Top Ten Worst Movie Sequels Ever
With the two mega number twos including "The Hangover Part II" and "Kung Fu Panda 2" hitting theaters this week, it got us thinking about movie sequels of the past - good AND bad. So in a Starpulse salute to the bold and not so beautiful world of second cinematic outings, we’re going to jump feet first into both the daring and depressing realm of all things part two.
Tomorrow will feature the best of the bunch, but today’s focus is the real 'winners' of the group. (Yeah right!) A bunch of second rate, highly laughable, easily forgettable and downright detestable flicks that almost make...
READ MORETomorrow will feature the best of the bunch, but today’s focus is the real 'winners' of the group. (Yeah right!) A bunch of second rate, highly laughable, easily forgettable and downright detestable flicks that almost make...
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'Too Big To Fail' Premieres Monday, May 23 on HBO
"We think about the phrase ‘too big to fail’ in the context of big, financial institutions, but it’s really a story about people who themselves think they’re too big to fail." - Andrew Ross Sorkin
HBO Films presents Too Big To Fail, a film based on Andrew Ross Sorkin’s bestselling book of the same name. Directed by Oscar®-winner Curtis Hanson (“L.A. Confidential”), the film offers an intimate look at the epochal Wall Street financial crisis of 2008 and explores the inner sanctum of the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centeri...
READ MOREHBO Films presents Too Big To Fail, a film based on Andrew Ross Sorkin’s bestselling book of the same name. Directed by Oscar®-winner Curtis Hanson (“L.A. Confidential”), the film offers an intimate look at the epochal Wall Street financial crisis of 2008 and explores the inner sanctum of the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centeri...
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“I can’t even remember what I was going to say, fuck it, two tequila slammers please”
“YES!” – Tim and Daisy, “Gone”
Often, when I see a movie or television show that really resonates with me I develop a fleeting obsession with it. I’ll get really involved with the creators’ biographies, delve deep into story arcs and character motivations, eat up auxiliary titles, read wiki pages, consider buying artwork and just generally act like a totally obnoxious geek. It happened with anime when I was in high school, it happened with Friday Night Lights last year, right now it’s the hydra-headed Sc...
READ MORE“YES!” – Tim and Daisy, “Gone”
Often, when I see a movie or television show that really resonates with me I develop a fleeting obsession with it. I’ll get really involved with the creators’ biographies, delve deep into story arcs and character motivations, eat up auxiliary titles, read wiki pages, consider buying artwork and just generally act like a totally obnoxious geek. It happened with anime when I was in high school, it happened with Friday Night Lights last year, right now it’s the hydra-headed Sc...
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The Movie Rut: "Primer" (2004)
“If two sets of the same atoms exist in the same universe at the same time, where did the additional atoms come from? It can make you hungry, thinking about questions like that. ‘I haven't eaten since later this afternoon,’ one [character] complains.” -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, October 29, 2004
Time travel can be sketchy dramatic territory. No matter how you go about things, something isn’t going to work out. Even a fairly tidy movie like Back to the Future becomes rife with paradoxes and impossible bullshit if you think about it for more than four seconds. Marty goes back in time ...
READ MORETime travel can be sketchy dramatic territory. No matter how you go about things, something isn’t going to work out. Even a fairly tidy movie like Back to the Future becomes rife with paradoxes and impossible bullshit if you think about it for more than four seconds. Marty goes back in time ...
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The Movie Rut: "The 'Burbs" (1989)
“I hate cul-de-sacs. There's only one way out, and the people are kind of weird.” – Vic the Garbage Man, The ‘Burbs
Starting his career in the mixed up world of Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, director Joe Dante quickly developed a knack for supplanting wacky 50’s b-movie antics into the lives of small town yokels. He set green monsters loose on Middle America in Gremlins, sicked homicidal toys on unsuspecting tweens in Small Soldiers, and, as recently as 2009, planted a portal to another dimension in a suburban attic in The Hole. Then there’s Matinee, the movie where Dante bypasses sub...
READ MOREStarting his career in the mixed up world of Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, director Joe Dante quickly developed a knack for supplanting wacky 50’s b-movie antics into the lives of small town yokels. He set green monsters loose on Middle America in Gremlins, sicked homicidal toys on unsuspecting tweens in Small Soldiers, and, as recently as 2009, planted a portal to another dimension in a suburban attic in The Hole. Then there’s Matinee, the movie where Dante bypasses sub...
