Andre98
10-03-2001, 07:32 PM
I went in my local Suncoast video chain, and picked up a copy of "True Lies". I always wanted it to see how the special effects plyed out on DVD and Surround, and what better therapy for the present times than to see Arnold anni.. anilih... wipe out a band of terrorists with "extreme prejudice". It was actually sold out in a few other places even before 9/11, but now it was impossible to find! I found the last copy in that Suncoast, and the counter person said there has also been a run on the movie " Under Siege". I asked her why anyone would want to see a ten year old Steven Seagal movie, I mean, have we sunk that low? And she said, no, it was the one with Denzel Washington, and "the guy that was the cabbie in Wings" LMAO! That was "The Siege", and for a person working in a video store to confuse the two.... well, we all can't be video nerds. I should applaud her for having a life. But that's beside the point. I kind of liked Tommy Lee Jones' bad guy in that Seagal flick too, I was rooting for him. They were too American anyway.
"The Siege" has aiight, but I didn't get that DVD. Washington acted the hell out of it, and it certainly shed light on the terrorists as the deep rooted network of extremists that they are, and how difficult it is to just "round them up". I couldn't buy into Annette Bening as a hard boiled spy type. She will forever be cast in my mind in that shot next to Warren Beatty in the back of that speeding yacht and that snobby film I can't even think of right now. (Love Affair)
What fit the bill was "True Lies" and I zipped right to all the action parts. It taps into that raw part of me that craves "payback" at the uncivilized, undiplomatic, lowest level. Boy, Hollywood knows how to pander, don't they? When the terrorist gets in the elevator and Arnold looks over at him as the two elevators ascend? They give you a lingering close up of the wild eyed fanatic and the steely eyed stare of Schwarzenegger, as though it was stolen from the bald eagle itself, with that "I'm gonna get you" look, hey it's like watching "Miami Vice" over "Homicide"... sometimes you just wanna see shit get shot up!
"The Siege" has aiight, but I didn't get that DVD. Washington acted the hell out of it, and it certainly shed light on the terrorists as the deep rooted network of extremists that they are, and how difficult it is to just "round them up". I couldn't buy into Annette Bening as a hard boiled spy type. She will forever be cast in my mind in that shot next to Warren Beatty in the back of that speeding yacht and that snobby film I can't even think of right now. (Love Affair)
What fit the bill was "True Lies" and I zipped right to all the action parts. It taps into that raw part of me that craves "payback" at the uncivilized, undiplomatic, lowest level. Boy, Hollywood knows how to pander, don't they? When the terrorist gets in the elevator and Arnold looks over at him as the two elevators ascend? They give you a lingering close up of the wild eyed fanatic and the steely eyed stare of Schwarzenegger, as though it was stolen from the bald eagle itself, with that "I'm gonna get you" look, hey it's like watching "Miami Vice" over "Homicide"... sometimes you just wanna see shit get shot up!