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"The society which separates its scholars from its warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."–Thucydides
“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”–Attributed to Josef Stalin Sometime around 1991, my freshman year in college, I came across Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail; the first cinematic …
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First, the trailer roundup: Until now, I was pretty convinced that “After Earth” was going to be another “I Am Legend” debacle for the otherwise-brilliant Will Smith. The trailer I saw today makes me think it might be worth watching. I saw no sign of the U.S. military in the new “Wolverine” trailer, so hopefully …
You may all thank me; I have gone to see “The Evil Dead” so that you don’t have to. But first, my Hollywood Crap assessment: A movie poster was up for “The Lone Ranger”. Before you go walking too far down the thought-path of Hollywood possibly having made a watchable movie, you should know that …
Senators Feinstein, McCain and others apparently sent a letter to the director of the CIA demanding a fact-check of a Hollywood movie. While I find the idea of fact-checking a work of fiction a bit ridiculous, I have to wonder why this movie in particulare was called on? Why wasn’t this level of Senatorial diligence/time …
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What happens when a bunch of actors I don’t care for get together to play a bunch of characters I couldn’t possibly care about? Ted. I will hand it to the writers, the movie is occassionally clever (“Nothing is more powerful than the Christmas wish of a young boy. Except an Apache helicopter.”). And, frankly, …
Rifftrax, the major franchise spawn of my perennial favorite, Mystery Science Theater 3000. They apparently do a regular poll of their fans to vote on the worst movies, and here is their list of worst movies, ever. Exit quote: “If you put Halle Berry in a leather catsuit and STILL wind up with a 3/10 …
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The short version: If you are a JRR Tolkein purist, you will enjoy this slightly less than the LOTR movie franchise. If you are looking for a fun fantasy movie, this is a pretty good one. The long version: A lot of effort (and padding!) has been put into making The Hobbit run parallel to …
Well, we’re almost three months in to 2010, and they’ve finally released a movie I find watchable–straight to DVD, of course. Even the mighty Avatar has taken its place next to Pearl Harbor and Titanic in the dustbin of “Blockbusters I will probably never, ever watch.” Before I go any farther, let me state for …
Roger Ebert is a gigantic tool, but at least he’s a reliable water-mark. His endorsement of “Avatar” (both in fact and in verbage) confirms that I am NOT interested in seeing it, big budget or no. The blatant politics of this movie are going to prevent it from doing as well as a film with …
