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Written by James M. Tate / 11/04/2017 / No comments / adam baldwin , bully , chris makepeace , eighties , high school , jennifer beals , martin mull , matt dillon , ruth gordon , teen

BEFORE BULLYING WAS A CRIME THERE WAS 'MY BODYGUARD'

adam baldwin, bully, chris makepeace, eighties, high school, jennifer beals, martin mull, matt dillon, ruth gordon, teen

BEFORE BULLYING WAS A CRIME THERE WAS 'MY BODYGUARD'

Matt Dillon & future Flashdance Jennifer Beals YEAR: 1980 A classy teenage high school bully movie opening with what sounds like a c...

NARROWING INTO INDEPENDENCE DAY

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>INDEPENDENCE DAY</u></td></tr>
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Most films of this kind are more entertaining during the set-up – introducing characters while building the plot – than the bombastic, sometimes overlong and one-dimensional resolution but not in the case of INDEPENDENCE DAY where the dialogue tries so hard to provoke perpetual heart-tugging chortles of an opening night audience, it's as if the very motion picture were running for office...<br>
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The hackneyed characters range from a flamboyant gay man: a narrow-nuke-minded Secretary of Defense; a humble yet brilliant science engineer; a holed-up hippie scientist; an old wisdom-spouting Jewish man; a crazy redneck conspiracy theorist; a confident pilot; his comic-relief buddy; a dignified First Lady; and the ultra-patriotic President of the United States – all so extremely cliché it's a miracle any of them can escape without ruining the entire experience, no matter how much big-budget CGI occurs as the aliens blow up the White House and various cities within giant space ships that had shadowed every region of the entire planet Earth. But two of the humans on board not only get much better, they save INDEPENDENCE DAY from being one of the most annoying and cringe-worthy theatrical experiences of all time: And what an unlikely pair we have in Will Smith's Captain Steven Hiller and Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson, both taking part in a genuinely suspenseful third act mission to destroy the aliens in a manner reminiscent of H.G. Well's WAR OF THE WORLDS: by going underneath their vulnerabilities while jet fighters take out the mothership like the original STAR WARS dogfight finale.<br>

adam baldwin, bill pullman, disaster, jeff goldblum, judd hirsch, nineties, science-fiction, will smith

NARROWING INTO INDEPENDENCE DAY

INDEPENDENCE DAY Most films of this kind are more entertaining during the set-up – introducing characters while building the plot – than...

THRUSTING INTO FIREFLY

adam baldwin, joss whedon, nathan fillion, science-fiction, zeroes

THRUSTING INTO FIREFLY

Review/Writeup of the first episode of the Joss Whedon cult adored science-fiction television series FIREFLY By now everyone in the know...

