Posted by moviegeek916 on July 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Batman & Robin (1997) – Sigh… so in the past couple years I have revisited a couple movies that I remember hating and finding out they weren’t quite as awful as they were in my memory (The Phantom Menace was by far the most surprising of these). So I have to admit I went into this … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Batman Forever (1995) – On the multi-part making-of documentary from the Batman 1989-1997 Anthology DVD box set, one “comic scholar” posits that the different styles the movies have adopted reflect different periods of the comic book which has, understandably for a series that’s been going 73 years and counting, gone through many different stylistic phases. It … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 24, 2012 · 1 Comment
Batman Returns (1992) – In recent reviews of Tim Burton movies, I’ve written about the difference between Burton the auteur and Burton the director-for-hire. Whichever one is working, his movies have a great signature look but Burton the auteur creates movies that have a level of depth. Burton-for-hire is just kind of phoning it in. Burton … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Batman (1989) – Well given my reviews of all the Spider-Man movies a few weeks ago it should really be no surprise that with The Dark Knight Rises being all anyone’s talking about lately that I would go back to the start of the Batman franchise. Okay, technically not all the way back to the start. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Planet of the Apes (2001) – Sigh… so one of the benefits of having the rather excellent Rise of the Planet of the Apes come out last year was that it would wipe the stain of this ill-conceived remake from our cultural memory. Not so much. It was on cable a little while back and my … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 23, 2012 · 1 Comment
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) – So I’ve enjoyed the Ice Age franchise well enough, but I can’t say it grabbed me the same way more of Dreamworks’s stuff has, and nowhere near on the level of Pixar’s stuff. I enjoyed Rio from the same animation studio, Blue Sky. The story of Manny the mammoth (Ray … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Prince of Darkness (1987) – So nowadays we’re always being inundated with trilogies, like with The Matrix films or the Dark Knight films. Hell it’s not a totally recent phenomena what with the original Star Wars trilogy (the only Star Wars that counts). What can be almost as interesting is a director’s thematic trilogy. These are … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Creepshow 2(1987) – So I enjoyed the 1982 horror anthology Creepshow. It was written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero so it had that going for it, plus it was their loving homage to hold horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror. I admittedly went in expecting it … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Final Destination 5(2011) – In know all the stuff about “sequels suck” and blah blah blah but the slasher genre isn’t exactly one that was overly sophisticated to begin with. The value in the sequels (and why slasher flicks are that rare genre where many sequels wind up being more entertaining than the original) is in … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 18, 2012 · 1 Comment
Sorority House Massacre II (1990) – For about six years of my life, I worked selling DVDs (three years at Suncoast in Sacramento, three years at Virgin Megastore in San Francisco). As you may have gathered about me, I watch a lot of movies. With six years of having a 35% employee discount and a … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 