The summer blockbuster movie onslaught has been in full force since the beginning of May. Most summer blockbuster films are full of explosions and one liners, and while all of that can be fun to see, they are very one note. At the NYC premiere, for Edge of tomorrow, America’s golden boy Tom Cruise, came into our theater to intro the movie, and delivered a bunch of one liners from his previous flicks. I almost felt like he was preparing me for what to expect. I started to imagine Tom Cruise herpin and derpin from one moment to another delivering cool one liners along the way. I was dead wrong. Edge of Tomorrow goes well beyond the need for a memorable one liner, and delivers the best summer blockbuster of the year.
Hawk the Slayer is one of those odd little films that managed to catch your eye while you were perusing the genre racks at your local video rental store (when they were still around). It had an epic-looking poster that looked more like the popular “Choose Your Own Adventure” style books. You were just drawn to it. I was drawn to it. But then, I was a young, impressionable lad at the time, and just learning the ways of the world. Thankfully, the heyday of Sword & Sandal films was just getting into swing and I had a legion of warriors with magic and sharpened steel to lead me. Hawk, however, was just the door man, a “gateway drug” type of movie….clean enough for kids, dirty enough to give them urges towards long hair, leather pants, and Manowar records.
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