STRATEGIC SIDE-CHARACTERS OF KUBRICK'S 'FULL METAL JACKET'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Expendable Unsung Heroes of FULL METAL JACKET</u></td></tr>
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The irony of the helmet sharing BORN TO KILL with a peace symbol represents more than Pvt. Joker’s theory behind donning such a blatant contradiction in the middle of a raging war…<br />
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FULL METAL JACKET, the second to last feature directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick, though hypnotic and powerful, isn’t always sure what it is, exactly, or where it’s going; especially in the middle after progressing awkwardly into Vietnam while all but forgetting the incredible first act at Boot Camp...<br />
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Not only the best part of the film, but a kind of short film... with a beginning, middle and end... starring Drill Sergeant Hartman, played by R. Lee Ermey who, in real life was an ex soldier discovered for APOCALYPSE NOW while living in the Philippines. He provides a more realistic and helpful yet still tough Drill Sergeant in the 1978 Vietnam flick THE BOYS IN COMPANY C,  the first movie to use the peace sign on the helmet. But peace doesn’t sell to everyone…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Boys in Company C</u></td></tr>
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Living up to the FULL METAL title, Adam Baldwin steals the second half as Animal Mother, a hardcore grunt who takes the war seriously, never giving in to the message that war is not only hell, but altogether pointless... And he has a purpose: to kill or be killed...<br />
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Instead let’s center more on a few obscure, underrated performances… obviously not including Vincent D’Onofrio’s Private Pyle, mesmerizing as Kubrick’s lost soul Boot Camp character, nearly equal with the monopolizing Ermy… These particular (originally blogged during Memorial Day) JACKET vets hardly get mentioned, or recognized, for their input that drives the story forward…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Terry as Lockhart</u></td></tr>
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<u>John Terry</u> might look like one of those standard/stock handsome actors that come and go, which he is, usually, but as Lt. Lockhart, head of the Journalist unit during the start of the Vietnam sequence, he’s beyond effective doing what makes up most of the Kubrick war epic (or any Stanley film): that being, long monologues, which probably took a million takes to get "just right." One gets the feeling that Terry's kind of professional actor's actor didn't annoy Kubrick too much... but who knows, only God, about the infamously picky director... <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Terry on LOST</u></td></tr>
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Either way, in JACKET, through Terry we learn the rules of covering the war, from the inside – what’s right and not right to print so that this unpopular “police action” seems legitimate: not an easy task. When Matthew Modine’s Private Joker questions the rather subdued Lockhart about his safe position, the lieutenant points out the fact he had his ass in the grass, and doesn’t want to go back there. Like Adam Baldwin but in reverse, Terry’s Lockhart sticks firmly to his guns… or in this case, typewriter. As chief of propaganda, and a character probably created to be disliked, he stretches beyond a cardboard cliché and really holds his own in a Kubrick vehicle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kieron Jecchinis as Crazy Earl</u></td></tr>
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Then, once Joker and a character mentioned later, go from the safety-zone as writer and photographer to where the bullets are flying, a fitfully nut named <u>Crazy Earl</u> gets lost in the bravado of both Animal Mother and a nameless gun-happy grunt who shoots local paddy workers (this stocky, tough-guy actor, Tim Colceri, was originally slated to play, and was in the role for eight months, of Sgt. Hartman that R. Lee Ermy made quotable and legendary) from a gunning helicopter during a completely overblown and overdone scene bringing Modine to the front lines where, still a journalist, a series of interviews not only take place, but take us right out of the reality of war...<br />
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Thus a linear motion picture that had, after the first two acts, potential to equal the Oscar Winning PLATOON, which, though far from perfect and with a subject a bit too close to writer/director Oliver Stone, remains a character-driven vehicle unlike JACKET, that meanders from genre to genre. Meanwhile, a similar looking (of the helicopter assassin) <u>Ed O'Neil as Touchdown</u>, explains strategic exposition for Pvt. Joker as they walk towards the mobile barracks, yet not lasting as long as Earl, played by Kieron Jecchinis, sitting next to a dead “gook,” providing an image that turns the troop introduction into a chilling (if pretentiously so) moment of truth.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A doomed Ed O'Neil</u></td></tr>
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Also to note, it’s Earl’s long-take frown turned hopeful grin, after blasting a few unlucky stragglers leading to the song “Surfin’ Bird” in jovial irony, that bridges an important gap between strategic battles, kind of like the opening credit sequence of the somewhat underrated <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/01/more-american-graffiti.html">MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI</a> playing the uptown Motown classic "Heat Wave" while (deadly) American Huey copters are flying.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Beginning of the end...</u></td></tr>
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Alas, Crazy doesn’t make it all the way. But his departure gives the boys real vulnerability for the last <i>ultra-violent </i>stretch, making up for the pseudo documentary third-act template that doesn’t always work as Arliss Howard’s Cowboy, a nice guy but definitely not a leader, is put in charge of a showdown between an unseen sniper who can’t be properly located... <br />
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That's until scene-stealer Adam Baldwin steps forward, providing Kubrick his most effective camera movements right alongside: this is where we finally have ourselves a bonafide "old school" war flick hero to root for despite the fact JACKET is... like most anti-war ventures, attempting to veer beyond your typical G.I. JOE cliché barnstorm... a hero-less journey into fear, and beyond.<br />
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And last but not least, photographer <u>Pvt. Rafterman</u>, played by Kevyn Major Howard, a Pluto to the goofy Joker and/or second banana in the second segment…. Actually there are three parts: boot camp; the safe-knit journalist unit full of dialogue and eventually, and quickly, brought into semi-action during the infamous Tet Offensive; and then the full-on Vietnam sequences, not located at the usual jungle setting ala APOCALYPSE NOW but instead existing within burnt-out villages harboring dilapidated buildings reminiscent of war pictures in WWII France or Germany or on episodes of, say, television's classic COMBAT starring Vic Morrow.<br />
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Rafterman is a sort of loyal pup that Modine’s Joker has to protect, although he gets a bit too Gung-Ho, unrealistically rushed for his originally innocent character. But looking an eerie cross of the boy next door and a sneaky weasel, it’s nice having Rafterman there during the “Nam” half, wonderfully catapulted/bookended by Nancy Sinatra’s sexy THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING and The Rolling Stone’s effectively climactic PAINT IT BLACK, which brilliantly concludes the picture after the exhausted survivors sing the Mickey Mouse song as they march further into unknown purgatory that is, or rather, was, The Vietnam War.<br />
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<u>FILM RATING: ***1/2</u><br />
<u>TRIVIA</u>: Propaganda chief John Terry plays the famous Bond sidekick Felix Leiter in Timothy Dalton's first 007 outing THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, and if you blink you'll miss him as he's very underwhelming... not boring with a purpose, like in FULL METAL JACKET: he'd be best known two decades later as the good doctor Jack's dad on LOST...<br />
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The next and last Dalton venture had the LIVE AND LET DIE Leiter, THE FLY original actor David Hedison, who has a deathly honeymoon with the last blonde roommate on THREE'S COMPANY and a hungry bionic shark...<br />
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Meanwhile, Kevyn Major Howard wasn't always so sweet a character... although he gets really angry at the sniper (during a supposedly ambiguous Anti-War Flick, we're supposed to feel for the Vietnamese Shelley Duvall who kills half the beloved cast during the 11th hour): in fact, Howard plays victim to two tough guy legends in two sequels: by Clint Eastwood in the fourth DIRTY HARRY flick, SUDDEN IMPACT, and Charles Bronson in DEATH WISH II, the first thing Jimmy Page did, darkly scoring the picture under Cannon Films, after Led Zeppelin tragically disbanded.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Not exactly a review, but more of a glimpse into several, unlike Adam Baldwin, shown above, underrated, side-side characters</u></td></tr>
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action, adam baldwin, body count, ed o'neil, eighties, john terry, kevyn major howard, kieron jecchinis, matthew modine, rolling stones, stanley kubrick, vietnam, war

