Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Marvel Studios- they’ve been upgraded from a comic book maker- just keeps pumping them out. What “them” am I talking about? The films that are fun to watch. Iron Man is one of them.
The movie is a sly mix of humour, technoie-gadgets (non existent of course), surprisingly good acting, [...]
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Do you ever get happy over the smallest things?
I think that’s what happened with me when I watched Rambo. I began watching with zero expectations, I don’t mean none I mean so low as to be zero. I mean look at part of the plot outline, kindly provided by IMDB:
In [...]
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Directed by: Matt Reeves
I saw this movie a few nights ago, along with Amazing Grace, John Rambo, and Alien vs. Predator 2.
Cloverfield sucked. I’m demanding of the films I watch. I don’t know if I’m overly accountant-like or something but the way I see it is that I only have so much time [...]
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Directed by: Adrian Lyne.
Multilayered? You bet.
The film is about one man’s life experiences in Vietnam (yeah that Vietnam, the bad one) and the events immediately before and after it. Ostensibly the film is about the secret use and testing of chemicals on US soldiers during the war. I think they even had [...]
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
This film was great. Not in the traditional sense though. You’re probably wondering what I mean. To be honest I’m not entirely sure what I mean.
The storyline is seemingly common. Fracture is a murder mystery. The film stars the great Anthony Hopkins as a jailed man who [...]