Movies

Evil Don’t

/ Rishard Chapoteau / Leave a comment

safe_imageIf I have one giant pet peeve in any narrative story, it’s when smart people do really dumb things to help advance the plot.  Sometimes I can turn my brain off and forgive certain things, but not when the entire plot of your film is predicated on bad mistakes.  In a recent IO9 article, they asked Bruce Campbell about the secrets of great  film-making.  He responded

“I think horror movies are better if people give a shit, and make a decent movie. I feel like there’s lazy film-makers in general out there. I [would like] a little more industrious film-making, please. I just think they need to work a little harder, pay attention, and don’t treat audiences like they’re stupid.”

I wish director Fede Alvarez would have followed that basic rule in making this film.  To be fair Evil Dead isn’t all bad.  It has some great moments in the middle of the flick, but the beginning and the end surpass my ability to suspend disbelief.

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation wasn’t good . . . It was great!

/ Rishard Chapoteau / 1 Comment

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If I was to  ask you if you to choose between Stephen Sommers the director of the Mummy movies, and Van Helsing, or Jon Chu the director of Step Up 2, Step Up 3D, and the Justin Bieber documentary, to helm a G.I.  Joe movie, chances are you would choose wrong.  Jon Chu, known mostly for directing music related films knocked it out of the park with G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  It completely wiped the craptastic taste out of my mouth that I had thanks to the Sommers movie, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra.

As a fan of the Larry Hama comic and the original cartoon, I had a lot of problems with Continue reading →

GOJIRA!!! Legendary Pictures Announces Principal Photography and Release Date!

/ Christopher Lee / Leave a comment

godzilla bannerLegendary Pictures made their first big announcement today about their upcoming “American” reboot of Godzilla!!

I am a HUGE G-Fan and of all the movies being released, this will likely be the one you’ll see me following/posting updates for most often.

Here’s the release statement regarding casting, beginning of principal photography, and the RELEASE DATE of the upcoming film (also a quick word from director Gareth Edwards: Continue reading →

Review: Total Confusion 2013 (Gaming Con)

/ David Chosid / 1 Comment
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Part of the CCG and board game room

Total Confusion is my favorite gaming con. It is pretty much a 4-day pure gaming convention made up of a good number of board games, RPGs, LARPs, card games, and table top model strategies. There is also a small vendor area, some panels, a video game room, a video showing area, and some performances. There is even a listing of old-school RPGs for geezers like me. I try to hit this con every year. This year’s con (27 years and going) ran from February 21-24, 2013 in Mansfield, MA; I attended on Saturday.

Some of the RPG tables

Some of the RPG tables

If you pre-reg you can usually get into the games you want. I never have the forethought to do this but one can still always find interesting things to try. Actually, one of my great enjoyments is Continue reading →