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...independent films such as George Washington and All The Real Girls, David Gordon Green has earned a reputation for being a master of small-budget, Southern-set stories full of delicate characterizations. He gleefully chucks most of that out the window with his latest directorial effort, the stoner action comedy Pineapple Express. With fingers crossed for his first commercial success, Gordon Green spoke to TIME from Los Angeles...
Thunderbolt encompasses everything I love about movies. It's got badass action, it's got some of the funniest dialogue between characters, it's got a genuine, sympathetic, dramatic relationship at its core - what more do you need...
...here is that the two heroes engaged in the movie's requisite action scenes - the hand-to-hand combat, the car chase, the climactic military-style battle ending in a giant explosion - are klutzy boobs. Dale and Saul have the need and instinct to fight, drive and run, but none of the skills. One sequence, the movie's lamest, is either a demonstration of this theory or an undercutting commentary on it. As they stagger through the woods searching for a cell phone Saul has tossed away, Rogen and Franco take a stab at a slapstick routine but possess neither...
...refused to recognize his government. Instead, with the dissent of a few countries, notably Botswana, the Union merely passed a feeble resolution suggesting a government of national unity, which Mugabe in any case would not accept. It is tragic that the A.U. ignored the opportunity to take drastic action. Instead, it has lost whatever credibility it had. Edward R.C. Preston, AUCKLAND...
...unofficial national motto is "Too much sport is not enough," I am surprised that Australia and its games did not score in your "Games People Play" issue [June 30-July 7]. Polocrosse, a wild fusion of lacrosse and polo, has horses fitter than polo ponies and far more bruising action. Australian Rules, a cross between rugby league and Gaelic football, requires the utmost fitness, as there are virtually no stoppages and minimal reserves of replacement players. As for equestrian competition, when the Australian team won the Three-Day Event over the killer course at the 1960 Olympics in Rome...