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| Mediocre summer movies getting you down? Here is some advice. (It's a joke about how he's British.) From a graphic design standpoint, I hate the fact that Simon Pegg's name isn't in caps, but the online Keep Calm generator wouldn't allow me to adjust the font size, and when it was in caps it spilled off the edges of the poster. Yes, of course there is an online Keep Calm generator. |
Oh, finally 2013 gives us a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful movie! I had almost forgotten what it was like. This has been such a lean year for movies. So lean that as I write this, Despicable Me 2 is still playing at the eight-screen movie theater in the tiny town in West Virginia where I live. I mean, I like wisecracking anthropomorphic Twinkies as well as the next guy, but the title of that movie ends in a numeral and it opened in July and it is now October. There just wasn't anything worth a shit to replace it with. All right, so Pacific Rim was good because of Guillermo del Toro and also you can't go wrong with Ron Perlman in armored golden shoes. And Blue Jasmine was a lovely piece of filmmaking, a sensitively rendered portrait of one woman's psychological unraveling, a Streetcar Named Desire for the 21st century,* but it wasn't a bouncing-up-and-down-in-your-seat-with-delight kind of a movie.
The World's End was.
