Month: December 2008
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Top 10 Extravaganza
Click the new page “Top 10 Extravaganza” at the top of this website and entertain yourself with a dizzying variety of year-end top 10 lists. Top 10 movies? We got it. Top 10 action movies? Got it. Top 10 awesomely bad movies? That’s there too. Top 10 movies that you might think, “I should rent…
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I Need a Nap
Seven Pounds Review This movie’s promotion, and some of the negative reviews it has received, suggest a pretty exciting movie. A number of critics review basically say they can’t talk much about the plot without ruining it. Which is true. The thing is that gives off the impression there are huge twists in the movie.…
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Maybe
Yes Man Review We haven’t seen Jim Carrey headlining a comedy like this in a while, and unfortunately this vehicle is just a so-so vehicle for his talents. Liar, Liar is a comparably high-concept Carrey vehicle, but the concept lended itself much better to humor. Yes Man has moments of fun, but simply having Carrey…
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Cadillac Records: Volume on HIGH
Cadillac Records This could have been a great movie, really awesome, but it is not. Largely to blame is the refusal to underplay just about anything. I don’t know any of the actual historical facts behind this story, but even the fictional content in the film could have been executed with much more grace. My…
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Considering Character as Theme-Watchmen
Character as Theme in Watchmen In Alan Moore’s Watchmen some of the most prominent characters exist largely as commentaries on a theme. It’s an effective way to intermingle multiple themes in a story and establish character and theme simultaneously. Dr Manhattan, Power Jon/Dr Manhattan symbolizes the theme of power, and more specifically ultimate power. They…
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The Rock is Cooking Happy Meals
The Rock, please stop it. It just makes me sad. In reality the Rock has basically saved his career by shifting into a family man. The Game Plan was his biggest hit in years, and he is following it up with some more family friendly stuff that looks like junk. Check the trailer for Race…
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Earth Stood Still…Booo!
Day Earth Stood Still (2008) Review Here’s the pitch meeting for The Day the Earth Stood Still, as I imagine it: Studio exec: We need a tentpole picture for the winter season…I am Legend did pretty good, can we come up with somethin like that? Writer: I had an original idea… Studio exec: No originals!…
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Nicolas Cage Knows He Should Be Doing Better Movies
Oh Nic Cage, why? This guy is probably the weirdest actor to somehow randomly have become a marquee player, but he seems to sleepwalk through nearly every role he gets now (cough, Next, cough National Treasure 1 and 2, cough). There was a time when Nicolas Cage stunned with his bizarre, rangy performances as twins…
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It’s Kinda Like “Oklahoma”, Only Without the Dance Numbers
Australia Review Australia wants desperately to be the big sweeping romance it purports to be. It’s expensive, its long, its romantic…and its also kind of dull. Director Baz Luhrmann spared no expense making this epic about a cattle drive across the titular land, as the numerous lovely shots of nature and huge scenes of cattle…