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Avatar Review Part II

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 12, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Since I’ve already written one Avatar review while I was sober, I decided to take a crack at part two of my “Defense Against Religious Environmentalism” (DARE) writeup whilst under the influence of at least half (if not more) of a bottle of fantastic Malbec from Argentina. If I can stumble through with a modicum of my original thesis under wraps, I’ll consider it a good week.

Found In Space

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

2034. Memento mori. Thought that would sink in, this far out. That black, undeniable emptiness of it all. Damn, he would have none of it. Raving about eternal life after Assumption, whatever that meant. Then he left dock. Just walked right out into the interstellar, left the dock wide open. What a Marmaduke. Left a [...]

Apocalypto

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 18, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto is a strangely titled film. It sounds vaguely like a bad sci-fi title concept from the 1970′s, but it’s about an ancient Mayan culture on the verge of collapse. But what Mel’s really getting at is our own present state. Are we bloodthirsty, religious fanatics whose blindness to the truth of our [...]

A Sound of Thunder

By jelewis8 ⋅ September 3, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

It isn’t every day that one is presented with the opportunity to openly mock, without fear of reprisal, a big budget sci-fi adventure movie. Michael Bay, for all his easily dismissed filmmaking attempts, somehow commands the pick of the litter when it comes to effects work, and his movies show a higher grade of digital [...]

The Pacifier

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 5, 2005 ⋅ One comment

What worked once for Ah-nold Schwarzenegger in 1990 seems to be an effective vehicle for similarly styled action and sci-fi star Vin Diesel, whose considerable frame is now harnessed to a family friendly improbably-but-enjoyable plot involving a top-secret weapons program, terrorists, and…babysitting. In a move such as this, Diesel might be warned by his agent [...]

The Return of MST3K?

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 19, 2004 ⋅ One comment

Check out this article to read about the Mstie Crew at the San Francisco Sketch Fest 2004. It’s got a lot of cool little bits, including a RealAudio clip of Kevin Murphy dogging some 2003 movies. At the end (very interesting, this), they intimate that MST3K may return in one form or another in a [...]

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