STRATEGIC SIDE-CHARACTERS OF KUBRICK'S 'FULL METAL JACKET'

The Expendable Unsung Heroes of FULL METAL JACKET The irony of the helmet sharing BORN TO KILL with a peace symbol represents more than ...

Written by James M. Tate / 10/20/2012 / No comments / action , adam baldwin , ben stiller , bill paxton , eighties , patrick swayze , suspense

PATRICK SWAYZE & LIAM NEESON IN NEXT OF KIN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1989 cast: Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Bill Paxton, Adam Baldwin, Ben Stiller  rating: ***1/2</td></tr>
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An old school action flick in the Sam Peckinpah tradition that puts Patrick Swayze, in a narrow-eyed ready-to-strike ROADHOUSE mode, against seedy odds as Chicago cop Truman Gates, originally from the Sticks and considered white trash to his surly comrades.<br />
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His little brother (Bill Paxton) is killed by local mafia goon Adam Baldwin, but Truman plays entirely by the rules as the mob, including a lazy kingpin’s son Ben Stiller, continue to run the town.<br />
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Enter scene-stealer Liam Neeson as Swayze’s older sibling, Briar. With the countenance of a feisty badger mixed with a cagy serpentine prowess (imagine Charles Bronson as Daniel Boone), he sets out alone to get bloody revenge against those the law can’t strike.<br />
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By far the best scenes have the heavily-armed Neeson taking out mobsters and even leaping from moving trains to survive their retaliation. It really seems like his story rather than Swayze’s... Although the late actor’s dominate arrival on each scene substantiates the theme: that to really fight evil, you have to play your cards with deliberate precision. And while his climatic shootout in a cemetery doesn't quite live up to his brother's creative tactics, NEXT OF KIN is a worthwhile, and better than average, crime/action experience. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patrick Swayze as Truman Gates</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adam Baldwin makes the perfect heavy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A young Ben Stiller as the mobster's brainy son</td></tr>
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