Monthly Archives: June 2005

Batman Begins

Posted on June 19, 2005

Short version: See it. Longer version: Batman Begins continues the recent tradition of comic book superhero movies using the first film to tell the character’s origin story. But while other movies (Spider-Man, Blade, Hellboy, yeah, I’m looking at you, Hulk, … Continue reading →

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Hero

Posted on June 6, 2005

Dazzling. That’s the best word I can think of to sum up Hero (Ying xiong in the original Chinese, I suppose), the tale of a nameless assassin who confronts the man who is in the process of uniting warring kingdoms … Continue reading →

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Con Air

Posted on June 1, 2005

This past weekend we watched 2003′s Elf and Con Air from 1997. One was decent, the other only appeared to be on the surface. Can you guess which is which? Will Ferrell as an oversized, mixuped Santa helper wanna be … Continue reading →

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Elf

Posted on June 1, 2005

What went wrong with Elf? Hard to say. Ferrell at this point is kind of like Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy or Robin Williams at their manic primes, all over the screen and always able to take over any scene. Probably … Continue reading →

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