Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene in which Roper mimics a white bandit as a test for his galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room for Eddie to be Eddie. It's as if Carter thought the project was a smooth vehicle that Murphy could simply ride in, when it's really a hunk-a-junk the star needed to transform...
...decent scene where Roper mimics a white bandit as a test for his galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room for Eddie to be Eddie. It's as if Carter thought the project was a smooth vehicle that Murphy could simply ride in, when it's really a hunk-a-junk the star needed to transform. Roper is issued a regulation villain (Michael Wincott, whose menacing baritone was used to better effect in the recent Jim Jarmusch corpse opera Dead Man) and a girlfriend in peril (British stunner Carmen Ejogo). A shame the star wasn't given a character...
...their temperamental machine, which they carry around carefully suspended on two poles. Puzuk is supposed to ask Huml a series of questions, but it can't perform its task. Dr. Anna Balcar (Erica Rabbit '00) and Karel Kriebel (Tinker Green) try putting Puzuk, who appears to be a hunk of gears and metal, into the freezer and into the oven in order to adjust its temperature. Nothing seems to work, and technology is represented as a useless primadonna...
Circling around this central situation are a younger sister (Natalie Portman) mooning over a high school hunk; a younger brother rebelling by embracing neoconservatism; a senile grandfather; a Nazi-ish maid; an ex-husband (Allen himself) for Mom who keeps dragging his current romantic troubles into the picture; and Julia Roberts, curiously disarming as his latest psychologically bedraggled draggee...
...least a decade. That leaves two films whose top-billed actors are women. But even Helen Hunt wouldn't say she's the main reason for Twister's success. And Sandra Bullock, who has her name above the title in A Time to Kill, plays in support of hunk du jour Matthew McConaughey. It's a lousy year for movie women when the meatiest femme role--the comedy, the pathos, the earrings!--is Nathan Lane's in The Birdcage...