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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Movie based on nostalgia for Sleeping Beauty aimed primarily at Sleeping Beauty’s audience
UPDATE: Apparently, according to folklore, iron forged over a cold anvil is said to be able to ward off fairies. It doesn’t change the assessment that this particular plot point was explained poorly and applied inconsistently or that the film … Continue reading
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They “Blended” an entire continent
Blended wouldn’t really be worth mentioning if it weren’t extremely racist. The film introduces single father Jim Friedman (Adam Sandler) and single mother Lauren Reynolds (Drew Barrymore) on a biblically awful blind date, then promptly sticks him and his three … Continue reading
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It’s a sequel to the first movies, but also a sequel to the prequel to the first mov– I don’t care, it’s good!
As Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) goes back in time from 2023 to 1973, Bryan Singer takes the audience back in time from 2014 to 2003 — a time when comic book movies were strange, unique affairs that were always successful and … Continue reading
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Spoilers in the title
Going back to the beginning of this generation of comic book movies, they’ve always done a good job of sticking to the source material, at least vaguely. The era’s grand-daddy, the Raimi/Maguire Spider-Man series, covered Spiderman No More, Venom’s first … Continue reading
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The Godzilla trailers lied, you will be cheated and you will feel like you’ve been cheated
Godzilla’s trailers are excellent. The feature is completely unrelated. The film, which was supposed to be about nuclear physicist Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) and Godzilla, is actually about Navy Lieutenant Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and the Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Objects, weird … Continue reading
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