Posted by moviegeek916 on July 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) – Despite the early promise of Antz, I never really felt that DreamWorks Animation existed on the same level as an animation studio like Pixar. Despite some strong showings like the first couple Shrek movies, Megamind, Monsters vs. Aliens, and the Madagascar flicks, DreamWorks Animation films always felt … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment
22 Jump Street (2014) – Continuing with his meta streak from the first film, virtually all of Nick Offerman’s dialogue (and he isn’t in that much of the movie) is a reference to the film itself. He says that nobody expected the 21 Jump Street program to work. It shouldn’t have worked. Everybody was surprised … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on December 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Django Unchained (2012) – There is a musician that performs under the name Girl Talk. What he does is creates new songs composed entirely of samples of other songs. Yet what he creates manages to be something new. Quentin Tarantino is one hundred percent the cinematic version of that and, as Entourage pointed out, “Tarantino … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment
21 Jump Street (2012) – I think there’s no better introduction for this movie than some dialogue that Nick Offerman (playing a police captain) has in his only scene in this movie. While talking about the undercover operation that forms the central premise of the movie he describes it as a program from the 80s. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 26, 2012 · 1 Comment
If you want to know what I felt were the best movies of the year etc. then that’s a different article altogether (one that can be read here). This is about the Oscars. For most categories, I just offer a quick pick for what WILL win and a brief explanation for why I think that. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 4, 2011 · 1 Comment
Moneyball (2011) – So I need to start this off with full disclosure: I am not a baseball fan. I root for the Giants, but that’s just due to my generally pro-San Francisco attitude. It’s not that I am totally against baseball. I enjoy games when I go to them (though it should be pointed … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Megamind (2010) — Premise in a nutshell: evil supervillain actually defeats the superhero who has been thwarting him all these years and find that he now has no idea what to do with his life. Dreamworks Animation has rarely been on the same film-making level as Pixar (mostly due to over-relying on popular culture references… … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Cyrus (2010) — I never really thought about Jonah Hill’s potential to play a creepy fucked-up freak, but the potential was there and it has now been realized. John C. Reilly seems to switch between critically-beloved indie movies and commercial comedies. He seems to be walking that line here as John, a socially backwards divorcé. … Continue reading →
Posted by moviegeek916 on September 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) — As much as I bitch about Spongebob, Hannah Montana, and the sorry state of children’s entertainment nowadays, movies like this prove that there’s still a place for quality. If kids today are anything like I was, then they like movies that give them credit for a modicum of … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 