Stephen Hunter Quotes

• Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by ‘The Grudge 2,’ from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.

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• In ‘Beowulf,’ director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called ‘motion capture’ to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn’t mastered and what the technique can’t do is this: emotion capture.

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• The director of ‘Independence Day,’ ‘Godzilla’ and ‘The Patriot’ has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in ‘The Day After Tomorrow.’ He’s crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He’s never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn’t.

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• If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that’s forgotten.

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• I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.

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• I have never connected with ‘Gone With the Wind.’ ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ leaves me cold.

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• Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked ‘Howl’s Moving Castle.’ Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

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• Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

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• The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in ‘Pirates’ with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers – that’s modeled on me.

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• ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ is everything you’d expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It’s just not very hot.

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  Tags in Tasteful, Expect

Stephen Hunter (30)

Birth:	25th March, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Essayist, Novelist

About

Stephen Hunter was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. After graduating from Northwestern in 1968 with a degree in journalism, he was drafted for two years into the United States Army serving a ceremonial soldier in The Old Guard in Washington, D.C., and later wrote for a military paper, the Pentagon News.

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