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Christopher Nolan is my favorite director of the past ten years. Not only are his stories fantastic, but he has gained his great reputation by simply not patronizing his audiences. Even his take on the Batman franchise has been a milestone in getting audiences to take a vigilante who dresses like a bat completely seriously. [...]
Continue Reading →Okay, so I was extremely skeptical when I first heard that Seth Rogen was going to be the Green Hornet. The fact that he was going to be playing ANY superhero had me baffled, but I must say that this movie looks fun, at the very least.
Continue Reading →Ninjas are stock characters. They have been since the 1980s. They are stock characters that have been so overused in the past that people burst into laughter the minute something is compared to a ninja. I sincerely hope that Ninja Assassin has changed all that. I saw the film knowing it will not please everybody. [...]
Continue Reading →Everybody knows that the 1980s movie, by special effects genius-of-his-time Roy Harryhausen isn’t that great. The effects were a bit dated, the acting sucked, and it basically looked liked a Greek version of the Flash Gordon movie (another movie which I’ll be talking about in a later post). But, from the pit of bad movie [...]
Continue Reading →Okay, as mentioned in a previous entry, I’m a huge fan of the team of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and director Edgar Wright. I think Pegg and Frost are today’s equivalent of Laurel and Hardy. Shaun of the Dead is one of my favorite movies, and if you liked Shaun of the Dead, then you’ll [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve never felt the need to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick. I’m not saying it isn’t a good book, in fact everything I’ve heard about it says it’s brilliant. But I don’t feel the need to read it. One of my favorite films is Blade Runner, which is said [...]
Continue Reading →Ok, so the Resident Evil franchise is one of the most celebrated franchises in video games, but its movie adaptations have had a divided reaction among fans. Some fans think the’re fast paced fun while others think that they are cheap versions of their favorite games. But of course, the third film, Resident Evil: Extinction [...]
Continue Reading →Ok, so I feel like I should go on the record and say I was NEVER a Star Trek fan. I hated it with a passion, in fact. I thought it was stupid and didn’t understand why so many people liked it. Then I saw JJ Abrams’ Star Trek movie. And suddenly I got it. [...]
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