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movies/starshiptroopers.html Starship Troopers (1997) Paul Verhoeven I first saw Starship Troopers in college, and I thought it was great because it was so over the top. Well, I just saw it again the other day. And this film isn’t just over the top. Brother, it is the top. Starship Troopers is hands down one of the best action/science fiction movies ever. Paul Verhoeven’s visual composition, in particular his penchant for color, landscape and object motion is simply uncanny. Verhoeven (along with writer Ed Neumeier) also has a characteristic way of portraying fascism and violence, which rivals Terry Gilliam at making you feel as though your own guts are being ripped out. Recall the scene in Robocop when the “new model” comes into the board meeting and malfunctions. When you realize it’s going to kill that guy, and no one can do anything to stop it. Whoa. Now that’s a scene that stays with you. In conclusion, Starship Troopers rocks, Rolling Stone Magazine sucks, and the Academy Awards can kiss my Best Visual After Effects. Soundtrack by Basil Prokofiev Poledouris (Conan). 1 1 Do you wanna make movies forever? 130
movies/a.i..html A.I. (2001) Steven Spielberg It’s like a G-rated version of Blade Runner with more emphasis on parentchild relationships and an ending that’s awfully similar to both 2001 and Contact. The movie had some cool stuff in it to be sure, like the seamless and frequent transitions between time (time) and space (specifically air and water). Plus, I’ll take any chance I can get to see New York City under 500 feet of water. (Yeah, I said it.) And then there was the whole Dr. Know sequence, which although it was so Jumanji, was still pretty cool, at least until they explained it, reminding me of the explanation of the force we got in Phantom Menace, which was, of course, wonderful. The whole thing with “Joe the Gigolo” was cool, and the head music thing was funny the first two or three times. The “Flesh Fair” was nearly cool even if it was so Running Man. The teddy bear was ten times more Toblerone than Jar Jar Binks as a sidekick. All in all, it had lots of cool stuff (the movie just looks great), was emotionally very gripping, and kept you interested most of the time. I just think Kubrick would have done more with it. And as someone else pointed out to me, the ending might have been better if they had just left him there under water. Instead, Spielberg went Contact on us. Hopelessly benign aliens are one thing, but hopelessly benign machines? Schwarzenegger would turn over in his grave. Talk about Sleeping with the Enemy. “Just give us a piece of bone, a bra, anything, we can rebuild her—and make a Tyrannosaurus rex too, free of charge.” That said, it has to be better than Pearl Harbor, Titanic Reloaded and whatever other fifty million dollar turds are floating around out there now. So you might as well go see it. 131
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