Posts tagged: movie

Little Big Soldier: A Jackie Chan Movie that Actually Made Me Feel Something

Jackie Chan’s movies — at least any­thing I’ve seen since Police Story 1 — are usu­ally enter­tain­ing but ulti­mately for­get­table fluff. I saw Lit­tle Big Sol­dier this week, and while it isn’t a cin­e­matic mas­ter­piece by any stretch, I think that it’s very well done as cin­e­matic art. It is enter­tain­ing, and almost uniquely among […]

Wednesday August 18th, 2010 in , , | No Comments »

Avatar: Prime Example of the Power of Art

James Cameron’s new movie, Avatar, is a supremely-executed movie.  The spe­cial effects are, in a very real sense, no longer “spe­cial”.  They are spec­tac­u­lar, but they are so well ren­dered, and so seam­lessly melded with live-action, that they become accepted by the audi­ence as being the basic real­ity for the story.  Much of the current […]

Monday December 21st, 2009 in , , , , | Comments Off

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