With the succession of Marvel films throughout the last three years, The Avengers has become the most anticipated film of the film season, more so even than The Dark Knight Rises. With the film’s principle photography having begun in late April, the upcoming comic book epic is no longer an upcoming project discussed on the internet and Comic-Con, but can now be seen upon the horizon.
Well, it is a new year, and with it a new slew of highly-anticipated Hollywood blockbusters, not to mention more regular content from the site. No doubt many of you have kept up with the rumor mill of Hollywood; oodles and boodles of remakes, reboots and superhero sagas are being planned for the big screen.
Which ones are you eagerly awaiting? Which ones are you eagerly awaiting to hate on? Following the jump are some of the films we’re most excited for, and some that we’re complaining about already.
It was announced, not too long ago, that a prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing was in the works. Soon after, Ridley Scott announced that he was working on a prequel to Alien.
I don’t even know where to begin.
Don't know what he's looking at...it's not the beach.
Last night, I watched one of the more depressing movies I’ve ever seen. It was about this old guy who tells a story to a female resident of this nursing home. He tells the story of a couple who had fallen in love, and there were some plot twists and things, and at the end…YOU REALIZE THAT THE MAN AND THE WOMAN WERE THE PEOPLE IN THE STORY BUT THEY JUST HAD ALZHEIMER’S. Then they die, and there are swans flying as the credits roll. The tears were just flying out of my eyes, it was terrible.
So anyways, I didn’t actually watch The Notebook, but my writing skills are just so good, that I totally had you going, didn’t I? Hah! The movie I actually watched last night was On the Beach, a 1959 film about the end of the civilized world. It was directed by Stanley Kramer and starred Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins, and Fred Astaire. Being born in good ol’ 1985, I have no idea who any of those people are, but apparently they’re some big movie stars?
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In an unfortunate summer that has yet to make a real impression on anyone, the lavish, designer label-laden Sex in the City 2 has garnered a bit of attention for being a critical and commercial failure. Not only is it a terrible, but the content of the film has ruffled many a feather due to its obsession with fashion, wealth and its unabashed adherence to stereotypes long thought negative towards feminism.
I don't get it.
Dear Diary:
Today, I finally decided to write the next column that I have been putting off for a few weeks. Why? Well, diary, it’s because when you write the same format for every movie all the time, sometimes you get bored. Formulaic, if you will. So, you have to spend a few weeks fighting crime in Thailand or meditating in Australia to get your creativity back. Then, you sometimes have to get your passport and identification stolen, get accused of being an international crime lord, and finally have one or two of the cocaine balloons you’re currently smuggling inside your body burst and have to go through a crazy intense detox.
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"I guess I see myself as a kind of professional appreciator."
I love movies. I love all types of art: literature, comics, music, photography, and painting. I’m an appreciator of most creative endeavors, and my primary goal with this website, at least in the case of the films, is to share that love with other people. You can think of this as the mission statement I never wrote when we started this website almost a year ago, but my real intention is to question the act and processes of criticism of the arts, and the way in which I’m contributing to it at the moment. Continue reading
Bad. Ass.
Thanks to all your love and support, my stalker has been put behind bars. In an elaborate sting operation that involved me dressing as Dorothy from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and prancing around with a stuffed dog singing “Bad Romance” by Lady GaGa (yeah I didn’t understand that part either), the perpetrator was captured when he mistakenly fell into a hole covered in leaves. Score one for the good guys. Although, I guess they should change the title of the website to “One Film Geek.”
This week(end?) the movie on the chopping block is 1979’s Mad Max. A staple of dystopian and post apocalyptic cinema, this movie hails from Australia and clocks in at ninety-five (95) minutes. Although, really, since time and space are connected, we could measure this film in meters, light-minutes, or even parsecs. Continue reading
Iron Man 2 hit theaters just last Friday to favorable commercial and critical success. In the film, Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke play enemies due to a generation-old betrayal, with one family being disgraced, and the other having acted disgracefully. 
Perhaps it was by mere coincidence that these individuals were cast as men who have, in one way or another, fallen from grace and must fight their way back to the top. There aren’t many people like Mickey Rourke and Robert Downey Jr., who are as famous for their self-destruction as they are for their immense talent.
