Saturday, October 20, 2012

Amazing Spider-Man (score: 5)

An origin story that doesn't want to be one, Amazing Spider-Man covers Peter and Uncle Ben story like it's a nuance. Trying to "Dark Knight" Spider-Man apparently meant making New York felt like it has only a few city blocks and drag out awkward family sitcom scenes until we beg for the Lizard, who like like a burn victim with a tail, to attack.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (score: 4)

The fifth installment has nothing that makes the series great. This time they are just bad people that shows up and torture college students. I like the first two films a lot because the main characters made a wrong turn (get it?) and they had the chance to escape, which makes the movies suspensful. No suspense here, the main characters never had a chance.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunters (score: 3)

A below-average super hero origin story with a hard-to-see soft-core porn style lighting and unnecessary slow motion fights, after I thought they movie was over, they had to unenthusiastic try to integrate Civil War into the plot. There are no clever revelation of how vampire fit into the real life story of Lincoln (he was depressed, yet funny, his wife was crazy). It could have been Andrew Jackson Vampire Hunter, and the only thing different about it would be a Civil War costume.