In lieu of doing the traditional 3 Sentence Movie Review of 2012, I’d like to do a list of potential alternate titles.

• John Cusack Surfs a Wave of Desrtuction
• Roland Emmerich Blows Up Famous Shit
• Speed
• OH, NUH-UH!
• Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Boats
• I Know Who’s Gonna Die
• Near Miss
• Luckiest Man Alive
• Tool – Ænema
• We’re Fucked

That being said, not a bad movie, over all.  It’s boilerplate characters and plot, but the shit blows up REAL nice.  I found myself tense and breathless, despite my logical mind knowing exactly what was going to happen.

1. I think it might have something to do with the director, but this was Tom Waits best performance to date.

2. It’s a tragedy that Heath Ledger died before his promise as an actor could be realized, but i think that using four separate actors to portray Tony actually worked better than if Heath would have played him all the way through.

3. The Gilliam Mindscapes that were glimpsed in movies like “Time Bandits”, “Brazil” and “12 Monkeys” (as well as much of Monty Python) are more fully realized to incredible, stunning effect in this movie than in any other film he’s done.

From Coppola’s Dracula. Transcription after the jump.

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…and I’m all out of bubblegum.” – “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, in John Carpenter’s They Live.

Probably the worst tough-guy line ever.

Stink’s campaign of “terror” leading up to Halloween begins…

I actually saw this flick.

1. Take 28 Days Later, Event Horizon and Sunshine, mix em all together, and you get Pandorum; tense, jumpy, sinister, dark and action filled.
2. Ben Foster is exactly as awesome as I always knew he could be, given a meaty leading role.
3. The set design felt evil and foreboding, but at the same time it felt like if the lights were turned on everything would be just fine.

I find this extremely funny. Nerdy comedy at its finest.

Note that this is the work of  “T. Jones and Killa,” the guys who did the NIN “Closer”/Star Trek mashup.

Found this neat short film. Quite well done for a 16min short film shot in 6 days.

I quite enjoyed it. Nice sense of pacing and atmosphere…

Road to Moloch