The Hollywood remake machine is still in full swing, and as we see more and more of these watered-down retreads one wonders if the studio execs will ever stop. Note: That was a totally rhetorical question, we all know they won’t. Remaking a popular film is all about “Brand Recognition” where good feelings toward a…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief: Book vs Movie
It’s not easy adapting a novel to the screen, they are two very different mediums (yeah, news flash) and many elements of a book just can’t be translated well into movie form, but filmmakers will keep fighting to get it right and us the viewers are often caught in the crossfire. In the case of…
Superman Returns (2006) – Review
Almost twenty years stood between Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns and the last Superman movie, the laughable bad Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, so audiences were more than ready for a good theatrical Superman movie, and don’t get me wrong, what we got was a marketed improvement over that atrocity, unfortunately, it wasn’t without issues…
Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979) – Review
After the network’s first attempt at a Captain America movie failed at getting a series off the ground they headed right back to the drawing board for another go, and thus, later that very same year, they took another swing at the bat. It also failed.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) – Review
Before the year 2000 superhero films didn’t get a lot of respect, in the 70s we had Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie and in the 80s Tim Burton’s Batman, but aside from those rare success stories the superhero genre never really took off. Then came Bryan Singer, his X-Men movie not only received mostly…