Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SOLDIER...
...Soldier, Warner Brothers' new film starring Kurt Russell, is a futuristic science fiction action movie. What would someone going to the movie expect to see, given this premise? Special effects and outer space settings are pretty likely. So are violence and a romantic twist somewhere in the story. And, as usual, audiences at science fiction movies are ready to set aside notions of realism and plausibility in order to enjoy the film as an entertaining spectacle rather than an intellectual experience. Soldier makes use of most of these assumptions, but in the end turns out to be a disappointing film...
Kurt Russell's newest action movie delivers a typical science fiction story line. Russell's character, Todd, is a futuristic soldier, reared in a sophisticated training program designed to produce the best fighters possible. But Todd's unit is soon replaced by genetically-engineered soldiers, who are more advanced in every way. That is, they are stronger, more persistent and have chests that suggest they grew up eating creatine three times a day. Todd, thought dead after a confrontation with the biggest and meanest of the new breed (Cain 607, played by Jason Scott Lee), is sent to a waste...
...dumped garbage experience. The only visual or special effects worth mentioning, though, are the few panoramic shots of the barren planet littered with old scrap iron, cars and retired aircraft carriers. On a side note, those expecting chemistry between Todd and Sandra (Connie Nelson) should look elsewhere, Soldier gets an R rating solely because of old-fashioned graphic violence...
Classical music connoisseurs, get down and Baroque with the Bach Society. Appreciate the torrential strains of Stravinksy's "The Soldier's Tale," Prokofiev's "Classical Symphony" and Beethoven's Symphony #3, "Eroica." 8 to 10 p.m., Paine Hall. $5 students, $8 general...