I’m going to be straight with you. It’s kind of like Ferngully mixed with Dances With Wolves and some political commentary that ended up being TOO SUBTLE.
When the phrase, “shock and awe” is uttered, I half expected the actors to pause and look at the camera with a sly nod and a wink. Ultimately, I [...]
Dead Space as a social activity excels if your audience is into it. I am going to discuss it here as an interactive movie, with the player as the cameraman and primary actor. Imagine a movie (one like Event Horizon, Leviathan, or The Thing) where the camera actually responds to your input.
Compare the following scenarios.
Movie: [...]
I ordered Japanese last night.
Not a big deal, but I ordered some grilled salmon, beef negimaki, some age tofu, gyoza, sukiyaki, and an order of tonkatsu.
I was splitting this with a friend while we watched Lust, Caution, via the Netflix instant queue on the xbox 360.
The food arrived earlier than expected, and I realized that [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
WANTED was a great book about supervillains that run the world and keep us in the dark about the real truth of our existence.
WANTED the movie on the other hand, appears to be about a secret society of assassins that run the world and keep us in the dark about the real truth of our [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
I haven’t really been excited about going to the movies lately.
By “lately,” I mean “last couple of years.”
And by “last couple of years,” I may actually mean, “a decade.”
Well, there was Serenity, but that was it.
That may change. The latest Speed Racer trailer has me pretty excited to watch the movie, for several reasons.
First [...]
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Dangit. Never really goes like you expect it to. Housecleaning, that is.
So, instead of housekeeping, I watched Shrek a third time and went out for drinks with a few friends. Yes, it’s that good. I guess it’s that good because it goes against the whole “fairy tale” movie cliché. What other movie are you going [...]
Final Fantasy, the Spirits Within.
Just, well . . .
Wow.
I’m going to see it again. Mainly because the theater that I watched it at BURNED THE FILM RIGHT AT THE CLIMAX OF THE MOVIE. Burned. Watched the film blister and crawl up the height of the screen.
However, even if I didn’t get my money back, I [...]