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Tag Archives: Movies
Something for Thursday
I’ve long had something of a love-hate relationship with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. The show came out sometime in the late 1980s, and ten years would pass before I’d see it on stage myself. But for a … Continue reading
If you have a problem and no one else can help….
I just saw, over at MeFi, within a thread devoted to the new The A-Team movie, a checklist of things you should expect in an A-Team story. Here’s the checklist: A-Team checklist: [_] Villagers menaced by goons[_] Break Murdoch out … Continue reading
Expeliarmus
Notes on a few movies we’ve watched lately: :: The Daughter and I watched a sci-fi movie that uses huge amounts of CGI to create a stunningly alien world that is populated by peaceful beings who love to fly. A … Continue reading
100 Characters
Roger points out that Entertainment Weekly did another of their “list” things, this time the “100 Greatest Characters of the last 20 years”. I don’t much like EW, but their lists are usually good for a blog post or two, … Continue reading
“Now that’s what I call a close encounter.”
The Daughter and I watched Independence Day last week. It’s the first time I’ve watched the entire movie in ages, and my impressions haven’t changed one bit. I’ve never been one for the idea of “guilty pleasures”, which I take … Continue reading
“Think they’ll have THAT on the tour?!”
After some debating as to whether or not she was ready for it, The Wife and I decided to take a plunge as regards The Daughter. We watched Jurassic Park with her. Which she promptly pronounced “very unscary” at the … Continue reading
Blofeld should have run a movie studio
It appears that the troubled times at MGM have claimed a victim: James Bond. MGM has been on the selling block for a while, and yet no one has stepped up to buy the studio, so their ability to develop … Continue reading
De-rez!
SamuraiFrog points this out: a very well-made trailer for the movie TRON, the original 1982 classic, using only footage from the movie but edited in the style of trailers these days: Compare with the actual original trailer from 1982: Trailers … Continue reading
Welcome to Earth!
I see at AICN that a sequel or two to Independence Day may be in the works. Such a project has long been rumored; this has been on-again, off-again ever since the original movie came out in 1996 and did … Continue reading
Why so serious?
A while back, The Wife and I watched The Dark Knight. What did we think of it? Well, The Dark Knight is certainly a good movie, but wow, it’s dark. Really dark. It’s a grim, grim, grim movie. It’s so … Continue reading