Tag: movies

  • Neighbors – A Movie Review

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    There’s no way to avoid the obvious – this movie is hilarious.  Truthfully, I don’t ask much from my comedies, and Neighbors delivered.  The thing just spouted off one joke after another, one visual gag after another, and it kept me laughing throughout. If you’re not familiar with the plot, a couple sink every penny…

  • Edge of Tomorrow – A Movie Review

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    There’s been a lot of hype concerning Edge of Tomorrow, and let me tell you, it’s all well deserved. The premise is familiar, to be sure.  Tom Cruise plays “Cage,” an unwilling, inept soldier who is better suited as the military’s brilliant public relations man.  Cage pisses off the wrong superior and finds himself on the…

  • This Suicide Squad Has Life!

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    I’m the first to admit that I never really cared for the Suicide Squad.  I’ve got the first issue seen below from it’s original publication in 1987, and I can tell you, as a ten-year-old at the time, it wasn’t really my thing. I’ve been amused by their various incarnations throughout the decades, especially their…

  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – A Movie Review

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    So I’ll be honest – I never had much interest in the Spider-Man reboot.  I liked the original two by Sam Raimi, not so much the third, and I didn’t see much point in starting over with a new set of actors and a new director. When Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man came out with…

  • Her – A Movie Review

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    I’m the first to admit that the premise of Her is preposterous.  Set in the near future, a new operating system achieves artificial intelligence and will tailor itself to the owner’s needs.  This isn’t a case of one massive computer lording over humanity, this is artificial intelligence for all.  If you want to pay for…

  • X-Men: Days of Future Past – A Movie Review

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    Though it took me far longer than I intended, I’m glad I finally made it to the theater to see this film.  I’ll go ahead and say it: it’s the best of the X-Men movies thus far.  Why is it the best, you ask? How can it be better than X-Men 2?  Let me explain…

  • Romeo and Juliet (2013) – A Movie Review

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    “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”  Unfortunately, Juliet, this is not always the case.  The 2013 cinematic adaptation of Romeo and Juliet got a few things right, but it mostly missed the mark. Just so you know, spoilers abound.  “Uh, Scott,” you say, “it’s Romeo and Juliet … you can’t spoil…

  • Pacific Rim – A Movie Review

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    I generally have a difficult time making it out to the movies, but I recently decided that for a small list of directors, that effort is well worthwhile. Guillermo del Toro is one of those directors, and so I figured I’d better get to the theater for Pacific Rim before it left. I’ll be honest:…

  • Cloud Atlas – A Movie Review

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    This movie, adapted from the exceedingly difficult novel by David Mitchell and directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, shot right into my top five favorites of all time. I’ve never seen anything quite like this film. Never. If you’re unfamiliar with the book, it presents six different storylines that are loosely related.  Mitchell gives…

  • Man of Steel – A Movie Review

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    (Spoilers at the very end of this review.  I will warn you before going into them.) If you’ve been waiting for a Superman movie that shows our hero strutting all of his super stuff, then you will be very happy with Man of Steel.  In fact, I’ve never seen the kind of all-out action depicted…