Susan Hated Literature

Dir: Bruce A. Evans

Kevin Costner … Mr. Earl Brooks

Demi Moore … Detective Tracy Atwood

Dane Cook … Mr. Smith

William Hurt … Marshall

Marg Helgenberger … Emma Brooks

Danielle Panabaker … Jane Brooks

Matt Schulze … Thorton Meeks

This film I really, really enjoyed, but the problem is that if I say too much about it I might ruin it for you. So, in brief, Costner plays earl Brooks, a ceramic maker. A big name in the business community. But Mr. Brooks has another side to him; he likes to kill. He believes himself addicted to murder, and every now and then he falls off the wagon and his alter-ego, Marshall, gets what he wants, a murder. But on his most recent outing he makes a bad mistake and gets photographed at the scene. He know has to deal with the photographer as well as his own family issues.

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Tags: 9 Stars, Bruce A. Evans, Dane Cook, Danielle Panabaker, Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, Marg Helgenberger, Matt Schulze, Mr. Brooks, multiple personality, murder, Raynold Gideon, serial killer, suspense, William Hurt

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Dir: Andrew Davis
Writ: Ron L. Brinkerhoff

• Kevin Costner - Ben Randall
• Ashton Kutcher - Jake Fischer
• Sela Ward - Helen Randall
• Melissa Sagemiller - Emily Thomas
• Clancy Brown - Capt. William Hadley

Grizzled old veteran teaches impudent new pup how to be a rescue swimmer.
And that is about it.

But if that was all I said it’d make for a pretty short review, so I’ll just bullshit away here for a few minutes. The Guardian is a pretty crap version of Top Gun only instead of planes and war you get oceans and rescues. But the rest is fairly similar; elite training camp, male bonding, token females, death of team-members, training montage etc etc. But all in all it isn’t terrible.

It is however full of very cliché in film history, so there are no surprises at all, everything happens exactly as you might expect. Even the “cool slow-motion shots” occur when you think they might. The only thing surprising about this film is the length. It does drag towards the end. And the beginning. And the middle isn’t too well-paced either.

But it is still watchable, laughable yes, but also watchable.

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Tags: 3 Stars, action, Andrew Davis, Ashton Kutcher, Bored Now!, buddy movie, Clancy Brown, clichéd, Coastguard, crap, Kevin Costner, Melissa Sagemiller, Ron L. Brinkerhoff, Sela Ward, The Guardian

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Dir: Lawrence Kasdan
Writ: Lawrence Kasdan & Dan Gordon
# Kevin Costner - Wyatt Earp
# Denis Quaid - Doc Holliday
# Gene Hackman - Nicholas Earp
# David Andrews - James Earp
# Linden Ashby - Morgan earp
# Michael Madsan - Virgil Earp
# Bill Pullman - Ed Masterson
# Tom Sizemore - Bat Masterson

Everyone’s heard of Wyatt Earp haven’t they? The gunfight at the OK corral, Dodge city, Tombstone and Doc Holliday are all part of the western mythology. Part of a place of heroes and baddies, white hats and black hats, where usually, in the end the good guys save the day, possibly riding off into the sunset. Continue Reading »

Tags: based on true story, Bill Pullman, Dan Gordon, David ANdrews, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, Lawrence Kasdan, Linden Ashby, Michael Madsen, Tom Sizemore, USA - western, Wyatt Earp

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