I had gotten into the habit of ignoring these Disney Live Action remakes, they tend to be soulless cash grabs lacking in any artistic merit, and to top it all off, they also tended to be bad but not bad in an interesting way, and I was initially going to ignore Lilo & Stitch as well, but two things got me to watch it, 1) I had been itching to go to my local Drive-In movie theater again, and 2) There…
I was able to see this film again at a special screening at The Wealthy Theater put on by the Grand Rapids Film Society, which came with a Q&A session afterwards with the Director of Photography Rich Brauer, so special thanks to them for putting on this screening.
Escanaba in da Moonlight is a very peculiar sort of film that is kind of hard to describe, ostensibly it is the story of how Reuben Soady bags his first buck while…
I must be missing something that others are getting out of this one because I found the whole thing to be rather tedious and boring to sit through, but a lot of other people seem to like it, which is why I wanted to watch this film in the first place. While I did find this to be a beautiful film, it is extremely visually appealing, and I appreciate that the tone of the film kept it very much in…
This was a film that could have been a decent movie if they hadn't had to insert a generic plot involving the Jackie Chan character and the Jade Macguffin. While this plot isn't the only thing wrong with this film, it is the biggest thing wrong with it in my mind. Jules Verne didn't need this shit in his book that this film is "based" on. Another big issue is that there are just a ton of scenes that are…
