Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
August 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 52
- Adam (9)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (3)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (2)
- Rumsey (4)
- Teddy (3)
- Thomas (5)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 35
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1)
- Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy (2)
- When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts (0)
- Eastern Promises (0)
- The Departed (0)
- Knocked Up (5)
- Little Children (0)
- Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (0)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (0)
- Transformers (0)
- Being Michael Madsen (2)
- The GoodTimesKid (0)
- Carefree (0)
- Music and Lyrics (0)
- Inland Empire (0)
- Why We Fight (1)
- Paths of Glory (0)
- Hannah Takes the Stairs (0)
- Superbad (2)
- Jesus Camp (0)
- Titicut Follies (0)
- Ultraviolet (2)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1)
- Seraphim Falls (0)
- The Puffy Chair (1)
- Red Dawn (1)
- Robot Monster (0)
- Touch of Evil (1)
- A Clockwork Orange (7)
- Les Misérables (0)
- The Magnificent Seven (0)
- Nighthawks (0)
- Slaughterhouse Five (0)
- Hot Fuzz (2)
- Sunshine (0)
- Rescue Dawn (0)
- The Wild Blue Yonder (0)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (0)
- The 11th Hour (0)
- Shanghai Express (0)
- Trasgredire (0)
- Faces (0)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (0)
- Viva Baseball! (0)
- Holiday (0)
- Cloak & Dagger (6)
- Oepidus Rex (0)
- Dead Man’s Shoes (0)
- Sunshine (0)
- This Is England (0)
- Sweet Smell of Success (1)
- Once (0)
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Nighthawks / Night Hawks / USA / 1981
Sylvester Stallone. Billy Dee Williams. Rutger Hauer. Smooth-talking terrorist versus tough-as-nails NYC detectives. Stallone in a night club. Billy Dee in a knife fight. Hauer gets a face lift. With such ingredients, it’s a given that Nighthawks is, at the very least, a decent action flick. The question is, does it strive to be greater than the sum of its parts—does it do something more? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Some nice action setpieces aside (in particular a solid subway tunnel chase, and an impressive hunter-becomes-hunted closing sequence), the film never reaches the level of a nail-biting thriller, and doesn’t live up to its dream of presenting a riveting chess match between two powerful intellects.
Although the cat and mouse games are intriguing, particularly Stallone’s DaSilva attempting to hone his profiling skills and anticipate Wulfgar’s next move, we never get deep enough into the terrorist’s devious psyche to appreciate either the intensity of his evil, or Stallone’s efforts at stopping him. And we never get to know Stallone’s character well enough to root for him. Ultimately, Hauer steals the show as the soulless Wulfgar, with his grandiose delusions of becoming an instrument of worldwide revolution, and yet the most entertaining scenes come early on, before the actual plot even gets moving, with Stallone and Williams taking down a dope operation, dressing up as old ladies, and cursing loudly at their superiors.
by Thomas Scalzo | Source: Comcast On Demand Feature
16 Aug 2007 11:57 PM | Submit Comment