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Best geek movies throughout history.
Original vs. Remake
Stephen King's killer clown movie, IT, has had the remake treatment. Starring Bill Skarsgard as the malicious entity, the movie is closer to the source material than the original 1990 miniseries, but how does it compare to the three hour epic that gave a generation a severe case of coulrophobia?
By S. K. Gregory8 years ago in Geeks
Making the Case for 'Get Out' at the Academy Awards
Every year there is a movie that audiences and critics take to in a big way and that the Academy dismisses for whatever reason. Movies like Gone Girl, The Dark Knight, or 10 Cloverfield Lane that audiences and critics seem to believe in concert are among the best movies of their given year get ignored by the Academy for being too much of a genre piece, too much of an audience favorite or some other similar nonsense.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
When 'Jaws' Meets 'Cast Away'
Ron Howard’s movie In the Heart of the Sea, depicts a chain of catastrophic events from 1820 that inspired the tale of Moby-Dick. Essentially, it is a story about a story, which only makes me wonder: Have Hollywood filmmakers truly exhausted all the great tales, and now have to contend with secondary resources in order to come up with new ideas?
By Little Blue Rucksack8 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Happy Birthday to Me
"Go shawty - it's yo' berf-day" — 50 Cent (2003) Okay, it WAS my birthday in August and one of my many guilty pleasures is this absolutely shitty 1981 slasher pic that if anything was known for its iconic movie graphic art (with graphic being the operative word). A young, wide-eyed, terrified teenage male is about to be orally skewered by a shish kebab...how very Artemisia Gentileschi! It's held up by a glove; above the image, the tagline: "John will never eat shish kebab again."
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Beetlejuice
Hello out there. So...my second entry is a comedy (as was promised). Horror and comedy have been two genres that have been mixed together since the days of Abbott & Costello when they went up against all the monsters from The Universal backlot. The success of Ivan Reitman's 80s horror/comedy Ghostbusters paved the way for other horror spec scripts to undergo a more comedic transformation — and no surprise, Beetlejuice was one of the horror/comedy hybrids that got greenlit — and it actually worked.
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Misery
Hello, and welcome. My name is Carlos G. Hard manual-laborer by day. Pop culture blogger, all around freak by night. Every year since 2013, I have a mini-horror movie marathon to celebrate Halloween, the ONLY holiday on the calendar worth celebrating.
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: Hamburger Hill
There are those who claim that Hamburger Hill is the least remembered of 80s Vietnam movies, a niche genre all its own in that decade, because it was a right wing, reactionary movie intended to defend soldiers. Time has a way of changing perceptions and now that Hamburger Hill is turning 30 years old, it’s interesting to look back on the film and talk about the perceptions of the film and how they’ve evolved over the years and the ways in which guilt, shame and history have altered the way many view Vietnam.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
My Ten Unpopular Opinions About Film
As you know, there are common "popular beliefs" about film and then there are popular beliefs that are challenged and, like religion, wannabe-film-buffs run to the aid and scream down your throat about how you're wrong and can't possibly think that. They tell you that you know nothing about true filmmaking and the art behind it all—even though you (and not them) have been studying it for most of your life. For example: I once made a short horror/experimental film and showed it at a small showing at a bar with a group. Personally, I thought it was utter shite but it was somewhere to start—when someone asked me what I thought, I said "it was pretty crap to be fair." The other person then went for me, telling me it expressed new art and was a brilliant example of how the world is changing with metaphor-this and conceit-for-that. I told them that I made the film and then they shut up. This should show people that you can have any opinion about film you want and not care about what anyone else says to you. If you don't like something, you don't like it. It's your opinion—there's no film-bible. It's not a dictatorship run by James Cameron or Steven Spielberg—it's art and is supposed to be free-thought.
By Annie Kapur8 years ago in Geeks
Welcome to the Mihmiverse!
What on Earth is the Mihmiverse? Well, first of all, it's not necessarily on Earth, but before I explain, let's harken back to the 1950s, when drive-in movie theaters were just becoming popular, especially with teenagers. It was traditional to run a double feature: the "A" movie, followed by the "B" movie.
By Michael Cook8 years ago in Geeks
The Irrelevance of Birdman
I watched the film Birdman last night. Two years late and after two previous attempts to get past the first ten, very pretentious minutes. I would never have watched it at all, except that in the last two weeks I have seen Michael Keaton, an actor who might as well have been dead to me, turn up in two good films: Spiderman: Homecoming and The Founder. And so, I felt I should give Birdman another chance.
By Alexis D. Smolensk8 years ago in Geeks
