Archive for the ‘Adaptation’ Category

SCOTT PILGRIM REVIEW: Way Better Than You Think

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

You’d never know it from the opening weekend at the Box Office, but Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is one seriously ingenious film. Ingenious from the pacing, to the visuals, to the meta-data, which is to say nothing for the fact that Edgar Wright made an incredible adaptation of the source material at the same time! Whatever you do today, make sure that it includes checking this movie out!

~Matt + Nat

SCOTT PILGRIM PREVIEW: Comicbook to Film Done Perfectly?

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Edgar Wright is the kind of director that has gotten a fan following all his own, but when his film gets the concept from a graphic novel as popular as Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series, you just know something special is going to happen! Watch him and his cast take you into the world of Scot Pilgrim, along with some exclusive snippets of the movie, and some wild remixes of scenes!

~Matt + Nat

THE LAST AIRBENDER REVIEW: A Brilliant Adaptation!

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

M. Night hasn’t made a good movie in a long time… and yet when he was trusted to adapt the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender into a film, he managed to make one of the most faithful adaptations we’ve seen in years! Matt loves the original series, and Nat has never seen it, but Airbender gets a unanimous cheer from the geeks, knocking out a great adaptation, a fun movie, and a Shyamalan movie that wasn’t the Crappening!

~Matt + Nat

ECLIPSE REVIEW: Wait… Matt… LIKED it?

Friday, July 16th, 2010

As a film and as an adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s bestselling tween romance novels, Eclipse’s director, David Slade, most certainly out-did either of his predecessors. While the love story remains intact to satisfy Nat’s need for any angsty werewolf/vampire/human love triangle, Matt appreciated the clear effort taken to attract a male audience by adding a dark and more violent visual style, that was clearly riffing on actual horror elements for the first time in the series.

Coming up next are Reviews of The Last Airbender, Predators and Inception!

~Matt + Nat

A-TEAM REVIEW: Carnahan Found Them and Hired them! The A-Team is Back!

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

The definitive action foursome from the 80′s are back and bigger than ever! Carnahan knocked this baby out of the park, not only do we get the mysterious origin of the A-Team finally told, but we ALSO get two more hours of rock ‘em sock ‘em wicked action and hilarious hi-jinks of a reimagined yet somehow faithful re-casting of the iconic characters. The only thing left to hope for is a sequel!

Keep your eye here for our in-depth review… but if you subscribe to the Your Geek News iTunes Feed, you’ll already have it in your PodCasts!

~Matt + Nat

A-TEAM PREVIEW: The Classic 4-Way Bromance of the 80′s

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

When the film adaptation of the greatest action-comedy show of the 80′s is directed by a wild talent like Carnahan, you KNOW the A-Team will have some of the most off-the-hook action possible. But the A-Team was more than just guns and bombs, it was a group of four men who looked out for each other like brothers, and if we’re going to see Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. come to life all over again on the big screen, Carnahan has his work cut out for him making that classic 4-way bromance sing.

~Matt + Nat

PRINCE OF PERSIA REVIEW: Huh. Whaddya know? Jake’s an Action Star!

Saturday, May 29th, 2010


The difference between a successful yet soulless blockbuster and a well-crafted film that’s marketed blockbuster is sometimes ignored by movie studios with dollar-signs in their eyes. But in the case of Prince of Persia, Disney and Bruckheimer actually created a piece of entertainment with some heart, a strong story and some great characters to go along with a heaping serving of action-packed video game inspired eye-candy!

~Matt + Nat

PRINCE OF PERSIA PREVIEW: Looks Fun… But as Fun as the Game?

Friday, May 21st, 2010


After 14 video games and over two decades, the Prince of Persia is getting his own movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina. And with Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer on board, the bar is set pretty high for action, comedy, romance and adventure. But will it bring us all the elements that have made two generations of gamers fall in love with the source material? Watch our preview and let us know what YOU think!

~Matt + Nat