Word: schickele
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Schickel...
...eagerly serve Writer Stewart's earnest desire to reduce experience (he is a Navy OCS graduate) to pulp. Never does a satirical gleam enter anyone's eye. The result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul. -By Richard Schickel...
...believe that a giant frog, an "undertoad," menaces him. It becomes a symbol for all the hidden dangers of modern life. The film never locates its undertoad and thus never confronts the true subject of the book. It is all just body surfing on a placid pond. -By Richard Schickel...
...across the Texas landscape. The writing is aimless when it is not offensive, and the picture appears to have been agglomerated rather than directed. Burning's achievement in the midst of all this incompetence is not just a high point; it is something like a miracle. - By Richard Schickel...
...Says Schickel: "The studio has a lot riding on TRON, and so does everybody-inside the movie business and out-who remembers the sense of the visionary possibilities of film you got from the great days of Disney, and wishes somebody would make pictures like those again...