What good is building a classy brand if you can’t whore it out for big bucks? Clothing manufacturers do it, chefs add their names to canned soups. Why not Imax? The latest controversy is that “Imax” movies are being shown on relatively small screens, for full price. The Imax experience used to mean one...
Steeped in both cold war paranoia and 50s-style scientist-hero myth, this could have been done as a Twilight Zone episode.
I love this movie. I’m unable to say why. I can link superlatives together, describe awesome over-the-top scenes, but the magic is in the attitude. From the opening credits which took the last scene from the first movie and did it 8-bit video-game format, we knew exactly what level to take the movie. Everything...
I realize I saw awesome too much. To me, many things are awesome, at least in the moment. Later the experience fades and I can compare the awesome moment with many other moments, and awesome fades to average. The latest Bond movie, for instance. We walked out of the theater, to a nearby restaurant,...
Speaking of movies with action, guys with whips, and an ancient artifact, I watched The Rundown again the other night. Originally, I told people that it wasn’t a great movie, but I liked it. But after seeing Indiana Jones fall apart with a huge budget because of an utter lack of story, I appreciate...
The Manliest Movies? Not So Much
Another campus humor website has posted a list of the 64 Manliest Movies to Date. The list is not a bad collection of guy movies, but “guy movies” and “manly movies” are not at all the same thing. Worse, the commentary shows a bit of confusion about what movies appeal to women. Also, the...
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