEtwn-sFsNySizWR88ASadwyhVVsujGU9QO5UEd9SdXva4Fk9d4mtja-nDvL3p98/s1600/physevid.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586401699077984946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF7PVcQGX08FJ9YC6yPXFafZhmy2r2ZqOUfaA70_HUND4Gd8C0udrQHBPlJ9saHTDdmy3aIckE6yqGEtwn-sFsNySizWR88ASadwyhVVsujGU9QO5UEd9SdXva4Fk9d4mtja-nDvL3p98/s200/physevid.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 197px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">title: </span>PHYSICAL EVIDENCE<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">year:</span> 1989<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">cast:</span> Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Beatty</span>, Ted McKinley<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">rating:</span> **1/2<br /><br />Burt Reynolds is a good cop that seems so guilty, he simply can't be... can he? It's up to climber D.A. Theresa Russell to find who killed an unpopular snitch all the cops despise, especially Reynolds, who'd not only threatened this man, but taped it. Like Hitchcock's FRENZY, the protagonist seems guiltier and guiltier because of his own mistakes and miscalculations. So while Michael <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Crichton</span>'s a master novelist, his directorial career is pretty good: but this one's merely average. And Russell, who's great in STRAIGHT TIME and BLACK WIDOW, gives one of the worst, and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">unintentionally</span> hilarious, performances of all time. But Burt holds it together, as does fellow DELIVERANCE alumni Ned <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Beatty</span> as the prosecuting <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">attorney</span> with a much too easy gig.

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