Daniel Tompkins
Popfilter Goes to the Movies
Much Ado About Nothing In a recent Goes To The Movies I reviewed The Great Gatsby and I panned it. I did it not only because panning things is easier than saying you liked them, but also because it was a horrific dump of a movie either way. Baz Luhrmann took a classic work and…
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HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD WATCH? In which we tell you about awesome things that you must look into and enjoy. The Fog of War Documentaries aren’t really for a lot of people and neither are politics. Honestly, those things aren’t really for me either. But if you want to listen to someone interesting…
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After Earth I really don’t want to fucking talk about M Night Shyamalan anymore. I don’t want to discuss what merit his older movies do or don’t have or talk about how shitty he is now. There are no M Night Shyamalan defenders left. There are only people like this: Hating Shyamalan is so popular…
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FUCK THAT CALF! In which we slay the things others hold dear Toby Keith I know that this is low hanging fruit, but this mother fucker needs to be stopped. The frustrating thing about Toby Keith is that a lot of people say that they don’t like his music. In fact, I have heard…
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Flickchart’s Greatest Battles In which we pit two movies together using flickchart.com, debating their merits or lack thereof. ROUND ONE HITCH VS FANTASTIC FOUR This battle was an extremely tough call. It was like answering the question, “What would you like to drink? Tampon tea, or snot soda?†And you HAVE to get a drink,…
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The Great Gatsby Based on possibly the most Cliffsnotes-ed book of all time, The Great Gatsby faces the same dilemma that any adaptation of a classic does – everything you need to make it good is right there in the original, but the original is already so important that just making it ‘good’ isn’t…
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The Place Beyond the Pines Director Derek Cianfrance clearly wants to prove that stories do not need to be told in a traditional linear fashion. His previous effort, Blue Valentine, walked us through the demise of a relationship by intercutting scenes from its romantic beginning with much bleaker glimpses of the same couple on the…
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G.I. Joe – Retaliation Today we’re talking about the half reboot, half sequel to a movie in which an iceberg sinks in water, so we can skip the part where we discuss merit or quality. G.I. Joe – Retaliation is garbage. If you’re watching it for anything other than guilty pleasure you’re already wrong. Go…
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FUCK THAT CALF! In which we slay the things others hold dear. Ryan Gosling I like Ryan Gosling the same unhealthy amount that you do. I even like his band. So this isn’t so much of a Fuck That Calf as it is a Let’s Lay Off That Calf For A Little While. Ryan…
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The Croods Dreamworks, in their ongoing crusade to prove that they’re more than just an in-theatre mockbuster scheme, have really stepped up their game of late. No longer content to make movies that look just enough like Pixar to remind us of how much better Pixar is, they’ve started churning out releases like the…
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