Archive for Release Year: 2004
23 posts from 17 March 2023 to 20 January 2017.
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Not the gorefest the series is known about.
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The one where the woman jury rigs a rotary phone and calls random numbers.
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Aren’t the 70’s whacky?
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Run of the Stuart Mill Brownian action flick. Franklin, I liked it.
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Steampunk Wizard of Oz, set during the Great War.
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Painfully unfunny. Yes, this is the middle of the series, but that doesn’t matter, there’s no canon anyway.
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Engaging for a very long time. War never changes.
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Good grief, what a milquetoast affair. Directed by the American Pie creator, here comes corporatist propaganda faux-raging against the system.
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From the ads, it seemed like another American Pie, but this is something else.
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Ocean’s Breakfast Club. At least that what the script was gunning for.
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A Stephen King adaptation about a mentally unstable writer, what a surprise. This is the one where he is stalked by a southern guy played with gusto by [Jesus Quintana](/2020/11/11/the-big-lebowski.html{:.inner-link}.
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Contrived coincidences cannot create cockups. Consequences cleanly cutoff.
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Better than I remembered. A classic noir tale of Egyptian gods meddling with human (and mutant, and alien) affairs, with the protagonists being jerked around, railing against the gods for free will.
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Another nail in the coffin of a timeless story, eternally retold. Jammed into an anachronistic hodgepodge of Hollywood-esque action sequences and verbal quips.
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Supreme writing about writing (and wine). Life, the Universe, Everything. Touching yet outrageously hilarious.
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The single-word American remake of a scarier Japanese horror film. Tasteful usage of fade to black all through the film softens the blow for the hardest hitting stuff.
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Got to be one of the most depressing films ever. Not only the shaggy dog stories pile up, the resolution takes the cake as one of the vilest endings ever. Not what a I expected from the directors of The Final Destination, starring Ashton Kutcher.
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The 2004 remake. Why don’t you play a little solitaire? A sole political scion, shielded from the world by his mother, the heir of a political dynasty. They should name him “John Fitzgerald”, or “Chelsea”.
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This boy needs therapy (purely psychosomatic). What does that mean? You’re a nut! You’re crazy in the coconut.
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Doesn’t get old. Smashing!
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Me-wow! Woman Empowerment meets Sexy Leather Outfits. A much better look at the fashion industry that The Devil Wears Prada.
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I personally prefer The Mummy, but this is also a very good revival of the old monster movies, minus Boris Karloff. A competent baby’s first gothic horror, a fantastic introduction to the Genre.
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The silly adaptation. Fogg is still a upper class twit, but mostly the distracted type, always with his head on the books. Passapartout did rob the bank of England, but just to return stolen artefacts, so it’s fine, a kind of Elgin marbles situation. Monique is a struggling artist forced to wait on other twits like Vincent Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec.