Player Affinity writes: The F-Men are united for Episode 10 of The Plot Hole, Player Affinity’s own movie podcast. In this installment Dinah, Steven, Max, and Kieran debate all the latest movie news and the burning questions they inspire, including what makes a Bond girl a Bond girl and what is the obsession with happy endings in American movies? The main feature is on the place of censorship in Hollywood and we will, of course, review Super 8.
They say when you love someone, you love them even for their faults, and well, ten years later, we still love everything about Super 8, despite some minor flaws.
MenStuff: "One of the finer unappreciated talents of filmmakers is the ability to deliver a captivating and anticipation-building teaser trailer. Now, to be specific, a teaser trailer is what is released prior to the first trailer for the movie, to plant the initial seed of the film and raise some curiosity about the movie."
The first Transformers teaser really suckered me in the first time around, sad to say. I learned my lesson after the first hour, I can safely say.
Super 8 wins this because it's the only one not of a franchise film where we already know the whole story. That's why The Force Awakens gets away with showing practically nothing. They already know we're buying tickets.
2011 was a great year for the film industry. Box office flops were large in number, but even so a lot of instant classics were released throughout last year. I wonder though, out of all the hundreds of movies that came out in 2011, which ones were the absolute best of the best? Let’s examine this according to each distinct film season.
