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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Say Anything (1989)

30 Saturday Aug 2014

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by Grace Crawford

All images courtesy of 20th Century Fox.

All images courtesy of 20th Century Fox.

There’s an old saying that goes something like “All women marry men exactly like their fathers.”

Personally, I believe something that sounds similar but is in fact pretty different: that women, whether consciously or not, choose their partners based on their own experience with their fathers. And what I mean by that is that women’s relationships with men will always be coloured by their relationships with their fathers.

Even if they haven’t seen Say Anything, everyone knows about that one scene in the movie where John Cusack stands outside a girl’s window and holds a boom box over his head. It’s an iconic scene that’s set the standard for romantic gestures in modern relationships, even though nobody actually has a boom box anymore, and the more I say it, the stupider the word “boom box” sounds.

From that one scene, it’s easy to extrapolate what the rest of the movie is about: it’s a love story. But what a lot of people — including me, until recently — don’t know about this movie is more than just “boy meets girl.” It’s a love triangle between a girl, her dad, and her boyfriend, and it’s far less creepy than it sounds.

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The Expendables 3

23 Saturday Aug 2014

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I’m Getting Too Old for These Sh*t Movies

by Thom Yee

The Expendables 3 images courtesy of Lionsgate

The Expendables 3 images courtesy of Lionsgate

I’m gonna let you in on a little secret. I was a pretty violent kid. But it wasn’t my fault.

My heroes killed dozens, sometimes hundreds (if there were sequels) in the name of… some reason that I’m sure was rational. Their child was kidnapped… their Kung Fu headmaster was poisoned by the hated rival Japanese Karate school… they were hired to take over security at a bar and bring order through any [throat-ripping] means necessary… and a lot of them were cops just driven too far by society’s breeding of a new kind of criminal. Whether they used guns, knives, makeshift weapons like steam pipes, or their bare fists of fury, they were masters of justifiable murder, disciples of vengeful deaths, bullet ballet virtuosos, often licensed to kill. Continue reading →

Groundhog Day (1993)

16 Saturday Aug 2014

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What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.

by Grace Crawford

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Images courtesy of Columbia Pictures.

My favourite Stargate episode is season 3, episode 14: “Window of Opportunity.” A lonely scientist tries to save his wife by going back in time, but he only succeeds in starting a time loop that repeats a chunk of the day over and over again. Both O’Neill and Teal’c are aware of what’s happening; at first they’re confused, then angry, then doing everything they’ve always wanted without fear of repercussions, then trying feverishly to fix the problem.

I always liked that episode because it married humour with an outlandish and unsolvable problem, while simultaneously dealing with the human condition and what it does when faced with the idea of no consequences. Basically — and I didn’t realize it until I watched Groundhog Day for the first time — I liked it because it mimicked said movie, only with familiar characters and context.

But for all that I liked “Window of Opportunity,” Groundhog Day was so much better. And even though technically it isn’t older than I am, I went ahead and reviewed it anyway.

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Simul-Review: Guardians of the Galaxy

10 Sunday Aug 2014

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Action, comics, Marvel, Marvel Cosmic, MCU, superhero

by Thom Yee and Grace Crawford

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They Got My Dick Message!

Images courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Images courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

I can’t believe how skeptical people were of this movie.

Before the summer started — before your winter soldiers and days of future pasts and ages of extinction — I told people that the only summer movie I had faith in was Guardians of the Galaxy. And every one I talked to said that they weren’t so sure. And I’m not trying to be that guy just because I called this one, just like I called Finding Nemo in the 2003 summer of the second Matrix, X-Men 2 and Terminator 3, because I’m also the guy who thought John Carter was a decent movie and that Blackberry really was going to make a comeback last year (and besides that, who remembers anything about 2003 other than Freaky Friday?).

I think by now that Marvel Studios has come a long way towards earning our trust.

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Only Lovers Left Alive

02 Saturday Aug 2014

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The blood is the life… and I can’t wait to lie down.

by Thom Yee

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Images courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

Over the years, I’ve found that the biggest difference between what we see on screen and what we live in real life aren’t things like story, significant action, or inciting incidents. The details might differ, the circumstances may be less extraordinary, but if you look (and sometimes strain), most of our lives are actually full of those things. No, the real difference is character. Screenplays eliminate redundancies, strengthen those remaining to the point of obvious importance, and leave their main characters in a place where they’ve changed. The people in movies and TV shows serve the themes and tell us something about their world. They’re distinct and important and completely embody who they’re supposed to be, be they mentors, horrible bosses, or favourite uncles. And those are all incredibly rare people to find in real life. Continue reading →

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