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‘Land of the Lost’ goes for laughs over tenants of screenwriting

I wasn’t expecting much from Land of the Lost and I surely didn’t get it for two reasons – lack of empathy and context. Lack of empathy for lead character The movie starts out with Will Ferrell’s character, Rick Marshall, … Continue reading

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Gamer

How many times have I seen the plot lines in Gamer before – The Running Man, Death Race, etc. But beyond that they don’t even get the plot going till 20 minutes in. What’s the point of the movie? Why am … Continue reading

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Avatar covers holes while Sherlock Holmes can’t

It seems I wasn’t the only one to visit the theaters over the Christmas break. A science fiction fan I had to catch Avatar. It was entertaining but as everyone says, the plot and story fail in many ways. What … Continue reading

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How many story related position did Pixar’s Up have?

I finally saw Pixar’s Up yesterday. I’d heard great things about it and that everyone loved it. But like most animated movies, I took my sweet time coming around to see it. Frankly I have a habit of avoiding Pixar … Continue reading

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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

All I’ve got to say, or ask, is why do they keep giving Stephen Sommers movies to director or produce, or whatever? Wasn’t Van Helsing enough? I was warned that G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was horrible and it was … Continue reading

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The Dark Crystal

I hadn’t seen The Dark Crystal since I was a kid. I remembered it fondly and it didn’t let me down, but watching it again I noticed the heavy reliance on narration and lack of true conflict. It’s really more … Continue reading

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Away We Go

Away We Go was more akin to a foreign film for me. It has some interesting dialog and characters but the whole time you’re waiting for the movie to start. It’s basically a road trip movie with no outer objective … Continue reading

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Billy Jack

I was never that familiar with the Billy Jack series from Tom Laughlin, but I had seen the iconic images since I was young – Billy Jack on the motorcycle, the mix of Native American styles, the hat. From the … Continue reading

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Black Dynamite

What can I say, Black Dynamite was what I expected and more. The perfect spoof of the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with some of the best lines I’ve heard in a movie all year. However the theater I saw it in was … Continue reading

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Traitor

Traitor is a study in how not to try and create a mystery out of your protagonist. In the first three minutes we see Don Cheadle’s character watch as his father is killed in a car bomb. Then the movie … Continue reading

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