2009 Review Blog
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
Grade: A- 07/22/2014
I've said it many times before, and I learned it from the late Roger Ebert...a movie is not good because of what it is about...it is good because of how it is about it. I couldn't care less about heavy metal music, but the story of this band, their amazing debut, and their catastrophic fall into irrelevance and obscurity over the past few decades, is fascinating, heart-wrenching, and eventually inspiring. To see the hardships these band members and life-long friends go through, only to keep on believing that they will still make it big one day, is as good a feeling you can get from a movie. They never were Metallica, they aren't Metallica, but they think that if they get the break...they may become metallica. Equally admirable and pitiful.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
Grade: A- 07/22/2014
I've said it many times before, and I learned it from the late Roger Ebert...a movie is not good because of what it is about...it is good because of how it is about it. I couldn't care less about heavy metal music, but the story of this band, their amazing debut, and their catastrophic fall into irrelevance and obscurity over the past few decades, is fascinating, heart-wrenching, and eventually inspiring. To see the hardships these band members and life-long friends go through, only to keep on believing that they will still make it big one day, is as good a feeling you can get from a movie. They never were Metallica, they aren't Metallica, but they think that if they get the break...they may become metallica. Equally admirable and pitiful.
1001 Movie to See Before You Die
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
Grade: A- 07/30/2014
If someone were to go into my cinematic brain, pull out a bunch of favorites, pleasantries, and preferences, and formulate a movie out of all the mish-mash...this film is what would come out of it. I have a ridiculous amount of affection for this movie about 3 geek friends, pouring over the rules of time-travel movies over a few pints in the pub. The next thing they know, they are thrust into the world of Time Travel with the arrival of Anna Faris. It has great comedy, great fantasy, and that kind of joyous time-travel hijinks where characters relive different scenes from different perspectives. See the quote on the poster? "Dr. Who Meets Shaun of the Dead"? That is a perfect summation. I can't give it an "A" because I have to TRY and be a bit objective when I opine about movies like this...but that is difficult when I have so much love. I have watched it 4 times in the past few months because it is so fun.
Grade: A- 07/30/2014
If someone were to go into my cinematic brain, pull out a bunch of favorites, pleasantries, and preferences, and formulate a movie out of all the mish-mash...this film is what would come out of it. I have a ridiculous amount of affection for this movie about 3 geek friends, pouring over the rules of time-travel movies over a few pints in the pub. The next thing they know, they are thrust into the world of Time Travel with the arrival of Anna Faris. It has great comedy, great fantasy, and that kind of joyous time-travel hijinks where characters relive different scenes from different perspectives. See the quote on the poster? "Dr. Who Meets Shaun of the Dead"? That is a perfect summation. I can't give it an "A" because I have to TRY and be a bit objective when I opine about movies like this...but that is difficult when I have so much love. I have watched it 4 times in the past few months because it is so fun.