Friday, March 15, 2013

Witches Galore

The beginning of the year f*cking sucks. Seriously. Well at least when it comes to movies. The reason behind this is because all the big Oscar movies came out at the end of the year and since people love watching Oscar winners (to make themselves seem more educated) Hollywood doesn't want to take away from those money makers. Also cheap, bad movies still make a solid amount of money because audiences. Just audiences. For some reason though these first few months have had an obsession with witches. I am completely and utterly confused by this. Are witches disposable monsters or something? Hollywood is so sexist! Monsterist?

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Die Hard 5 Review

Die Hard is my favorite action movie. It's also my favorite Christmas movie. It's not necessarily deep or anything, but it's just done so expertly well. But what makes a Die Hard movie a Die Hard movie? You might have all the elements down in your little list you keep in your brain for whenever this discussion starts up, but in truth it's more complicated. For instance, no one has ever gone out of their way to write a Die Hard movie before. Every Die Hard originated as either a sequel to a franchise (Die Hard was originally Commando 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance was originally Lethal Weapon 4) or just an adaption of some writing (Die Harder was based on a book and Live Free or Die Hard was based on an article), so the entire franchise has just been good scripts at the wrong place at the wrong time. A Good Day to Die Hard will be the first in the franchise to be written as a Die Hard movie, and the problems just continue from there.