Pan movie review: a disaster of fantastically epic proportions
An embarrassingly empty pastiche of numerous beloved action blockbusters, all frenetic action and soulless mishmashes of fantasy imagery.
Jurassic Park
The Martian movie review: life on Mars
An excellent complement to the novel, simplifying the science without dumbing it down yet retaining the suspense and urgency of its interplanetary stranding.
Jurassic World movie review: lack of humility before blockbusters
I am the prime demographic for this movie, and I found it only sort of inoffensively blah. Chris Pratt: He’s no Jeff Goldblum.
a few thoughts about Game of Thrones S05 E09 (“The Dance of Dragons”) and open thread
This is how fantasy keep sucking in people like me, even when it pisses us off. We want some magic in the world…
Strange Magic movie review: bad spell
Apparently this was inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it has about as much in common with that as Burger King does with Macbeth.
Godzilla movie review: sympathy for Gojira
Elegantly updates the King of All Monsters for the 21st century… but Hollywood’s tedious myopia means the movie as a whole isn’t quite so beautiful.
Walking with Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie review: where is an extinction-level event when you need one?
Sub-vaudeville 1950s sitcom humor and a horrifically dated message about boys as heroes and girls as the heroes’ property. You know, for kids!
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jul 06-12 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
welcome to the new WordPress-y FlickFilosopher!
I have all the problems of a major zoo and a major theme park at the same time, or something. And I don’t even have a Dennis Nedry (though that’s probably a good thing).
question of the day: Which movie or TV characters do you wish were real?
I think you already know my choice: the Doctor. Even if I weren’t worthy enough to travel with him, it would be nice to know that someone was looking out for planet Earth, since we’re not doing the best job we could be doing.
