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In Reply to: Perfect Storm posted by Bruce from DC on June 29, 2000 at 08:48:40:
I am still not sure it can overcome my dislike for Clooney and his incredibly offensive "acting", but I will give it some thoughts.I didn't realize that the same guy did the Das Boat and the Air Force One. I don't even know what to make out of this at the moment. They represent completely opposing directions and since the Air Force was done later, could be considered a sign of definite decline, decadence, if it was not too simplistic. It is like a Stuka dive, 90 degrees and hell be damned, breakes stoved, and I just can't see any possible recovery there. Doing thing like that Air Force One forever tarnishes one's image (unless you are Mr. Ford) and I am really sorry to hear that. With Prokhnoff (sp?) already doing his darnest to become another one of many Hollywood plywood cutouts (while earning fine living, for sure, as one natural result of such prostitution), the last thing we needed was a talented guy doing the Air Force. Such waste.
The way it is, I am still greeatful to him for the Boat and still hope that the dive ends happily. I refuse to believe that someone with such vision can stay in the shit barrel for too long.
Perfect Storm is much closer to "Das Boot" than to AF1. In fact, "Storm" is at its best with the same kinds of "crew working against adversity" scenes that made "Das Boot." Both films convey the sense of confinement that you get in a "small" boat, a sense that is clearly missing from the other two of my favorite "sub" films: Run Silent, Run Deep and The Enemy Below. (I've spent quite a bit of time inside sailboats from 30 to 42 feet.)Jurgen Prochnow ("der alte" in "Boot") would have made a better skipper for the Andrea Gail, but there is the matter of the German accent . . . Clooney's not great; but he's ok.
RBB --
"Still getting the wax out of my ears."
I am glad to hear this. As I checked his filmography I became depressed. If "In The Line of Fire" could be considered an sexcusable offense, the "Outbreak" pretty much sealed his success as another Hollywood trash maker. Splat...Let's hope this one is not a fluke, but a beginning of a trend.
Das Boot was a world class movie and even if it would not make the list of 100 best ever, then perhaps the 200, which is a tremndous achievement considering how stiff the competition is.
...Outbreak this isnt. What a wretched movie that was. The technology alone was patently ridiculous and never mind the plot, script, casting and acting - a genuine loser all the way around.The perfect storm is probably about as anti-Hollywood as we can hope to get in the here and now from a major studio. Yes, still a bit overly romantic in some character's motivations but the gritty realism of life on the boat is a reminiscent of Das Boot at its best and the storm is indeed awesome and believable. Clooney is acceptable and the rest of the cast is even better in the context of their roles. Not your usual artificial Hollywood happy ending either. It beats the pants off Patriot, which descends into typical Hollywood soppishness and sentimentality (Mel Gibson wins the war of independence - singlehanded!). Easily the best major US studio picture of the year so far...
joe
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