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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

889.0. "UNDER SIEGE: DARK TERRITORY" by TOOK::GASKELL () Mon Jul 24 1995 17:50

    Under Siege: Dark Territory - Best laugh I've had all
    summer.  Steven Segal - my nomination for best comic actor
    of 95.  The script - Willy Shakespeare move over.
    
    Loved every minute of it.
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889.1WONDER::REILLYSean / Alpha Servers DTN:223-4375Mon Jul 24 1995 22:1014
    
    Well, I don't know if .0 is being facetious or not, but I'll drop
    my pride:
    
    This movie was great!  Another terrific action/adventure flick for Seagal,
    who can't act his way out of a paper bag, but has yet to make a movie
    I didn't enjoy.
    
    Why I liked this and Die Hard 3 this year:  NO love interest.  Just the
    good stuff.
    
    And did they get like every great bad guy ever used in a movie or what?
    
    - Sean 2 thumbs up
889.2STRWRS::KOCH_PIt never hurts to ask...Tue Jul 25 1995 00:554
    
    I also loved the look on their face when they found out that they were
    dealing with Casey Ryback. Some were scared, some were too stupid to be
    scared, etc...
889.3TOOK::GASKELLTue Jul 25 1995 09:448
    re. 1
    
    About the quality of the film, I was being sarcastic.  However,
    I really did enjoy the film,  even though the script and acting were
    awful and the story was the same as Under Siege 1 with a new location.
    But then, I love all the Di Hards, and Chuck Norris, and Rambo films.
    And Navy Seals had me rolling in the aisles.  
    
889.4RANGER::RUZICHPATHWORKS Client EngineeringTue Jul 25 1995 10:249
    When the movie was being reviewed on the 11:00 (Boston) news last
    night, they showed a clip of one of the bad guys falling off the side
    of a mountain.  Then the reviewer, Joyce Kulhaywick, said ...
    
         That was the script writer.  They decided they didn't need him.
    
    I'll probably see it on video.
    
    -Steve
889.5NETRIX::michaudGary ShandlingTue Jul 25 1995 11:0510
>     Then the reviewer, Joyce Kulhaywick, said ...
>          That was the script writer.  They decided they didn't need him.
>     I'll probably see it on video.

	1st off Joyce is not a movie reviewer, she's WBZ's Entertainment
	Editor and thinks she's an arsty fartsy most of the time.

	FWIW, Siskel & Ebert both gave this film a thumbs up.  They
	both said that for the genre this film falls into that it
	delivers what it promises (ie. it sounded like non-stop action).
889.6she was a blast to watch last nightAPLVEW::DEBRIAEreflections from the Grotto...Tue Jul 25 1995 12:275
    
    	Well I thought watching Joyce's review last night was a lot more fun
    	than I would have ever had watching this movie, having seen the
    	clips she showed of the film. :-)
             
889.7HUMOR::EPPESI'm not making this up, you knowTue Jul 25 1995 18:168
RE last few -- And Joyce Kulhawik did say she'd expected to dislike the movie
and was pleasantly surprised.  I'm not sure she exactly gave it her version of
"thumbs up," but she didn't completely trash it, either.  She gave the 
impression she had a surprisingly good time.

FWIW.

-- Nina
889.8WONDER::REILLYSean / Alpha Servers DTN:223-4375Tue Jul 25 1995 18:252
    
    Joyce Kul-hate-it we call her.  Always a bad review for the pop stuff.
889.9TOOK::GASKELLWed Jul 26 1995 16:179
    .4 
    
    No!  Go see it in the cinema -- it's better with the big screen.
    The explosions are better that way.
    
    I think Joyce was right, it was the script writer flying off that cliff
    but he wasn't falling he was jumping, and before filming started as well.
    
    It is worth seeing even though it's trash.
889.10haven't seen it yet, but will!SUBSYS::MSOUCYFri Sep 13 1996 14:387
889.11BUSY::SLABDuster :== idiot driver magnetFri Sep 13 1996 15:443
889.12STAR::65320::RIVERSNo commentMon Sep 16 1996 11:4211
889.13Mindless but fun!HOTLNE::SHIELDSFri Jan 17 1997 01:1215