Action movies will always be popular because people like heroes. Heroes that walk away from explosions without flinching, dodge bullets, ignore serious injuries, do death defying stunts and witty one-liners along the way. The number one prerequisite of being an action movie character? Toughness (and the ability to generate suspension of disbelief). So let’s count [...]
Posted on August 13th, 2010 by MrWiseguy
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Remember that scene from Toy Story, when the kid got Buzz Lightyear (of Star Command) and started to ignore his old pal, Woody, the cowboy? Well western movies are somewhat a thing of the past – not like you see many Rio Bravos or High Noons these days. What you do see, more often than [...]
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by MrWiseguy
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I recently watched all of the Farscape DVDs in order. Quite a fascinating show, if uneven at times. Late into the second or third season, don’t exactly remember which, there is a scene where the villain threatens the hero with attacking his homeplanet (the hero being a human tossed out in a far away part [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by MrWiseguy
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