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Published 07-20-2007 9:15 PM | Mark
The strain of two Tool shows in a row was great, but my friend Wai Houng insisted that Mike and I accompany him and his girlfriend to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at IMAX in Mass the following afternoon. Miserable, sore, and wretched...
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Review of 300 - ***
Published 03-11-2007 12:37 PM | Mark
300 is a fantasy representation of one of Western Civilization's most momentous events: the battle of Thermopylae . In this battle, a small army of Greeks - led by the Spartan king Leonidas and his hand-picked group of 300 warriors - held off a massive...
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Review of The Departed - 0 stars
Published 03-02-2007 10:05 PM | Mark
The Departed is yet another tired exercise in nihilistic self-indulgence. The best that can be said about it is that it's watchable, which, these days, is a rare feat for director Martin Scorsese. Scorsese is loved by Hollywood because he has a knack...
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initial thoughts on Borat
Published 11-05-2006 9:47 PM | Mark
I want to write a review of this excellent movie, but I want to get a couple things down while they're fresh on my mind: I've been to prep school. I've showered with a lot of men, and one thing I've noticed is that Jews tend to have large...
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X-Men: The Lask Stand review - *
Published 06-30-2006 6:06 PM | Mark
The latest iteration of the X-Men movies, though handed off to a new director (Brett Ratner), is a worthy successor to the first two films, and is about as good as either of them. As usual, the film follows the exploits of a group of mutant humans who...
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Review of King Kong - 0 stars
Published 06-10-2006 11:19 AM | Mark
King Kong is an overly long and somewhat pretentious film from Peter Jackson , director of the Lord of the Rings movies. Like Lord of the Rings, the movie is a special effects bonanza, and like LotR, boredom creeps in as spectacle replaces plot far too...
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More thoughts on Sharpe
Published 05-21-2006 3:25 PM | Mark
I've now watched the first 3 Sharpe films, and I realize I had some misconceptions when I wrote my first review. In the introduction, they show all kinds of women baring their breasts to Sharpe, so I thought a romance per episode would be the norm. Well...
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Review of Mission Impossible: 3 - 0 stars
Published 05-21-2006 1:28 PM | Mark
Tom Cruise has a unique way of running that I'm sure he has spent a lot of time honing to perfection. The last two Cruise movies I've seen - War of the Worlds and MI:3 - have both prominently showcased Cruise's running style. Rarely, in MI:3, does an...
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Review of the movie Chronicles of Narnia - *
Published 05-16-2006 9:52 PM | Mark
When I was a child, C.S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles were among my favorite books. But it's been more than 20 years since I last read them, so I can't say how close the film is to the book it's based on, [WIKIPEDIA: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe...
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Review of Sharpe's Rifles - **
Published 05-14-2006 3:53 PM | Mark
I enjoyed watching Sharpe's Rifles today, the first movie in a series of 14 (Hurrah for the Netflix queue!). Based on the novels of [WIKIPEDIA: Bernard Cornwell], the series follows the military career of Richard Sharpe , a low ranking officer fighting...
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Atlas Shrugged movie in the works
Published 04-27-2006 10:38 PM | Mark
For years I've heard talk of Atlas Shrugged becoming a mini-series. But now, according to Variety , it looks like Lion's Gate has commited to adapting Rand's seminal novel into a two part film. I remember thinking that the scene in which Reardon's train...
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Review of Doom - 0 stars
Published 03-27-2006 7:05 PM | Mark
Doom was the seminal PC game. It defined the first person shooter genre and illustrated that the PC could do things with games that no console could. What a shame, with all its hard earned glory, that in its latest iteration it is no more than a half...
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Review of The Island - 0 stars
Published 02-06-2006 9:23 PM | Mark
The Island is a Michael Bay film. If you are familiar with Bay's other work - Bad Boys, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, to name his 'seminal' pieces - then you have a good idea of what to expect. Expensive things like cars and helicopters will explode in ways...
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Another pointless movie award season is upon us
Published 12-14-2005 3:41 PM | Mark
The Golden Globe nominees were recently announced. The Globes, like the Oscars, follow rather simple rules for distribution of their awards: 1. The nominee must reject heroism by offering a hero flawed by disease or physical or psychological disability...
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Will King Kong suck?
Published 12-02-2005 10:57 PM | Mark
I own the Lord of the Rings movies, and I like them, but Peter Jackson is over-rated. There comes a point during a self-indulgent 3-4 hour film where one just gets a little bored. The grand vistas and picture perfect special effects are no substitute...
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