Take fantasy master Tim Burton, add in a classic fantasy story, and what do you have? A fairly average movie. Not average by normal movie standards, but average compared to our expectations. We expect something unique from Tim Burton every time, but this time we find what seems to be a collection of recycled characters and ideas, down to the music.
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Alice In Wonderland 3D (2010) – Tim Burton
03/14/2010Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon – movie review
02/10/2010Every culture has its Wild West. The good guys, the bad guys, gunslingers, peacemakers, those somewhere in the middle, vast unspoiled expanses of nature and love stories that will never be. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is China’s Wild West movie, but in a way that’s never been done here or there. This puts it on my list of 10 best all-time movies.
Shaun Of The Dead – movie review
01/30/2010Two buddies trying to never grow up, share a flat (yes it is British) and somehow ineptly survive a newly infected zombie world with a surprising ending.
Simon Pegg, co-author and star, notes, we didn’t want to make a comedy zombie movie, we wanted to make a zombie movie and comedy movie at the same time. Whether he succeeded, of even if that’s possible, is left up to you to decide. The end result, however, is a movie worth watching for anyone who knows what a zombie is.
King Kong (1933) – movie review
01/25/2010There’s mystery in the air. From the cargo vessel loaded with explosives, with 3 times the number of crew needed for a ship this size, planning to leave the harbor before the authorities board it in the morning, traveling to an unknown destination known only to a strange P. T. Barnum-like movie producer looking for a star for his movie in the homeless shelters, to the black and white images almost always shot in poor light or fog with portions of the scene too dark to see into, there’s mystery in the air in what many people have on their list of all-time best movies.
Avatar – Movie Review
01/01/2010This is interesting VIII – WordPress Plugins – Shaun Of The Dead – Zombieland
12/22/2009Despite the effects of two small ( I stress the word small) glasses of wine, I managed to install my first WordPress plug-in tonight. To digress, two small glasses of wine never used to have this effect. As a note of caution to the reader, as you age and mature (well more like age, because most of us sure don’t mature), what used to be a pleasurable creative experience becomes a cloud of huhs? and missed keystrokes. At any rate, I’ll use the excuse that my attention has been divided between installing the plug-in and writing about it; with an unbiased viewing of Shaun of the Dead (Comedy Channel – with references to come when I sober up) compared to Zombieland (more references later). As you can tell, the plug-in lost.
The results follow:
Shaun of the Dead
Zombieland
Both worth a watch, but Zombieland rocks. Double tap.
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