Sci-fi/Action, 95 Minutes, 2012
To simplify things right off the bat: this is “Escape from New York” [IMDB] in space. Instead of an abandoned metropolis we’ve got a giant space prison. Instead of Snake Plissken we get Snow. Instead of Donald Pleasence [IMDB] as the president we get Maggie Grace [IMDB] as the president’s daughter (so that we can insert romantic tension).
Horror?, 87 Minutes, 2012
The SyFy channel continues its unspoken mission to destroy the art of filmmaking. They’ve seen the future and it’s a giant machine that takes two things, smooshes them together and makes them worse than they ever could be alone.
Drama/Sci-fi, 172 Minutes, 2012
I had been attracted to this by the trailers but lost track of it until I noticed it available on Amazon Instant Video. I couldn’t honestly remember what about it attracted me. I knew that Tom Hanks [IMDB] seems to pick scripts well and that I’d never been completely disappointed by the Wachowski’s. We ended up watching it, my lovely bride and I, without bothering to get any more information on it.
We loved it. Both of us. We didn’t understand shit. Neither of us.
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Zombie alert!
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I, like everybody else, heard amazing things about this series. The first movie was made on the thinnest of shoestring budgets (less than $15,000) but has since grossed over 100 million. I had never gotten around to watching it. With a fifth movie announced, four in the can and a whole day to kill I figured, “why not a marathon?”
Comedy, 97 Minutes, 2012
This is sorta, kinda, almost a remake of “The Wizard” [IMDB]. Like that weird little classic a group of friends, in this case a “Gears of War 3” clan, go cross-country to compete in a giant video-game championship. The major difference is that the main characters here are thirty-something slackers. The main similarity is that they, also, really don’t seem to know much about gaming.
“Death Race 3: Inferno” on IMDB
Action, 105 Minutes, 2012
The Death Race movies are really odd ducks. The original “Death Race 2000” [IMDB], released in 1975 by legendary producer Roger Corman [IMDB], showed us the dystopian future of the year 2000. An annual trans-continental race (which actually started in 1980) where points are scored for pedestrian deaths and the brutality of kills is the national sport. The star of the sport is “Frankenstein”, a disfigured racer who has never been beaten.
[There will be spoilers for the previous movies ahead.]
“Silent Hill: Revelation” on IMDB
Horror, 94 Minutes, 2012
This is a sequel to 2006’s underappreciated “Silent Hill” [IMDB]. Where the original movie was more inspired by the video game this movie attempts to merge that mostly original story with the third game. (The “Silent Hill” video game series tends to vacillate between a loosely contiguous plotline and stand-alone stories set in its universe. The third game was essentially a direct sequel to the first. For what it’s worth the second game, which connects to very little, was the best game in the series and one of the best games ever made.)
“Age of the Hobbit” (aka “Clash of the Empires”) on IMDB
Fantasy, 87 Minutes, 2012
[After I released this review I learned that this was also released under the title “Lord of the Elves” and this is how you’ll find it – if you really insist on doing so – on Amazon.com Instant Video.]
