Movies

30 Aug

Super 8 (2011)

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So Super 8 will go down as one of the top grossing films of 2011 (top 20 most probably) and probably one of the years biggest sleeper hits, if sleeper hits can be sleepers with names like Spielberg and Abrams.

From a studio stand point it did what it was supposed to, be low budget (approximately $42 million) and deliver at the box office. This big names behind the camera plus off beat plus no big lead actors formula usually equals artistic and monetary disappointment.

Yet Super 8 (despite the handicap of contrived and premeditated studio conservatism) is a decent flick.

29 Aug

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

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So The Wrath of Khan is the Empire Strikes Back of the Star Trek Franchise; simply the best.

I wonder what someone who knew nothing of Star Trek would think if they saw this film in complete Trekkie ignorance. I feel like this film can almost stand in isolation. There is enough investment in storytelling and patient dialogue that I THINK it could stand alone.

21 Aug

Night Train (2009)

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If you like good movies and/or can't look past amateurish filmmaking all around (acting, dialogue, innovation, lighting, directing), skip it.

If you CAN look past all of that skip it anyway. I'd say it's like a made-for-TV movie but that would be an insult to made-for-TV movies.

I watched about 20 minutes and took my own advice.

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