Awesome Movie Reviews
Awesome Movie Review: New Moon
In his book The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, Mark Baulerine writes: The Dumbest Generation cares little for history books, civic principles, foreign affairs, comparative religions, and serious media and art, and it knows less. Careening through their formative years, they don’t catch the knowledge bug, and [...]
Awesome Movie Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire
The fundamental challenge in adapting a novel for the screen is narration. In literature, narration blends seamlessly with dialogue and action, allowing the reader to move in and out of characters’ minds and settings. Film cannot direct the viewer as easily as literature can direct the reader, so compromises have to be made. In bad [...]
Awesome Movie Review: Up in the Air
I’m going to make this brief. Up in the Air seems to be getting a lot of good press and that bothers me. It bothers me because I believe the message of the film is fundamentally distasteful. Now I enjoy a good George Clooney film as much as the next guy (I especially like it [...]
Awesome Movie Review: The Ex
First, an explanation. I did not want to rent The Ex. I rented it due to circumstances beyond my control.
I rent movies from Blockbuster. I know everyone is canceling their Blockbuster online memberships, but I’m sticking with them until they stop allowing me to exchange movies. And don’t try to sing the praises of Netflix and their online movie watching. That only works for people who aren’t pretentious assholes. It’s not an option for me.
Awesome Movie Review: Pirates of the Carribbean: At World’s End
I would like to approach this Awesome Movie Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, if I may, via scenes from each of the Clerks movies. In Clerks 2, Randall describes the Lord of the Rings movies as three movies of people walking. Replace walking with sailing and you’ve pretty much got At World’s End
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