Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actor, after a day of golf, was able to intuit his throttled energy, his tension." Hollywood is equally impressed by the actor. Ridley Scott cast Crowe as the lead in next spring's Gladiator, and Taylor Hackford has just signed him to star opposite Meg Ryan in the romantic thriller Proof of Life...
Mann and co-screenwriter Eric Roth want to make The Insider a suspense thriller and an art film. There are assignations under dark bridges, ornery messages snailing out of fax machines, snatches of arias on the sound track and enough slo-mo shots to extend the movie's running, or ambling, time to 2 1/2 hours. And those endless conferences! The viewer almost has to be a journalist--or a good editor--to sniff out the meat under...
...general, these titles are much more sophisticated than the cartoons we're used to--the critically acclaimed "Neon Genesis: Evangelion," which features an intriguing blend of drama and action, grapples with political, religious, philosophical and human issues, all within the context of a futuristic sci-fi thriller...
...chopped into its composite elements, it makes for an enjoyable film that remains somewhat true to the book's original plot, as witnessed in the critically acclaimed L.A. Confidential. Occasionally, despite a terrible novel, a masterful director can be successfully reworked into a great movie, such as the aquatic thriller Jaws. But usually, a great work of literature finds itself dismembered and crammed into a limited space of two hours. While they can still be great movies, and even capture the true spirit of the works they are based on, the audience--if they are familiar with the book...
...wooden performances of Lou Diamond Phillips and Dina Meyer, the bats are surprisingly human. Bats is so painfully unaware of its own ridiculousness that it qualifies for a place in the annals of camp classics.Yet, there is nothing tongue-in-cheek about this film. It is marketed as a thriller, in the tradition of Hitchcock's classic The Birds. Bats totally lacks the sensitivity of Hitchcock's thriller. In fact, this movie makes one yearn for the emotional depth of Child's Play and the subtlety of Moe, Curly, Larry or even Shemp...