Most people have noted that this is Seagal’s first film, an unlikely star vehicle that boasts an above-the-title credit, but I’ve not seen anyone mention that he also co-produced the movie and came up with the story alongside Andrew Davis. (Did he have dirt on Hollywood execs or was he just able to bullshit his way into Tinseltown during the “Greed is Good” decade? Apparently a former pupil of his, a big-shot agent, claimed he could turn Seagal into a…
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Bird on a Wire 1990
Owen Gleiberman cooked this turkey on release: “Even in an era of paint-by-numbers moviemaking, director John Badham has pulled off a feat: He has made a film that's 100 percent generic. It should have been called ROMANTIC ACTION COMEDY." Don’t hurt ‘em, Gleibs!
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Jackie Brown 1997
• Tarantino, like PTA with Magnolia, made a young man’s old man film, an elegy to vinyl in the jewel case era. (Fitting that Max compromises with a cassette.) It’s somewhat self-fulfilling that a director making something about the difficulty of aging, of being a walking relic, would immediately retreat into the past—or pastiche—for the rest of his career. Reappraisal has hardened into consensus (on LB, anyway) but the trajectory his career would’ve taken had this been lavished with praise…