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My Area Of Expertise, Such As It Were
Posted on December 31, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Iron Man, The Dark Knight, movies | Leave a Comment
Matt Yglesias on the best and worst comic book movies of the decade. The top two are pretty indisputable, but I think Yglesias oversells Iron Man at the expense of The Dark Knight. The former is certainly as rewatchable as Yglesias claims; I think I’ve put on the DVD as background noise four or five [...]
I Guess He Almost Cost Me But Promptly Turned Around And Saved Me $10
Posted on August 11, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Inglourious Basterds, movies | Leave a Comment
So I didn’t really know what Inglourious Basterds was about, beyond it being “Quentin Tarantino’s World War II flick with Brad Pitt.”
Then I read the first page of Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic article on the film and thought, “Well, that sounds like a pretty cool concept (despite Goldberg’s creepy lede and my concern regarding the involvement [...]
Movie Reviews That Aren’t Really Reviews
Posted on July 20, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Sherlock Homes, movies | 2 Comments
I was fairly disappointed with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The book was perhaps my favorite of the series, but I felt the ending of the movie lacked the book’s emotional punch, and not simply because I already knew how it would end. Quite frankly, I felt as though the movie decided to quit [...]
Why Does Nobody Tell Me These Things?
Posted on May 22, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under movies | Leave a Comment
Seriously, how did I miss Crystal City’s free outdoor movie schedule until now1? I already missed all three Spider-Man movies! Thank goodness I can still see every other superhero movie ever made. If only this were being held in, say, Meridian Hill Park instead of stupid far away Virginia, it would be my dream summer [...]
“See, what he’s doing is imitating Wolverine’s berserker attack with his adamantium claws.”
Posted on May 9, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under X-Men Origins: Wolverine, movies | Leave a Comment
Is any movie more quotable than Mallrats? Uh, anyway, thoughts on Wolverine (spoilers):
*I’m slightly annoyed with the mistreatment of Emma Frost. The White Queen would never be stuck in a little prison cell like that. Nor would she sound like any other adolescent American girl. Weak.
*I’m much more disturbed by the waste of Deadpool. Deadpool [...]
Remembering “Why So Serious?”
Posted on February 17, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under The Dark Knight, Watchmen, movies | Leave a Comment
Matt Yglesias:
Watchmen is hardly the first movie to try to employ web-based spinoffs as part of its marketing campaign, but it may be the first one to have actually done it well.
I don’t know whether Yglesias was paying any attention to it about two years ago, but I was following the viral marketing campaign for [...]
I Must See This Movie
Posted on December 4, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Valkyrie, movies | Leave a Comment
One of my favorite lines in any movie is Indy’s deadpan, “Nazis. I hate these guys,” in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Oddly enough, I never found myself wondering, “What would it be like if a whole movie featured Tom Cruise speaking dialogue exactly like that, but without the humorous intention?” Fortunately for all [...]
Robert Downey, Jr., Is Either Awesome Or A Douche Or Probably Both
Posted on August 18, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., The Dark Knight, movies | Leave a Comment
This item from Gawker is pretty hilarious insofar as Downey is fantastically bitter about the acclaim heaped on The Dark Knight in comparison to Iron Man, but the conclusion bugs me:
And don’t bother warning him about possible reprisals for such loose talk. “You know, you’re never too old to burn your bridges because I believe [...]
I Can’t Seem To Think Of A Relevant Zoolander Quote
Posted on August 12, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Tropic Thunder, movies | 3 Comments
I find this inexplicably odd: No one seems to care about Robert Downey, Jr., wearing blackface, but lots of people seem to care about Ben Stiller using the word “retard” in order to make a nearly identical joke in the same movie.
I have no real commentary here, I just find it odd.
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Things I Don’t Care About
Posted on July 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Things I Don't Care About, W, movies | Leave a Comment
(Part twenty-two in an ongoing series)
Oliver Stone’s take on President Douchebag.
