Posts Tagged → spoilers
Watch Sean Bean Die (For England, James! x 21)
Embedded below, please enjoy an assortment of Sean Bean deaths set to music from the insipid Dead Island trailer.
Strung together with the music suggests a man trapped in a Groundhog’s Day sort of limbo, or perhaps it’s a work meditating on mortality.
Or it can represent how I felt sitting through Dark of the Moon.
For a complete list of films (there’s some fairly obscure/weird stuff in here), clicky here.
Oh, SPOILER ALERT by the way.
Review: Super 8
![Super 8 [Paramount]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/super82.jpg "Super 8 [Paramount]")
Warning: The review below contains very minor spoilers for Super 8. If you’re so spoiler-averse you can’t stand to learn that ‘the good guys win’ and other relatively inconsequential things, beware!
Confession time: I’ve never seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I wasn’t even born when E.T. came out, and I think the last time I saw that I was like seven. I have no connection to this nostalgic Steven Spielberg people keep touting while hailing J.J. Abrams’ Super 8.
The Spielberg I nostalgia-bomb myself with is the guy in the 101st Airborne jacket, the guy behind Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Munich or Schindler’s List. Spielberg’s films fill the viewer with a certain sense of awe, wonder and adventure, and even Spielberg’s weaker entries fare far better than anything Super 8 can muster.
Super 8 is a mess. A mess that starts off promising but ends up falling apart under its own weight. This is unfortunate because there is a bevy of strong performances from the movie’s cast of kids and some interesting concepts but, like most summer schlock these days, the concept is the only aspect of the film that’s been fleshed out. Abrams had an idea for a movie and shot it before anyone finished writing the last act. READ MORE!
Apocalyptic Double Feature: Legion vs. Book of Eli
![Legion vs. The Book of Eli [Screen Gems + Warner Bros.]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/legion-vs-eli3.jpg "Legion vs. The Book of Eli [Screen Gems + Warner Bros.]")
Last week, an earthquake ravaged the greater Washington area (the ground shook a little bit and I think a mailbox may have fallen over) and the good citizens of Rockville, Maryland were aflutter the next morning, visions of Roland Emmerich’s latest apocalyptic masterpiece (prophecy???) fresh in their hearts and minds. While this unprecedented catastrophe (the earthquake, not the Emmerich movie) sent the uninformed masses running frantically to consult the nearest Mayan calendar, I was merely inspired to dust off my 2012 DVD. READ MORE!