Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#2 in my ranking of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. I remember when this movie came out in 2003. It was a bit of a cultural phenomenon just thrilling people left and right. I saw it in theaters at the time and thought it was a generally fun adventure movie with a strong visual… Continue reading Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
#23 in my ranking of John Carpenter's films. Do you love irony? Do you love irony above character, plot, or basic narrative structure? If you do, then do I have the episode of television for you. John Carpenter came back for the second season of Masters of Horror with another script co-written by Drew McWeeny,… Continue reading Pro-Life
#7 in my ranking of John Carpenter's films. This is what John Carpenter needed after Escape from L.A. He didn't need to keep trying to make big films after his largest production bombed critically and commercially. He didn't need to try and keep making action films into his 60s. He needed to pull back and… Continue reading Cigarette Burns
#21 in my ranking of John Carpenter's films. Vampires felt like a misstep. Ghosts of Mars feels like John Carpenter had lost all sense of what made him appealing as a filmmaker. A combination of Assault on Precinct 13 and The Fog (In SPACE!!!), Ghosts of Mars is pretty much a complete disaster. Carpenter gave… Continue reading Ghosts of Mars
#1 in my ranking of the Underworld franchise. You know, I can dig this. One of the things that had dragged down the first two Underworld movies was the preponderance of lore that got intensely explained with a great sense of import. Here, that's not a problem because this is the lore. I'm also actually… Continue reading Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
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