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...with the Dec. 31 deadline for Academy Award qualifiers. While real people flock to Scream 2, movie people begin their homework by seeing Oscar contenders. Most of these films don't open till Christmas, but we can't wait. Here are five shiny baubles for right now. IT'S PULP, BUT IT AIN'T QUITE PULP FICTION...
Starship Troopers is in fact based on a pulp novel from the '50s just like those which the movie so savvily spoofs. The movie seems to critique belligerent nationalism and militarism from the inside out; and yet, the jazzy thrill of watching those bugs get picked off is great enough that the audience participates in that very same militarist spirit. Verhoeven torques our knee-jerk impressions of our own political sensibilities and forces us to resolve that conflict ourselves. All this from the man who made Showgirls...
Tarantino was just coming off directing and promoting Pulp Fiction, one of the most successful films of the decade. Grier was just coming off a cameo in Posse, a modestly successful black western. Grier gave Tarantino a look and said, "Please." Not "pleeeese," meaning, yes, give it to me, thank you very much. But "puhhhhlease," meaning there's not a snowball's chance this joker is actually gonna come through with a script...
...YEAR'S RESOLUTION] After Tarantino's recent career goofs, expect only a Pulp Fraction...
...CHRISTMAS WISH] Pulp Fiction numbers and notoriety would be nice...