It really says something about the world we live in, specifically about the democratic nature of media and technology, when fans can step up and make the movies that conventional studios fail to produce. That’s what happened with this 27 minute short known as Judge Minty, the fan-made sequel to last year’s Dredd relaunch. Despite […]
2012: the Year of Reboots
If you’ve been paying attention to the trailer circuit lately, you might have noticed some new previews making the rounds. A few weeks ago, it was the trailer for the reboot of Spider-Man, this time with the prefix “The Amazing”. Shortly thereafter, a new trailer came out previewing the relaunch of the 1990 movie Total […]
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More Badasses!
Last time, my list was already going kind of long with everyone from Alucard to Private Vasquez. So I thought I might make a second installment and include all the people I couldn’t, and break the mold a little by venturing outside of the world of science fiction. But as usual, the only real criteria […]
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(Even) More Plot Holes and Oversights!
Okay, picking up from where we left off! In my last post, I recapped all the holes that I found with Transformers and the Matrix sequels. Here’s some other recent reviews that also had holes in them: Avatar: This movie I did not like much, as anyone who read my review of it could tell. […]
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Demolition Man
by storiesbywilliams on October 11, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged Aldous Huxley, benjammin bratt, Brave New World, cryogenic, cryoprison, demolition man, denis leary, dr. raymond cocteau, dystopian, Fight of the Dead, Holtak harca, István Nemere, john spartan, Lenina Crowe, lenina huxley, movie review, nigel hawthorne, pc age, raymond cocteau, san angeles, sandra bullock, satire, satirical, Sci-Fi, science fiction, simon phoenix, social commentary, sylvester stallone, utopian, wesley snipes
Ah yes, another classic guilty-pleasure movie! At least, that is my enduring opinion of this film. When I first saw it as a surly teenager, I thought it was a good shoot-em-up. As I got older, I recognized the satirical elements in it – or rather, the attempts at them – and concluded that they […]
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