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How 'Rampage' Broke the Video Game Movie Curse
Source Material For starters, Rampage recognizes that it is an adaptation. It honors the spirit of the original video game, without being so beholden to it that there’s no room for necessary improvement. Some video games deliver an amazing narrative and complex plot—that doesn’t necessarily translate to the big screen well. If that were the case, the Warcraft movie would have been a lot better received. The climactic scene of George, Ralph, and Lizzie tearing through Chicago was very true to the video games. But, apart from that? Definitely different. And that worked for it.
By Nicholas Knight8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: God's Not Dead: Let There Be Light
Thus far, the God’s Not Dead franchise has been defined by its vengeful hatred toward anyone who was not a hard right Christian. Characters in the first God’s Not Dead were punished with Cancer diagnoses and hit and run death, because they didn’t believe in God in the way the pious characters did. In Gods Not Dead 2, Ray Wise basically played the devil, persecuting a Christian teacher played by Melissa Joan Hart.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Ready Player One
Ready Player One is a giddy sensory overload. Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s cult novel packs an eye blasting amount of pop cult ephemera into its 2 hours and 20 minutes run time and yet still finds time to craft an adventure worthy of his directorial canon. Everything from Monty Python to Gundam, from Minecraft to Stanley Kubrick finds a place in Ready Player One without any of them stepping on the others too much.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
What Draws People to Cosplaying?
“OMG, look at those freaks! LOL, they’re all dressed up, wow. They’re so f*cking weird.” Two kids —maybe in their late teens, early 20s—get off the train and take the long escalator up towards Peachtree Center Station. They obviously have no idea what happens in Atlanta during Labor Day weekend. Outside of baseball games, business conferences, and other “official” business, there’s a whole other world that they’ve deemed “weird” in less than two minutes of being in it. They’re not even a part of it—they’re outsiders walking into a world that couldn’t care less what their opinions of us are.
By Yarn Goddess Cosplay8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Salome' & 'Wilde Salome'
The mercurial Al Pacino decades ago passed into self-parody. It was a sad passing, watching one of the most powerful and fascinating actors in movie history begin to rely on bellowing, over-the-top nonsense rather than investing in his actual talent. Perhaps he thought that the bellowing nonsense was always his performative style, perhaps he feels that we changed and he didn’t, but the bottom line is, it’s all been downhill since one of Pacino’s worst performances, Scent of a Woman, was awarded an Academy Award.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Blockers'
When their daughters make a sex pact on Prom Night, three parents set out stop them in the new comedy Blockers. Lisa (Leslie Mann), Mitchell (John Cena), and Hunter (Ike Barinholz) entered each other’s lives when their daughters met and became lifelong friends in Kindergarten. Now, with college on the horizon and Prom Night at hand, the three parents are adjusting poorly to their daughters growing up.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Tomb Raider Review
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. There's something weird about this movie. It's not the worst video game adaptation ever, yet it's still very lacking in its story, the brutal survivalist nature of the game, and how it handles the character of Lara Croft. The problems are made very evident early on, and while it tries to redeem itself in the third act, its struggles are more or less in vain.
By James F. Ewart8 years ago in Geeks
Is This the End of Channel Awesome?
This is something that has weighed on me for some time. I’ve been a personal fan of the content creators on the website Channel Awesome for quite some time, but I noticed not too terribly long ago that there seemed to be a mass exodus of personalities from that site. Then came #ChangetheChannel, in which these departing creators used a Google document to air their grievances against Channel Awesome and its managing personnel. You can read that document here.
By Michael Bauch8 years ago in Geeks
