Articles tagged adventure
In the high stakes Hollywood blockbuster poker game, Roland Emmerich is going all in with “2012.” A disaster movie to end all disaster movies, “2012” is an enormous moviegoing event guaranteed to make eyes bleed and ears burst with its sheer scale and thundering execution. To bend the dictionary a little, it’s positively ginormous. “2012” is also disturbingly repetitive, obnoxiously noisy, and almost pornographic in length. Instead of providing a comforting bowl of melted apocalyptic cheese, Emmerich wants to beat the living hell out of his audience instead, staging doom after doom, death after death, until it reaches a nauseating spin of sensorial overload. It’s cinematic waterboarding and there was more than one occasion during the film when I was convinced it was never going to end. [Read more...]
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Tags: action, adventure, alexa davalos, Clash of the Titans, danny huston, gemma arterton, jason flemyng, liam neeson, mads mikkelsen, ralph fiennes, sam worthington, teaser, trailer, warner bros
The projectionist could’ve run this film backwards, and I don’t think I would’ve noticed. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant is a Hollywood attempt to massage author Darren Shan’s 12-part saga of vampires and teenagers into a viable, cash-cow franchise. Spanning the first three novels, Assistant doesn’t tell a story as much as it hurls everything that isn’t nailed down against the wall to see what sticks. Labored and often tedious, the picture is a friendly stab at Burtonesque macabre antics, but director Paul Weitz is in way over his head trying to juggle huge portions of the grotesque and the epic. 16-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia) is an average teen with good grades and a love for spiders. Finding a flyer for the Cirque du Freak sideshow, Darren decides to attend with impulsive best friend Steve (the limited Josh Hutcherson), finding [Read more...]
Tags: action, adventure, chris massoglia, drama, Family, fantasy, frankie faison, Harry Potter, Horror, jane krakowski, John C. Reilly, josh hutcherson, ken watanabe, kristen schaal, michael cerveris, orlando jones, patrick fugit, Paul Weitz, ray stevenson, Salma Hayek, thriller, Universal Pictures, Vampire
