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Name a movie you felt was better than it got credit for.
Broken Arrow.
John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Bob Gunton, Howie Long.
Director: John Woo
Soundtrack: Hans Zimmer with Duane Eddie on the bass guitar.
The budget was 55M and grossed 150M world wide.
Major Deakins (Travolta) is piloting a stealth bomber on a practice run in Utah with his co-pilot Capt. Riley Hale (Slater) when Deakins high jacks the plane and steals the nukes, planning to ransom them back to the U.S.
Hale, along with Forest Ranger Terry Carmichael (Mathis) are trying to stop him.
In China motion pictures are more character driven so that's what Woo did, he made the story about the relationship between Hale and Deakins, and was even smart enough to make the nuke itself a character in the film - Zimmer followed this by giving the nuke it's own music when it was onscreen. He did a nice job of spinning the camera angles, leaving off on one character mid shot, and picking up on the other with that same angle.
The two main characters were shot as big brother and little brother with the big brother winning, usually because little brother never wanted to step up and follow through.
The action moves pretty well throughout, while holding the drama - both of the potentially exploding nuke as well as the tensions game of cat and mouse between Deak and Hale - from one location to another until the finale.
One of my favorite movies.
Broken Arrow.
John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Bob Gunton, Howie Long.
Director: John Woo
Soundtrack: Hans Zimmer with Duane Eddie on the bass guitar.
The budget was 55M and grossed 150M world wide.
Major Deakins (Travolta) is piloting a stealth bomber on a practice run in Utah with his co-pilot Capt. Riley Hale (Slater) when Deakins high jacks the plane and steals the nukes, planning to ransom them back to the U.S.
Hale, along with Forest Ranger Terry Carmichael (Mathis) are trying to stop him.
In China motion pictures are more character driven so that's what Woo did, he made the story about the relationship between Hale and Deakins, and was even smart enough to make the nuke itself a character in the film - Zimmer followed this by giving the nuke it's own music when it was onscreen. He did a nice job of spinning the camera angles, leaving off on one character mid shot, and picking up on the other with that same angle.
The two main characters were shot as big brother and little brother with the big brother winning, usually because little brother never wanted to step up and follow through.
The action moves pretty well throughout, while holding the drama - both of the potentially exploding nuke as well as the tensions game of cat and mouse between Deak and Hale - from one location to another until the finale.
One of my favorite movies.
