I have once again lost my mind in a futile pursuit of something everybody else would deem as “not important”. See, I have this love/hate relationship with the concept of genre or should I say hate/hate, for the concept of genre is totally removed from common logic. A genre is defined as “a style or […]
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I made a post about the term GOAT and why I feel everybody is using the term wrong. In this post, I am going to explore who I think is the greatest film director of all time. I will be going through who is in the conversation and exploring why they are not the GOAT
Summary The movie Eddie the eagle from 2015 is a funny and charming feel-good movie starring Taron Egerton as the title character Eddie the Eagle. The movie is based on the true story of Eddie as he tries to qualify for the Olympics. The movie opens with Eddie as a child. Eddie is so in
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I am of the opinion that when a sequel to a movie comes out after a long period of time then the movie has a tendency to be shit. Think of the Godfather 3, the Star Wars prequels, and the Disney Star Wars movies. It always seems like a shameless cash grab to release a
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Is the book always better? Can you ever adapt something fully? Why are people so obsessed with adaptations? Why are video game movies always so bad? All these questions and more will be answered in this post on adaptations where I will be laying out how to do it well, and how to do it
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What makes something generic? It’s easy to see when something is bad or good, but how do you identify what makes something generic? If people asked you about a particular movie you could say it was good or bad, but most often than not people would say “eh” or “it was fine” these are phrases
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There is so much to do and so little time! If you are anything like me (and I hope that you are not) you find yourself with a feeling of being overwhelmed by the many options in entertainment. This sinking feeling of dread and stress appears when you are faced with the realization that you
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It is common practice to leave a score after a review. This score comes in many different forms. The most common one is probably the 1-10 score. 1 being the worst and 10 being the best. On Goodreads (a site for rating books) you choose 1-5 stars. The Legendary Film reviewing duo Siskel and Ebert
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Reviews are a strange phenomenon to me. There seems to be an abundance of them, and they garner a lot of controversies, yet also remain totally arbitrary and sometimes downright useless. This post is going to be about reviews both in a professional and amateur sense. I am going to look at why they exist,
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I have been bombarded with opinions regarding Original Netflix movies. Most people I talk to have a tendency to mention their movies in a negative light. I have heard over and over again that the Netflix originals were inherently bad and or underwhelming. As a wannabe journalist, I thought to investigate whether that claim was
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