The Replacement Killers was a good looking movie. I think that was his first feature? Some great sequences with Chow Yun Fat, low angle, kicking ass..

"one million fps?" That's just silly talk.

BH, have you read the Time article that you have linked on your marquee? It's Corliss calling "Green Zone" brave and justifying his positive review of it.

Plus he trots out those old lefty critic blinders, "he went looking for the truth about Iraq's WMDs, and got blown up by the IED of public indifference." It's not indifference, Richard. Its refusal to swallow the revision that Zinn City (liberal Hollywood) insists on calling truth.

There are no more films with a retro-jingoist patriotism. Not every soldier is a strung out shell-of-a-man baby killer either. The "produced in cooperation" vibe that exists now is one of celebrity pledges of servitude to our current president and "documentaries" about fat uncle Hugo. I think the reaction against a movie like this is that there are a lot of us who would like to see the Hollywood people who talk about respecting our soldiers put some more of that up the screen. There's nothing artistically wrong with a film that does that. "Blackhawk Down" painted that mission as a CF without wasting itself on lessons in moral equivalence.

Like Oliver Stone being the director of "World Trade Center" or Neil Young singing "Let's Roll." They had a moment of clarity after 9/11 but quickly slid back to sleep.

Definitely cannot wait for Iron Man.

and since this is the day's open thread...

...WTF are we doing, apologizing to Qaddafi?!

I doubt any left wing slant (or even rant) in comics will ever again upset me viscerally the way Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of No Towers" did. This stuff looks just plain silly and the art is pulpy and funny. This I can handle every day.

Definitely one of my faves. My dad was a cop way back and I always thought his job was like Bullitt. I like "Hell is for Heroes," (a great ensemble and a great McQueen character) "The War Lover," and "Never So Few." Also "Baby, the Rain Must Fall," (with an early script by Horton Foote). Very cool stuff from the cooler king.

I take his anger as sad. He is trying not to go quietly into the night, it seems. Its a shame. He ought to be "enjoying every sandwich," as Warren Zevon said.

You have to believe that out there somewhere is an action movie director who knows what a tripod is.

This is a big reason why I really like Clint Eastwood's direction. He lets the story drive the technique with some old school coverage. Of course, I'm in my 40's and I know younger people who think his flicks are like watching paint dry.