Here’s what I’m getting at. I don’t mind a massive blockbuster once in a while, as long as the subject matter it tackles is at least somewhat interesting or provocative. ALVH, for all its bluster and supposed quirkiness, looks depressingly safe. But what if it wasn’t? If we could, what would we change to make it something more? Well, for starters…
Daniel Joslyn "Geek films dominated the box office in 2012, but that does not tell the whole story. Some movies lived up to impossible expectations. Others bombed as expected. Some movies that nobody had heard of in 2011 turned out to be amazing, while other movies that had a huge build-up were mostly greeted with disappointment. It’s hard to pick out one overarching story but I would say it was this – in an increasingly fragmented world, geeks are the last bastion of the collective experience."
Think Casa De Mi Padre was never released theatrically outside the U.S.
Bought a Blu Ray copy and have to say it is hilarious! Will Ferrell is a genius.
Rented a copy of The Hunger Games and in all honesty it is over-hyped and an absolute inferior copycat of the Japanese film Battle Royale.
I'm sad that Casa De Mi Padre didn't have a theatrical release outside of the U.S. It was definitely one of my favorite films of 2012!
I think the Hunger Games movie was much better than the book. It's a lot like Battle Royale, yes, but it's also like a bunch of other things (Logan's Run, anyone?) so I'm not sure I'd call it a Battle Royale copycat. (I liked Battle Royale better, though.)
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Having never seen Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter before this Blu-ray screening, everything I'd heard about the film mentioned the fact that the writer Seth Grahame-Smith (Dark Shadows) and director Timur Bekmambetov (Day Watch, Wanted) made the wrong choice when they decided to unapologetically play this story straight. Still, it was a bold creative choice and I'll always be a fan of a movie that goes "all-in" than one that teeters in the middle and tries to be everything to everyone.
I actually enjoyed this movie. I went to see it and I think I'm going to buy the dvd. It's out and I've seen it on sale so I'll probably get it sometime.
Clickonline.com writes "The Superhero sub-genre has been going from strength to superstrength in recent years and 2012 proves its stamina is inexhaustible. Or at least powered by our yellow sun....
o with the exceptionally broad criteria of ‘anyone capable of kicking an inhuman amount of ass immediately qualifies’, behold 2012’s Most Super!"
