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The Last Stand: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review
21, Jan 2013
Arnold Schwarzenegger has returned in The Last Stand, a sort-of amped up, extra-violent version of Unstoppable. It’s not perfect, and starts off kind of slow, but once the film gets going it becomes the mindless fun you’d expect.
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- Tags: 2013, action, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Art Malik, Bill Paxton, comedy, Eduardo Noriega, Forest Whitaker, Genesis Rodriguez, Harry Dean Stanton, Jaime Alexander, James Cameron, Javier Bardem, Jee-woon Kim, Jingle All the Way, John McTiernan, John Wayne, Johnny Knoxville, Luis Guzman, Peter Stormare, predator, Robert Patrick, Rodrigo Santoro, Skyfall, Terminator 2, The Good The Bad The Weird, The Last Stand, the running man, true lies, Unstoppable
The Guilty Pleasures: Dragon Edition
27, Apr 2011
by Nigel Druitt
Dragons. Are there any cooler creatures in all of mythology? Unfortunately, in the world of celluloid, these great creatures of imagination have not really gotten their due. (At least, not in live-action cinema; why I have not yet seen How to Train Your Dragon is still beyond me.)
Is there any live-action film in which dragons have truly come off as cool as they deserve? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire wasn’t too bad, but the dragons aren’t the stars. As I impatiently await the day when Peter Jackson brings his vision of the ultimate dragon, Smaug, to life in The Hobbit, I think about other dragon-themed movies that I have enjoyed in the past. None of them are deserving enough to be called “great”, but I’m very forgiving of movies I want to like. In one of these cases, I was the perfect age to see a dragon with real presence brought to life on the big screen – even if the movie he inhabited was far from perfect. Without further adieu, I present, in ascending order on my Flickchart, my picks for Guilty Pleasures starring dragons.
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- Tags: 1996, 2002, 2008, 300, Beowulf, Christian Bale, David Thewlis, Dennis Quaid, DragonHeart, Elektra, film, films, Flickchart, Gerard Butler, Harry Potter, heath ledger, Hellboy, How to Train Your Dragon, Howard McCain, James Caviezel, John Hurt, kevin spacey, Matthew McConaughey, movies, Outlander, Peter Jackson, predator, Randy Edelman, Reign of Fire, Rob Bowman, Rob Cohen, Ron Perlman, sean connery, Star Trek: First Contact, Sucker Punch, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The X-Files, Vin Diesel
Reel Rumbles #27: “Die Hard” vs. “Lethal Weapon”
23, Dec 2010by Nigel Druitt
In This Corner…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, which means many people will be turning their movie-watching attention to a lot of those feel-good holiday favorites. But for some, this is the most wonderful time of the year… for busting some heads. Nothing says peace on Earth like a good, old-fashioned, blood-pumping action flick, and this year we’re entering the Reel Rumbles ring with a couple of the best. So get ready to deck the halls (and some thugs). It’s time for Die Hard vs. Lethal Weapon.
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- Tags: 1987, 1988, 48 Hrs., Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Christmas, cop out, Danny Glover, Die Hard, film, films, Gary Busey, John McTiernan, Lethal Weapon, matchup, Mel Gibson, Mitchell Ryan, movies, predator, Reel Rumbles, Reginald VelJohnson, Richard Donner, Rush Hour, Superman, Sylvester Stallone, Tango & Cash, The Goonies, The Omen, The Other Guys, Witness
Cowboys & Aliens: Who Really Wins?
18, Nov 2010
by Dan
Who hasn’t ever been in a heated debate with a friend over who would win in a battle: Cowboys or Aliens? Well thankfully, a huge new movie is coming soon to help us finally know.
I have a sneaking suspicion the cowboys will win in the movie, based off the star-power they have (Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig), but what about the battle of Cowboy movies vs Alien movies?
Well, let’s break it down. Here’s my stab at answering the eternal question of who wins in a battle between Cowboys and Aliens (movies). These are my top-5′s in the Western and Alien Invasion Movie genres:
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- Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Alien Invasions, Aliens, Bad Day at Black Rock, Blazing Saddles, Cowboys, Ernest Borgnine, Gary Cooper, henry fonda, High Noon, John Carpenter, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, predator, Rashomon, Robert Ryan, Roddy Piper, Signs, Spencer Tracy, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Outrage, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Thing, They Live, Westerns, William Shatner
Predators: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review
14, Jul 2010by Nigel Druitt
Some of the world’s deadliest people – soldiers, mercenaries, killers, rapists – find themselves dropped into the middle of a hostile jungle. Soon, they realize they are being hunted… and that they are no longer on our world. So begins Predators; a sequel to the original, singular-titled, Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring sci-fi action hit from 1987. And as it turns out, it’s become the only sequel to that movie that’s truly worth the effort.
Starring: Adrien Brody (The Pianist; King Kong), Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3; TV’s “That 70′s Show”), Alice Braga (City of God; I Am Legend), Walton Goggins (TV’s “The Shield”), Oleg Taktarov (Righteous Kill; Bad Boys II), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix; TV’s “CSI”) and Danny Trejo (Planet Terror; Heat)
Directed by: Nimród Antal (Armored; Vacancy)
So, how does Predators measure up? I’ll use the Flickchart ranking method to see how…