Posts tagged movies
Contagion – 2011
Sonderbergh’s disaster movie Contagion succeeds at both being a drama and at not conceding realism points in order to create artificial drama. This makes perfect sense as I could never understand why there would be a need to sacrifice realistic procedures and terminology in disaster movies. After all, the drama in such situations stems exactl [...]
Prometheus … unbound?
After seeing Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, it is hard to make a review that goes beyond this one here. After all, it is obvious the guy is a master of homoerotic subterfuges – even though, granted, it is hard to have a military brotherly camaraderie relationship in a movie without it. In this regard, Ridley Scott has made an obvious [...]
Revolution – new series letdown
Although marketing has done efforts to link the new Revolution TV series to JJ Abrams, this is not quite so. The much-anticipated Revolution is the creation of Eric Kripke (known for the Supernatural series), who shared production, directing and most of the writing (at this point at least). The pilot was directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man). JJ [...]
The meaningful solution
As shown by TorrentFreak, pundit David Pogue (article here) argues with the MPAA (reply here) whether Hollywood is encouraging piracy by not making releases widely available.
David takes the more recent list of TorrentFreak’s TOP10 most pirated movies and shows that they are not widely available for online access. MPAA retorts that this [...]
Brown’s “The Da Vinci Cod...
I’m not much of a Brown fan. In fact, with the exception of the Da Vinci Code, he fails across the board (starting with the utter rubbish in Angels and Demons). Indeed, I am lenient as I don’t ask much except two things: wit and consistency within its own universe. Of the few Dan Brown books I read, only the Da Vinci Code passes b [...]
Movie Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier S...
John Le Carre is no Ian Fleming just as George Smiley is no James Bond. Surely, both authors worked in British Intelligence during the Cold War. They both handled intelligence operations, handled agents and top secret information, set up informants and so on before they both turned to writing.
Fleming writes in a rather captivating style abou [...]
Copyright: Cut Off the Middleman
For years I’ve been preaching the removal of distributors from the distribution chain. Whether it’s books, movies or music, an artist can do better on its own. You’re a writer? Forget the publishing house, publish yourself! Musician? Distribute the music on your own, deal with a music store (Amazon, Apple) or setup your own [...]
Cracked Cracked (or Cracked II)
As mentioned in a previous post, Cracked.com is a rather famous humor site. Being a humor site, its main job is to make people laugh. Despite a plethora of subjects bordering on geek interests, the site is not an accurate encyclopedia. This is mainly because, while it does try to keep accurate, its articles are not a comprehensive expose of a [...]
Movie Review: X-Men First Class
Producing movies or TV series based on comics is hell. It is hell because comics have an incredibly huge and powerful community behind them. It is hell because it comprises characters with a rich and established history, spanning across realities, universes and story lines that are quite intricate and leave little margin to intervene creative [...]
Quality is not all that important
This is a fact that seems to be embraced and accepted by all, despite the fact that most arguments claim to give priority to quality. Starting from the fact that one creates a Facebook page (for example) aimed at clarity and accuracy, but everyone prefers one lacking any information and filled with typos and inaccuracies, convenience is alway [...]
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