Archive for Rants

While I know it is impossible for every person to appreciate any particular movie, it is quite distressing seeing people bash quality ones. Inception of course has been welcomed by a mostly positive critic and audience reception, but there are still people out there who are going to take their shots just because they can’t let themselves enjoy something liked by the mainstream. We saw very similar treatment to Cameron’s Avatar and also The Dark Knight in 2008. Like I said, I know not everyone is going to love some of these movies like I did, or most critics, or most of the public. I can take someone making legitimate claims on why they didn’t like the movie or shortcomings they felt it featured. But for someone to go out of their way to bash or claim “the movie was terrible, or confusing,” (when all you have to do is clearly pay attention!) is just a ploy to get attention. Well, people talking like this, who should not be left in a small room with me, have my attention. Hit the jump to see this bash on Inception.

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Periodically, The Movie Mash will feature a new segment called Theater Near You, where our staff will share our various movie theater experiences, pet peeves and etiquette tips with you, the reader. We also encourage you to comment with your own experience related to the respective topic, as we all go to the movies, and this is a place for you to vent your frustrations. This first installment of Theater Near You  is about the morons who sit right in front of you when you have your feet up. I can’t count on 10 hands how many times this has happend to me. Picture this: I’m at a matinee showing on weekday and the theater is barely a third full. My friends and I make the conscious effort to sit at the very top-middle of the theater, as for some reason no one sits back there. Because we have decided to sit away from everyone else, we now have the freedom and luxury to sprawl our legs out on the seats directly in front of us. But wait… (insert Jaws theme music).

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While I rarely would waste time watching the MTV Movie Awards because of how unworthy the actual award recipients are, good things did indeed come from the 2010 ceremony last night (Deathly Hallows teaser). Before I progress to the good elements of the show, I want to once again profess how idiotic this award show is. It shouldn’t be called “movie awards,” it should be called “movie opinions of teeny-boppers.” Thing is, if you care about what this demographic thinks about the cinema you most likely contribute nothing to society.

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Filed Under:Harry Potter, harry potter and the deathly hallows, movie trailer, MTV Movie Awards
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In this stale economy, it’s difficult to find businesses blatantly ripping off their customers. However, you can look no further than the film industry and its recent hike in movie ticket prices, again, to witness a true example of corporate greed incarnate. The theaters owned by the Regal Entertainment Group, AMC, and Cinemark Holdings all increased their ticket prices starting May 26th. The price increase is varied depending on the market.

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With the summer about to hit, the movie season is about to work itself into full swing. But instead of talking about some of the highly anticipated movies coming up this summer (Inception, Toy Story 3, The Last Airbender), I want to discuss some upcoming projects for future summers.

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Filed Under:2 sequels, Brad Bird, Men in Black 3, Mission Impossible, movie news, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Rob Marshall
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nightmare on elm street 2010

This is like Rosa Parks, or Tiananmen Square, but of the movie world. Our distaste for post-conversion 3-D has been thoroughly documented on The Movie Mash over the past several months. As it seems that most big-name movies are either being shot in 3-D or post-converted, I don’t want to write a new story everyday chronicling that “Movie X” and “Movie Y” are going to be in the third dimension. It’s tedious, and I’m sure a lot of you are tired of hearing about it. But this story is the first we’ve heard of a director flat-out refusing the studio’s wishes of having their movie converted to 3-D, and I feel like it’s something that needs to be shared.

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Tron Legacy

It’s been several days since this was unveiled to the world, but I needed some time to gather my thoughts. If you saw Alice in Wonderland this past weekend, you got to see the breathtaking new trailer for Disney’s other upcoming 3-D baby, Tron Legacy. The first footage we saw of Tron Legacy was way back this past summer when Disney premiered those three minutes of footage at Comic-Con. That clip didn’t show much, but was just supposed to get people talking, which it did. But man, this new trailer has got people SCREAMING for December to hurry the hell up already.

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The Hurt Locker Oscars

Where in the hell did this from? After getting no love from The Golden Globes or the SAG Awards, The Hurt Locker came out of left field to win six Academy Awards including Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow) and Best Picture. I thought it was a solid film, but NO WAY did it deserve Best Picture. Avatar and Inglourious Basterds were the only worthy nominees for the biggest award of the night in my opinion. I guess the Academy is still too conservative and/or short-sighted to give props to any film that wins big at the box-office.

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Browsing the internet a few weeks back I stumbled upon some very interesting Star Wars news. The first bit of reading involved George Lucas’s comments following his screening of Avatar. Lucas was impressed with the magnitude of what James Cameron was able to accomplish with the project and the integration of the third dimension (via Access Hollywood):

I’m happy it’s so successful, and worked very well in 3-D, haven’t been a big fan of 3-D, but that movie definitely improves in (the field of) 3-D. We’ve been looking for years and years and years of trying to take ‘Star Wars’ and put it in 3-D. But, [the] technology hasn’t been there. We’ve been struggling with it, but I think this will be a new impetus to make that happen.

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Feb
17

Ethan Hunt Returns

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Mission Impossible 4

We have known that Tom Cruise would be getting his hands dirty in a fourth Mission: Impossible film for some time now. Before any plot or characters were announced for the movie the 47 year-old actor was initially signed on to an executive producer role along with J.J. Abrams. Now Cruise will reprise his role as Ethan Hunt in the fourth installment. But Abrams, director of Mission: Impossible 3, will not be back in the director’s chair.

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