By Furious, on May 11th, 2009
There’s somethin’ wrong with the world today
I don’t know what it is
Something’s wrong with our eyes
-Aerosmith, Livin’ on the Edge
The are few things that have gotten as tedious for me as watching horror movies. It seems all modern horror movies fit the same mold. There’s an interesting idea. A half-assed attempt to make us care about the victims (there aren’t really protagonists in horror movies any more, just victims and iconic psychopaths). There are a few atmospheric scares. Then the filmmakers run out of ideas and begin painting with bazookas, becoming more blunt and violent until the movie ends. There’s no actual ending, the movie just ends as the centimeter deep well of ideas is long past empty.
The Strangers was no different.
The interesting [...]
Continue reading The Strangers Left Me Wanting For A Refund
By Furious, on November 5th, 2008
Once again, High School Musical 3 was tops at the box office. But it was a down weekend overall, actually the smallest weekend of the [...]
Continue reading Assessing The Weekend: High School Musical Still Rules
By Furious, on November 2nd, 2008
November 2nd has been an interesting day in movie [...]
Continue reading This Date In Movie History: November 2nd
By Furious, on October 31st, 2008
For Halloween you can choose between a watered-down horror movie or a romantic comedy in disguise- The Haunting of Molly Hartley or Zack and Miri Make a [...]
Continue reading Weekend Predictions: 10-31-08
By Furious, on October 28th, 2008
To get warmed up for Halloween, I present two of the most frightening horror movies you could ever want to see, Freaks and [...]
Continue reading Public Domain Movie Of The Week Double Feature
By Furious, on October 25th, 2008
This weekend looks to be a two horse race to the bank between High School Musical 3: Senior Year and Saw [...]
Continue reading Weekend Predictions: 10-24-08
By Furious, on August 26th, 2008
So, here we are, in the golden age of remakes, and things just keep getting more obfuscated. First we had remakes. If you want to see The Fog, you have to figure out whether you want the original 1980 version or the 2005 remake. That’s bad enough, but now we’ve got the insanity of remakes of sequels and sequels to [...]
Continue reading Stop This Crazy World, I Want To Get Off
