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Cinema Flashback - what movie would you see? »

By Burbanked on Sep 15, 2006 in Movies, Views and Reviews | 1,245 views |

It’s become increasingly difficult to be surprised or amazed when we go to the movies anymore. By the time a movie’s opening weekend has arrived, it’s been teased, publicized, hyped, critiqued and spoiled by Web sites, bloggers, test screening audiences and screenplay reviewers. Studios try, with ever more futility, to protect their product while at [...]

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King Kong is one week old - so where’s my blockbuster? »

By Burbanked on Dec 22, 2005 in Movies, Views and Reviews | 916 views |

After Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings hat trick, you’d think that anything the man touched next would automatically flip the switch on both the money- and Oscar-making machines. So why am I feeling so completely indifferent to seeing the big ape? And despite the current 83% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, I know I’m not [...]

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8.22.2008    I just want to make sure I’ve got this straight: Just two years ago, Warner Bros. gave us Superman Returns, a reboot of a dead franchise. Now in 2010, according to a number of sites, the studio will reboot the franchise again because the last one “didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to”. So the last time they did this, they spent about $270 million, developed the property for a number of years, burned through a host of directors, screenplay drafts and leading men, hired a talented director and gave him the keys to the candy store, delivered an embarrassingly dull yet expensive-looking and ultimately empty film that all of the yes-men at the studio probably knew “didn’t quite work as a film”, yet still shoved down our throats as we handed over our money, happy and stupid, to the tune of nearly $400 million. And they’ll do it again. Likely by trying to tap into Christopher Nolan’s Magic Bag of Superhero Film Tricks. And we’re supposed to be excited by this news? (8)

8.2.2008    UPDATE: the problem was actually due to a SiteMeter upgrade, and not my fault! Even better, it’s been resolved. I guess I just always take the guilt on myself. Boo hoo. If you’re reading this in Internet Explorer, you’re some kind of a sorcerer. Because my recent WordPress upgrade has crashed Burbanked when you try to load it in IE. The problem is probably one of my 89 plugins all wrassling for attention on this page. I’m working on finding out which one, and will provide an update when I figure it out. Sorry, IE users who aren’t even able to read this right now. As for you Firefox folks, this is probably the day you’ve all been waiting for. And by the way, if any code geniuses out there have a solution, don’t be shy. (9)

7.10.2008    Okay, now I’ll just admit that I’m trying to freshen up my sidebar a little. But this is a nifty piece of Batman-themed editing:
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