Tag: Movie
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Mila Kunis Falls A Lot (Jupiter Ascending Movie Review, Part 2 Spoilers)
With part 1 of this review, I kept it as spoiler free as I could. However, I think the movie warrants a bit deeper look, both from the perspective of what they did right and also from all the stuff they got very, very wrong. Starting off… the plot was about as easy to follow…
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Mila Kunis Falls A Lot (Jupiter Ascending Movie Review, Part 1 Spoiler Free)
I went into Jupiter Ascending with somewhat mixed expectations. On the one hand, I already knew that the movie had been delayed for reshoots, re-edits, and stuck in post production for the past six months to a year (thus the delay in release). I already knew that the protagonist looked a little silly (I think…
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Second Star to the Right: Interstellar Movie Review (Spoilers)
I’ll preface this by saying that Interstellar is the best movie of 2014 that I nearly didn’t see. Why did I nearly decide to discount it? Well, the trailers did a terrible job of telling me what the movie was about. The trailers made it out (with me reading between the lines) that the movie…
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Big Hero 6: A Review in Oooh Shiny
Big Hero 6 caught my attention with its first trailer. I don’t normally find myself laughing hysterically at a movie trailer. This movie managed that and the combination of dry humor and silliness seemed like the perfect choice on an otherwise dreary weekend. They did a great job with the trailer, which spread its appeal…
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Rental Movie Review: John Carter of Mars
I just watched John Carter of Mars on BluRay. This is the second time I’ve seen it, the first being when I was deployed to Afghanistan. It was something of a shock to me, because I heard it did terribly, yet when I watched it I thought it was pretty epic. The casting was great,…
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All your galaxies are belong to us… Guardians of the Galaxy Movie Review
I have to admit, the movie I was most excited about this summer was Guardians of the Galaxy. Why? Well, I had never heard of the comics, I don’t even read comic books. I didn’t know much about the characters or setting, just what I saw in the trailers… and what did I see…
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Edge of Tomorrow Review (Or Killing Tom Cruise A Lot)
There once was a movie called Groundhog’s Day. Edge of Tomorrow is sort of like if you took that movie, combined it with Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie) and put Tom Cruise in there to get murdered. (I don’t think that’s a spoiler, it’s revealed in the trailers and posters). It makes for…
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Captain America Winter Soldier Movie Review
Disclaimer ahead: I’m reviewing a comic book movie and I’m not a fan of comic books. That aside, let’s get to the movie! Short answer: I loved it. Lots of action, interesting plot, and the good guy heroics that you would expect from Captain America. Let’s dive a little deeper though. The movie had excellent…
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Robocop Movie Review
I am not, as a general rule, a huge fan of movie remakes. Now and again, however, I’ll be pleasantly surprised. When I went to see it, I expected it to be a simple action flick. Lots of shooting, some explosions, and robots and bad guys getting mowed down left and right. What I didn’t…
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Characterization Case Study: Gravity
The best way to study characterization and plot is to look at examples, both good and bad, and to note what worked and what didn’t. I’m going to do a quick case study of the recent movie Gravity. It’s an interesting movie that (due to a very small cast and a rather linear plot) can…