What to say about this film...hmm...well, it didn't have a lot of explosions, per say, but it did have a lot of fire. It definitely brought out the Beavis and Butthead in me. I had seen Backdraft before, and I remembered it to be a quality movie. Seeing it again, I found it a little cliched. The feuding brothers plot line felt unoriginal. I mean, after the second brother-on-brother chest-banging argument, you knew Kurt Russel was toast. I also felt there were a lot of superfluous characters. Neither of the female roles were all that relevant, and Donald Sutherland's role seemed to be added to show that the scriptwriter did some research on arsonists. Is it a bad movie? Not at all. But it wasn't as good as I had remembered. Oh, and ever since Silverado, Scott Glenn has rocked my world (in a platonic way).
Backdraft does, however, rank highly on the 'Movies with grossly inappropriate lines when taken out of context' meter. Early in the film, father McCaffrey energetically encourages his son to "Give it a yank. Give it a good pull." A line definitely worthy of a phone call to child services.
A little known fact about Ron Howard. He's a cyborg. The real Ron Howard was murdered in 1983 by his brother, Clint. You see Clint, an aspiring actor and evil genius, realized he was never going to have the looks to be a leading man. So, he killed Ron, hid his body with Geraldo Rivera's credibility, and built a cyborg replacement of Ron with directing talent (note that the first movie Ron Howard directed to be nominated for an Oscar was 1984's Splash). He then programmed the cyborg to cast Clint in all of his movies, cementing himself as a mainstay in Hollywood. Yes, this is all true.
Finally, I do believe I deserve some points for not even touching the fact that a Baldwin was in this movie. Thank you. Thank you.
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you definitely deserve points for the baldwin-free post and introducing cyborgs into backdraft. i feel this is a feat not often attempted by humans.
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