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The Movie Rut: 'Peep Show' - 'Holiday' (2007)
“I'm not sick, but I'm not well, and I'm so hot ‘cause I'm in Hell” – Harvey Danger, “Flagpole Sitta”
Everyone has their own little travel rituals. Some people carry trinkets around and take pictures of them in front of famous landmarks; others try to eat at foreign McDonalds just to see what weird shit they have on the menu (like whatever this is). My traveling tradition is to see what’s on TV. It may sound cripplingly lame to say that I spend money on a vacation just to do something I can do at home for free, but seeing what people from other countries watch for entertainment can be pret...
READ MOREEveryone has their own little travel rituals. Some people carry trinkets around and take pictures of them in front of famous landmarks; others try to eat at foreign McDonalds just to see what weird shit they have on the menu (like whatever this is). My traveling tradition is to see what’s on TV. It may sound cripplingly lame to say that I spend money on a vacation just to do something I can do at home for free, but seeing what people from other countries watch for entertainment can be pret...
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The Movie Rut: 'Summer School' (1987)
“It's no thigh-slapper like Rodney Dangerfield's Back to School…” - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, July 22, 1987
The beauty of summer is the endless possibility. Free from the oppression of the school system, kids can do whatever they please for two months of uninterrupted bliss. It’s a season where kids can whittle their time away by the swimming pool or bike into the long summer evenings without the concern of homework or bed times. For me, summer meant a lot of aimless loafing. Some people have magical summers looking for dead bodies, fighting evil clowns, or battling killer dogs whil...
READ MOREThe beauty of summer is the endless possibility. Free from the oppression of the school system, kids can do whatever they please for two months of uninterrupted bliss. It’s a season where kids can whittle their time away by the swimming pool or bike into the long summer evenings without the concern of homework or bed times. For me, summer meant a lot of aimless loafing. Some people have magical summers looking for dead bodies, fighting evil clowns, or battling killer dogs whil...
The Movie Rut: 'Jaws' (1975) - 35 Summers And Counting
“I'm only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars.” - Mayor Vaughn
In reading about the productions of some of the most successful movies ever made, a noticeable trend arises pretty quickly. Nobody believes in the project, the shoot becomes mired with complications, some studio executive shouts “What is this shit?!” during the first screening, the director verges on a nervous breakdown, and then, out of nowhere, the premiere has a line wrapped around the block and everyone drowns in money.
If the story sounds familiar, that’s because it more or less describes the...
READ MOREIn reading about the productions of some of the most successful movies ever made, a noticeable trend arises pretty quickly. Nobody believes in the project, the shoot becomes mired with complications, some studio executive shouts “What is this shit?!” during the first screening, the director verges on a nervous breakdown, and then, out of nowhere, the premiere has a line wrapped around the block and everyone drowns in money.
If the story sounds familiar, that’s because it more or less describes the...
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The Movie Rut: 'Clue' (1985)
On a stormy evening in 1954, at the height of the McCarthy era, six strangers meet at the kind of baroque mansion that only exists in movies. Greeting them at the door is Wadsworth (Tim Curry), a stiff English butler who reveals that they are all victims of a blackmail scheme masterminded by the mysterious Mr. Boddy (played by FEAR singer and sometimes actor Lee Ving). Before long, Mr. Boddy expires under mysterious circumstances and as the bodies start piling up the multi-colored cast of characters start scrambling around trying to figure out who did in who with what and where.
When Param...
READ MOREWhen Param...
Check Out The Making-Of-A-Movie Book 'Jaws: Memories From Martha's Vineyard'
Blu-ray Review: 'Jaws'
The Movie Rut: Introduction
I’ve always wanted to be the guy who has seen everything. The type of person that waltzes into a video store (or logs into Netflix, if we’re talking about the real world) and comes out with an armful of movies he or she has never seen. Like spinning a globe and venturing off to wherever your finger may land, watching a new movie is an adventure that broadens horizons and strengthens character. Of course, going to a random place on the planet also runs a pretty high risk of landing in the middle of a desert or in some godforsaken war torn hellhole.
As much as I’d like to be the next Peter B...
READ MOREAs much as I’d like to be the next Peter B...
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