Totally agree. The X-Men films are some of the few comic book properties that feel like actual movies and not shiny toy commercials/trailers. Someone already mentioned the great Wolverine/Rogue scenes in the first one. I'd also add the slow paced opening of The Wolverine and that evocative stretch where he's with the…

I think they are. Reeves as a foul mouthed boyscout who can't have a meaningful relationship. Hopper as a former cop who doesn't give a shit about human life. Daniels as a pragmatic realist whose adrenaline junkie days are behind him but who is still vulnerable behind a desk. The supporting players are well drawn too.…

I legitimately think this might be the greatest action film of all time. Definitely holds up not only for having (mostly) realistic and realistic looking action, but for how well the deadly stakes are established. No death is delegitimized, so when the old lady goes under the bus or SPOILERS FOR 20 YEAR OLD MOVIE Jeff…

This movie sounds like it gets at the heart of a big problem with many modern scripts: too many damn characters. I don't know what screenwriting classes teach these days, but either cut some characters or synthesize some. Most of the time that will help clear up character motivations and tighten the plotting.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Ben Kingsley's advanced mecha character narrates the opening of the film. At first he just seems like an anonymous narrator. Only at the end do we realize that he has basically been recounting a story, presumably to the mecha civilization. The story of David (sounds very…

Don't forget the drowned coastlines representing a great flood.

Mine is 'Reign of Fire,' the Christian Bale/Matt McConaughey dragon movie from ten years ago. It's a summer blockbuster with the tone of a WWII/Holocaust movie and it fascinates the hell out of me. Sometimes if a movie just does something interesting with tone or music or cinematography (which it does), its enough to…

Mine is 'Reign of Fire,' the Christian Bale/Matt McConaughey dragon movie from ten years ago. It's a summer blockbuster with the tone of a WWII/Holocaust movie and it fascinates the hell out of me. Sometimes if a movie just does something interesting with tone or music or cinematography (which it does), its enough to…

Shameless plug, but oh well. I worked on this movie in Austin last summer and I can say without a doubt that Nick Offerman is a genuinely funny and sincere guy. He drove his truck down from California so he could stop in North Texas on the way and pick up some lumber. He actually has his own woodshop and we used some…

Shameless plug, but oh well. I worked on this movie in Austin last summer and I can say without a doubt that Nick Offerman is a genuinely funny and sincere guy. He drove his truck down from California so he could stop in North Texas on the way and pick up some lumber. He actually has his own woodshop and we used some…