Posted in Industry on Jun 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
Unless you live on Mars, it’s impossible to avoid being bombarded by aggressive Hollywood advertising for upcoming films. These are mostly remakes of old 70s movies and television shows, or awful sequels to awful films, which should have never been made in the first place.
Posted in Industry on Jun 26th, 2007 No Comments »
There is the Hollywood, big-budget blockbuster. There is the so-called indie
flick with name actors and a budget over $20 million, but its just not released
in 1,000 theaters. We get the art house movies and their normal companions,
foreign films. But of my favorite movies are the ones that have a status
unrelated to their [...]
Posted in Movies on Jun 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
The horror movies now are made to wow the audience with unnecessary blood splatter and senseless slasher deaths in an undeveloped script and no character development. Most of the horror movies now aren’t scary anymore.
Posted in Movies on Jun 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
After wasting two and a half hours of my life on Sam Raimi’s third installment to the Spider-Man franchise, I have come to the conclusion that it is a very shoddy sequel loaded with tired cliches, bad acting and lousy subplots. Inevitably, it resorts to being nothing more than a third-rate [...]
Posted in Movies on Jun 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Tired of all the sequels or three-quels this summer? Here is a movie that
not only gives the viewer a breath of fresh air, but 18. Paris, je t’aime
(translated: Paris, I love you) is a movie in 18 segments directed by 18
different directors from around the world. American favorites like the
Coen brothers, Wes [...]