herbiehancock

No 455 – Top Gun Director – Tony Scott Can we just crack out some Kenny Loggins first.... Kenny Loggins – Playing With The Boys excellent.... Well... Really..... I can't take the piss out of the homoeroticism , all the obvious targets have been addressed so many times before. All I can say is that I really can't tell the difference between this film and Hot Shots! any more.... This is a ridiculous nonsense of a film. It is a film in which one requires nothing more than to sit back and watch the silliness and the pretty planes. The planes are really pretty and there is some incredible choreography up in them there sky. I don't mean to sound too dismissive – I love a big dumb action film as much as the next person. But there aren't any real character arcs amongst the flashy Jet porn and Tim Robbins in the background. This is a film that really only made it in as the top 500's guilty pleasure – and that doesn't seem right. Still its better than Superman ...

No 157 – True Romance Director – Tony Scott I think that Quentin Tarantino is a better writer than he is a director. I love his visual language; I love the ideas he has for cinematography and angles. However, it seems to me that he becomes too obsessed with individual scenes or shots and less with the film as a whole. Look at films like Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction or Basterds and you’ll see that they’re made up out of a series of vignettes, each one unique and stylistically different from the rest in the film. However, he does have a gift for words. Especially casual, pop culture referencing, conversation. It is for this reason that I find Tarantino’s work a lot more interesting when taken out of his hands. Saying that, True Romance begins with almost a cliché of what has become standard in Tarantino films. The ‘trailer trash’ man sits in a bar with his thick accent and waxes lyrical about pop culture references. Usually they are wilfully obscure or incredibly cult. So we begin with Claren...