Posts Tagged ‘pelham 123’

Whenever John Travolta Plays a Bad Guy He Looks Like a Tool Ad Executive in 1990

Why is it that every time John Travolta plays a bad guy, instead of looking evil and menacing, he looks like he’s a mid-level douche bag executive in the mid- to late-1990s experiencing a textbook mid-life crisis? It’s always the standard play-by-play for how to enter your 50s in complete denial. He either shaves his [...]

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When John Travolta Plays a Bad Guy He Looks Like a 1990s Executive in a Midlife Crisis

Why is it that every time John Travolta plays a bad guy, instead of looking evil and menacing, he looks like he’s a mid-level executive in the mid- to late-1990s experiencing a textbook mid-life crisis? It’s always the standard play-by-play for how to enter your 50s in complete denial. He either shaves his head to [...]

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Technology Has Killed the Intelligence of Caper Films

Taking of the Pelham 1 2 3 opens tomorrow and it has the feel of one of those movies that you know is going to suck before you hear anything about it. It won’t suck just because John Travolta sucks, but because it is impossible to remake a 1970s caper film with 2009 technology and [...]

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