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Michael Biehn and Charlie Sheen in Navy Sea
Navy Seals
By MICAH PORTER
Staff Writer
It was the end of a 40-hour work week. I
was looking for some mindless entertainment.
Navy SEALs filled about half the bill. The movie
was mindless, but it wasn't very
entertaining.
The plot of the movie was fairly simple.
Unfortunately, the writers still managed to
screw it up. The viewer is first introduced to
the SEAL team after they witness the kidnapping
of an American helicopter team by
Middle Eastern terrorists. At this point, it's
SEAL team to the rescue.
The group travels to an unspecified Middle
Eastern country, into the heart of the enemy
stronghold in order to rescue the prisoners.
The rescue sequence itself is done well, but
unfortunately the res* of the movie just doesn't
maintain the intensity. The movie degenerates
into a search for terrorist-held stinger missiles.
Lt. Hawkins (Charlie Sheen) discovered the
missiles while rescuing the prisoners; unfortu
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destroy the missiles because he claimed there
just wasn't time. This is also unfortunate for
the viewer, because there is still about 90 minutes
left in the movie.
The plot sounds simple, but as I said, the
writers still had trouble with it. For instance, if
SEALs are supposed to be a covert special for
ces unit, why do they take over a passenger
ship in international waters? And with all the
military intelligence the U.S. possesses, why
does the SEAL captain have to get his information
from a beautiful television reporter?
(By the way, would you believe they end up
sleeping together!)
Unfortunately, there are more problems with
this movie. After the rescue, the action sequences
become confusing, and the intensity just
isn't there. Go rent any Chuck Norris movie,
or one of the Rambo installments for better
combat shots. And when Navy SEALs tries to
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acter, it fails because of lack of character development.
The film is chock full of gadgets
and some pretty good jokes, but these things
can't make up for the weak writing.
It's always good to end on a high note, so
I'll try my best. Navy SEALs wasn't completely
damnable. Lt. Hawkins, played by
Charlie Sheen, is a heroic combat soldier who
could laugh in the face of death, and anyone
else who would listen. He always had a one
liner ready to zing past his buddies, even when
they were bleeding, drowning, under enemy
fire or on their way to some combat zone
where they could be stabbed, drowned or shot
at. Although Hawkins is a predictable character,
Sheen plays him well. The brightest parts
of the movie generally occurred when Hawkins
cracked a joke in the middle of some hellish
situation.
In a few months, or maybe even a few
weeks, Navy SEALs will be dollar movie fodder.
If the only other movies showing are
Modern Love or Ishtar, you might want to
consider seeing it. Otherwise, save your dollar.
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By DENNIS SHEALY
Carolina Life Editor
"Da dadada dada uh uh . . . ca
me Doctor Feelgood, ooo
yeah ... uh uh!"
Oh, excuse me, I was just lister
ing to my new Moltey Crue alburr
I listen to a number of heav
metal groups, and it hasn't affecte
me at all despite what a lot of pec
pie say about this type of mush
but I will admit that I've had th
strangest experiences while unde
the influence of heavy metal.
Take for example a few month
ago while listening to Iron Maidei
I became mesmerized in front c
my stereo, and Satan himsel
emerged from the turntable.
That wasn't the strange pai
though, with all the back masckin
and subliminal messages, I wa
was quite used to his unexpecte
little visits. We had even gotte
pretty close since I bought a CI
player; his voice is so muc
clearer now.
The strange part was when h
asked me if I would consider tie
ing my mother up, smearing he
with cream cheese and throwin
her into a pit filled with rabi
armadilloes.
I told him that I had never reall
given it much thought, but since h
had suggested it, sure, why not
Finding the pit of rabid armadil
loes wasn't as hard as you migh
think, but my mother turned out t
be a pretty tough old bird and wa
harder to get tied down an
smeared with cream cheese than
had imagined.
Well, the deed is now done,
miss mom and all, but I'm real!
glad the jury was smart enough t
realize that I had in fact beei
coerced by the devil and my favo
rite heavy metal musicians inti
committing this dreadful crime.
Uh-huh.
As imnlanspahlp. as this scenerii
sounds a legal case very similar ti
it has reached trial.
The rock group Judas Priest an*
their record label are being sue*
by the two families who clain
their sons committed suicide be
cause of lyrics and subliminal mes
_ sages on one of the band's albums
This column is in no wa;
meant to belittle the tragedy o
these two young men's deaths, bu
the idea that a song on an albun
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>- to kill themselves is preposterous.
I do think that music might
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ing problem, but it can not influence
a stable person,
is For example, the two young
1. men in question were under the in>f
fluence of alcohol and marijuana
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and shot themselves. I think drug
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lem had far more to do with their
is suicides than did a heavy metal
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0 What's more, if lyrics, back
h mascking and subliminal messages,
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two youths to commit suicide.
The parents of these two young
lt men are probably just looking to
0 alleviate some of the pain they feel
s by blaming the band, because if
d they don't have an outside source
1 to blame they blame themselves,
which is human nature.
* And besides all of this, would
y bands really want to kill off their
0 audience?
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i_ It seems to me that if they were
0 going to put subliminal messages
into the music, it would be to tell
their fans to by more of the band's
0 albums and T-shirts, not kill
0 themselves.
Heavy metal and rap have come
A under a lot of scrutiny lately,
3 which is a shame since they are
1 merely a newer, harsher form of
- self-expression for both the artist
- and the audience.
Let us hope that the jury in this
y case and others like it will be intelf
ligent enough to realize this and
it not pave the way for more censorn
ship in the United States.
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