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Hancock also co-wrote The Alamo with Leslie Bohem and John Sayles. The writers are diligent at recreating battles, but, in contrast with previous portrayals, are determined to create realistic heroes, warts...
Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It's the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan and warm Linda Hamilton understand that their job is mainly to provide human scale for the lava flows and firestorms, the lake that turns to acid (the better to eat their boat) and the blizzard of volcanic ash that eventually buries a small town. We want to feel for them. But not too much. We want our doomsdays...
...their familiarity," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive." Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It?s the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan and warm Linda Hamilton understand that their job is mainly...
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