On Charlize Theron in McCarthy's The Road at 01/15/2008 12:09pm

So I guess Viggo is officially in? Does that mean Guy Pearce is out, or just that he'll be eeeevil?

On New Iron Man Photo Revealed! at 01/09/2008 1:14pm

Less than 5 months away...

On Dark Knight Leaked Trailer at 12/17/2007 09:27am

Guys, look in the above "FilmWad Breaks It Down" post for the DK trailer.

On Great Scott! Mystic Stones for Ridley! at 11/13/2007 12:57pm

Aw, no Blood Meridian?

On Annnnnnnnd it is Strike Time! at 11/02/2007 12:49pm

God damn it.

On Coppola attacks De Niro, Pacino and Nicholson at 10/19/2007 1:00pm

I think Coppola makes some pretty good points. At the same time, all three of those actors were relevant more recently than Coppola.

On What the Success of 'The Comebacks' Will Establish... at 10/19/2007 12:52pm

While Epic Movie and Date Movie weren't huge hits, both were pretty profitable. Given that, I'd say the odds of your hopes coming true are sadly very low. Comedies are relatively low budget endeavors, and it's too proven a formula to just spoof movies that people liked.

On Did Fox replace Hitman's director to avoid an R-rating? at 10/10/2007 12:44pm

They're going to change it to politelydisagreeman

On 11 Worst Film Endings at 10/09/2007 12:49pm

I correct them. The book is the author's, the film is the filmmaker's and a separate entity.

On If You Love 300, You Might be an Idiot at 10/03/2007 1:31pm

King Kracka: Simple is a fine thing to be. Simplistic, or OVERsimplified, is not. There's a clear distinction there, and though I hate to play semantics, "simplistic" has a clearly negative denotation that makes it necessarily "not ok." And from reading the article, it's an assertion not based on the plot at all, as you seem to claim.

fenrir: I like the Riefenstahl comparison, and I think that's a high compliment to the visual aesthetics of 300. Though the slo-mo is exaggerated and repeated to the point of absurdity.

Prat: Read better comics.

creature, Silverglade: If you want to grade the movie on how accurately it adapted the graphic novel, then I agree that you've got to give props. If you want to grade it against its peers, then it falls very short, while it is gorgeous if gimmicked.

carbon: I like your take on the subjective narrative -- it's by far the most significant point made on your side of this debate -- but I still found the characters to be universally flat and not at all compelling. I could not connect to this movie at all, and you'd think that would be easier to do with something told so directly from one perspective. I also disagree that this was the first or even among the first to attempt it, though I agree with the tacit statement that it's not done often enough.

On Today's Filmwad Rant: Confessions of a SciFi Saturday Junkie at 09/28/2007 09:29am

Mansquito!!!

On The Alan Tudyk Effect at 09/21/2007 11:12am

Noticed the 3:10/Serenity parallel myself. When Doc was shot, I leaned over to my girlfriend and said, "Wash, you will never learn," to which she replied, "What?"

On Today's Filmwad Rant: It Turns Out that Remake Fever Is Worse than Ebola and Pac Man Fever Combined at 09/21/2007 00:16am

But I am looking forward to the Street Fighter remake based on the video game that was based on the movie based on the original video game.

On Today's Filmwad Rant: It Turns Out that Remake Fever Is Worse than Ebola and Pac Man Fever Combined at 09/20/2007 7:59pm

It's not totally pointless. Movie studios aren't just going to sit on their cash, and if the easy route of making remakes is taken away, they'll have to invest in more worthwhile ventures.

On Today's Filmwad Rant: Stop Ruining Comedies With "Cool" Soundtracks at 09/20/2007 3:27pm

Little Miss Sunshine was a lot like Lampoon's Vacation + near-constant name dropping to produce the illusion of depth.

On Today's FilmWad Rant: Grindhouse DVDs Shouldn't Have Been Separated at 09/20/2007 3:23pm

I will murder you if we don't discuss film length time! You're welcome. Also, film length time?

On Today's FilmWad Rant: Grindhouse DVDs Shouldn't Have Been Separated at 09/20/2007 12:27pm

Who in the hell is vern? From the Ernest movies?

On Koreans sorry about Dragon Wars opening in U.S. at 09/07/2007 12:07pm

Maybe I'm alone, but it looks like fun to me.

On Jurassic Park 4 Starting to Get a Cast at 08/13/2007 2:41pm

We're talking about a series which, in its last installment, had a paleontologist learning to speak Raptor-ese. Nothing is off-limits.

On Why the Bourne Series is the Best American Film Trilogy Ever Made at 08/10/2007 9:11pm

I agree with ohcomeonnow, Indiana Jones is the best. Also, I have not seen any of the Bourne movies.

And to northrim: LOTR is A) mostly crying and B) not American.