If there’s a worse big-budget action movie screenplay than Paul Greengrass’s Jason Bourne, I haven’t seen it. That’s not to say that the movie is an out and out stinker, but it comes really close, and for me, it clocks in as the worst of the series.
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Movie Review: THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR – mostly rubbish third entry in the franchise browbeats with lame political satire.
To be fair, I only watched The Purge series because old friend, and fellow blogger, Glenn Miller (check out his blog My Little Underground, it’s great!) said the second one was decent. You can’t eat only one (right?), so in short order I’ve plowed through the series, culminating in last night’s viewing of The Purge: Election Year, and clearly the series has run out of steam.
Movie Review: SUICIDE SQUAD – all of the bad things you’ve heard about this movie are true. One of the worst big budget comic book movies ever.
I have a lot of contempt for the stunning ineptness of how Warner Brothers handles the DC properties. It’s nothing short of disastrous, and really, there’s no excuse for it. When it comes to Marvel, Marvel Studios has done a more than decent job with the properties they own; since 2008’s Iron Man they’ve created a robust cinematic universe with mass appeal full of individual properties that more or less have their own clear identities. Guardians of the Galaxy is a lot different than the Captain America franchise as that franchise is different to the Avengers franchise. This is not an opinion over quality (I’m critical of their boilerplate plots), just a fact.
Movie Review: WARCRAFT – a lame mashup of the PC game and Lord of the Rings only uses the worst of both worlds.
I approached Warcraft with a bit of dubiousness, I admit. The trailers looked silly and derivative, I’ve never played the game, and the history of cinematic adaptations of videogames (those I’ve seen) ranges from ho-hum to absolute garbage. While doing some research for this review I had a look at just how many of them there have been, and I was stunned by how many there are and the fact I had heard of most, seen some of them. Must have crept up on me over the years. Of those I have seen, both Tomb Raiders – while not all that good – are on the higher end of that spectrum, while the best-forgotten travesty of Super Mario Brothers anchors that chain at the deep end.
Movie Review: INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
Maybe about the worst thing you could say about a movie back in the day – and especially a successful movie – is that the sequel went straight to video. I always felt that was a slap in the face to the original moviemakers, none of which were generally seen around that kind of production. It still happens: here’s a brief list! Sometimes they go straight to Netflix or some other streaming service too. These are mostly garbage money grabs, cashing in on a popular title after the original creators and cast have moved on. Rarely will you see such a sequel with any of the main stars. Independence Day: Resurgence is an odd duck. While it isn’t a direct-to-blu-ray, it sure as hell feels like it.
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AT THE FOOTHILLS OF MADNESS 