Geek Movie Ungoodness: Dragon Wars (D-Wars)
Sunday, September 16th, 2007“Uproariously funny!” is a reviewer’s blurb you’d expect to describe Superbad or Knocked Up. But I’m not talking about a comedy. Sadly, I’m talking about a Korean monster movie, Dragon Wars, and it’s comically bad. Let me put it this way. At some point, I found myself missing the relative intelligence of the trailer for [...]
Geek Movie Goodness: King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Friday, August 24th, 2007Tonight was a very good night. No, I didn’t have a candlelit dinner with Kristen Bell at Chez Panisse, followed by a stroll on the shore of San Francisco’s moonlit bay… as she whispered secret plotlines of this upcoming season of Heroes into my ear. I didn’t say it was a perfect night. Courtesy of [...]
Geek Movie Ungoodness: Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4)
Monday, July 2nd, 2007Most action flicks–including the first Die Hard flicks–make the perfectly reasonable presumption that you’ll suspend your disbelief in order to enjoy the offered escapist fare. To enjoy Live Free or Die Hard, however, you need to take your disbelief out back to the tool shed, put clownish, over-sized, rose-colored glasses on its face, and then [...]
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