I’m a big fan of the first How To Train Your Dragon movie. It has great flight sequences, great characters, amazing music (I’ve played this song too many times to count), and well, it’s just an overall great movie. But do we really need a sequel? Is this just some sort of cash grab playing…
Tag: Fantasy
Maleficent (2014) – Review
Revamping classic fairy tales has almost become its own genre, we’ve had Snow White and the Huntsman, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and Oz the Great and Powerful, now the unfortunate thing about all this is that none of them have been all that good. I’m not saying they have no redeeming qualities- the often…
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 we, the viewers, are often caught in the crossfire. In the case of…
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) – Review
Up for some high-adventure fun, action-packed sequences and heroes you can really get behind? Then I suggest you go see The Lego Movie again and skip this mess.
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007) – Review
There are bad ideas, and then there’s Uwe Boll staring into the cinematic void and declaring himself its king. With In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Boll, or as I like to imagine him introducing himself at parties, Uwe “I’m the only genius in the industry” Boll, makes another glorious attempt…