Posted by moviegeek916 on March 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Drive Angry (2011) – The following review first appeared as part of a larger article (“Now in Theaters”) on 12ftdwende.com on 11 March 2011. While crappy movies always make you forget, it is still true that making films is an art. This new wave of a 3D has been written off as a trendy gimmick … 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 September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Avatar (2009) — SECOND REVIEW [Blu Ray] So I saw this movie for the first (and until now only) time almost a year ago on IMAX in 3D. Now that the deluxe super tricked-out blu ray edition has come out the time came to see if it held up at home in one less dimension. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Despicable Me (2010) — Cute. I was not enthusiastically enthralled in the plot of this film, but it was cute. It seems to me that Pixar is constantly raising the bar for family entertainment while dreck like the Alvin and the Chipmunks “Squeakquel” is constantly lowering it. Then you have the rest. Movies that have … 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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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Up (2009) — Pretty much a perfect movie. The first ten minutes have more heart than most 2-hour-plus movies do in their entirety. I could go point-by-point on everything I liked about the movie but then sitting here and reading it would take you longer than just watching it yourself. A couple months after seeing … Continue reading →
Posted by moviegeek916 on September 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Toy Story (1995) — I remember seeing this movie in theaters when I was 10. Then it’s been on TV a bunch and I own the DVD but now it was playing on the big screen again so fourteen years later I saw it again. In 3D this time so that was cool. What I … Continue reading →
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