More so than any of his contemporaries, DiCaprio's
appearance in a film almost guarantees a certain level of quality and excellence.
Not exact matches
He made his first
appearance in an American
film in Victor Halperin's grisly thriller Torture Ship, playing one of the criminals on whom well - intentioned (but quite mad) scientist Irving Pichel plans to perform glandular experiments, but he soon moved up to higher budgeted
films from the major studios, although still
almost inevitably
in sinister roles.
From his debut
film Exit Smiling (1926) to his final
appearance in The Story of Mankind (1957), Pangborn was relegated to
almost nothing but comedy roles.
It's interesting to see a
film about a space alien that doesn't resemble anything we've ever seen before, as most others have some sort of humanoid
appearance, (or reptilian, etc.) Indeed, it's a much more plausible depiction of an alien threat than most other sci - fi efforts have featured,
almost the opposite
in terms of story as The War of the Worlds which featured aliens defeated from exposures to germs and viruses of our own.
Milla most certainly isn't the hardest working actress
in the business, nor is she
in high demand, but her short list of
film appearances are nothing short of an accomplishment, dealing out impressive performances
in almost everyone one of her
films of the past decade.
The setting is
almost dystopian
in appearance, and, appropriate for a
film made
in 1984, it brings to mind George Orwell's infamous vision of the country.
Arguably, the picture is the best
film on the topic since George Butler's Pumping Iron and, similar to that
film, it features
appearances by superstars of the sport, including an interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger that is
almost fawning
in its admiration.
It would
almost seem as if,
in the process of finishing the 2K DI, a digital noise reduction pass was done to give the final
film a uniformly clean
appearance.