Category: Comparisons
Here are reviews of two or more movies at a time. The goal is to compare their similarities and contrast their differences.
The reason? I find myself constantly comparing movies and categorizing their likenesses. This section is a place where that thinking can be obsessive.
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The Matrix vs. Dark City
Where Dark City is visual escapism, The Matrix is testosterone brain candy!
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Hannibal vs. Silence of the Lambs
If anyone can make 70s Italian splatter movies mainstream, Hopkins can.
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The Passing & Nic Nicosia Movies
If I had any idea what I was in for with this double feature, I would never have entered the theater.
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Fight Club vs. Bringing Out the Dead
Fortunately, filmmaking is generational. Scorsese’s baton has not fallen by Fincher.
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Affliction vs. A Simple Plan
These films find disparate people in desperate situations, and the frailty of human standards and spirits.
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Rushmore vs. Election
When they call Election “wicked satire,” they mean it. Rushmore wasn’t half as crass yet twice as funny.
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The Blair Witch Project vs. Pi
That both of these successful films are independent gives one a giddy sense of grass roots pride.
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The Haunting vs. The Blair Witch Project
Ushering in the new millennium of horror movies, one of these films is mighty, the other mediocre.
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Arlington Road vs. The Siege
As if pulp from an unwritten Tom Clancy thriller, The Siege can be unsatisfying, unlike Arlington Road.
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Shakespeare in Love vs. Elizabeth
One is intellectual comedy, the other political intrigue. Both entertain.