What does “Hunchback” teach the audience? Whether you’re gorgeous or ugly, if the hot girl says you’re cool, you’ll become the hero. Also, the nice guy always finishes last. Surely Quasimodo rides off in to the sunset with his crowd of supporters in the end, but who is Esmerelda going home with later that night? “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” is a bastardization from Walt Disney, where they take the tragic and brilliant tale of Quasimodo and water it down so much it’s barely an adaptation when we see it in animated force.
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Come Out and Play (2013)
Like the original film it stems from, “Come Out and Play” offers the question “Who Can Kil a Child?” If your seven year old cherubic daughter was trying to murder you with a hammer, could you kill her? Laugh all you want, but if it comes down to me, and an evil eight year old intent on hacking me to death with an axe, I’ll gladly bring the child down and any other evil children trying to murder me with a machine gun.
Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)
That’s more like it. After the first “The Guyver” managed to draw up some profit and interest, New Line released a sequel to “The Guyver” directly to VHS. It wasn’t until 1995 where I was finally able to see it on the Science Fiction Channel in American cable television. I wasn’t even aware there was a sequel at the time. For folks who hated the camp and comedy of the first film, prepare for a jolt of pure action packed entertainment.
Nine Things I Noticed About "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" On My Second Viewing
It’s no big secret that I love “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” The 2012 drama is a film I ignored for a long time until finally sitting down to see what it was capable of offering. It ended up being my favorite film of 2012, and I’ve had a hard time getting it out of my head ever since re-watching it again in 2013. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is a drama I suggest to just about everyone, and it’s still a film I consider a masterpiece. After re-watching it and thinking it over, I thought about Nine things I picked up on after the third viewing.
Under The Dome
“Under the Dome” from CBS is interesting but how many seasons are you willing to wait to see what the hell the dome covering this town is? You could easily go to the book or find the cliff notes for Stephen King’s original novel, but who says CBS is following that ending to a tee? Frank Darabont changed the ending to “The Mist,” and Stanley Kubrick completely changed “The Shining” so if you know what the dome is, you’re likely wrong about what the writers have planned for it.
Dead Souls (Blu-Ray) (2012)
If you’re a viewer of the horror channel Chiller here in America, you may have remembered that the channel played a promo for their TV movie “Dead Souls” all the time. In fact for three months whenever I watched the channel, I was inundated with promos for the movie four times per commercial break. For a channel based around syndicated shows, there are a lot of commercial breaks, too. Finally watching “Dead Souls” I’m shocked the channel would provide so much hype for such a half baked and painfully boring horror drama that fails as horror, drama, and supernatural entertainment.
Remorse (2012)
Director Tarun Gupta manages to create a rather solid tragic drama that spends more time exploring its directing methods than telling a story. Not that that’s a bad thing, but as a film I’d have loved to learn more about the characters. Though with the limited time it has, director Gupta manages to derive a lot of interesting performances from the cast, as well as exploring the fading of love in a world that glamorizes it.