Category: Brent Vickers
2012 is the kind of movie that seems to me to be a media ploy for getting people scared about 2012, again.
I say ‘again’ because most of the hype about the world’s supposed end in 2012 kind of died out around this time last year. I am not sure why they decided to release this in 2009, either.
I think it would have been smarter to release this film closer to the actual date of 2012, considering the terror and hype surrounding the Mayan predicted apocalypse will probably re-vamp in late 2011.
The sixth installment of the Saw series brought something films have lacked since the beginning: humor.
I know people are tired of this series and for good reason. The films have reached a sixth installment, and though it seems it may all be over with, I am skeptical. This film is refreshing if you fancy yourself a Saw enthusiast.
The series started with a unique, intriguing and horrifying bang with Saw, it has since gone downhill, but each installment seems a shy bit worse than the last, and audience members become desensitized to the gore.
Paranormal Activity should come with a disclaimer reading: Not intended for all audiences.
I am not referring to age – I’m referring to film preference. For the amount of hype this film got before its initial release and the subsequent wide release, it has received a lot of criticism and backlash.
People were either saying the film was extraordinarily frightening or it was funny but not scary.
Consequently, this film will appeal to any horror fans, specifically the art-house horror community.
Where the Wild Things Are creators tried hard to live up to the hype that was attributed to it by viral marketing, nostalgic hipsters and literary critics.
They tried. Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers tried. But for some reason, the formula was not really there – something was missing.
I challenge each reader to find the missing link because, try as I might, I could not quite put my finger on what made Where the Wild Things Are good but not great.
Zombieland is the best and first zom-rom-com (zombie-romantic-comedy) since Shaun of the Dead.
Nevertheless, it delivers. The film is packed with tons of unique new ways to kill zombies, lots of laughs and plenty of survival tips on how to make it through the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Zombieland brings fun cinema back in a bloody good way.
Pandorum tried too hard – way too hard.
It wanted so badly to be the film that would revive the sci-fi-thriller-horror-action epic. Instead, it got so wrapped up in itself that it delivered a film below average.
Don’t get me wrong. If B-movie sci-fi’s are your shtick, then by all means, watch this film. But Pandorum was not my thing.
Death, destruction, post-apocalypticism and animated dolls riddle the environment created in the new feature 9.
The film’s components were indeed childish, the shear brutality of the environment and the fact that dead human bodies provided much of the mise-en-scene of the film make it tough to determine the true demographic of 9.
The story, at base level, was not hard to grasp — there were plot elements that would indeed go over children’s heads. Also, of the amount of death in this feature should make some parents wary of taking their children to see it.
Two and a half hours of Nazi beating, vengeance plotting and Jew hunting madness is a perfect definition of Quentin Tarantino’s new World War II epic Inglourious Basterds.
Misspellings aside, this film is indeed satisfying, interweaving two separate revenge stories during World War II, and letting the audience view how most wish the war would have ended.
Some might think the Second World War motif may be old and tired, but Tarantino has decided to revamp the theme with one of the more violent and historically inaccurate portrayals known in recent cinema.
Mike Judge returns to the big screen with his film Extract, a comedy about the trials and tribulations of owning a small business.
The main character Joel, played by Jason Bateman, owns an extract company in Texas and is on the cusp of being bought out by a larger corporation. Opposite him is his wife Suzie, played by Kristen Wiig, a temporary hire played by Mila Kunis and his best friend and confidant, a drug-addled Ben Affleck.
With others in the supporting cast, Judge is able to convey an environment working Americans — specifically Texans — can relate to.
(500) Days of Summer: Seemingly original, but basically irritating because of the constant chronological jumping around, “not-a-love-story” love story about a dude who obsesses over a chick who is way out of his league.
The guy is surprised when she wants to hang out with him all the time, have sex and do a bunch of things one would be led to assume go hand-in-hand with a relationship, but they are all-in-all “just friends” (according to her). Yes, if this sounds familiar, it’s because it is.
