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3:10 to Yuma– Weapons as Character

February 17, 2010

I love Westerns and I don’t trust people that don’t.  3:10 to Yuma (the 2007 version) is one of my favorites for a bunch of reasons.  Great performances, gorgeous cimematography, lotsa shoot outs, and a nice tight pace.  The tight pace is accomplished partly by keeping exposition short and simple.  Get him on the train, get paid, save the farm.  [...]

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Criminal Boredom

January 13, 2010

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I like Michael Mann’s work.  I was (and am) a devoted fan of the Miami Vice show.  The Last of the Mohicans is one of my favorites and high in my movie quote rotation.  Manhunter, even though it differs quite a bit from the Harris novel Red Dragon, is superior to the generally more [...]

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By Jove, Holmes, you’re an action hero!

December 30, 2009

I understand why Hollywood turns to established stories and mangles them, but it still makes me sad. It’s a fact of life, like old age and reality television, but that doesn’t make it any more pleasant.
The first motivation comes from the Safety of the Known. A story like Sherlock Holmes has stood up to scrutiny [...]

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Cinephile or Movie Nut?

November 25, 2009

I was channel surfing the other night and came across Mad Max on AMC.  It was weird enough that it was on AMC but when they went to commercial I found out it was a special 30th anniversary edition.  That means I first saw Mad Max when I was all of seven years old. I saw it [...]

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Extreme Characters: Death

August 4, 2009

You’re approaching the outer edge of the spectrum when one of your characters is the personification of an event, but sometimes it works.
Death has had a busy literary career: being one of the first on the scene in religious tales, founding member of the Four Horsemen, topic of a Blue Oyster Cult song, ad nauseum. [...]

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