This is an above-average action comedy that doesn’t have a lot to do with the classic 1960s TV series, despite some affectionate nods in that direction.
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These are the posts for the year 2008 of the common era.
Get Smart (2008)
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008Hancock (2008)
Saturday, December 27th, 2008This Will Smith vehicle begins with a neat premise and starts strong before degenerating into a series of noisy, hollow—Whoa, talk about déjà vu!
I Am Legend (2007)
Saturday, December 27th, 2008This Will Smith vehicle begins with a neat premise and starts strong before degenerating into a series of noisy, hollow action scenes.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008They had nineteen years to work on this and this is the best story they could come up with?
Shine a Light (2008)
Friday, December 19th, 2008In concert, the Rolling Stones can still rock the house. The lesser-known chestnuts and covers are played with passion, but after forty years classics like “Satisfaction” are starting to sound hollow and forced.
Plus, at his age, Keith Richards looks less like a guitar god and more like a bag lady. Ditch the head scarves, Keith! It’s not a good look for you…
Vantage Point (2008)
Friday, December 12th, 2008Take a mediocre season of 24 and edit it down to ninety-minutes. It would probably still be better than this.
X Files – I Want to Believe (2008)
Friday, December 12th, 2008I want to believe that Chris Carter, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson can make a better movie than this. I pretty sure they can’t make it worse.
The Dark Knight (2008)
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Do I look like a guy with a plan?
Comic book movies are all grow’d up and, boy, are they gloomy. Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to his brilliant Batman Begins goes beyond its predecessor and gives us a rich, multi-layered story with one of the more original takes on the comic book villain I can remember. With the creative success of this movie, we can officially write off the Tim Burton Batmans as an unfortunate detour (and the Joel Schumacher films as a large pothole in that detour).
Director: Christopher Nolan | Released: 2008 | 152 min. | Rated: PG13 | Genres: Action | Franchise: Batman
April Fools! (Toshiba to Sue Everyone Who Didn’t Buy HD DVD)
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Toshiba, the chief backer of HD DVD, the loser in the high-def disc format wars, has announced what it calls a “reverse class-action” suit against every household that failed purchase an HD DVD player since the format launched in 2006. The lawsuit charges that, by failing to support HD DVD, their non-customers “handed the format war to Blu-ray on a silver platter and deprived future customer of their right to make a choice.” (more…)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008I’m fixin’ to do something dumber than hell, but I’m going anyways.
Ten years ago, movies like this didn’t win Best Picture. They lost to safe, happy movies like Forrest Gump
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Released: 2007 | 122 min. | Rated: R | Genres: Based on a Book, Drama
