All right! Back for round two!
My Steven Soderbergh extravaganza was inspired, in fact, by my recent viewing of David Cronenberg's
Cosmopolis, where I thought, "I wonder if I can find
Schizopolis as well." (Yes, this is how my mind works. You're just lucky I didn't also decide to pop in Fritz Lang's
Metropolis and/or the Jim Wynorski documentary,
Popatopolis.)
With regard to the half-dozen Kurt Russell flicks, that was born of a recent conversation with my good pal John Pata where we were talking about the recent
Overboard remake starring Anna Faris, and I confessed that I had never seen the original with Himself and Goldie Hawn. I then went on to confess that I was pretty light on the Kurtiverse as a whole, and so rattled through IMDb and the Chicago Public Library shelves to see what all I could track down.
Here's the thing, though: I don't understand the mystique about Kurt. I find him to be completely capable yet hardly distinctive. I feel, with the exception of his features with John Carpenter (minus
Escape from L.A., because ohmygodthatmovie), he's always doing his Kurt thing which I don't find all that interesting, much less A-list material. I find myself imagining other actors in the roles that he plays and that's never a good thing. I figured I must be missing something, but six more films under my belt (plus
The Fate of the Furious, watched the first week in June) has done little to change my mind. Ah well.
As always, feel free to leave your two cents worth - we'll make sure you get some change back.
Enjoy!
