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Rob Zombie Should Have Stuck with a Prequel to Halloween
It seems everyone nowadays wants to remake John Carpenter films. We’ve had remakes of Assault on Precinct 13 and The Fog, a prequel to The Thing (itself a remake), and talks of a remake of Escape from New York. When will we get new versions of Prince of Darkness or Starman? In 2007, rock musician-turned-filmmaker […]
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 […]
Bizarre Films by Prominent Directors
When you think of a given director, a certain type of movie usually comes to mind. If you say Tim Burton, immediately you think of a twisted world filled with pasty-skinned people with wild hair usually played by Johnny Depp. With Michael Bay, you get ‘sploidy things that go boom. But when you say Alfred […]
Paranormal Activity vs. TrollHunter
Fads in movies are curious things. Everyone complains that there’s no originality in Hollywood, and yet when a truly unique film or filmmaking technique comes out, everyone is quick to just on the bandwagon to make their own version of it. Audiences are just as much to blame, because they consume the imitators as readily […]
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