In just two days, Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 hits theaters. Since the series has been beloved by people of all ages, we at Player Affinity Movies thought it would be fun (and a helpful memory jog) to take a little look back at what we have seen and preview the long-awaited third installment as well as one of 2010’s most anticipated films.
In The Karate Kid remake, Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) must overcome a variety of obstacles, such as moving to a new home and being bullied at school. In lieu of this weekend’s surprise box office hit, let’s check out ten other underdog sports films. Since we tend to do a fair amount of these at PAM, we’ve developed a name for these Top 10 list, called “The PAM-10,” which may or may not be inspired by all the college sports conference realignment lately …
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“Man vs. Monster” is something we have seen time and time again with films and books. Back in 1818 when Mary Shelley first created Frankenstein she began a trend with authors of science fiction and horror, revolving around a man versus a monster. Some things man was not meant to mess with is a good way to describe are inability to play god in a lot of films and books. This would be known as fringe science: science that can’t be explained or science that is being messed with.
If you’ve followed Hollywood trends this year, you’ve already noticed the inordinate amount of movies centered around an action team. It’s not just The A-Team which comes out Friday, but last April’s The Losers and this August’s The Expendables, which boasts Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham and Jet Li among others.
Scenario: You are a movie executive wracking your brain for the concept behind the next cinematic gold mine. Remakes are good, but that Uwe Boll reimagining of
Glibness aside, while spin-offs may not have the glossiest of track records, they exist as a starring vehicle for popular but often overshadowed characters from hit films. They have also helped to inflate the notoriety of some of the biggest stars working today. In honour of the release of the Forgetting Sarah Marshall offspring Get Him to the Greek we will dive into the top five movie spin-offs.
Now that we’ve broken the Memorial Day barrier, its time to charge head-on into summer. That means lot of films for you to sort through and with ticket prices at a record high, you deserve to know straight up what’s going into theaters and whether it might be something worthy of your cash. Keep checking in with PAM each month to get the scoop on the June films you’re going to be most interested in. There are some you’re well aware of (Toy Story 3) but others maybe not so much. So here we go:
For a genre where the most highly regarded films are often described as the “least bad,” it is not surprising video game movies garner little praise from critics or audiences on a steady basis. This feature could be more aptly named “The Okay, The Awful, and The Horrendous.”
So why is it that film adaptations from all other sources (literature, other movies, comic books, graphic novels, television, etc) all have their masterpieces while video games have only disaster-pieces? This subject could be analyzed ad nauseum, but the most obvious fault can be found with the studios that produce the movies. Because, according to “experts,” video games are an inferior art form (if even an art form), loved only by the geek populous, so the adaptations are treated as such: trashy, low-budget schlock.
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Walt Disney Pictures is taking a big risk this weekend. Well, actually, the risk was taken awhile back and now it’s time to see if Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time can pay off.
When Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer realized it would be quite some time before another Pirates of the Caribbean film would be able to come together, they began looking for solutions. Interestingly enough, they zeroed in on a video game, Prince of Persia, a title that’s been around since 1989, managing to find life on the 3-D gaming platform, first on Sega Dreamcast and then on Play Station 2 and 3 thanks to Ubisoft.
