Alphabetical Movie – Independence Day
Independence Day is a guilty pleasure film. I know how terrible it is and yet I can’t help thinking the movie is a blast from beginning to end. You want to tell me that there is no way some computer hacker could figure out how to get through an alien firewall in just under twelve hours?
I’ll just punch you in the face and say “Welcome to Earth!!!”
Alphabetical Movie – The Incredibles
As a geek, I like shiny new geek stuff as much as the next guy. As such, it is easy to declare The Avengers the best super hero movie ever because it is an amazing film.
No doubt, the arguments will then erupt around how I could have forgotten The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 2, Iron Man and possibly even Captain America.
Yes, yes. Those are all fine movies. I enjoy them all.
Alphabetical Movie – The Incredible Hulk
So, based on box office returns, we’ve all seen The Avengers by now, right?
Thus we are all aware that the best Hulk, by far, is Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk. Eric Banna and Edward Norton both took one look at Ruffalo, threw their jackets over their shoulders and walked wistfully down the highway while Ruffalo smashed the shit out of Loki.
So here’s my question – what the heck happened to Edward Norton, Jr?
Alphabetical movie – Inception
BWAAAAAAAP!
As with many creatively challenging films, the internet is crawling with commentary on Inception. No film can be truly perfect but on the internet, there is a critical mass at which a film becomes popular enough that it inspires a certain percentage of individuals to rant about why the people who loved the film are fucking wrong goddamit!
Alphabetical Movie – In Bruges
For the entirety of In Bruges, the main character complains about the fact that he is stuck in Bruges.
Bruges, for those of you who don’t know, is located in Belgium and it is, according to Ray, the worst shithole town on the planet. In watching the film, I came away with the impression that Ray was probably a bit off base in his assessment.
Alphabetical Movie – The Impossible Years
The Impossible Years is a film dripping with faux 60’s feminism. It thinks it is about empowerment and rebellion. It is really just a film in which we are taught that female empowerment is all about teenaged girls turing into respectable young women as soon as they find the right man.
Theoretially a comedy, the movie stars David Niven as a psychologist who is supposedly an expert on teenagers but can’t manage to keep his own daugther in line. This has a lot more to do with his inability to follow his own advice than with any shortcoming on the part of his daughter.
Alphabetical Movie – Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Here’s the thing about the Ice Age franchise – which is about to release it’s fourth film.
The movies are good but not particularly memorable. I’ve never walked out of the theatre thinking “damn, I just wasted ninety minutes of my life” but I also never walk out of the theatre thinking about scenes that I just totally loved.
Alphabetical Movie – Ice Age
I realize I may be saying this with something less than all the possible information on the subject but Ice Age had the single funniest trailer ever produced. In fact, it was because of that trailer and that trailer alone that I first watched the film. I didn’t even care of the movie was any good. I felt that I owed it to the film because of how much the trailer made me laugh.
Alphabetical Movie – I was a Male War Bride
I was a Male War Bride stars Cary Grant as a WWII French espionage agent who marries an American and has trouble emigrating to the United States. It is pretty much an opportunity for Grant to look really annoyed and/or resigned to his fate. He was really good at that.
Basically, the movie is Father Goose without Leslie Caron and a gaggle of French school girls.
For the entire film, though, I was distracted by one niggling detail. A name.
Alphabetical Movie – The Hustler
I’ll bet that most people I know haven’t seen The Hustler.
Oh, they’ve heard of the film. I’m sure they have. Heck, many of them have seen the sequel, The Color of Money but they have never felt the need to visit the original film for reasons that have more to do with laziness than actual lack of interest.
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