I usually only look forward to 2 or 3 movies a year.  The Dark Knight would be one of those 2 or 3 for 2008…so much so that I decide to join a friend at midnight for the first showing of it in a local IMAX theater.  I haven’t been to a midnight movie since […]

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There are bad movies and then there are bad movies.  And then there’s The Mist.  Based off of a Stephen King novella, The Mist details the devolution of a group of small towners that have barracaded themselves in a grocery store after a mysterious mist has descended on their town.  That doesn’t sound too bad, […]

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This week’s movie rant centers on Vantage Point, the Rashomon-style terrorist thriller.  I’m a sucker for chronologically-challenged movies as well as terrorist-laden and crisis-filled movies, so I knew I was probably going to like this one.
The film shows the same scene, the assassination of the President during an anti-terrorism summit in Spain, from various…er…vantage points, […]

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Since I’ve hit the yearly sports abyss where nothing is interesting, I’ve spent the past 2 weeks watching movies..all sorts of movies.  Here is a quick run through of some of the movies that have wasted my time the past two weeks:
Rambo - Exactly what you would expect from a Rambo movie: tons of Asians […]

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Every once in a while, you will come across a movie that totally ignores all semblance of common sense, logic, and reality.  Untraceable is one such movie.  This movie’s plot revolves around a serial killer who displays his “work” on a website.  The flood of visitors to the site results in a quicker death for […]

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I chose poorly and watched the fucking second part.  I’m going to go and stab myself in the eyes right now…

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*sigh*
I have a small dilemma.  I watched the 2-hour part one of the new Andromeda Strain movie on A&E.  It was remarkably boring, tedious, and hokey.  The only way I made it through the entire movie was because I kept thinking it was going to be over in two hours.  By the 1:45 mark, I […]

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Netflix tried very hard to prevent me from watching Juno.  This film had been atop of my Netflix queue for 2 weeks before they finally sent it to me.  Never had I had any difficulties in getting my requested movies on time, but because of high demand, it took three weeks, which artificially builds my […]

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This weekend’s movie rant concerned Bee Movie, the computer animated flick starring Jerry Seinfeld.  I was anxiously awaiting the arrival of this movie because I’m a big Seinfeld fan and knew that he has pretty much disappeared from the face of the Earth since his sitcom ended a decade ago.
Computer animated movies have rarely failed […]

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Sometimes, instead of going for the mainstream Hollywood blockbuster, I go for the low-budget, indy film that no one has ever heard of. Often, these turn out to be quite surprising since I have relatively low expectations going into them. Sometimes these film show the creativity and originality that is severely lacking nowadays. […]

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