C’mon Hollywood

C’mon Hollywood: Has Tim Burton lost his touch or have we lost touch with Tim Burton?

Posted 14 years ago

This past weekend I caught Tim Burton’s FRANKENWEENIE and while sitting there, soaking the film in, I felt an air of familiarity, as if there would be no surprises and a bittersweet, oddly happy ending. Yet, as the film came...

C’mon Hollywood: Should videogames be adapted?

Posted 14 years ago

Living in today’s world, it’s almost impossible to not play video games to some degree.  Some are obsessed to an unhealthy level of gameplay, while others keep it casual enough to be a fun escape.  With the videogame industry generating...

C’mon Hollywood: What does the failure of Dredd tell us?

Posted 14 years ago

After its premiere at Comic Con this year, fans and critics alike raved about DREDD 3D, a reboot of the popular British comic book created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and starring Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, and Lena Headey. ...

C’mon Hollywood: There can be only one Highlander…right?

Posted 14 years ago

Directed by Russell Mulcahy (RICOCHET), the original HIGHLANDER, starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, and Clancy Brown is the story of a group of immortal warriors all battling to kill each other in order to attain “the prize,” which is mortality....

C’mon Hollywood: Is Wonder Woman cursed?

Posted 14 years ago

Created by William Moulton Marston (inventor of the polygraph…seriously) in 1941, Wonder Woman has since become a cultural icon and the leading symbol for female superheroes all over the world.  The Amazonian goddess, also known as Princess Diana, decked out...

C’mon Hollywood: Where the hell is Jurassic Park 4?

Posted 14 years ago

In 2008, author Michael Crichton passed away, leaving behind a legacy of both tapped and untapped material that will long outlast many of us.  One of those properties is JURASSIC PARK, a novel that sailed to the screen under director...

C’mon Hollywood: Make vampires scary again (or stake the genre in the heart)

Posted 14 years ago

I was watching UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING last week and about 10 minutes in I realized that I just didn’t care anymore.  I didn’t give two f*cks about Selene or the vampire/lycan battle and the notion of vampires in general just annoyed...

C’mon Hollywood: Marvel getting Daredevil back? Let’s do him some “blind” justice!

Posted 14 years ago

I’ve been reading Daredevil for more than 20 years.He’s a unique character to the Marvel universe, one who constantly toes the line of justice as a walking conundrum with super sonic powers; As a lawyer by day, Matt Murdock prosecutes...

C’mon Hollywood: We need more quality sports films!

Posted 14 years ago

Seeing as the 2012 Summer Olympics was the most watched TV event in US history, there’s obviously more than a little interest in seeing people perform some really cool (and really weird) athletic feats.   For the first time in my...

C’mon Hollywood: Enough with trilogies!

Posted 14 years ago

With the recent announcement of Peter Jackson extending his recently wrapped two-part THE HOBBIT into a trilogy, I was left scratching my head as to why it was necessary.  They tackled the production from the start with two films in...

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