The Snyder Cut

I'm on record of saying that I'm fascinated by the idea of the Snyder Cut of Justice League, that I want to see it, but that I also think it won't actually make a huge difference in the quality of the movie. Snyder has ambition which Joss Whedon lacks, so I imagine Snyder's Cut will be…

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Live Free or Die Hard

#1 in my ranking of the Die Hard franchise. Unpopular movie opinion: Live Free or Die Hard is the best Die Hard movie. It's the only one that makes a series attempt at a thematic point. It's not about some deep relationship between the viewer and the world, or even the viewer and movies, but…

In Time

There are two major things to think about when trying to parse In Time. The first is the basic building blocks of story, the plot, characters, and structure. The second is the metaphor. Normally something like a metaphor wouldn't take a huge spot in analysis because it's usually not that prominent, but with In Time,…

Basic

#10 in my Ranking of John McTiernan films. I was with this movie for maybe two-thirds of it. I wasn't quite loving it, but I was going along with the twisting narrative and contradictory stories well enough. It was a lesser version of Kurosawa's Rashomon, but it worked. And then it took the twists into…

John McTiernan: The Definitive Ranking

And yet another listicle. May the listicle gods be appeased and grant me bounty. At least it's a top eleven, not a top ten. Top tens are stupid. John McTiernan hasn't worked since the early 2000s. After some trouble with the feds, he hasn't been able to get a new project off the ground since.…