Bradadadadadadadada!!! (automatic weapon's fire)

Bradadadadadadadada!!! (automatic weapon's fire)

I AM DULL LAW!
"The streets of the future will run…blah Dredd."

I AM DULL LAW!
"The streets of the future will run…blah Dredd."

Yep.  They did a pretty good job with the retro-formatting, too. (It helps that David Lean favors still, wide-ish compositions that make this sort of gimcrackery effective to the best possible degree.)

Yep.  They did a pretty good job with the retro-formatting, too. (It helps that David Lean favors still, wide-ish compositions that make this sort of gimcrackery effective to the best possible degree.)

Which, oddly, makes me think of something from "Prometheus" that I haven't yet seen any commentary regarding:  The film clip from "Lawrence of Arabia" that has been retro-formatted as a 3-D movie.  I imagine that people from THAT future time would only remember having seen "Lawrence" with an extra dimension —even…

Which, oddly, makes me think of something from "Prometheus" that I haven't yet seen any commentary regarding:  The film clip from "Lawrence of Arabia" that has been retro-formatted as a 3-D movie.  I imagine that people from THAT future time would only remember having seen "Lawrence" with an extra dimension —even…

My chief concern with 3-D is that, so far (for me), it has failed to yield contiguous cinematic "suspense, or tension," and can barely sustain the necessary "geometry and momentum" of propulsive action —and this may actually be a failing of the form, rather than the film-maker.  By that, I think I'm saying that the…

My chief concern with 3-D is that, so far (for me), it has failed to yield contiguous cinematic "suspense, or tension," and can barely sustain the necessary "geometry and momentum" of propulsive action —and this may actually be a failing of the form, rather than the film-maker.  By that, I think I'm saying that the…

Fangs of New York

Fangs of New York

I hope you won't too much mind this alternate title for "A Farewell to Arms":

I hope you won't too much mind this alternate title for "A Farewell to Arms":

This "History of Violence Lite" episode was the first that couldn't hold my attention.  What wasn't utterly obvious in the crime-o-the-weak seemed dopey, trite, or inauthentic…topped by the Deputy running across the yard to "draw attention to himself" —firing his pistol into the air.  He might as well have run in…

This "History of Violence Lite" episode was the first that couldn't hold my attention.  What wasn't utterly obvious in the crime-o-the-weak seemed dopey, trite, or inauthentic…topped by the Deputy running across the yard to "draw attention to himself" —firing his pistol into the air.  He might as well have run in…

They tried this one.  After just two weeks they renamed it "Blow Lagoon."

They tried this one.  After just two weeks they renamed it "Blow Lagoon."

"Reeks of Age'd"

"Reeks of Age'd"