Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

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"Deux" much fun!
by The_MOW in The_MOW Blog

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""Topper Harley" (Charlie Sheen), who has lived with Buddists since his last mission, has been asked to return to duty to save servicemen being held hostage on the compound of Iraqi dictator "Saddam Hussein" (Jerry Haleva) that is somewhere "between Iraq and a Hard Place." "Harley," who has not gotten over "Ramada" (Valeria Golino), agrees to lead a small band of soldiers into "Hussein's" compound. However, he doesn't expect that the mission will also see him fall for two women -- "Michelle" (Brenda Bakke) and his team's contact in Iraq who happens to be "Ramada". This movie is simply hilarious! It blends great comedic dialogue with some gut-busting sight gags and movie parodies scattered throughout the film. The cast is simply fantastic at playing the movie straight -- even when the sight gags are flying around them. I wish the film had a blooper reel during the closing credits just to see how hard it was for them to not laugh while filming. Sheen and the legendary Lloyd Bridges st ... " [More]

10 Most Convincing Portrayals o ...
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"It’s more difficult to be convincing as a real person when acting on film than on the stage. The camera can get closer and your image ends up projected many times larger than life size. So, despite giving a Tony Award-winning performance as Richard Nixon in the theater version of Frost/Nixon, Frank Langella was not initially thought of as worthy to reprise the role in Ron Howard’s movie adaptation of the play. Part of it was that he’s not a big name, but another reason was that he looks nothing like Tricky Dick. Ultimately, Langella did get the part, and while he doesn’t resemble the former president, he apparently does a bang up job in the role. But the transition could easily have been as awkward as Ralph Bellamy’s reprisal of his Tony-winning portrayal of Franklin Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. In the film version of that play, Bellamy’s vocal impersonation comes off more like a Scottish brogue (he sounds exactly like Sean Connery, in fact) than FDR’s signature “Locust Valley " [More]

10 Coolest Film Presidents
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"Will this year’s presidential election be determined by which candidate is more hip? Barack Obama is younger, listens to Jay-Z and Kanye West and is something of a trendy choice among college students. McCain, on the other hand, is older and (now) less athletic but is still considered to be hip in a cool grandpa kind of way. Like the grandpa who has exciting war stories to share. Have you seen the video footage of him jumping from an explosion during the USS Forrestal fire? That’s pretty cool. So, the outcome of the race may depend on what the majority of Americans think is cool. Charisma or Muscle. It reminds me of an election for high school class president. Who is more popular, the preppy basketball player or the more jockish captain of the wrestling team? But do we really want a cool president? Let’s take a look at some of the coolest fictional presidents from the movies and decide if it’s truly a good idea to base our vote on which candidate we’d prefer to hang with. [More]

Battle for Haditha is the Best ...
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"I’ve always been conflicted by my hatred for war and my love for war films. But I can’t help being excited by cinematic combat. As Miguel Ferrer says in Hot Shots! Part Deux, “War … it’s fantastic!” Certainly his character is referring to the real-life action, but in a reflexive way he’s talking about war on film (he does break the diegetic space when he utters the statement, after all). And I have to say, in that context, no war film in recent years has been as fantastic as Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha, which opened in New York yesterday. The difficult thing about war films is that, despite often being exciting action movies, they’re about real, tragic situations, even if they’re fictional stories set in an actual war (the opening of Saving Private Ryan is of course the epitome of war films’ ability to be at the same time both affecting and awesome). Broomfield’s film has the additional difficulty of being about a real battle from a war that is still goi " [More]

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