Posts Tagged ‘reviews’
And I want my scalps
Before going on with the review, the trailers for Inglourious Basterds were not what the film was about. In fact, it revealed very little about what the film was about. I was expecting something along the lines of a film about a bunch of vigilantes killing Nazis, which is what the film is about sort [...]
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Tags: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds (2009), Mélanie Laurent, Quentin Tarantino, reviews
It is written
I went to go see Slumdog Millionaire after a failed attempt yesterday when the only time slot I could go was sold out. Who would have thought a small and relatively unknown indie film would be sold out… then again, it was New Years and apparently everyone in the county wanted to go to the [...]
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Tags: Anil Kampoor, Danny Boyle, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, indie, indie films, Irrfan Khan, reviews, Slumdog Millionaire, Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Jane Austen… not really
I watched Becoming Jane on one of the Starz channels recently. It was basically Austen’s (Anne Hathaway) life before her “big break” in the literary world and her supposed romantic relationship with Tom Lefroy (James McAcvoy).
I was not impressed. The screenplay was actually very original since the most of the information that was derived from [...]
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Tags: Anne Hathaway, Becoming Jane (2007), James McAvoy, Jane Austen, reviews, Tom Lefroy
I was a bit of a strange child. Along with playing with girly toys, I also played with my brother’s action figures and read comic books. It’s pretty natural considering I spent most of my early childhood hanging out with him, since he was always stuck babysitting me. I watched cartoon versions of superheroes and [...]
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Tags: Batman, Christopher Nolan, Joel Schumacher, reviews, superheroes, Tim Burton, Warner Brothers
It seems like a majority of awesome video games have caused Hollywood directors to want to make films based off of them — and they usually fail miserably.
God awful video game based films that I’ve watched:
Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Street Fighter (1994)
Mortal Kombat (1995)
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation [MK: II] (1997)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
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Tags: rants, reviews, video games
I love musicals. I never had a chance to see any of my favorites on Broadway, mostly because I’m broke and live a bit too far from NYC. So, instead I am stuck with the film versions and original cast recordings of said musicals.
However, there is one musical that must be destroyed before it reaches [...]
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Tags: High School Musical, musicals, rants, reviews
