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Movies 2006 #40

Ultimate Avengers – The Movie: Based on Millar/Hitch’s excellent The Ultimates, this competently executed animated film falls far short of the source material. Minus the realistic art approach and with a definite softened edge, Ultimate Avengers is a pale imitation … Continue reading

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Young Jet Li

He came up at lunch, and I was wondering which of the old WuShu videos I know are out there were on YouTube. I found one good one so far:

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Movies 2006 #39

Fantastic Four (Widescreen Edition): An abomination. So complete in its awfulness I only have one good thing to say about it- the way they did the Human Torch was really cool. I didn’t like anything else at all. Nothing. I … Continue reading

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Movies 2006 #38

Alice: What a bizarre film. Seriously strange, hallucinogenic image after seriously strange, hallucinogenic image paraded across the screen to the tune of Alice in Wonderland for 90 minutes and at the end of it all I wasn’t sure what planet … Continue reading

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If I haven't already mentioned it…

Jet Li’s latest film, Fearless is one of the best martial arts movies ever made. I’m not really sure what I thought going in, but after the credits rolled I was positively exhilarated. This is a true “martial arts” film … Continue reading

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