Posted by moviegeek916 on August 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Total Recall (2012) – I like to imagine that the following scenario happened: a screenwriter had this idea, “okay, so a guy wants to get a fantasy vacation implanted and he describes his fantasy to the implanters and they discover that he already did those things!” Then someone tells him, “yeah, they already made that … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on June 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Rock of Ages (2012) – The vast majority of my reviews tend to be positive, in case you hadn’t noticed. Or rather they range from lukewarm appreciation to outright enthusiastic. Some bad ones slip in but overall they’re favorable. I do indeed like most movies I see. That’s usually because if a movie looks like … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on June 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Batman: Year One (2011) – Every comic book geek out there has an idea of just how a Batman movie should be made. Some believe in taking the best from several existing comics to make something familiar but new (luckily one of these suck geeks is named Christopher Nolan and we got Batman Begins and … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on March 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment
John Carter of Mars (2012) – (All the advertisements and publicity are referring to this movie as John Carter [even imdb!] but the title as shown onscreen during the movie is John Carter of Mars, so that’s how I’m referring to it.) The trailers to this film have been playing up “before Avatar, before Star … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Drive (2011) – Perhaps I should have seen this when it first came out. Instead I waited a couple weeks, listening to a fortnight of hype. Hype kills. All in all, I liked Drive but hearing everyone proclaim it one of if not THE best movie of the year it couldn’t have lived up to … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Contagion (2011) – A couple of years ago, there was a big scare over the H1N1 virus, or “swine flu” (or something like that, my recollection for specifics of medical news items from three years ago may not be one hundred percent accurate). In the end the scare was revealed to be disproportionate to the … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Larry Crowne (2011) — So there’s a lot of parts of this movie that make me feel like it should work, but it just doesn’t. Tom Hanks’ first movie (as a writer-director) was That Thing You Do! which was as fun as the title song. Hanks’ second feature (not counting TV work like From Earth … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 