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Tough cop is transferred to small town; Serious Business ensues.  Really quite good.  Isn't as ridiculous as the advertising suggests, until it is.
Tough cop is transferred to small town; Serious Business ensues.  Really quite good.  Isn't as ridiculous as the advertising suggests, until it is.
August 2, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811080/ Speed Racer]
Speed Racer meets F-Zero GX meets the Matrix meets 2001's wormhole sequence.  It's not deep, but fun as a Pixy Stix of a movie.
August 8, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420223/ Stranger Than Fiction]
Blending of fictional boundaries is a topic I enjoy.  This film uses it sweetly, without getting too caught up in the oddness.
August 15, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1199494/ The Lost Skeleton Returns Again]
Not as original as the original, but still plenty of good new fun, and does have interesting premises of its own.  Hard to rate its rewatchability after one watch.
August 21, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308506/ Like Mike]
Orphan uses magic shoes to cheat his way to riches and happiness.
August 25, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1134854/ Survival of the Dead]
For a Romero film, pretty disappointing.  Too jokey and unpressured.  Us vs Us vs Them is there, but the Us vs Us is too wishily-washily handled to get interesting enough.
September 18, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/ The Room]
Bills itself as a black comedy, but it's more awkward drama with inconsistent characters and bad sex scenes.  But I could listen to Tommy Wiseau talk all day.
September 19, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245091/ Dark and Stormy Night]
Not just another Lost Skeleton--everything's still awkward and retro, but in a very different way.  It works, though.
September 25, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865556/ The Forbidden Kingdom]
If The NeverEnding Story and Dragon Ball had a baby, it might be this.  A pretty fun time.
September 30, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219342/ Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]
It's nice to see PG CG that's not full of pop culture references spoken by aging comics, but this fantasy comes pretty generic and feels extremely rushed.
October 2, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1350498/ Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus]
For such a so-bad-its-funny movie, it's too bad the crazy CG is so spread out and reused over and over and over.  And over.
November 28, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231587/ Hot Tub Time Machine]
Unfortunately the title is about as clever as the movie gets.
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949731/ The Happening]
It's like The Birds without the birds.  Brings that big unsettling feeling, but not the character relationships as in a, say, Signs.
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/ I Am Legend]
A lot of video gamey CG, "running zombie" type silliness, and still strays pretty far from the source material; but on the whole the film works well.  Much better than the ol' Chuck Heston take.
December 4, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363771/ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]
This is a pretty simple story that they really stretched a bit too much to try and make a 2+ hour epic of it.
December 5, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499448/ Prince Caspian]
Forget stretching; it feels like half the movie is crazy events from whole cloth to add more conflict between... well, all parties.
December 17, 2010
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/ TRON: Legacy]
Hard to peg this one.  Unique, but less than the first.  Tries too hard to hit the high points of the original.  Biggest CG wonder is... Jeff Bridges?  And the whole premise still makes no sense.