Tag Archives: Awesome/Stupid/Pointless

Straight-to-DVD Corner with Tonn Slingdog: It’s So Disgusting!

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Todd

Okay, perhaps movies that seek purely to make you sick to your stomach are abusing our whole “right to free speech” thing, but dammit if I’m not happier than a pig in putrid, bloody, pus-filled dung that they are around.  … Continue reading →

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Rewriting DVD Marketing Blurbs #4: Gamer

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Todd

What it says on the back of the DVD: Gerard Butler (300, RocknRolla) stars as Kable, condemned criminal and globally famous super-soldier in the ultimate multiplayer game, “Slayers.” Human controllers direct each though and move of real-life prison inmates battling … Continue reading →

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Eli. Your notes.

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Todd

A few people asked why I didn’t rant about Eli Roth’s performance in the new Tarantino picture.  I’d love to tell you that I wanted to focus all blame on the director, given that it was his self-indulgent casting choice … Continue reading →

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Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: Valkyrie (2008)

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Skelton

Awesome: Yay! Real WWII airplanes! No CGI cartoons flying around (I think there may have been couple cartoons, but most planes were real). Very hard to fuck up costumes when you’re dealing with Nazis. Those guys had “malevolent chic” down … Continue reading →

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Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Skelton

Awesome: Keanu Reeves arrives on earth in a slimy spacesuit that is described as “like a placenta.” New York City is nearly completely destroyed by a giant cloud of robot nanobugs.

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Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Skelton

Awesome: Sam Shepard in a western is always awesome. Even that silly one about history’s most famous gunslingers stuck in purgatory. Brad Pitt is a pretty menacing and unstable Jesse James. Casey Affleck’s Creepy Nervous Smile™.

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