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Memorable Matchups of 2012 – Part 2
2, Jan 2013
by Ryan Stuckey
“Why is he splitting them up?”
“Why are they so long?”
“Why must he take something we love and ruin it?”
No these are not reviews for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. They were the assumed reaction of the tens of people who read Part 1 of my 2012 wrap up; where I dissected the year of Channing Tatum, had two Lincolns square off, and looked at one of the two live action Snow White adaptations. Part 2 will start with…
2 Films, 20 Dwarfs
Snow White and the Huntsman featured Chris Hemsworth as a hunter whose prey is apparently trees since his weapon of choice is an axe, and Kristen Stewart as a Snow White who went to the distinguished school of parted lip acting. There’s a love triangle that nobody cares about – and I’m not talking about director Rupert Sanders, K. Stew, and R. Patt – and Charlize Theron acting with as much subtly as a nuclear explosion. The dwarfs were entertaining but tragically underused.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was what I expected. It’s similar to The Lord of the Rings trilogy in a lot of ways but is not as good as any of them. Where we came to know and love every character in that series we only really get to know Bilbo, Gandalf, and Thorin in this. Meanwhile there are a mess of other dwarfs that are only distinguishable by variations of hair above the neck, and sometimes that doesn’t even do enough to make them stand out. Did it need to be a trilogy? No. Is the book being dragged through the mud? More like dropped in a puddle before quickly being grabbed and dried off quickly. As long as fans of The Lord of the Rings series don’t go into it expecting it to be world shattering they should enjoy themselves. I should mention I didn’t see it in 48fps but I heard mostly negative things about it.
And the Winner Is: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - even though Peter Jackson obviously thinks “dues ex machina” is Latin for giant eagles.
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Prometheus: A Flickcharter’s Review
10, Jun 2012
by Nathan Chase
I’ve been a fan of the Alien film series since my first encounter of catching glimpses of Jim Cameron‘s sequel. Between finger-shielded eyes, transfixed from across the room, I was likely much too young to be watching these scary, vicious creatures on VHS. In the years to come, I’d find their genesis in Ridley Scott‘s original, Alien, and then eagerly anticipating the opening nights of Alien³ and Alien Resurrection. Even the Alien vs. Predator comic-fan mash-up detours have claimed their running times from my life. To this day, I’m a dedicated fan. I’m writing this review wearing a Weyland-Yutani t-shirt. I’ve poured through hours of commentaries and behind the scenes features; from the Special Edition Laserdisc, to the DVD Quadrilogy, and the latest Blu-ray Anthology.
The common thread through it all has been the horrific H.R. Giger creature design and its environments – from my impressionable young age to adulthood – striking me as beautiful and intricate as they are the origins of nightmares. As dedicated as ever, Scott’s love of visual storytelling in cinema bring these ghastly, yet gorgeous visions to our sight once again in Prometheus - but probably not in the way you’d expect.
by Ryan Stuckey
The idea to make a sequel to a movie that was universally panned about a superhero that no one really cares being played by an actor that everyone constantly makes fun of seems misguided at best. Even though 2007′s Ghost Rider nearly doubled it’s money in Worldwide box office and won it’s opening weekend, I’d find it hard to believe the sequel could repeat that considering how ticket sales have been declining since 2007 -not including 2009- and how many people will avoid it simply because they got burned by the first. That’s not to say it’s an impossible task. Ang Lee’s Hulk was disliked by a lot of people, yet the sequel was solid and felt more in line with what an Incredible Hulk movie should be: full of him smashing things. Read the rest of this entry »
by Colin Biggs
Leonardo DiCaprio has reportedly been in talks with Quentin Tarantino to take the lead villain role in the upcoming flick Django Unchained as Calvin Candie. Candie is the ruthless owner of Candyland, “a despicable club in Mississippi where female slaves are exploited as sex objects and males are pitted against each other in “mandingo” style death matches. Candie is a slave’s worst nightmare and the freed slave Django must cross him in order to reclaim his wife.” This would be quite a reversal for DiCaprio as his biggest turns as of late have always been the hero role. I’m quite interested in seeing if he is confirmed for the role.
Christoph Waltz has been confirmed as the German bounty hunter who trains Django. But the titular character has not yet been picked. Rumored actors for the project have included Will Smith, but more recently Idris Elba, Jamie Foxx and Chris Tucker.
(Courtesy: Deadline)
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by Dan
There are a ton of smaller movies on DVD and Blu-ray this week. Take a look…
Rank the week of January 18th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best movies ever made:
Buried (DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best thriller movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #1562
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Ryan Reynolds gets buried alive.
Animal Kingdom (DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best crime thriller movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #2151
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Look at that win percentage! From what I hear, imagine if Scorsese was Australian and this is what you’d end up with. This movie also furthers my theory that Guy Pearce is incapable of making a bad movie.
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- Tags: Animal Kingdom, Army of Crime, Buried, Creation, Danny Trejo, Death Race 2, Down Terrace, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Fire on th Amazon, Greg Kinnear, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Idris Elba, Jack Goes Boating, Jennifer Connelly, Lebannon, Mel Gibson, Miley Cyrus, Milla Jovovich, Paper Man, Paul Bettany, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Ryan Reynolds, Samuel Fuller, Sandra Bullock, Sean Bean, Shock Corridor, Stone, Takers, The Last Song, The Naked Kiss, The Road Warrior, the virginity hit, Ving Rhames