May 2012
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April 2012
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Drive (2011)
I sat down with high expectations for Drive. It did not disappoint one bit. Everything feels fresh, from the cinematography to the soundtrack. It all goes together as a perfect fit. There’s not a bunch of dialogue to follow, the characters are easy to understand, the camera doesn’t cut cut cut cut cut cut cut to the point of a headache or whiplash. It’s got a slight little...
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A rant to Disney about their predicted $200... →
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A movie that was the inspiration for Star Wars? The film that came before Avatar? (Which I still haven’t seen Avatar…) Don’t spend $350 Million ($250m production / $100m marketing) on a movie. Perhaps one could split that 10 ways, make 10 movies ($25m / $10m) each. That way even if 5 do poorly, the max you’re out is around $175...
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Movies that (I feel) deserve a prequel: Blade...
If I haven’t said so before, I’ll say it now: Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. There’s something about the cyber punk theme of a dystopian future that pulls me in to this film. While sitting on a prep period as a health/physical education teacher I was doing some writings (that will appear sooner or later.) One was “Movies that could spawn a decent*...
March 2012
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All Good Things (2010)
Before I start the trashing, let me praise the acting of Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, and Frank Langella. They’re all pretty awesome and nail their parts. Some scenes actually caused me to become uncomfortable. That’s something that movies need more, scenes that spark some kind of emotional trigger. I think that’s that catharsis thing my screenwriting professor mentioned...
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The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010)
Nothing happens in this movie. There, I said it. However, I realized that after I realized that I couldn’t stop watching it and needed to know how it wraps up.
This movie is the closest high school set movie that sticks close to true high school life: a whole lot of nothing! There’s the popular kids, the sports kids, the dance kids, the guys, and the gals. They also all get...
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
My, did this movie take me down memory lane. When I was younger, I watched The Adventures of Tintin while they ran on HBO. This was back when HBO ran children’s stuff early in the morning, and probably before I had HBO2 as an available channel, because it most likely just launched.
Anyway, I digress. Before watching this movie I tried to remember what Tintin was exactly. I thought,...
Mass Effect 3 (2012 VG)
I understand that this does not fall under a film review, but I’m still going to give my 2 cents on this whole Mass Effect trilogy coming to a close.
After a very long buildup of playing all three games, waiting between games, the ultimate buildup gives way to an underwhelming finale. Yes, there, I said it.
I will not go into any further detail due to my nature to ruin things, aka,...
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Skyline (2010)
NOTE: I didn’t watch all of this movie. So when I make a statement like “There wasn’t good parts…” imagine the following: [of what I saw.]
This movie is crap. Not even good crap. Sometimes a movie is bad and that’s why I like it. However, while this movie gets worse and worse, it made me angrier and angrier. The switch didn’t flip going from bad...
February 2012
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The longest hour...
…was the Chris Hardwick comedy show I saw tonight in NYC. At least I ate a slice of white pizza at the pizzeria Louie CK eats a slice in the opening of his show Louie.
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The Siege (1998)
This past weekend I was helping my friend and associate prepare for a Sociology/Current Issues/Social Issues class and we watched this movie to prepare notes and the like. The Siege was shot in ‘97 (probably) and then released in ‘98. Okay, tell me more. Sure! Re-watching this movie about 13 years later, there are some really eerie parallels with the movie from ‘98 and...
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January 2012
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Fake Indiana Jones & Fake Star Wars Movie Reviews
Back when I had my Blogspot blog I watched what I thought was going to be this version of King Solomon’s Mines (1985.) It was the version shot 35 years before this one. Despite disappointment, I soldiered through watching it and reviewed it. I had to procure this one from a friend of a friend. I sat down with my good friend and associate that I’ll call “Jason” and...
An update due for an upcoming update!
Okay, here’s the deal my almost 7,000 followers:
I’m going to Denver for a wedding, January 12th thru 16th.
I’m having down time there as it’s a multi-day event that I’m not overly involved with.
I’m watching a few movies while there.
I’m writing out some reviews.
I’m starting up the reviewing machine again when I return to New Jersey.
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Highlander (1986)
Jean Girard: [Jean chuckles, confused] What is the Highlander? Ricky Bobby: It’s a movie. It won the Academy Award. Jean Girard: Oh for what? Ricky Bobby: Best movie ever made.
Probably true. I started watching it on December 30th, 2011. I got to the part where they were back in time and Connor gets injured while fighting on the highlands. (I would assume.) Um, I don’t know...
December 2011
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Lack of updating... :(
Sorry for all those people who for some reason or another follow me, but I’ve been really busy with working. See, normally I substitute teacher and live in the same town as my usual commute. It’s about 5 minutes. However, as a freelancer, I travel for other jobs. The current freelancing position I’ve taken is farther (or further?) than my 5 minute commute by 30 minutes. (35...
November 2011
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Red State (2011)
“An unlikely film from that Kevin Smith” indeed. It wasn’t at all what I expected from “that” Kevin Smith. His movies always go a certain way, a teenage/coming of age way. This one doesn’t at all! The movie pretty much builds up to a shootout followed by a message (most likely about the Westboro Baptist Church.)
