Family, 91 Minutes, 2013
It used to be that companies like “Pixar” had to suffer poor imitators. Other companies would come along and produce, at best, paint-by-numbers knock-offs that hit all the same notes but couldn’t hope to match the music. For every “A Bug’s Life” [IMDB] there was an “Antz” [IMDB] and for every “Finding Nemo” [IMDB] there was “A Shark’s Tale” [IMDB]. These big-budget semi-clones where never terrible but they were always missing something.
Action, 103 Minutes, 2013
The original Kick-Ass [IMDB] was my favorite movie of 2010 and one of the best comic book adaptations ever made. While s0me were critical of the changes made to the story I thought that they suited the medium better while honoring the spirit of the original well.
Horror, 97 Minutes, 2012
This were, in the slang of the participants, shit.
A once popular band is trying to pull out of a downward spiral. In a last ditch effort to impress their record company they lock themselves in crappy warehouse for the weekend to make a comeback video.
Action/Comedy, 96 Minutes, 2013
What if the “Men in Black” [IMDB] hunted ghosts instead of aliens? That’s the movie in a nutshell. Not at all original, but also not a bad idea, really. The agents, here, are dead themselves and doing community service on Earth before being allowed into Heaven. The fugitive ghosts hiding among us need to be found and revealed so that they can be put down for good.
In celebration of the release of the Playstaion 4 the PlayStation Greatness Exchange is giving away all of the props from the excellent “A Perfect Day” commercial (below). In what is a certified stroke of marketing genius this is the second contest which has allowed fans to leverage their PSN Trophy collection to win actual prizes.
(Yes, my PSN handle is “kiwidust”. Feel free to ping me if you catch me online. Apologies in advance: I rarely do multi-player due to the enormous, towering, stack of unplayed games looming over me.)
I tossed my lot of trophies on the Elder Scrolls Online Dagger and…. please provide your own drumrolls, I won! I haven’t actually taken delivery yet (who know how long that will take) but I’m already in negotiations with my lovely bride on how (and where) to mount and display it. Here’s a few close-ups of the piece provided by PlayStation:
Here’s the commercial. You can see the dagger in the first few seconds being drawn for combat by the thiefy-looking guy on the right. He better not have scratched my dagger!
Once I take official ownership, I’ll be sure to gloat some more!
Sci-fi, 125 Minutes, 2013
This really wasn’t such a bad idea but tell me, Stephanie Meyer fans, does every single, blessed thing she writes involve a blank, emotionless girl in a love triangle? Is it a new genre, like Dub Step or dinosaur porn, that I’ve just been blissfully unaware of?
Thriller, 93 Minutes, 2010
Taking a break from gorging on the summer blockbusters we missed, we gave this little indie darling a try. The decision was based solely on David Hyde Pierce’s [IMDB] participation – his very first starring role, no less. We had no preconceptions and little idea what to expect.
“The Trouble with the Curve” on IMDB
Drama, 111 Minutes, 2012
I’m not a sports fan. I don’t really have much use for them. Sure I’ve had the occasional decent time watching a game with friends and I’m just as mesmerized as the next guy by the insanity that parades across ESPN 3 but, in general, they’re just not my thing. Too much work for too little gain, in my opinion.
But I love sports movies.
Action, 95 Minutes, 2013:
The original attempt at capturing “Britain’s Number One Comic Hero”, 1995’s “Judge Dredd” [IMDB] was, let’s be honest, not a terrible movie. It was a bit ham-fisted and trite but also had a decent story, some great design work and lots of action. It was not, however, a good Judge Dredd movie. It tried, lord knows it tried. In the final judgement (get it?!) it just didn’t capture the character very well. While some fans considered the removal of the character’s helmet pure sacrilege the issues went deeper than that. The movie ended up too light, to uneven and just plain too Hollywood.
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