The Avengers: More Than Just A Review

Before I was ever a movie nerd, I was a comic book nerd. In fact, you can say that I was destined to be one. When I was in utero, my parents believed that I was going to be a girl. My brother, Arik, how was seven at the time, held on to the hope that I would be a boy. An active comic book reader, himself, he struck up a deal with my dad to name me if I was a boy. At the time, Arik’s favorite comic book character was 

Adam's Top 5: Robot Movies

Iron Giant (1999)
This is one of those movies that were universally heralded, but nobody went to the theater to watch. First seen as a failure, but later deemed successful after it recouped its costs in the rental and video market. Before Brad Bird directed Ratatouille and the Incredibles, he directed this wonderful movie. 9-year old Hogarth finds and befriends a giant alien robot (Vin Diesel) that, upon entry to Earth, loses its memory and the fact that it was sent to destroy Earth. This movie has a great story that touches upon many adult themes that will make it enjoyable for adults and the animation is great, so the kids will like it as well.

Spencer's Top 5 Robot Movies

Top 5 Robot Movies:  I will preface my Top 5 Robot Movies list by stating there are plenty of films I didn't even consider until after the fact, Short Circuit being the most obvious.  So I apologize to all the Steve Guttenberg fans out there.  But let's move on with the list, shall we?

5 More Things That I Hate About Movies

 The Following is a running list of things that bother me about movies:

1. No dropped calls except during emergencies. What frustrates me about this is that the only place that I drop calls is at my own house. So if you call me while I am watching a movie, I might pause a movie that this is happening, only to drop the call mid-sentence.
2. People lie in bed with blankets up to their neck. I can understand if every movie took place in Alaska. During the winter. But sometimes it is annoying trying to get that PG-13 Rating.
3. People hold their hands up to the oppisite sides of a glass window. The only time that I can say that people really do this, is at the zoo. At an ape exhibit.
   

Top 5: Zombie Comedies

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One thing that makes zombie movies fun to watch is that, at any point, anybody can become a raging, killing machine. It could be the innocent six year girl that lives next door or your eighty year old grandma that never leaves her room in your parents’ house. There is a primal level of enjoyment in watching these normally innocent characters turn into foul-mouthed brain seekers. Secondly, it’s equally fun to watch these characters get punched in the face or decapitated with some pruning shears.  A third aspect that makes zombie movies (even strait horror movies) fun to watch is how characters use everyday objects as weapons when they inevitably run out of ammunition. One thing that sets zombie comedies apart from their more horror-centered story lines is that they are made tongue-in-cheek. These are generally made by people that are fans of the genre that often site other movies in their own whether through direct reference, homage or pastiche.  And, apparently, 1992 was the year of zombie comedies.

Movies You May Have Missed:Away We Go

Burt and Verona are thirty four and having a baby. They are months away from the baby being born and Burt’s parents tell them that they are moving to Antwerp, Belgium for two years. So they decided to go visit friends and/or family in Phoenix, Madison, and Montreal. In Phoenix, they visit Verona’s old boss, Lily and her family. Lily is a woman that reminds me of my best friend’s mom when I was a kid. She drank, was loud and wildly inappropriate in social situations because she always spoke her mind and was brutally honest.

AFI's Top 100 Movies: #18 The General

           In this film, release 1926, wrote, starred and co-directed a comedic retelling of the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862. The film opens on Johnnie Gray, an engineer, returning home from work on one of his two loves, his train, The General. As soon as he gets off the train, he goes to visit his other love, Annabelle. While visiting, Annabelle’s brother rushes in and tells their father that Fort Sumter had been attacked, thus starting the Civil War.

Movies You May Have Missed: District B13

            I watch this movie at least once a year. Every single time, I am amazed at the stunts that are performed throughout. David Belle is the inventor of Parkour. Parkour mixes martial arts, gymnastics and crazy to be a more efficient form of movement from point A to B. Confusing? Yes. But incredible to see.

District B13 takes place in the not too distant France. Paris has been divided up, walling off the ghettos from the rest of the city. Leïto just wants to live in peace without the worries of the surrounding disruption of drugs and gangs. Damien is an elite undercover police officer. He is put in charge of recruiting Leïto to stop a bomb that has been activated that would take out an entire section of the city.

Movies You May Have Missed: Everything is Illuminated

            This movie is based off the book of the same title, written by the author Jonathan Safran Foer. The story follows the character, Jonathan Safran Foer, a young Jewish American as he travels to Ukraine to find the woman that saved his grandfather during the holocaust. Jonathan is a collector of family artifacts, therefore he has an ever-growing collection of trinkets and do-dads; all stored in plastic baggies.