A critical view (of the movies I have seen)
Jackie Collins' Lucky/Chances (1990)
Quite by chance I saw this in a shop, and I had to watch the damn thing for an
hour and a half before she appeared, although having said that it is reasonably
entertaining. It's about Gino Santangelo, a small-time boot-legger during the
depression in New York who builds an empire,and has a daughter called Lucky
with Sandy who then runs things when Gino goes into exile to escape
imprisonment for tax evasion.
Sandy looks lovely in this programme but sadly she doesn't have much screen
time before she is brutally murdered. Now that's tragic, especially since she
was the best thing in it.
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
Very nice movie but she's not in it much. Bah.
The Vanishing
This is a remake (why?) of the classic French film of the same name from 1988,
and suffers from the worst Hollywood ending I have ever seen. Until the end it
is much the same as the original, only without the class. Kiefer Sutherland and
his girlfriend (Sandy) are travelling around the country in their car when it
runs out of petrol in the middle of a tunnel. He goes off to find some while
she shouts at him not to leave her alone in the tunnel. He returns and she's
gone, but he finds her again outside the tunnel, where he promises not to leave
her ever again. Anyway they get to a petrol station and while he waits she goes
in to get some drinks. She never comes out and this time really has
disappeared. Poor old Kiefer spends about seven years looking for her,
appearing on tv, putting up posters etc. during which time he meets some other
woman. Then he is approached by this madman (Jeff Bridges) who says he will
explain what happened to Diane, but only if Kiefer drinks drugged coffee, which
he eventually does, only to wake up in a shallow grave. Now in the original
this is the end of the film, but being buried alive is not a good enough ending
for Hollywood, oh no, they have to have him being rescued by this woman and
killing Jeff Bridges, then they live happily ever after. What a load of
baloney.
There's only one reason to watch this movie and that is for Sandra Bullock's
performance, as she is at her best. But really it's so unrealistic, I mean if
you had lured Sandra Bullock into your car would you really chloroform her and
then bury her alive? I think not.
The Thing Called Love
This is really a very bad movie.
Demolition Man (1993)
The first movie I ever saw with Sandra in!
Speed (1994)
Jan de Bont argued with Fox over the casting of the then unknown Sandra Bullock
but boy was he ever right.
While You Were Sleeping
Well this one's my favourite.
The Net
Sucks.
Two If By Sea
A Time to Kill
Well this is your typical John Grisham movie ie. annoyingly improbable drivel
from stem to stern. Luckily Sandy's lawyer character has been greatly expanded
from the book. By the way, the book's an absolute hoot- about 5 million pages
long and it veers off seemingly at random down bizarre tangents.
In Love and War
Miss Congeniality
Sandy stars alongside Michael Caine and Benjamin Bratt in this amiable comedy
about an FBI agent forced to go undercover at a beauty pageant.
I've heard rumours that Love Potion No. 9 and When The Party's Over are her best films, but they're so hard to get hold of.