The Book of Eli: Themes and Spoilers
This is the second part of my review of The Book of Eli. The first part is a little more technical and this one delves more into the themes I found in the movie. Danger: Spoilers lie ahead! I love a movie with a good twist ending especially when it is one I couldn’t guess. It makes a good movie great and makes subsequent viewings shine all the more as you pick out the foreshadowing to...
Read MoreThe Book of Eli
This review was getting long enough that I decided to split it into two pieces. The first, found below, is more of a technical review (as technical as I get anyway). The second piece looks deeper into themes of the movie which can only be discussed in full after having seen the film. The Book of Eli is a very hard movie to review because there are many things that, if talked about, would ruin...
Read MoreQuick Take: 9
I have struggled for a while with writing reviews for things I don’t particularly like unless they strike an idea in my head that resonates. Then I write more about the idea than the thing I am reviewing. The reason for this is that I really don’t want to spend the time it would take to write a detailed review of a movie that didn’t catch my attention. So I have come up...
Read MoreAvatar: Mother Earth Strikes Back
I am going to apologize for two items up front. There are spoilers ahead (in the rant section. You can safely read the review)! If you haven’t seen the movie and don’t want to know what happens then don’t read the rant section. However, it is hard to spoil a movie that is as predictable as this one. I will get to that later. It is apparently very hard for me to just...
Read More17 Again and Moral Double Standards
So I watched a movie that, under normal circumstances, I probably would not have watched. When I first saw previews of 17 Again I was pretty sure that it was a movie I wouldn’t watch. Ever. Well I did, and the very fact that I watched it is a testament to how Red Box is changing my movie-watching habits. For those of you who don’t know, Red Box is a vending style movie rental...
Read MoreSummer Movies: Part 1
If you have been reading this blog for a while you will probably know that I really enjoy a good movie. I am also very particular about the movies I watch. I won’t watch just anything as most of what Hollywood puts out is garbage. So when I tell you that this summer has been a good one for movies so far you can know I (most of the time) set a high standard for what I watch (I suppose...
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