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Adapted from the novel by L. Ron Hubbard, who cranked out sci-fi pulp by the cubic ton, 'Battlefield Earth' has the musty feel of the days when the genre's highlight was Flash Gordon.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Adapted Battlefield Days Earth Feel Flash Genre Gordon Highlight Novel Out Pulp Ron Sci-Fi Ton Who

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What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of the crossbreeding of the suffering-from-gigantism movies of the 1950s and the 1990 B-picture classic 'Tremors.'

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Aware Classic Freaks How Itself Most Movies Other Product Similar Species 1950S

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'Eight-Legged Freaks' runs out of gas scarily fast - its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Fast Feature Freaks Gas Itself Lends More Out Premise Runs Short Than

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Whom do you feel sorrier for: the cast of 'Boat Trip' or their children? Remember, kids can be very cruel - and this latest 'get Cuba Gooding Jr. career counseling fast' project is a misfire from beginning to end.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Beginning Boat Career Cast Children Counseling Cruel Cuba End Fast Feel Get Kids Latest Project Remember Trip Very Whom You

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'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Atmosphere Black Distinctive Down Feel Hawk Like Part Starts Visual

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Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at wringing texture out of the color blue than the prodigious and now prolific Mr. Scott; you'd swear that with his dazzling washes of blues and sand tones, he was inventing additional hues on the spot.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Accomplished Additional Blue Blues Color Dazzling Director Establishing He His Hues Inventing May Means Mood More Most Notable Now Out Pictorial Prolific Sand Scott Spot Swear Talent Texture Than Through Tones Working You Mr

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'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: About Black Choose Down Futility Hawk Midst Picture Seems Something Staged Wants

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Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it's good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Better Director Drama Filmmaker Good Justin Luck Piece Sometimes Stir Storytelling Tense Tomorrow Trouble Up Writer

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Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Case Old Old School Plagiarism Presented School Sue Then You Yourself

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There's a great deal of echoing going on in 'Old School.' Mr. Piven, who played the upstart outsider in the 1994 campus comedy 'PCU,' has crossed over into playing the stiff martinet.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Campus Comedy Crossed Deal Going Great Great Deal Old Old School Outsider Over Played Playing School Stiff Who Mr

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: December 6th, 1958

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