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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

675.0. "THE SPECIALIST" by CAPO::SMITH_MA () Tue Oct 11 1994 21:02

    I saw this last night...
    
    Sly Stallone, Sharon Stone, Eric Roberts, James Woods and Rod Steiger.
    
    The Specialist is your typical action/adventure flick with lots of
    noise, explosions, nudity and gratutious violence.  Usually I am only a
    fan of films like this if they are HORRIBLE so that I can treat them as
    a comedy and guffaw my way through them.  So saying, this movie was not
    bad enough for my taste. ;^)
    
    I thought Eric Roberts did a good job being sleezy, but everyone else
    was mediocre, including Rod Steiger.
    
    Also, what is the appeal with Stallone?  I find him totally unappealing
    and I do not enjoy watching him in the love(?) scenes.  The His and Her
    Aikido/Rubbing-myself scenes were so ridiculous that I almost asked for
    my money back.
    
    Sharon Stone, who has, obviously, built her career on being naked, was
    completley boring and the motivation for her storyline was _so_ full of 
    holes that I spent too much time trying to figure out how the makers of 
    this monster thought we would believe any of it instead of just 
    letting the story happen.  Sure she's drop-dead gorgeous but we saw
    that in Basic Instinct, Sliver, etc.  Show us something besides skin,
    Sharon!
    
    Oh and one more thing...when did James Woods become the gratutitous
    sleaze bag?  Remember him in Immediate Family?  He was sweet and I
    enjoyed him.  Now it seems that he's always on the oily side of the
    law.  Why?!?!?!  Sure, he does a good job, but it's much more
    interesting to me to see him play a human being instead of some
    comic-strip goon with poor aim who always gets it in the end.
    
    So...anybody else have anything to say?  I'd like to hear it!
    
    MJ

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
675.1		BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTY	I smell T-R-O-U-B-L-E	`Wed Oct 12 1994 10:05`	11
	>that in Basic Instinct, Sliver, etc. Show us something besides skin, >Sharon! Speak for yourself!! 8^) [And besides, maybe that's all she's got to show.] GTI
675.2		HELIX::MAIEWSKI		`Wed Oct 12 1994 13:04`	12
	Joyce Kilhawick of WBZ News panned it last night. She said that it was appropriate that Sly was playing a bomber because the movie bombed. There are lots of actors and actresses who hit it big with one giant hit then die because they can only do one character that works. Sharon Stone was great in Basic Instinct but it's not the kind of character that can be duplicated or repeated easily. Sly was lucky in that he had two parts that he did well, Rockie and Rambo. Everything else he's done has been pretty bad. George
675.3	True, True	SWAM2::SMITH_MA		`Wed Oct 12 1994 14:31`	8
	re. .2 Good point. But wouldn't it be nice if that space for rent came furnished? :^) MJ
675.4	.....	SWAM1::MEUSE_DA		`Wed Oct 12 1994 14:47`	5
	darn,...gee guess it's a rental for me. Dave
675.5		CRISTA::MAYNARD	The Front Row Kid	`Mon Oct 17 1994 15:07`	3
	I wouldn't put much stock in a Joyce Kulhawick review. She hates Everything! Jim
675.6		OOTOOL::CHELSEA	Mostly harmless.	`Mon Oct 17 1994 15:34`	2
	FWIW, Siskel and Ebert voted thumbs down; said the script was stupid and Stallone was wooden. Gave kudos to James Woods, though.
675.7		NETRIX::michaud	Rocky	`Mon Oct 17 1994 17:03`	10
	> FWIW, Siskel and Ebert voted thumbs down; said the script was stupid > and Stallone was wooden. Gave kudos to James Woods, though. I believe Lyons/Medvid (PBS "Sneak Previews" [the show that launched S & E FWIW]) also gave thumbs down. Both S&E and L&M both commented that this is at least the 3rd mad bomber film this year (after "Speed" and "Blown Away"), and said how said this time we are supposed to be routing for Stalone who blows up cops.
675.8		REGENT::POWERS		`Tue Oct 18 1994 11:46`	6
	rathole: > (PBS "Sneak Previews" [the show that launched S & E FWIW]) Let it be said that it was Siskel & Ebert who launched "Sneak Previews," not the other way around.
675.9		CGOOA::ZAHARKO		`Tue Nov 22 1994 16:55`	4
	.2 I agree Sharon Stone.... Show us whats between your ears not whats between you legs...
675.10	Where's Rod???	MASALA::CHARROWER	We are the wide-eyed wolves!!!	`Sat Dec 31 1994 02:44`	13
	RE .0 >> mediocre, including Rod Steiger Yep, this film was incredibly boring...I must have fallen asleep cos I didn't see Rod Steiger.. Granted, Sharon Stone has got some kit on her, I wish she could act as good as she looks. Barry Norman.
675.11		VNABRW::BARTAK	Andrea Bartak, Vienna, Austria	`Wed Jan 04 1995 11:11`	2
	Rod Steiger played the father of the character played by Eric Roberts. A.