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In our first post looking at the Indiana Jones trilogy, we focused on the first film in chronological order (Temple of Doom) and how a shady, compromised, self-serving Indy got a little religion, a heart…
Some people think I’m biased toward blockbusters and certain genres, but I can honestly tell them: I love Indy films. With Raiders of the Lost Ark making an IMAX debut in a few weeks, it…
Spider-man 3 lacked a quality screenplay because they dropped some of the screenwriters and the director largely wrote the screenplay himself. While Sam Raimi is a tremendous director, he was found lacking when it came…
“A girl’s gotta eat.” – Selina Kyle. She’s good at what she does, one of the best, but her crimes are slowly and inevitably catching up with her. Insisting she’s only doing what she has…
John Blake: “Don’t you want to know who he is?” Jim Gordon: “I know exactly who he is; he’s The Batman.” He’s our point-of-view character for the film, not an “average Joe” but the most normal and…
“There was never just one…” (Apparently these guys are like Pringles.) This Friday we have a Bourne movie without Jason Bourne. This is CRAZY, right? We couldn’t possibly have a story where the central heroic…
“I knew Harvey Dent. I was his friend. And it will be a very long time before someone… Inspires us the way he did. I believed in Harvey Dent.” – Jim Gordon In Batman Begins,…
“You’ve got stuck in a moment and you can’t get out of it.” – U2 Walled up in Wayne Manor with scraggly facial hair, a cane, and endless depths of remorse, Bruce Wayne is a…
“Maybe it’s time we stop trying to outsmart the Truth and let it have it’s day!” Althought Alfred Pennyworth realizes this 8 years too late, he’s the first one to voice it in the conclusion to…
Riddick: “Would you die for them?” Fry: “I would try for them!” Riddick: “You didn’t answer me.” Fry: “Yes, Riddick. I would. I would die for them.” Riddick: “How interesting…” Since Vin Diesel can only…
“I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can’t remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes…
I must confess: I took up the flag and waved it like everyone else, criticizing several plot points of Prometheus. Sometimes we all watch a film and think we could have written it better. There…