Category: Movie Monday
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The Lion King (1994): Hamlet, Furry Edition
More than a few animated classics have been ‘remade’ in the last few years. And by remade, I mean ‘butchered by live-action adaptations’. Dumbo, Beauty and the Beast, and Mulan are just a few examples. But not one of them are so offensive as what happened to this movie. The Lion King is widely regarded…
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John Wick: A Modern Action Masterpiece
Action thriller movies are hardly a rare breed of films. However, it is rare for them to be executed well, as it is easy for a single mistake to bring it all down. Poor editing or shaky cam can sink the ship before it even leaves the port. Then there are movies like John Wick.…
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Does Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Live Up to the Hype?
This’ll be the last Batman article for a while, I promise. During a discussion my friends and I had about the new Batman movie, one of them brought up Mask of the Phantasm. I hadn’t seen it in ages, so I couldn’t really give my input on it. But it got me thinking: is that…
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The Batman: Fixing a Damaged Man
In the last few years, I have suffered major burnout on the character of Batman. Once, he was my favorite superhero. But between the Snyder movies that butchered the character, the over-abundance of animated movies or shows that range from middling to decent, and the overuse of characters like the Joker and Harley Quinn, I…
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The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies Is Depressingly Bad
Here we are. The last movie. The worst of the whole trilogy and one of the most disappointing films I have ever seen. During his attack on Laketown, the dragon Smaug is struck down by the hero Bard. Now, the Lonely Mountain is free of the beast’s tyranny again. But Bilbo and his friends can’t…
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