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...vision, other than the fact that, in this post-cold war era, it looks to outer space to find new enemies worth hating, fighting and blasting into little squishy pieces. "The U.S. is desperately in search of an enemy," says Paul Verhoeven, who has directed some stunning sci-fi (RoboCop, Total Recall) and the equally otherworldly Showgirls. "The communists were the enemy, and the Nazis before them, but now that wonderful enemy everyone can fight has been lost. Alien sci-fi films give us a terrifying enemy that's politically correct. They're bad. They're evil. And they...
Their first U.S. project was Universal Soldier, a hearty exercise in RoboCop sadomachismo that starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. Then, in 1994 Emmerich and Devlin did Stargate, about a secret government agency detecting signs of extraterrestrial life and discovering that the pyramids were made by aliens. With Kurt Russell as the director's standard rogue grunt, the film was a surprise...
...blame Verhoeven, the director of two sleek, inventive Hollywood fantasies (RoboCop, Total Recall), for making this movie--though we're surprised he can bear to watch it. The real culprit is Eszterhas, swami of the High Concept. He found Nazis in The Music Box and white supremacists in Betrayed, but cogent drama in neither. His favorite plot hook, sexual mutilation, bore rancid fruit in Jagged Edge, Basic Instinct and Sliver. At least those three had some sick kick to them. But if his women characters aren't psychos or sex-crime victims, the scripts get shrill and turgid. After...
...more than sport. It was romance. It meant meeting our destiny. Today it means little more than physical displacement. Compare the films of the early space age with the sci-fi of today. Compare 2001 with Robocop, Close Encounters with The Terminator. Compare John Kennedy's thrilling pledge to race to the moon with . . . what? No politician talks that way anymore. The new frontier is not the moon. It's HMOs...
...Malice" at 3, 5:35, 8:15 and 10:40. "Cool Runnings" at 1:30, 3:45, 6:30 and 8:50. "Fatal Instinct" at 12:25 p.m. "A Bronx Tale" at 12:40, 3:15, 5:50 and 8:30. "Rudy" at 1:10 and 6:10. "Robocop...