So I got my next movie and I'm delighted (and terrified) to share it with you: 1998's Van Damme vehicle Legionnaire. I debated posting the trailer for it off of Youtube, but I don't want to see the trailer as even that might sway my review. It's bad enough that I'm already dealing with anti-Van Damme bias, I don't need a crappily edited trailer to further bias me.
I also wanted to briefly talk about technical credits in my reviews. Nobody has mentioned it, but I thought it would be helpful for readers to know that I'm a story guy, through and through. Any technical element of a film has to affect its ability to tell a story for me to mention it. When speaking of Beau Geste, for instance, the cinematography was adequate, the costume design was adequate, the sound editing was adequate, etc. Nothing detracted or added, in my opinion. So if you're more production-inclined than story-inclined, you may find my reviews lacking. Certainly if I were watching Rear Window for the first time I would mention the BRILLIANT interior framing. But generally don't expect me to talk about that stuff at length.
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