The Hunger Games Review: The Book & The Movie
THE HUNGER GAMES: The Book This is a best-selling trilogy of young adult novels by Suzanne Collins that were released every year since 2008. They have supposedly broken new ground in that genre and had devoted fans. Several months before the movie version of the first book came out, I was drawn to read all three books to see what the fuss was all about. The time is in the future, a post-apocalyptic time, it seems. The place is District 12, a township of sorts in the nation of Panem, where mining is the main occupation. We get to know…
Wrath of the Titans Review: Two Oscar Winning Gods Couldn’t Save This Film
2010′s “Clash of the Titans” was such a cinematic disaster. It dared to remake the cult favorite of the same title shown back in 1981 starring Sir Laurence Olivier as Zeus and Harry Hamlin as Perseus. However, all the modern technology of the next twenty years at their disposal did not make this remake a better film. The computer-generated Medusa of 2010 failed to re-create the incredibly tense scene by the clay-animated Medusa in the 1981 version. I was not really intending to watch this sequel at all, but I had some extra time to spare with my sons while…
John Carter Review: Disney’s Leap Of Faith
Walt Disney takes a risky venture producing a sci-fi adventure film John Carter directed by Andrew Stanton (director of Finding Nemo and WALL-E). Now, Disney is known for producing amazing fantasy movies but this is another story to tell – the science fiction adaptation from Edgar Rice Burrough’s A Princess of Mars (1917) poses a challenge for Disney as it is their first time producing a science fiction movie based on several historical scenarios. Also, Stanton is known for directing animated characters, not actual people – so, will the movie turn out as a blockbuster like what Disney thinks it…
Project X Review: Awesome Party, Bad Movie
What would it take to be cool? to get a shot at a girl you never thought could be yours for the night? Well, all it takes is an awesome party. That sums up about the entire plot (if it even has one) of Project X – a movie directed by Todd Philipps (director of The Hangover). The film, aside from MPAA’s rated R “for crude and sexual content throughout, nudity, drugs, drinking, pervasive language, reckless behavior and mayhem,” has been getting some bad reviews particularly for its lack of purpose and fail attempts to appear as a Hangover-like teenage-party-gone-wrong…
Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance Review: Hell Breaks Loose
When the Devil rises to earth… it must be Nicolas Cage morphing into a flaming skeleton, sucking the life out of the evil, guilty souls. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is not the movie you want to see this weekend, unless you’ve got a thing with Church sects hiring a burning skull to save the world from doom and the prophesies of the coming of the third anti-Christ. Picking up from the first Ghost Rider installment, we find Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) in a hermit-leave-me-alone existence somewhere in Eastern Europe as he struggles to hold the curse of the flaming…
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