Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
August 2, 2012 Leave a comment
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame.
Prometheus
June 28, 2012 Leave a comment
I am a big fan of Scott’s Alien (1979). I think it is a truly fantastic thriller and one of the major reasons for that is because the fear is primal and its easy to understand. Sure, you can have sci-fi movies like Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010) where every detail is thought-through and every moment carefully devised and, as difficult as it may be to understand in real-time, I walked out of the theater completely understanding everything and the more you think about it, the less plot holes exist until eventually, you realize that there’s not a single one. It’s the reason that Inception should have bested that year’s best picture winner, The Kings Speech (2010) in the Best Original Screenplay category.
However, this film is not written with the care and attention to detail that is the hallmark of the work of Christopher Nolan; here we are given a film that is well crafted and visually intriguing, but devoid of a coherent story.
If you have a clear idea what this movie was all about, please leave a comment.
Battleship
April 30, 2012 Leave a comment
Battleship (PG-13)
Director: Peter Berg
Writers: Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber
Stars:Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson
131 min.
Next time your cleaning out your closet and you happen upon some old forgotten toys, assume that anyone of them could be the next big-budget film out of Hollywood. From GI Joe, to Transformers all are fair-game.
So with that in mind, maybe it’s not so strange to go from a kids game of calling out numbers hoping to guess the location of you friends battleship to a film carrying a Budget of $200,000,000. The story is one where A fleet of battleships go up against a mysterious group of warrior ships from some unknown source with an unclear objective. The most interesting question is whether at any point someone recites the line,”Hey, you sunk my battleship”
Battleship Trailer HD
Or if you want something a bit more “Classic” watch the film below.
Rotten Tomatoes calls it “A technical masterpiece, Battleship Potemkin is Soviet cinema at its finest, and its montage editing techniques remain influential to this day.”
Directed By: Sergei M. Eisenstein and Written By: Nina Agadzhanova it opened in Theaters: Dec 24, 1925
This is a true Classic. The scene of the “Odessa Steps” is often considered the most famous sequence ever filmed.
Battleship Potemkin
Up Date 10/07/12
Well now after watching Battleship (On Demand) I have to say that despite my low expectations, this film was substantially worse than I expected. Oh sure, with tens of millions of dollars to spend, they could generate some cool CG effects; but no amount of knowledge can save what was a God-Awful script.
Dark Shadows
April 30, 2012 2 Comments
Rated for comic horror violence, sexual content, some drug use, language and smoking
Directed by Tim Burton
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Chloë Grace Moretz , Michelle Pfeiffer Dark Shadows is based on the Gothic Soap Opera that ran from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show ran for 5 years, but based on the it’s five day per week daytime scheduling the drama created 1,225 episodes, surpassing any other science-fiction/fantasy series, yes even including Doctor Who and every Star Trek television show combined. The Shadow’s popularity did not take off till they introduced the vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid). today it is impossible to think of the show sans Barnabas, but the soap had been running nearly a year before it introduced the vampire. Once the creators of the show saw the popularity of Frid’s caped character, werewolves and witches quickly followed. Director Tim Burton was a big fan of the series and Johnny Depp is on the record stating that as a child, ‘He was so obsessed with Barnabas Collins that he wanted to be him”. Well thanks to his friend Tim Burton; he has gotten his chance. The first time watching the trailer, it seems hard for me to picture anyone other then Depp playing the part. Clearly Burton faced the challenge of trying to take 1,225 shows and tell a 2 hour story that worked on the big screen in 2012. Interestingly, he chooses to set the film back in 1972 (the year after the original series ended) and also chose to make it a film that is a parity while also paying homage to the spirit of the original. Here we are told of the Collins family who sailed from England to the New World i n 1752. Taking up residence in Collinwood Manor, their son,Barnabas, is a product of privilege and has a reputation for breaking many a young woman’s heart. however when one of those hearts belongs to a witch, Angelique Bouchard, she responds by turning him into a vampire and then buries him alive. Burton begins his story In 1972, when Barnabas is accidentally freed from his coffin. he he turns to his old home only to find his beautiful estate, quite run-down and populated with a collection of Barnabas’ descendants, each with obvious character flaws and hidden horrifying secrets. Dark Shadows
Film Review of A Thousand Words
March 12, 2012 Leave a comment
Film review of A Thousand Words.
A Thousand Words is a charming little tale of a business high-up named Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy) who is at the top of his games in the world of publishing. While pursuing the right to publish the first book by a world-famous “New-Age” religious leader, Jack McCall is struck by “Bad Karma” after touching a Magic Tree at the leader’s complex. This encounter results in Jack being connected to the tree, in that the life of the tree foretells his own potential demise. We are told that each word he speaks results in one leaf falling and when the last of the 1,000 remaining leaves fall, the tree will die. As events unfold Jack is forced to choose his words carefully, and in-turn reexamine his priorities.
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