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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
It's been a long wait, but "The First Avenger: Captain America" is officially off to a strong start.
While the project has been in the works for some time, this week Marvel announced that screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely would be joining director Joe Johnston in forming the core creative team behind the upcoming Marvel franchise. While these decisions may seem a bit odd at first, looking over their body of work makes me feel like this might finally be the Captain America movie we've all been waiting for. |
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 |
I've come to grips with the fact that my opinion greatly differs from that of other reviewers. I like to think that my readers (yes, you) share my personal tastes or at the very least trust me enough to hear me out.
  That being said, I present "The Love Guru". Trashed by pretty much every reviewer imaginable, I was expecting this movie to be horrible. Truly, truly horrible. After reading reviews in newspapers and the net, I was under the impression that this movie was nigh unwatchable.
After seeing it (and mostly enjoying it) I'd like to politely retort.
After sitting down and watching this movie, I just want to say this: "what the hell is wrong with some people"? While definitely not the best Mike Myers comedy ever made (probably not even top 5), "The Love Guru" still managed to keep me consistantly chuckling throughout the entire film, and even managed to crack me up a few times. And, like all his other movies, I still find myself quoting it on a semi-daily basis.
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 |
This week we have a kung fu flick that means well, rapping retards (maybe), and two re-releases that are a must-have for any respectable DVD library.
  "The Forbidden Kingdom". As a massive kung fu flick fan (say that ten times fast) I was really looking forward to seeing this movie and while it may not be the best movie ever (far from it) it satisfies the one key rule of a good chopsocky movie: lots of cool fight scenes, lots of special effects.
And that's that. I've heard a lot of people were disappointed in this movie, but why? Seriously, it's a movie where a teenager travels to mythical China and Jackie Chan and Jet Li duke it out. That's pretty much all you need to know on this one. People who rent this looking for an intelligent plot or high quality drama need to have their heads examined.
While I would have liked to see the movie made a little differently (get rid of the teenager completely, film it 10 years ago while Chan and Li were in their primes), it doesn't detract from the fact that you get to see Jackie Chan as Drunken Master fight Jet Li from any of his "Shaolin" films - and that's all a movie like this really needs. It's a kung fu nerd Friday night debate come to life. I can't recommend buying it, but check it out if you need a heavy dose of wirework and tightly choreographed action. |
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