Best Produced Screenplays of 2009
Another year, another arbitrary “Best Of” list. But this isn’t just any arbitrary “Best Of” list. This is my arbitrary Top 8 list. Why Top 8, why not Top 5 or Top 10? Why not. Plus, I did a Top 4 last year. So, enjoy! It’s kinda hard to judge a screenplay by watching the [...]
Sherlock Holmes + Hollywood = Victorian Action hero
“I deduce that this movie is elementary entertainment, my dear boy.” Bad joke aside, Sherlock Holmes could have been an excellent action thriller…but it’s hampered by a slow second act and unoriginal third act, resulting in only an above average popcorn flick, despite Robert Downey Jr. starring in the title role and Jude Law as [...]
Avatar: It Ain’t Just All Flash
If you haven’t already, treat yourself to a holiday present and watch Avatar. Is it the best movie ever made based on the best screenplay ever written? No, of course not. But it’s certainly one of the better movies I’ve seen in a long, long time. Though it’s wrapped in the most mind-blowing special-effects package, [...]
Armored: Brief Movie Review
Everything about this movie screamed, “Predictable Cheesefest!” Yet somehow I ended up liking Armored. Quite a bit, to boot. This Matt Dillion-starring heist flick reminded me of early 1990s action movies, kinda a combination of gritty crime thrillers like New Jack City and hard-hitting violent flicks like Die Hard 2. Old fashioned (in a good [...]
Analyzing Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds is – surprisingly — kinda glorious. Writer-director Quentin Tarrantino has finally shot a script that A) doesn’t beat us to death with pages and pages of unending Tarrantino-ese, and B) actually tells a story that goes beyond his ego — in that I mean its sole purpose is to not show off how [...]
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