Summer Fun

Avatar vs. Star Wars

January 25, 2010

One podcast I listen to made an interesting comparison between Avatar and Star Wars.  Each movie raised the bar for blockbusters, as well as working in a genre that can be described as Space Opera.  A little too easy and facile for Science Fiction, but set in a future universe.  In fact, both movies...

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Three Seasons of Lost in One Month

October 22, 2009

Somehow, perhaps because my Netflix-enabled xBox360 is now practically a video store in my living room, I ended up watching an episode of Lost.  My previous attitude towards Lost was a mixture of contempt and outrage that people where so devoted to it.  Some people compared it to BSG.  I kept comparing it to...

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Transformers 2: ROTFL (Review)

June 29, 2009

After all, Michael Bay KNOWS IT SUCKS. But he's counting his money and laughing at us as we sit through it anyway.

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Eagle Eye Expectations

September 29, 2008

How come expectations are such an integral part of how we enjoy movies? Not just good or bad, but also type, genre, tone. We know who’s in the movie, we think we know the genre, maybe we know the story. Maybe we’ve scene trailers and think we’ve got it pretty much down. Eagle Eye...

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Washing that Mummy out of My Brain

September 2, 2008

It always annoys when my friends say something like: “I could have told you that,” after I report that some movie really sucked.  No, no you couldn’t have told me that.  Sure, the Mummy III: Tomb of Jet Li Phoning It In looked bad.  There were many warning signs.  But these friends would have...

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The Incredible Hulk: Best Movie Line so Far this Summer

June 17, 2008

I was ready for this one to fail. The premise is kind of dated, the raging Id as superhero has been done in many forms, plus there’s the stretchy pants problem. Also, I never made it through Ang Lee’s version, even on cable, for free. But it was Saturday afternoon and I needed a...

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