So it turns out the Nicolas Cage/Tim Burton/Nicolas Cage Superman movie that never got made might actually have been pretty fucking amazing.
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Mamma mia! Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is very Italian but not very good-a.
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John Travolta and Nora Ephron flopped big time with Adam Resnick’s deliciously mean screenplay about the darkly comic machinations of some small-time, small town losers in 1980s Pennsylvania.
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Bret Ratner does Frank Capra in a slick, empty twist on It’s a Wonderful Life.
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John Travolta’s military cop investigates a brutal murder in Con Air director Simon West’s exceedingly problematic, William Goldman-co-written adaptation of Nelson DeMille’s 1992 bestseller.
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Nicolas Cage’s run of cheesily fun Jerry Bruckheimer-produced action extravaganzas continues with the wildly entertaining 2000 gear-head blockbuster Gone in 60 Seconds.
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Shortly before the release of Battflefield Earth John Travolta contributed a voice to 1999’s Our Friend, Martin, an insane special with the balls to ask, “Why don’t 12 year olds from the present travel back in time to save Martin Luther King’s life?”
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John Travolta and an Oscar-nominated Robert Duvall lead a remarkable ensemble cast in hotshot screenwriter turned director Steven Zaillian’s overachieving 1999 legal drama A Civil Action, a sleeper which is infinitely more entertaining and rich than its dry title and half-forgotten reputation would suggest
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Terence Malick returned to filmmaking with 1998’s The Thin Red Line, a towering masterpiece completely ruined by John Travolta’s weird mustache.
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The only thing keeping Joel Schumacher’s 1999 Neo-Noir 8MM from being a harrowing glimpse into humanity’s seedy underbelly is that it’s incredibly stupid and silly, and has roughly the verisimilitude of Warriors of Virtue.
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