movie reviews
Movie Review: Burn After Reading (2008) by Mike
Whatever the legacy is that the Coen brothers leave with their latest film, Burn After Reading, at least college students will have a new method in which to partake in drinking games. It will go down with such legendary contests like the number of Roxanne/Put on the Red Lights said during that famous Police song.
This new version will be called the John Malkovich ‘What the F*ck’ Drinking Game, which should end up with most players completely trashed after only a few minutes.
Movie Review: Tropic Thunder (2008) by Jason
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.
Movie Review: “Sex and the City” (2008)
I never expected to be writing a review for the Sex and the City movie. I watched some of the television series, but not enough to have any desire to see this film.
But after a summer filled with superheroes, violence and action, a silly romantic comedy actually seemed like it would be refreshing
Movie Review: “Hancock” (2008)
The moment I heard about Hancock and found out Will Smith was starring it, I’ve wanted to see this film. It looked funny, it had great stars in it and the superhero element was perfect.
That was pretty much the high point. As the release date grew closer and closer, the bad vibes started to rise within me. The news of re-shoots was akin to huge warning bells ringing in my head.
Mike’s Movie Review: “Wanted” (2008)
Jason already did a very good review about the movie Wanted, which hit theaters on Friday. We don’t usually double-up on movie reviews, but since I’ve read the graphic novel that the film was based on, I wanted to weigh in a bit with how I felt it followed the original story.
Movie Review: “Get Smart” (2008)
Normally you don’t find me at movies that are based on television shows. There are exceptions though, like Batman, Serenity and stuff that is actually good.
Then Get Smart came along. It was another movie that I’d normally skip, if it wasn’t for Steve Carell and Alan Arkin.
Adam’s review of M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Happening”
(My reviews tend to contain mild spoilers. While I don’t really think I am capable of ruining this, proceed with caution.)
I refuse to believe that M. Night Shyamalan isn’t capable of making another great movie. Unfortunately, his last two films have made that extremely difficult.
Some say that he stopped making good movies when he came out with Signs, but that’s my favsies (I’ll explain why if you’re interested), and The Village actually comes in close second. But Lady in the Water was an abysmal failure (did anyone really get it?), and I’m sorry to say that The Happening is no better.
Movie review: “The Incredible Hulk” (2008)
Obviously the comparisons are going to be made with Iron Man, since they both came out in the same summer and both are Marvel productions. Hulk isn’t up to the level Iron Man was, but it definitely made up for the suckfest that was the original with Eric Bana.
Movie Review: “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008)
The last time I did the midnight movie thing was for Return of the King back in 2003. My 30+ year old body just doesn’t deal with the morning-after lack of sleep as well as it used to.
But I was younger back then and it was a heck of a movie to lose sleep over.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was not.
Movie Review: “Iron Man” (2008)
Ah, the start of the summer blockbuster season. Is anything better?
Perhaps this year just feels better than most lately. The titles that we get this summer are just disgusting: The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones, X-Files 2, Prince Caspian, The Incredible Hulk, Hancock and of course, Iron Man.