The actors fulfill their roles very well,...
October 2011
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Friday the 13th Part XI: Jason Goes to Hell
Even while drinking my way through this movie, it was rough. The beginning I was like, “Nice, another movie of what I saw in the first, second, and third!” However then Jason gets blown up by the FBI and during an autopsy, a black coroner eats his heart and then it possessed by Jason’s evil spirit? Yeah, something like that.
Now, my expectation was a classic horror movie...
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Tron: Legacy (2011)
I don’t have anything but good things to say about this movie. I woke up late one Saturday morning, about 11:00AM and was sitting around drinking my coffee and Tron: Legacy started maybe 5 minutes ago. I ended up sitting there for 2 hours and 5 minutes watching until the very end of the film.
There wasn’t a whole lot of character development, but I didn’t need it because...
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The Green Hornet (2011)
Apologies to any and all who were waiting for me to return to blogging on here. I was very busy working for a certain company’s tech channel for the month of September and had no time to watch movies, only a quick episode of Battlestar: Galactica here and there.
So, I start off reviews again with The Green Hornet…
Quick anecdote, I raised Seeing Eye Puppies while in college...
September 2011
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Friday the 13th party VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan...
He actually does no such thing in the movie. Sure, many students taking a tramp steamer of some sort get sliced and diced, electrocuted, drowned, or maimed in some way, but he doesn’t take over Manhattan. However the movie does have this:
See, he has to be on a subway in late 80s New York City. (notice how shitty it was in that subway car.)
Also a student tried to box Jason.
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I've been a busy guy.
So, the updates have been slow, I know. I’ve been a very busy boy lately. I’ve been working a freelance gig with the Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone Tech Channel. Then, this past Friday I went on a bender in Jonas, PA (lovely little town.) Followed next morning by an entire day of running around shooting and getting shot at with paintballs. The last movie I saw was Jason Takes...
August 2011
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Crazy Stupid Love (2011)
So, I saw this movie recently and I only had to wade through a throng of senior citizens since it was senior night. They were all leaving as I was entering for a 9:50 showing. Also, this was the second theater I went to trying to see this movie, that’s all beside the point, since this review will be positive, as opposed to the prior three posted here.
Steve Carell plays Cal, whose wife,...
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True Grit (2010)
::BANGS HEAD ON WALL::
I haven’t been enjoying new movies as of lately: Sucker Punch, Battle: Los Angeles, and now, True Grit.
It was boring. Sure, the sets looked nice and the tone and atmosphere are there, but I doubt the Wild West was so boring… I mean, it was called the WILD West. The first hour just drags onward. Jeff Bridges plays Nick Nolte as Rooster Cogburn. Matt Damon...
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Disappointing and stupid.
July 2011
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Sucker Punch (2011)
That’s how I felt after watching this: Sucker Punched. The trailer looks cool and you don’t really get a grasp on what the movie’s about or the story. Then you watch it and realize there really isn’t a story. Yeah, stuff happens, and it’s stupid stuff. I didn’t like this movie. Stylistically it’s cool, but I saw that in 300 and The Watchmen. The...
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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
HAHAHAHAHA! This movie was great! Give a shotgun to a hobo in a town of filth, immorality, or immoralness, whichever one’s right, scandal, dirty cops, whores, gangsters, and shit goes down!
Okay, quick backstory on how this movie came about: Remember that fake trailer contest for Grindhouse? This was one of them, and it was made. However, this time they got Rutger Hauer to play the...
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Total Recall (1990)
A 1990 sci-fi extravaganza! Amazing! Lavish even! All the effects were, for the most part, REAL, unlike some other guy who used green screens with his sci-fi legacy:
Note: his film legacy includes this guy:
Anyway, back to TOTAL RECALL. Arnold plays someone who may or may not be a sleeper secret agent on Earth that gets awakened or activated and has to get to Mars to do something....
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Holy shit! I found review gold!
So, I’m on vacation and I’ve been drinking. My current location is a condo in wildwood crest, NJ. In the condo is a flatscreen tv, a dvd player and a small tv cabinet leftover from the age of dinosaur tvs. Inside the cabinet is a small collection of dvds. Some good, some childish and one that will hopefully bring review gold: Super Mario Brothers!
Stay tuned!
V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N!
I will be back around the 17th.
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Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
CRAP.
The first one was better, Paranormal Activity 2 explains some of it’s predecessor with a line or two. There were some spooky events; like when all the cabinets opened at once, and when Kristi was getting dragged out of the room and down the stairs, but otherwise CRAP. I didn’t mind watching it though. I give this two stars, since I didn’t like it (as much as the...
June 2011
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Frozen (2010)
So, I was at a BeerBQ on Sunday, and I was given a tip about a really bad movie. Oh yeah, it’s streaming on Netflix! I was told that the movie’s about three dumbasses that get stuck up on a chair lift at a ski lodge for a while. Well, I didn’t learn much about the movie, except disaster strikes. Moreover there were theories and ideas on how to get out of the chair....