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INCEPTION REVIEW: $200 Million Well Spent, Chris!

Geeks — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:32:30 +0000

After pulling in over $1Billion for Warner Brothers with the Dark Knight, it was pretty nice of them to give $200Million of it back to Christopher Nolan for a little movie he called Inception. Especially since it’s probably Nolan’s finest work, and on its way to possibly being the biggest movie of the summer. The only question is: what happened at the end?

~Matt + Nat

PREDATORS REVIEW: At Last! The Third Predator Film

Geeks — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:18:38 +0000

Rodriguez might have cut the usual Troublemaker Studios corners on Predators, but he and Nimrod did right by the franchise for the first time since Danny Glover and Arnie. But how did Adrien Brody stack up to his predecessors from the 80’s and 90’s?

~Matt + Nat

IRONMAN 2 REVIEW: The Only Thing Better than 1 Ironman…

Geeks — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:44:15 +0000

We were blown away by the first Ironman, and with the same creative team behind the sequel, we had high hopes going into part 2. The drama, action and comedy were all firing on all cylinders and it didn’t take long for us to realize we were in an Ironman film! Long live the Ironmen!

If you subscribe in iTunes, you’ll have our review already downloaded in your podcasts, and if not, just sit tight, it’ll be posted here shortly! Or you could, of course, subscribe!

~Matt + Nat

IRONMAN 2 VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Gyp Me Twice?

Geeks — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:40:18 +0000

With the rich world of the first Ironman film to start with and the failure of the first Ironman video game to learn from, adding Marvel’s writer behind Invincible Ironman to the equation SHOULD have made for an amazing game this time around… but it didn’t.

~Matt + Nat

IRONMAN 2 PREVIEW: Hammer? Whiplash? War Machine? Black Widow? Now THAT’s a Sequel!

Geeks — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:03:06 +0000

John Favreau, Robert Downey Jr. and Gweneth Paltrow are back for the follow-up to Marvel’s incredible Ironman and joining them are Don Cheadle, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Scarlett Johansson to bring Tony Stark face-to-face with at least one more iron man of his own design: War Machine! Plus, his industrial nemesis Justin Hammer, S.H.I.E.L.D. Leader Nick Fury, the composite villain of Whiplash and Crimson Dynamo PLUS his seducer and betrayer from Ultimates, Black Widow. It’s anybody’s guess where this sequel will be going, but with a fanboy like Favreau in the driver’s seat, we just KNOW it’s going to be a ride we’re gonna love!

~Matt + Nat

THE BOOK OF ELI REVIEW: Rewatch!

Geeks — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:23:57 +0000

The Hughes Brothers may have delivered us a familiar “by the book” post-apocalyptic world, the story certainly took some unexpected turns to the point that The Book of Eli may just have a “Sixth Sense” need for a rewatch! Just keep your eye on Denzel in some of the clips in this review!

~Matt + Nat

THE BOOK OF ELI PREVIEW: Post God, Post Apocalypse

Geeks — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:42:24 +0000

The Hughes Brothers have been away from the limelight since 2001’s From Hell with Johnny Depp, but their return features the huge combo of Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman in a post-apocalyptic western-inspired tale of biblical proportions.

~Matt + Nat

DAYBREAKERS REVIEW: What $20M SHOULD Look Like.

Geeks — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:04:04 +0000

When young filmmakers with $20 million dollars decide to take on the vampire AND the science fiction genres at the same time, you really shouldn’t expect much. Which is why Daybreakers blew us away. Well conceived, imaginative, original and above all well done, this kind of film would have cost millions more if Hollywood decided to do something similar, and probably wouldn’t have turned out to be nearly as enjoyable!

~Matt + Nat

AVATAR REVIEW: Ho…Lee…Frak…

Geeks — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:50:48 +0000

James Cameron definitely made the most of nearly 15 years and 300 Million dollars making Avatar, because it looks and feels completely unlike any movie ever. Maybe it’s the tasteful use of 3D technology, maybe the striking resemblance the CG characters have to their human actor equivalents, or maybe it was the fact that an entirely computer generated world actually felt REAL for the first time ever, but Avatar definitely knocked us both out… what about you?

~Matt + Nat

AVATAR PREVIEW: Breakthrough this, Revolutionary that…

Geeks — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:22:52 +0000

It’s taken a decade and a half for James Cameron to bring Avatar to the silver screen (in 3-D IMAX no less), but now that technology has caught up with his imagination, he’s leading an all-star action-packed cast into the jungles of a world called Pandora to meet his photo-realistic blue-skinned aliens. Using custom-made performance capture rigs on a scale never before attempted, Avatar LOOKS stunning so far and there’s a lot of talk about the technology and the visuals, but as is the case in any movie, the real satisfaction for the audience lies in that 15-year old paper that Avatar was written on. Is THAT any good? We’ll soon find out, but with Cameron at the helm as writer and director and producer, we’ve definitely got our hopes high!

If you’re looking for a way to get even more engrossed in all things Avatar before this week’s release, check out The Official TypePad Avatar Community, we’ve been playing on there ourselves and having a great time!

~Matt + Nat