Eh. It’s only a three starrer. Just like The Incredibles, there was something missing in the movie as a whole. The plot was mediocre– rat breaks away from family, loser is a loser until he meets rat and becomes a winner, relationship between the both reaches a ditch, ditch is overcome, everyone is happy. But I think that’s the thing here. It was only centered around those specific two characters. Not that there’s anything wrong with that considering hey, that’s the plot, but the plot could be spruced up a bit. For crying out loud, it takes place in a kitchen …

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Top 10 Cult Films of All Time

My list of the Top 10 Cult Films of all Time

1.  Blade Runner  (Ridley Scott’s mind-blowing futuristic film is one of the most influential science fiction films of all time, also featuring a great new-age/electronic score from Vangelis)

2.  Donnie Darko (the cult film that made became the battle cry for emo goths everywhere, a truly original experience that grows more popular every year, dumped by the studio, it made millions on DVD)

3.  Heathers (Heathers is another cult film that inspired seemingly dozens of teen comedies, right up to, and including, Mean …

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The Monster Squad was one of my favorite films when I was a kid.  It’s a very simple film aimed at teens and tweens that is basically “The Goonies” with Universal monsters.  You have a rag-tag group of kids who have to defend the world (no one believes monsters are real of course) against Count Dracula, The Wolfman, Gill-man, The Mummy, and Frankenstein.  The Count is attempting to get possession of a mystical amulet that will give him control over the balance of good and evil and he has until midnight to obtain it.  The kids (who meet in a …

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” We Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans: the finest soldiers the world has ever known. ”

— King Leonidas

300 is the highly anticipated, bloody (and faithful, I’m told) adaption of Frank Miller’s graphic novel, directed by Zach Snyder, the kid who directed the remake of Dawn of the Dead with tons of energy and style.  He’s the right director for the job.

“300” concerns the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta …

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Um. WHAT. First off, the concept of the whole story was ridiculous. “HEY YOU GUYS, LET’S GO TO THE SUN AND BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO IT.” If you don’t know already, the movie is about a space crew journeying the Icarus II towards the sun to save all of mankind because the sun is dying. When I first heard of the plot I thought they were going to space to put a big ol’ band-aid on it, but I guess creating a star within a star is eh.. okay. This is the second attempt on the mission because the first failed …

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This coming Friday, “The Simpsons: The Movie” will be out and select prints will contain the teaser trailer for the next Batman movie called “The Dark Knight.”  Check out it out here.

::Edit::  Awww shit, Warner Bros. removed it.  All I’ll say is that the Batman Begins logo appears and starts to deteriorate.  You can hear the Joker talking and in the end hear his maniacal laugh.  That doesn’t sound like the Heath Ledger I know.  I mean that in a good way.

Since the link isn’t available, here’s a link to Batman and Joker doing what they do best……Surf!!!!!!!

Batman …

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So as most would know, the models for all autobots were modeled in Maya, textured using Photoshop and Zeno, followed by ILM’s proprietary software (with a bit of Maya) to create some kickass SFX/VFX scenes. This info was taken from Computer Graphics world, a pretty spiffy magazine dedicated to VFX and 3D animation. Anyway, here are the stats for some of the bots:

Megatron
Parts: 2411
Polygons: 433,949
Rig Nodes: 8924
Texture Maps: 1437
Volume of all parts: 10,325 cubic ft.

Optimus Prime
Parts: 10,108
Polygons: 1,830,898
Texture Maps: 2336
Volume of all parts: 5445 cubic ft.

Bumblebee
Parts: 7608
Polygons: …

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So I lowered my expectations for the Harry Potter movie that pretty much ALL I was requiring of it was that it be a cogent film that a moderately intelligent person could follow without needing to fill in information themselves from the book.

The biggest problems I will mention right away:

1. flying through London in plain sight (right after Harry is zinged for doing magic in front of a muggle?)
2. Bellatrix actually uses the KILLING CURSE on Sirius
3. no Slytherin locket + why add Kreacher if you aren’t going to USE him?
4. that whole….Cho thing (non-romance + …

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Warning, this has a major spoiler. So if you haven’t seen the movie, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

As fans of the show knows, Starscream wants to be the Decepticons’ leader. He always tries to overthrow Megatron, only to get his ass kicked repeatedly. Here’s a clip from youtube:

Starscream overthrowing Megatron

Now when you watch the live action movie, you don’t really see this angle. There’s a hint of it when Megatron talks down on Starscream but that’s it. Or is it?

Before Megatron gets killed in the movie, he gets hit by missiles. The missiles looked like it …

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50 Films To See Before You Die

Here’s an off the top of my head list of 50 Films to see before you die. Enjoy:

1. Nowhere

2. Mysterious Skin

3. Donnie Darko

4. Fargo

5. Blue Velvet

6. Batman Begins

7. Highlander

8. Equilibrium

9. Trainspotting

10. Oldboy

11. Spider-man 2

12. Ghost in the Shell

13. Blade Runner

14. The Killer

15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

16. The Matrix

17. Heavenly Creatures

18. The Empire Strikes Back

19. Napoleon Dynamite

20. The Karate Kid

21. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (not the ghastly Depp remake)

22. …

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