So, cast as a black man in the war movie, Lazarus decides to dye his skin surgically.
He worked alongside British director Ridley Scott on the war movie Black Hawk Down, describing him as "an unbelieveably cool person".
The sequence mixes vainglory and tragedy, and it makes us think that Spielberg could have made a great First World War movie.
His summer was capped off by his Oscar-nominated work in Tropic Thunder playing a white actor playing a black actor in a war movie.
The new home-from-the-war movie, written by David Benioff and directed by Jim Sheridan, has been made with great devotion and sincerity, but nothing in it quite works.
This is the best superhero movie of all time, not only a comic book film adaptation but also a war movie, a story influenced by classic literature like A Tale of Two Cities.
In "Tropic Thunder, " a comedy about self-absorbed Hollywood types making a "Platoon"-style war movie, Downey plays Australian actor Kirk Lazarus, a multiple Oscar-winning performer who gets so involved in his roles that he forgets to come out of them.
All of the actors do admirable work (especially Ribisi, who's the key element of a gruesome, truly heartbreaking scene) but this grab-bag sampling of The Great Melting Pot is a staple of the kind of war movie that Spielberg is supposed to be deconstructing.
It went on to say Mitnick, as a teenager, had hacked the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), foreshadowing the movie War Games.
But it was the 1983 movie War Games, in which Matthew Broderick's character breaks into the Pentagon's computer system and brings the world to the brink of nuclear destruction, that launched the career of many an adolescent hacker.
The studio invested heavily in publicizing the production, with posters and print ads but, in the end, it was the war that sold the movie.
For years I assumed my musical obsession with nuclear war was simply the product of coming of age under Reagan, the Cold War, and the television movie The Day After.
Weapons designed for the theater of war have no place in a movie theater.
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Some producers say a Lebed movie would be like War Games, a 1983 film in which Matthew Broderick hacks his way into a military computer and almost starts World War III.
After that, anybody who was anybody at Heildelberg U. had to have a couple white slashes on his cheekbones--the same scars that would grace the faces of every propaganda poster and movie bad guy during World War I.
Fifteen years ago, the movie's class-war theme -- the swells in their tuxedoes lounging amid the Titanic's creamy classical splendor, versus the lugs in steerage, led by Leonardo DiCaprio's penniless rapscallion bohemian Jack -- seemed a fairly standard old-movie trope.
The Germans even shot a propaganda movie, although they lost the war before they had a chance to show it around Europe.
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Chronologically, the movie stretches through the Second World War and beyond, although history is not so much confronted as glimpsed in doorways or overheard in the dark.
And it was the planet of the apes after the destructive act of a big war, and atomic bombs and whatever in the movie.
"It reminds me of a quote from ' The Night Of The Generals' that went something like 'What is admirable on a grand scale is abhorrent on a small scale', " commented another CNN reader known as Davidji, referring to the 1967 movie about a Nazi murder investigation during World War II.
Writer-director Neil Burger wouldn't describe his unexpectedly engaging road movie "The Lucky Ones" as pro-war, but it's less tortured, and less overtly political.
One problem with the movie is the fact that it takes place during World War II.
There will always be a place in zombie lore for the postapocalyptic visions of "The Walking Dead, " but we also need stories like Max Brooks's novel "World War Z" (the source for this summer's movie), in which the adaptability, ingenuity and creativity of human beings are put on full display.
What you see in a Hollywood movie or a made-for-television series is not war.
Central to the movie's storyline is the constant tug-of-war between the animal "actors" and their ever-changing environment.
Avatar, the highest grossing movie of all time on an unadjusted basis, and the war film The Hurt Locker each earned nine nominations including nods for best director pitting former married couple James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow against one another.
Filming for his movie, which is based on Max Brooks' 2006 novel World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War, has been taking place across the UK and is due for release next year.
Written by the brothers Jez and John Henry Butterworth, and directed by Doug Liman, who shot the movie himself with a jumpy, hand-held camera that creates a war-zone feeling in almost every scene.
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