Of all the graphic novel adaptations to date, 300 is the most poetic and subtle.
Weighing in at a deserved $210,592,590 gross, 300 has kept delightful teenage fan boys entertained for hours. And with so much of the movie in slow motion, that’s pretty awesome.
Here are some things I love about 300:
5. Just about as right-wing [...]
somehow i made it 29 plus years without ever seeing more than 15 consecutive minutes of any rambo movie until last night. i think i had a strong desire to see rambo when i was 10, but we had an unbreakable no-watching-rated-r-movies rule in my family. around that time i went to a birthday sleepover [...]
The second movie Scott and I watched in my series of Films I Never Wanted to Watch was Kids (Larry Clark, 1995). After a really totally awesome day of Soul Caliber II and crocheting teddy bears we figured a little AIDS epidemic-inspired drama was needed.
Let me come right out with it: I hate hate hated [...]
This week I watched the Edison film Frankenstein (J. Searle Dowley, 1910). This print that someone has uploaded is not in great shape, but I doubt something this obscure is available in any other format.
The film admits to being a “liberal adaptation” of Mary Shelley’s original work [...]
i’m trying to remember all the horse movies i’ve seen. so there’s the black stallion, the man from snowy river, wild hearts can’t be broken and national velvet. national velvet was a weird one. but i wanted to talk about the other two horse movies i’ve seen.
on wednesday night, i watched white mane. kind of [...]
I Spit on Your Grave is as vile as it sounds. Four rapes, four revenges, and one hour and forty minutes later, I’ve pretty much had about about as much as I can stomach of 70s horror films. I’m done with thick, waxy blood, an excess of nudity, constant female screams, flowing dresses with big [...]
the thief of bagdad
how does a movie have three directors? wait, reading online, i found that there may actually have been up to six directors with half of them being uncredited. i guess it was because of the war. and because it’s pre-new wave, so directors had no control or less [...]
This week I watched two more D.W. Griffith movies. Both forms of social commentary, but radically different from each other: Those Awful Hats and A Corner in Wheat. The first shows the early 19th century’s version of a “turn off your cell phones” theatre service announcement. Top hats and large, flowered, wide-brimmed numbers were apparently [...]
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