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Justice League: The New Frontier
I have to strongly recommend this movie. Yes, it’s a cartoon, but I would say it’s not appropriate for children. There’s blood and implication of unsavory activities.
Everything takes place in the 1950’s, an era that intrigues me to no end, and centers around the formation of the Justice League. Seriously people, check it.

This movie can be summed up in two words: “Dragon Wars.”
That’s pretty much all there is to it.

It’s not exactly a bold prediction, but with only $25,000 in sales opening weekend, I was right.

Click here to see Keith Olberman and Paul F. Tompkins speak of my great prognostication.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say this is the worst movie ever made. I never read the description. I don’t think there’s a need to.

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BBC news has officially confirmed the suspicion that Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen had the worse on screen chemistry in the new Star Wars flicks.

It took me a while, but it looks like this trailer is entirely computer animated. The hair is usually a dead give-away, plus IMBD lists Angelina Jolie as (voice).

It doesn’t really make sense to make a realistically animated a movie where the characters looks exactly like the actors, but then again, it’s probably better than filmed actors with disjointed special effects.

A couple of weeks ago TCM played an Ed Wood double feature: Bride of the Monster and a film once declared the worst movie ever, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Ed Wood is a very interesting character in film history. If you’ve seen the Tim Burton film Ed Wood, it’s fairly accurate to his life, as far as I can tell. He had a great passion for his art, but was absolutely horrible in making it. He didn’t have a great attention to detail, which is why he is sometimes reffered to Ed “One-Take” Wood.

His films have acheived cult status for being absolutely horrible. He didn’t acheive this form of fame until long after he died. 1950’s Sci-Fi/Horror is one of the biggest influences in my life, and I absolutely loved Myster Science Theater 3000 when it was on air. It’s a show that wouldn’t have existed were it not for film makers like Ed Wood. These B-movie thrillers have been often immitated by suburban kids with their camcorders, including the likes of Tim Burton and M. Night Shyamalan.

Almost every modern director I respect cites 50s sci-fi as their main influence. It’s even the main influence behind Big Smelly Robot. The genre captures the spirit of being a young boy, reading comic books, and letting your imagination run wild. It’s so much fun to watch how excited my nephew gets when watching or talking about a movie. Part of me wishes I could still watch a movie without thinking about technique. You know, just getting extatic and punching the air. BLAM. KA-POW. ONOMATOPIA.

Here’s a short film that I did a while back. It’s shot from a Canon ZR80. I complied footage from the glory days of my undergrad and made a film 6 minute film with about 5 minutes of opening credits meant to be a sarcastic glorification of my own achievement.

We Were Trilambs - 6′06″