Posted by moviegeek916 on July 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Friends with Benefits (2011) — This article was originally published on 12ftdwende.com on 22 July 2011. I really don’t think I’ve quite got the hang of reviewing comedies. As I mention in every review I write for a comedy, the only real barometer for success is whether or not it makes you laugh. However, “I … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on April 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Hunger Games (2012) – So this movie made a metric fuckton of money, so a couple weeks into its box-office-record-setting run I’m not sure my opinion actually counts for anything. I offer it anyway because… it’s what I do. I’ve been seeing a lot about The Hunger Games in the past several weeks. My … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on March 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Game Change (2012) – I am of the belief that film criticism should be based on nothing more than the quality of a film. However, human beings are fallible and not beyond their own biases. A film like Game Change seems impossible to separate from one’s own political predispositions so allow to me to state … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment
After the Sunset (2004) — I’m not entirely sure what I just watched. The movie’s pretty stupid from start to finish but for the first 30-45 minutes I was kind of going with it. It was a glossy entertaining kind of stupid. There’s a caper central to the movie and as a viewer I found myself … Continue reading →
Posted by moviegeek916 on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment
2012 (2009) — In some ways this is an awful movie. In others, it’s an awesome movie. The two factors end up reaching a kind of mindless equilibrium that ends up being quite entertaining like Roland Emmerich’s earlier destroying-the-world films Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow (though I guess a lot of people didn’t … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Zombieland (2009) — SECOND REVIEW [Blu-Ray]: This movie is pretty much tailor-made for me. As many times as I’ve seen a nun crushing a zombie with a falling piano (in addition to the two times I’ve seen the movie it was in every single ad) I have never failed to laugh out loud. Because that’s … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 