Category: Movies

  • Spaceballs: Mel Brooks’ Masterpiece

    I watched plenty of Mel Brooks’ movies as a kid. But none more than this one. Of all his movies, this one is the most blatant and outlandish. It was like he and his team took Star Wars, stripped it away of 90% of its essential parts, then crammed in whatever crap they could find…

  • The Warcraft Movie: The Biggest and Prettiest Video Game Movie Disaster

    I didn’t think I’d ever talk about Warcraft again after my ‘At What Point Should World of Warcraft Stopped Expanding’ article. But then they announced Burning Crusade Classic and I got dragged right back in. So… here we are. Even if they’ve recently been improving, the reputation surrounding video game movies is still a disastrous…

  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Really Good One

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Really Good One

    You know how I mentioned the first two movies felt really weird compared to the rest of the series? Yeah, that’s because of this movie. Prisoner of Azkaban is where the Harry Potter movies really found their identity. The stories start walking a finer line between whimsical and dark. The pacing is better. The visuals…

  • Making My Peace With Godzilla ’98

    Yup. I’m at it again. Don’t worry, I’ll leave the series alone until Godzilla VS Kong comes out. Godzilla ’98 is one of the most infamous movies of all time. People who weren’t familiar with the original franchise saw it as nothing more than a lame Jurassic Park ripoff. But fans of the series tore…

  • The Martian: Adapting a Modern Classic

    The Martian: Adapting a Modern Classic

    Nearly a year ago now, I finally got around to reading a book that’s been sitting on my to-read list for ages: The Martian. When I finally got around to it, I quickly realized that it was worth it. It quickly became one of my favorite modern sci-fi stories. But then I didn’t learn from…