After my recent ranting, one might expect the forthcoming review to be filled with bile and resentment toward Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, and you’d be wrong. The series is quite a beast and I’m going to try to tackle it from various angles, hopefully providing a better sense of what I thought of the movie and what you can expect from it as well (though, box office numbers suggest that you’ve more than likely already seen it). Continue reading
It all ends . . . or so we’re told by the multitude of posters for Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. The final chapter of Harry Potter opens this week and it will mean a lot of different things to a great many people. I was recently voicing my concerns about how the films will be remembered now that the end is nigh, and it spawned an interesting discussion. Continue reading
I hope you all are weathering this current movie shitstorm with lots of streaming Netflix, books and video games. While I wish I could say Red Dead Redemption is so far the best movie of the year, I can’t. Aside from Toy Story 3, I haven’t seen ANYTHING that blew my cock off. Additionally, I haven’t been really excited for anything to the point of looking at my calendar and measuring how much longer I’d have to wait for whatever movie I was excited about. Not even Iron Man 2 made me do the movie happy dance. Inception has been the only “wait and see and hope” movie this year, I think. After the release of Predators, I wondered if I was growing out of my love for movies, or the movies we’re just that fucking bad. Thankfully, I’ve discovered it’s the latter, and I have news about it too.
Next summer isn’t looking much better… Continue reading
