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The News and Dead People
When Osama Bin Laden was killed and the White House decided not to release photos of his body, many people in the world (and some in the United States) claimed they weren’t releasing the pictures due to a cover-up. How many of those same people would claim that the photos were fraudulent if they were […]
Write About Real Life Instead of Movie Cliches
Nobody likes to see clichéd plots in movies. After all, everybody and his brother has pointed out the tried and tired plot that Avatar used, which was similar to a slew of movies like Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, and Fern Gully. In fact, people hated it so much that Avatar made $2.75 billion worldwide. Okay, […]
Notes from the Future War – The Terminator Series
Terminator 2: Judgement Day is arguably one of the best sequels ever made. It took the concept of the low-budget science fiction action film The Terminator and advanced the story in many ways while providing a similar story beefed up so that all the familiar elements were done bigger and better. Director James Cameron worked […]
Plots Are Conflict Resolutions
People thrive on conflict. There’s a reason why shows such as Jersey Shore and Real Housewives of (Name Your City) are so popular–they’re all about conflict. Feature films are no different. They need a strong central conflict that drives the story with a lot of little conflicts along with way. In its basic form, a […]
10 Movies from the ’80’s That Should Be Remade
It’s been said by apparently everyone that Hollywood has run out of new ideas. That alone is not a new idea, as that has been common wisdom for possibly the lifespan of the motion picture industry itself. Now we’re in an era where movies from the ’80’s are being remade. In 2011 alone, we’ve seen […]
Should Star Trek Return to TV?
About a decade ago, it felt like we were inundated with Star Trek. The Next Generation movies were still in full swing in the theaters, two TV series were on the air, no less that 15 computer games were released from 2000-2002 alone, and countless books were published. There was a point of saturation, where […]
Suburgatory Is Sitcom Hell
This season’s crop of new TV shows seems to have an overabundance of sitcoms. Just a few years ago, critics were bemoaning the fact that the TV comedy seemed to be a dead genre, but from the ones that the networks decided to give air time it seems like it should be dead. Just like […]
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