Posted by moviegeek916 on December 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Cloud Atlas (2012) – Okay, let’s get one thing out of the way: I will always support a movie like this whether I love it or hate it or anywhere in between. What do I mean by “a movie like this?” Well, sometimes there’s a film-maker who creates something that in addition to be very … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The Thing (2011) – John Carpenter’s 1982 thriller The Thing is one of my all-time favorite movies. That means I have a pretty strong bias and a natural predisposition to hate this movie. By comparison, it is nothing but a pale imitation. The suspense of Carpenter’s film (or Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby’s 1951 The … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
They Live (1988) — Motivated by Rowdy Roddy Piper’s appearance on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia the other day I decided to finally sit down and watch this movie [Sidenote: FearNet OnDemand sucks, they plaster the screen with ads and inserted a commercial about thirty minutes in. Plus my usual OnDemand complaint of having the … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Gamer (2009) — So my family and I went to see this. My dad went because my mom and I wanted to see it. My mom went because she had it confused with the upcoming Bruce Willis film Surrogates [she realized her mistake when a trailer for Surrogates ran before the movie]. So those were … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 