Few things were more terrible than video rental night in the Eighties… When it was her turn to pick. Blockbuster night in the Eighties was fantastic when it was the guy’s turn to select the tape but when it was the girl’s, you, the young male Gen-Xer, knew you were facing an avalanche of overwhelming boredom. Chick flicks in the Eighties were an unclimbable mountain of ennui that you would nevertheless be required to try and scale. The reason for all of this suck was...
No generation ever had bigger promises made to it than Gen-X. The world we were supposed to inherit would be beyond imagining. America would be even greater and more powerful than it had ever been. The average life expectancy would be 180 years old. We would definitely be getting farther ahead than our parents had gotten in life. Our first cars would be able to fly. And a lot of us were expected to be living and working on the moon. No member of Generation-X has...
The sword fighting is T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E! After the first five minutes of this movie and I was wondering if I’d made a mistake. Some things just play better in the halls of memory. Henry Cavil’s commitment to the Highlander has instantly injected a lot of interest into what has been a dead franchise since the early 2000s. On the face of it, he is perfect for the role. Consequently, I decided to watch it for the first time since I was dating my wife, and...
I'm doing better. Not great you understand but at least better. Enough so that I can at least give my Darklings low-energy new material. Which this is. Star Wars 1950 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUm3oRYV7yM Tron 1950 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjvU6Fwb3JM Avatar - 1950 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZMB5HnMRQU The Matrix - 1950 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jCFWlGlnQ Discuss on Social Galactic
“Greek and Roman myths contained characters and fantastic creatures that were ideal for cinematic adventures. If some of the adventures were combined with 20th century storytelling, a timeless narrative could be constructed that would appeal to both young and old.” -Ray Harryhausen Clash of the Titans was both the end and the beginning of an era. It was first of the Eighties sword and sorcery movies, but it was also the last Ray Harryhausen film. And it was quite the swan song. In a career...
This one is a lost gem. I believe I have made my extremely low opinion of the live-action puzzle games from the 1990s crystal clear. Sure, they made money for their companies, (briefly), but the truth is they were bad. The limitations of green screen studios, plus several hundred-page scripts, combined with the intrinsic problem of multiple dialog trees ensured terrible performances from the actors. And not all of these actors were the result of a community theater casting round-up. Ripper from Take-Two starred...
They don’t make boxes like that anymore REPOST: “I dreamt of blood upon the shore, of eyes that spoke of sin. the lake was smooth and deep and black, as was her scented skin…” -Gabriel Knight Cliche: defined as “an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.” Dirty little secret of...
Arizona native and pulp fiction addict Razorfist new comic just had its trailer drop. I'll be reviewing it as soon as I feel better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvqB8OukFNw
REPOST: I'm going to be laid up for a while which means I'm in rerun mode. Enjoy these blasts from the past. Or don't, because either way this is what you're getting. Today the monsters of PC gaming are well known to all Steam, EA, Sony, and biggest fish in any pond Microsoft. Huge multi-billion dollar corporations chugging out carefully crafted and polished money extraction software. Modern games require the kind of budget that epic blockbusters are made of. Quora estimated that...
Most sequels follow in the footsteps of a massively successful first movie. This film on the other hand was born from the ashes of Star Trek the Motion Picture. While STMP isn’t the best movie in the series, it is pretty far from the worst. If you have a chance to see Robert Wise’s Director’s Cut, it’s definitely worth a look. It was however horrifically expensive to make. It cost $35 million and back in 1979 that was a studio-breaking amount of money. Michael Eisner hated spending...
