Real Steel (review)
This is a ridiculous movie. And yet, I enjoyed the hell out it. Not just because Hugh Jackman is in it. In IMAX. Though that doesn’t hurt.
IMAX
Contagion (trailer)
It’s like a zombie movie… but real!
press release of the week: ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Launches Back into IMAX Theatres for Extended Two-Week Run
Duck and cover! Transformers: Dark of the Moon is coming back to theaters! Don’t say Paramount didn’t warn us!
question of the day: Would you enjoy an action/comic-book movie franchise that gave us two or four small movies in a single year rather than one huge one every four years?
For the estimated $125 million that was spent to produce X-Men: First Class, for instance, we could have had two $62 million movies, or four $31 million movies. Would you prefer that?
deep thought (re ‘Mars Needs Moms’)
Not all children’s books — not even really really good ones — are worth blowing up into $150 million, CGI-motion-captured 3D IMAX cinematic experiences.
Mars Needs Moms (review)
Do kids really need to be reminded — in IMAX 3D! — that Mom loves you and has your best interests at heart when she tells you to eat your broccoli and gets mad when you feed it to the cat instead? I guess someone at Disney figured this was the case.
Sanctum 3D (review)
Sanctum is extreme people in extreme danger in an extreme place. In 3D! The good kind of 3D. And both Ioan Gruffudd and Richard Roxburgh take their shirts off. What, you need Shakespeare, too, on top of all that?
trailer break: ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D’
Oh wow! I so can’t wait to have zombie mouth tentacles and giant battleaxes coming out at me in IMAX 3D!
omg: you can buy your own 3D glasses at Odeon cinemas
I just discovered this at the official site of the U.K.’s Odeon chain of multiplexes: OWN YOUR 3D GLASSES Save money – and the environment – with 3D glasses you can use again. There are loads of awesome 3D films coming in 2010 – and we’ve found a way you can watch them and save … more…