But in case you care, the trailer came out this weekend:
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The Dark Knight
Posted on July 21, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under The Dark Knight, movies | 3 Comments
For my money, Batman Begins was the greatest superhero movie ever made. I have a huge soft spot for Spider-Man, but I’d be lying if I didn’t acknowledge the superiority of Christopher Nolan’s examination of Batman’s origins. For two years, I’ve hoped Nolan and his crew would somehow meet the expectations they created with their [...]
Watchmen Trailer
Posted on July 17, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Watchmen, movies | 1 Comment
Holy crap.
I still don’t know if the movie will work, but the trailer sure does look amazing.
Although… It looks amazing in large part due to the last shot on Mars. Do you think they might’ve blown it by showing so much of what should be the visual highlight of the movie nearly a year early?
But [...]
Things I Was Apparently Supposed To Know
Posted on July 16, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Comedy Central, The Dark Knight, movies | 5 Comments
Well, maybe only one thing: That there are no pictures of Two-Face available anywhere online, even though hundreds of people have seen sneak previews of the film already and the film is two days from release and I remember hearing some photos leaked a month or two ago. So, theoretically, what looked like a publicity [...]
I Hate Comedy Central
Posted on July 16, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under The Dark Knight, movies | 4 Comments
I had avoided seeing what Two-Face was going to look like in The Dark Knight because it was something that I thought would be much more enjoyable to see only when and how Christopher Nolan & Co. wanted to present it on the big screen… Until exactly two minutes ago. When it was ruined for [...]
At Least They Included Shawshank
Posted on July 11, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Spider-Man, movies | Leave a Comment
Via The Plank, the London Times lists their version of the top twenty movie endings. I don’t agree with all of it (The Wizard of Oz’s ending is dreadful) and I haven’t seen several of the classics on the list, but the list as a whole is decent and the topic makes for some good [...]
Quick Review: WALL-E
Posted on July 2, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under WALL-E, movies | 1 Comment
I don’t know how they manage it, but Pixar is so many light years beyond anyone else making “family” movies that they must be somehow cheating. WALL-E is thoroughly enjoyable and I would highly recommend it to anyone.
The animation, as we expect from Pixar, is nearly perfect given the technology available. The robots all move [...]
Awesome Entry In Stephen Colbert’s ‘Make McCain Interesting’ Green Screen Challenge
Posted on June 20, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under John McCain, Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, The Colbert Report, movies | Leave a Comment
This is hysterical1:
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Personally, I would have inserted McCain into the dinner table scene from Jurassic Park. (You know, the one with, “Rape of the natural world!” “The only one on my side is the bloodsucking lawyer!” “You slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and [...]
Another Peek At Watchmen
Posted on May 27, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Watchmen, comic books, movies | Leave a Comment
Hope you all had a nice holiday weekend.
I expected all of the movie news this morning to revolve around Indy’s massive box office haul (I didn’t see it yet, myself), but instead I found something a bit more unexpected. Any fans of Watchmen will want to see the photograph of the Minutemen as shot for [...]
Someone Explain This To Me
Posted on May 22, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2000 presidential election, Phone Booth, Recount, movies | Leave a Comment
Or don’t, because the explanation would likely be boring as well.
Anyway, why the heck did HBO make a movie (or is it a miniseries?) about the 2000 Florida vote counting disaster? I can’t recall hearing of a more boring premise for a movie, and I own a copy of Phone Booth. (The movie consists entirely [...]
“Exactly, Kitty. Like Sea Monkeys.”
Posted on May 20, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bioshock, Superman Returns, libertarians, movies, science, video games | Leave a Comment
Andrew Sullivan posts a link to the story of a group “trying to create quasi-sovereign, libertarian ocean communities on strange looking platforms”. My first thought was, “Holy crap- Andrew Ryan!”1 But then I saw that the Wired writer had already name-checked Bioshock in the original piece. So, let’s see, can I still out-nerd Wired? Ooh, [...]
