So what exactly do you do when you have a shitload of money and no ideas? Another remake of a famous movie (The Three Musketeers, a trademark of France)! And just to let people see how retarded you are, use the modern remake recipe: more boobs, more bullet time shots, more close-up shots, male actors [...]
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Zack Snyder, the man behind Watchmen, has definitely a fairly rich imagination. His latest creation, Sucker Punch, stands as another proof of the visuals stemming from it. But Sucker Punch is not the sucker punch it tries to be. Much like Watchmen before it, it falls short of the message it tries to deliver due [...]
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings is already recognized as the fantasy movie masterpiece of the decade. Rightfully so, as it is both a visual treat with carefully crafted details as well as a complete redition of JRR Tolkien’s work. As with any fantasy ecranization, many points are missed but it is not hard to [...]
In a while I used to hate movie critics. Not because they seem to pan every movie that came out since the Golden Age of Hollywood. It’s because most of them seem to think that every movie that comes out must deliver a new perspective on the human nature. There are very few movie critics [...]
Movie star Chiwetel Ejiofor, the famed actor who starred in movies such as Endgame, Serenity, the blockbuster 2012 and Love Actually is certainly endowed with charisma and talent. However, he would definitely be a much greater presence at Hollywood and he would definitely gather a larger fan base if only he would have a more [...]
I haven’t seen many films that would stir such mixed impressions as James Cameron’s Avatar. Reviews are terribly mixed even if the average impression leans towards positive. I guess the heavy advertising around the movie manage to create a wave of high expectations that were never truly and completely fulfilled.
Space… the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. In 1966, nobody had the vaguest ideas how these words would change the world. From computer science to medicine [...]
