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Best geek movies throughout history.
Classic Movie Review: 'The Pick-Up Artist'
The Pick Up Artist is a bizarrely bad movie of the kind only James Toback seems capable of. This mess of a romantic comedy and a gangster movie attempts to be both conventional and unconventional. Toback’s thing has always been arthouse style talky existentialism with a healthy dose of New York. Watching him try to cram that unusual sensibility into a mainstream movie would be unwatchable were it not for Robert Downey Jr. and Molly Ringwald who, at the very least, remain likable even as they struggle against a director lost in his attempt to serve the commercial and the arty.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
Armageddon: The Best Worst Movie Ever Made
“Miss Stamper? Colonel Willie Sharp, United States Air Force, ma’am. Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter...of the bravest man l've ever met,” William Fichtner delivers the gasp worthy line to Liv Tyler in Armageddon. Obviously not in a good way, the straight faces abound makes one wonder what kind of internal calisthenics the cast and crew had to exercise to keep from cringing. They had probably built up quite a resistance by this final indignity, but the Bruce Willis blockbuster actually does a marginal job rescuing itself. So if you do decide to drill down with these makeshift astronauts, coming out the other side actually feels ok.
By Rich Monetti9 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to Monsters
A monster is always scarier when they look human. This is the main point underlying films such as: Psycho, Interview with the Vampire, Dorian Gray and Red Eye. There's something about familiarity that disassociates us from guessing that they'd do any harm. But has this become overused? Have we forgotten the basic notion of being a monster is to look scary? Or are we moving away from Freddy vs. Jason and into The People vs. OJ Simpson?
By Annie Kapur9 years ago in Geeks
Original vs. Remake
Stephen King's killer clown movie, IT, has had the remake treatment. Starring Bill Skarsgard as the malicious entity, the movie is closer to the source material than the original 1990 miniseries, but how does it compare to the three hour epic that gave a generation a severe case of coulrophobia?
By S. K. Gregory9 years ago in Geeks
Making the Case for 'Get Out' at the Academy Awards
Every year there is a movie that audiences and critics take to in a big way and that the Academy dismisses for whatever reason. Movies like Gone Girl, The Dark Knight, or 10 Cloverfield Lane that audiences and critics seem to believe in concert are among the best movies of their given year get ignored by the Academy for being too much of a genre piece, too much of an audience favorite or some other similar nonsense.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
When 'Jaws' Meets 'Cast Away'
Ron Howard’s movie In the Heart of the Sea, depicts a chain of catastrophic events from 1820 that inspired the tale of Moby-Dick. Essentially, it is a story about a story, which only makes me wonder: Have Hollywood filmmakers truly exhausted all the great tales, and now have to contend with secondary resources in order to come up with new ideas?
By Little Blue Rucksack9 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Happy Birthday to Me
"Go shawty - it's yo' berf-day" — 50 Cent (2003) Okay, it WAS my birthday in August and one of my many guilty pleasures is this absolutely shitty 1981 slasher pic that if anything was known for its iconic movie graphic art (with graphic being the operative word). A young, wide-eyed, terrified teenage male is about to be orally skewered by a shish kebab...how very Artemisia Gentileschi! It's held up by a glove; above the image, the tagline: "John will never eat shish kebab again."
By Carlos Gonzalez9 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Beetlejuice
Hello out there. So...my second entry is a comedy (as was promised). Horror and comedy have been two genres that have been mixed together since the days of Abbott & Costello when they went up against all the monsters from The Universal backlot. The success of Ivan Reitman's 80s horror/comedy Ghostbusters paved the way for other horror spec scripts to undergo a more comedic transformation — and no surprise, Beetlejuice was one of the horror/comedy hybrids that got greenlit — and it actually worked.
By Carlos Gonzalez9 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Misery
Hello, and welcome. My name is Carlos G. Hard manual-laborer by day. Pop culture blogger, all around freak by night. Every year since 2013, I have a mini-horror movie marathon to celebrate Halloween, the ONLY holiday on the calendar worth celebrating.
By Carlos Gonzalez9 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: Hamburger Hill
There are those who claim that Hamburger Hill is the least remembered of 80s Vietnam movies, a niche genre all its own in that decade, because it was a right wing, reactionary movie intended to defend soldiers. Time has a way of changing perceptions and now that Hamburger Hill is turning 30 years old, it’s interesting to look back on the film and talk about the perceptions of the film and how they’ve evolved over the years and the ways in which guilt, shame and history have altered the way many view Vietnam.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
