The difference between these films is like the difference between mere artistic license and historical revisionism: pageantry and fraud.
Category Archives: Personal
The Matrix vs. Dark City
Where Dark City is visual escapism, The Matrix is testosterone brain candy!
Movie Numerology
The obsessive compulsive in me can’t help but organize things in pointless lists. Ever make a mental note of things that share some obscure relational similarity? I do. I can’t quit. Here’s an example: movies with numerical film titles.
Hannibal vs. Silence of the Lambs
If anyone can make 70s Italian splatter movies mainstream, Hopkins can.
The 6th Day
The Clones are Coming, The Clones are Coming!
Party Like it’s 2000
Part of my “Article of the Month” series in 2000
Rob, a.k.a. Logan
Part of my “Article of the Month” series in 2000
The Gravity of Self-Government
Part of my “Article of the Month” series in 2000
Boob Raider
As any self-respecting geek would agree, Tomb Raider hopefully wouldn’t suck as badly as its video game-to-movie predecessors.
The Sell
If only the secret were “Visuals, visuals, visuals,” Tarsem would be set.