If I follow Henry correctly, he sees TR as a sendup of a genre, i.e. although innovative SFX-wise, it is a quintessential--wrong word??--action flick because of its exaggerated sexism, violence and racism(I find that point a little stretched, but I do see Henry's meaning nonehteless). I have not read BSOM, but I also have heard friends who have read it complain that yes, the film did stray towards violence a bit much. I like the idea of a film within a film. I think the concept originated with Shakespeare--play within a play-- yet TR seems to me more like a reality within a reality. Buck [log in to unmask]