Thursday, September 30, 1993
True Romance?
by Colette Rethage
Cdkgian Mte
If you want to take your date
to see a rpmantic love story, go
see Snow White, not True
Romance.
The story starts off with
Clarence (Christian Slater)
talking to Elvis at a bar in
Detroit about kung-fu movies
and having sex.
Clarence ends up meeting a
"nice" girl, Alabama (Patricia
Arquette), who turns out to be a
call girl looking to get out of
the business. After they fall in
love and get married (which
happens over a period of two
days), Clarence tries to resolve
Alabama's past by attempting to
kill her pimp. In the midst of
the mayhem, Clarence
innocently picks up over half a
The Man Without A Face:
No face, but full of heart
by Sarah Mekbiorre
Collegian Staff
Some people you meet have
a profound impact on your life.
They teach you many things.
Some things are intellectual,
and some are inspirational.
The Man Without a Face
teaches Charles both. Charles
(Nick Stahl) learns a lot about
judgement from The Man (Mel
Gibson). Justin McLeod, The
Man, lives in seclusion after a
terrible accident that leaves him
horribly scarred.
Charles sees past the scars to
the true McLeod, something
the whole town is unable to
see. McLeod is questioned by
town officials and he replies,
"What do you see? You don't
see me. You can't see me!"
million dollars worth of cocaine.
He decides to sell it and use the
money to start a new life for
himself and Alabama. When he
tries to sell it is when the action
begins.
This movie ends up being a
bloodbath between the cops and
drug dealers, with Clarence and
Alabama caught in the middle.
Christian Slater and Patricia
Arquette were perfectly cast for
the roles of Clarence and
Alabama. Other cast members
include Gary Oldman (Dracula)
as Alabama's pimp, Brad Pitt
(Cool World and Thelma and
Louise) as a burnt out druggie
searching for the eternal buzz,
Val Kilmer (The Doors), and
Dennis Hopper (Flashback).
If you like sex, drugs, and
Elvis, then this movie is for
you.
The Man Without a Face is
an intensely emotional film
about a boy and his best friend
and mentor. The movie is
filled with a lot emotion and
humor. The combination is
right on target. Gibson not
only starred, but also directed
the picture. He shined through
in both positions.
The movie explores many
topics: prejudice, truth and
fear
"People spend too much
time thinking of the past.
Whatever it is, it's gone."
McLeod told Charles about the
troubles in his past. McLeod
leads Charles out of his
darkness and Charles brings
McLeod into the light.
Sibling Rivalry: Henry Evans (Macaulay Culkin) and his cousin, Mark
(Elijah Wood), in The Good Son.
by Laura Bonwaki
I was told not to go. I was
it was predictable and stupid.
s • - to say, I went anyway,
it is my duty to report to you
, movies recently released to
local theaters.
I also went because I firmly
-Hove that one cannot know
hat something is like without
-hand expedoce. Thus, I
off tom The Good Son.
I felt the opening of the movie
a bit rushed because a point
made within the first ten
s - of the movie that was
*levant throughout. But I
-that's necessary to avoid
seven hour trawie, hub„,„.
Mornay, idilVor was
The
Sibling
its
Coibeta 24ff
Good Son:
rivalry at
best
bicath taking and made me want
to see more. A well structured
opener helped out, because &my
negative outlook to begin with.
The main character and villain,
Macaulay Catkin portrays a little
brat named Henry. He was all of
nearly nine years-old and I think
he came straight from hell. His
cousin Mark (Elijah Wood) who
is staying with his relatives for a
while after an immediate family
tragedy, gets suckered into
Henry's devious plans and is
ignored by all others despite his
pleas for help from the craziness.
Mark's Aunt Susan (Henry's
mother, played by Wendy
Crewson) is the only one who
starts to get the hint that her son
is cracked. 111 ti tut-up before too
many details spill 01 They
The Real McCoy:
Put it back behind
the bars
by Doug Moore
Collegian Staff
In The Real McCoy, Karen
McCoy (Kim Basinger), a high
tech bank robber, is just
released from prison for her last
robbery attempt.
McCoy is determined to go
straight and get on with her own
life, but is blackmailed into one
more bank job. Her life is
further complicated by her
bumbling partner, J.T. Barker
(Val Kilmer), her tax-evading ex
husband, and her son, a six year
old who was told his mother was
dead when she went to prison.
Juggling all these conflicts and
relationships proves too much
for this script. The film drags
for what seems like hours until
weren't bloody or grotesque)
graphic, but their content
principles really freakal me out...
I would like to say, however
that the "Mr. Highway" sc -
along with the end of the movie
really hit me hard.
Over all, I felt The Good So
was a very good movie because i
moved me. It bothered me.
Movies that don't effect me aren't
worth talking about, and I'm sure
you agree. It's different.
"Different" is good. Right?
(Although it did remind MP of thp.
novel A Separate Peace "by John
Knowles, if you can relate...)
It's rated "R" for ridiculously
insane stuff, and Henry says the
"F" word.... Nevermind. Just go
see for yourself.
the very end. The first three
fourths of the film is filled with
long camera shots of Basinger
staring at the rain, and staring at
nothing in particular. Granted,
Basinger is beautiful, but an
audience can only take so much.
The climax of the film occurs
during the bank robbery itself, a
25 minute affair that, at times,
does have the viewer on the edge
of his seat. The high-tech tools
McCoy builds are impressive,
and the twist at the end is worth
staying for.
All in all, The Real-McCoy is
entertaining, but not if you have
to pay more than two dollars to
see it. My recommendation:
wait until it's out on video or
watch it on cable.
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