Tombstone (1993) Review
Tombstone (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The credited writer was fired a month into shooting, the credited director may not have directed it, and the result is the most quotable Western ever made. Val Kilmer…
Michael Biehn appeared in three consecutive James Cameron films, as Kyle Reese in The Terminator, Hicks in Aliens and Coffey in The Abyss, which is an unusually concentrated collaboration.
Kyle Reese is the performance: a man who has already lost, arriving from a ruined future with about a day to live, and Biehn plays exhaustion instead of heroism.
He was cast in Terminator 2 and cut from the theatrical release, appearing only in the extended version.
The subsequent career has been largely in independent and direct-to-video work, and he has spoken openly about alcoholism and its effect on it.
Bill PaxtonTombstone (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The credited writer was fired a month into shooting, the credited director may not have directed it, and the result is the most quotable Western ever made. Val Kilmer…
Ed HarrisThe production achievement of The Abyss is extraordinary even by Cameron's standards. The Deepcore rig is a superbly designed setting, confined, functional, full of the specific texture of working machinery that Cameron consistently brings to his industrial environments.
Bill PaxtonAliens earns its 8 by doing the one thing sequel filmmaking almost never manages: it doesn't compete with the original. Ridley Scott's Alien is a horror film about isolation and violation, one creature, confined space, systematic elimination of everything between…
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe original Terminator is a good film that time has treated unevenly. The effects that were groundbreaking in 1984 show their age in ways that occasional.
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