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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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POP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS OF 1979 ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ Based off the famous prison break, Escape From Alcatraz stars Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris and Patrick McGoohan as the warden. It’s a mood piece, so if you’re looking for witty remarks and a dialogue based adventure, this may not be for you; if…
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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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POP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS OF 1979 THE MUPPET MOVIE The Muppet Movie is classic because the Muppets and their sense of humor still hold up today. I’m gonna be up front about it; I love the Muppets, and it’s going to be hard to say anything bad about them. The Muppet Movie came out…
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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…
Read MoreCountdown: Summer Movie Preview
There’s too many gosh darn movies to see this summer, so Mike and Ryan are gonna help y’all out by talking the movies that will undoubtedly (they think) will be the best.
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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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POP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS OF 1979 MANHATTAN For this installment of PopFilter versus the classics, we present 1979’s Manhattan, co-written, directed, and staring Woody Allen. It also stars Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, and Muriel Hemmingway. Now, pretty much any film student or any pretentious butt-munch at the independent coffee house loves to…
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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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POP FILTER VS. THE CLASSICS OF 1979 THE BLACK STALLION Maybe I’m just traumatized from reading The Red Pony in elementary school, but horses in movies make me nervous. Film or otherwise, stories about horses so often bear a price tag of tragedy–if the quadruped isn’t abused or dying, someone else is, as in Black…
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