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Best geek movies throughout history.
"Show Time, A-Holes" - A Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is not a perfect movie. That doesn’t stop it from being one of Marvel’s best. In fact, I believe it to be overall superior to the first film. This is largely due to the fact that almost nothing feels wasted here. Everyone is given something to do, everyone has an arc (even bit characters), and their payoff affects both them and the plot at large. I think at some point writing the script (or perhaps from the beginning), James Gunn realized that doing a sequel is about more than just throwing a bunch of shit on the screen that people recognize. Sure, Howard the Duck is in it, but I think fans have become accustomed to the level of fan service present in these more recent entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that they’re catching on to the fact that dangling a big shiny object in front of our faces and expecting us to jump just doesn’t cut it anymore. I think the fact that Vol. 2 doesn’t try to retread the things in the first movie that made it work, or duplicate the tone or structure of it, which may be disappointing to some people. When people first saw The Empire Strikes Back, a lot of them thought it was considerably darker and more tense than Star Wars was, and it’s depressing cliffhanger left a lot of them dissatisfied. Years later many regard it to be the best film in the saga.
By Declan Powers9 years ago in Geeks
Fired Scientists Start a Ghost Extermination Business
Three New York scientists were fired from a university after the school board thought their theories on psychic phenomenon were a bit too looney. Disgruntled but not dismayed, the scientists (with the help of some alcohol) decided to invest their every last cent into a business hunting down ghosts.
By Patricia Sarkar9 years ago in Geeks
Giant Ship Heads Towards Iceberg!
Drifter Jack Dawson won third class tickets for the Titanic in a poker game, and he and his friend Fabrizio catch the ship just as it is leaving. First class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, her mother and Rose's fiance Cal Hockley also board. Rose is on the way to Philadelphia to marry Hockley, an arrangement made by her mother to protect her status of wealth. Unhappy with this decision, Rose contemplates throwing herself from the high perch of the Titanic's rails.
By Patricia Sarkar9 years ago in Geeks
Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue
DRUGS ARE BAD MMMK! Now I remember a time when every kid's hero in the late 80s and early 90s was telling them not to do drugs. I, from time to time, will watch these and laugh, they are corny for the most part, but because they really don't educate you about why pot is bad. They tell you that pot can ruin your life, you'll lose your family, you won't do good in school etc. But for me personally, pot isn't the worse drug on the planet, not by a long shot. Yet people fear it could lead to other drugs. Though I personally never had the need to do hardcore drugs because I've seen it in my life to know better, people have this fear that pot is the gateway drug. While some studies believe this isn't the case, others have seen this happen. Me, I'll just drink wine (the drink that can cause liver damage, totally legal!)
By Christine Clossey9 years ago in Geeks
Declan's Blurred Circle - A Review of "Knight Of Cups"
When you’re a director, making a unique and original product is walking a tightrope because more often than not, true attempts at real originality, especially in the world of filmmaking, can often result in movies that are both drastically flawed and utterly pretentious. And then there’s Terrence Malick. I’ll be completely honest. I didn’t know anything about Malick or his body of work prior to seeing Knight of Cups. I just knew that it would be an experimental movie. That really didn’t prepare me for the kind of experiment I was watching. And up until the very end, I found it to be a slow jog of discontinuous images and pieces of dialog, filmed exclusively at canted angles with a fish-eye lens while characters matter-of-factly stated their existential crises exclusively through whispers. It was disorienting and broke all the rules of conventional storytelling. There was no three act structure and a protagonist whose motivations seem rather paper thin and transparent on the surface.
By Declan Powers9 years ago in Geeks
The Wonder Woman Everyone Forgot About; Cathy Lee Crosby
If you ask your mother about Wonder Woman, I am almost 99.9% sure she will instantly think of and bring up the 1975 version, Lynda Carter. Lynda Carter, with her All-American looks and alluring blue eyes, graced the world with her comic book version of Wonder Woman over forty years ago. And still today is known for her role as the beloved super heroine goddess.
By Nixza Gonzalez9 years ago in Geeks
Baby Driver Review
If there’s one word that encapsulates Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, his latest dynamite of a film, it’s giddy. You want to ballpark other words? Sure. Let’s go with thrilling, joyful, heart racing, tender, toe-tapping, white knuckle. Hell, let’s throw Bullitt crossed with an iPod and a playlist that your annoyingly hipster friend wishes they thought of first. It’s a palette cleanser, a blast of sheer, pulsating fun. It’s a movie movie, where the characters positively relish purring the title character’s name as if they’re in a cheesy 50s road race flick. Where the music beats are at once surprising and such a natural fit to the on-screen action (only Wright could make Barry White’s Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up the perfect face-off track in a diner).
By Nicholas Anthony9 years ago in Geeks
Spider-Man: Younger Does Not Mean Better.
So currently, I've been reading articles and reviews and comments about the newest addition to the Spider-Man franchise and I have been more than slightly irritated about them. Since his appearance in Civil War, he has been dubbed "the best and absolute perfect casting for Spider-Man," before his solo movie has even been released and even if it is true, it isn't fair to state things like that as a matter of fact, because the truth of the matter is, he's a third try at a franchise that has never really failed in their first movie.
By Steven Natal9 years ago in Geeks
