In the Blink of an Eyeis what happens when a film foregrounds its themes to the exclusion of its story and its characters. The movie spans millennia as it builds towards a Very Important Point, and all considerations of effective storytelling are secondary. The big idea — which will come as no surprise to anyone who suffered through Paulo Coelho’s 1988 novel The Alchemist, loved Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, or cried during the trailer for 2012’s Cloud Atlas — is that everything is connected.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1994 Action-Comedy Is Still One of His Best (& You Probably Didn’t Know It Was a Remake)
For a good chunk of the late 80’s and early 90’s, Arnold Schwarzenegger was trying to prove he was more than just the guy who
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