Posted by moviegeek916 on June 24, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Omen (1976) – So here’s a fun little fact about WordPress it keeps track of how many posts you publish and lets you know. A couple posts ago I noticed the numbers creeping upward… 663… 664… 665… I knew there was only one movie that could possibly be the subject of my 666th published … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on February 25, 2012 · 3 Comments
Well, the Oscars are coming up in a couple days. I’ll get my picks and predictions and whatnot posted Sunday morning and then try to do some sort of real-time reaction thing like I tried doing with the Emmys a while back… In the meantime I figured I’d chime in with what I actually thought … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on December 5, 2011 · 1 Comment
Immortals (2011) – I am not alone in saying that Tarsem Singh is one of the most astonishing visual directors working today. His 2000 thriller The Cell was amazing to watch… unfortunately the plot was stupid and the non-D’Onofrio lead actors were phoning it in. Still, the look of the movie is nothing short of … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010) — I think the PG-13 direct-to-video animated movies from DC and Warner Premiere have been by-and-large pretty great, but the Superman/Batman ones (Apocalypse follows the earlier Superman/Batman: Public Enemies) based on the comics by Jeph Loeb have left me somewhat cold, much like the comics they’re based on. (Actually excepting The Long … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Sucker Punch (2011) — So first my overall opinion: this movie is maybe about 50% really awesome shit and about 50% really stupid shit. The end result is a rather entertaining clusterfuck and needless to say the film has a great look to it. All of Zack Snyder’s previous films have been adaptations (my favorite … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Black Christmas (1974) — So Halloween is often credited with establishing the aesthetic of the slasher genre (though some argue that the genre itself goes back to Psycho in 1960). Black Christmas came out in 1974, a full four years before John Carpenter “invented” the modern slasher movie. Bob Clark (who later directed A Christmas … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 7, 2011 · 1 Comment
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009) — So Jeph Loeb wrote one of my favorite comics [The Long Halloween] but he is far from one of my favorite comic writers. He tends to go cameo-crazy and the stories have a tendency to suffer as a result. So why the so-far-pretty-decent DC direct-to-disc decided to go with adapted … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 