Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is all too easily proved right. But everyone once in a while a gem like As Good As It Gets comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor and, best of all, complicated and original characters. Beautifully acted and surprisingly quirky, As Good As It Gets is a feel good movie that you don't have to feel guilty to feel good about...
...Good As It Gets is quietly different from the rest of the holiday releases: a bit old-fashioned in the sweet, simple values it embraces, but with a decidedly modern slant. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience feel as if it's earned a pleasant afterglow (and perhaps a Kleenex or two). Nicholson and Hunt are strikingly good, and James Brooks shows that he knows how to craft a clever love story. There's no shame in letting yourself get carried away by As Good As It Gets--you're in good hands...
...fact, Tomorrow Never Dies is no better than a mediocre, run-of-the-mill, modern action flick. Sure, the high paced action scenes, abundant chases, explosions and lavish gadgetry with which a Bond film is now associated has entertainment value of its own. But to claim that the current films have any more tradition or class to them than any generic action movie with say, Arnold or Stephen Segal, is bunk. Better to just do away with the whole cumbersome apparatus and obligatory baggage which slapping a Bond label on a movie entails, and instead devote the energy to making...
...curvaceous beauty in shimmering titanium that is both sexy and unmistakably elegant. (And talk about pounding swords into art galleries: four years ago, on the cheap, Gehry picked up loads of this pricey "strategic" metal when the Russians started dumping their stockpiles.) With this strange masterpiece, a Baroque pearl, modern architecture truly arrives at the status of poetry in motion...
...CONFIDENTIAL Everybody knows the rudiments of the classic film-noir manner: chiaroscuro lighting, labyrinthine plots, dialogue written in battery acid. Working up imitations of it has become one of modern Hollywood's minor vices. But--a point usually missed--the style was never an end in itself. At its best it conveyed an idea about how the rottenness of big cities touches everyone, high and low, respectable and raffish. Director Curtis Hanson, working off James Ellroy's bitterly brewed novel about corrupt 1950s cops, gets that wonderfully right in a smart, complex film that exuberantly mixes comic excess, melodramatic pressure...