Top Movies of 2010 that We Missed

The year isn't quite finished yet, so we have another list for you. The first of today's lists is the Top Movies of 2010 that we didn't see but wanted to. We conducted our analysis by going to movieweb.com and checking out the trailers of movies we didn't make it to this year. We like movieweb and all but having to listen to the plug for Oprah's new TV channel before every trailer clip nearly drove us insane - and where does she get off with an...

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The 10 Best Stories Never Told part 2

In our first installment of the The Top 10 Movies That Haven't Been Made Yet (but should be or need to be made better) we focused on historical figures and events. We will follow that mode with the remainder of the list but with some twists.Number 6 - "The Godmother" The Griselda Blanco story. Most people don't know that is was Griselda and not Pablo Escobar who created the modern narco-traffic empire between North and South America - in fact she...

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The 10 Best Stories Never Told

Well, the stories have been told before, but no one has ever made a decent movie out of them. It's the end of the year and we love making lists at the end of the year so we thought to ourselves, what type of useless list can we come up with today and this is it - The Top 10 Movies That Haven't Been Made Yet (but should be or need to be made better).The other thing you should know about us is that we love history and we believe that fiction is OK...

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Wall Street 2 - Money is a Bitch

According to Gordon Gecko, "money is a bitch, she sleeps in the bed with you with one eye open. Next thing you know, she might be gone forever.” Hmmm, we think we met that girl before, but she left and maxed our credit cards - what a wench. But you know what is even worse than a one-eyed bitch This movie - that's what. Wall Street 2 will go down as one of the worst films of 2010. It wasn't just bad - it was cinematically bankrupt and needed a bailout - but none came.So here's a question to Oliver Stone? Why go a make a simply awful sequel to...

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Why is Mel Gibson so Crazy?

This is a question that has perplexed us over the past year - Mel Gibson, Hollywood megastar, director and producer seems to be getting progressively more insane. What could be behind this transformation? Is it some sort of addiction, mental breakdown or has he become one of his disturbed characters (perhaps a mix of Mad Max and the Patriot)?Think we're exaggerating? The following is just one of a flood of phone recordings & voicemails that Mel's ex released and are now floating around the Internet. Don't listen to this if you are faint of...

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A Dream inside a Movie or is it? Inception

Well, we inspired ourselves ourselves to watch Inception again (one of us even watched it on an International flights and fell asleep ! oh, yeah - of course we can't be sure if that was real or not).What is reality, what is a dream, what is the Matrix? What time is dinner? Philosophy was never one of our better subjects in school yet we continue to enjoy science fiction thrillers which tear away at the fabric of reality like giant carpet scissors (how's that for a metaphor). Inception does this as well or better than any movie before in this particular...

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Scrooged - Bill Murray's Christmas Carol

It's Christmas Eve, a good time to follow or start traditions. Tonight we're going to start a tradition of reviewing some form of a "Christmas Carol" every Christmas Eve (that can include TV versions, and offshoots like "It's a Wonderful Life") at least until we run out of variations to review.This year we're going to start with our favorite version of Charles Dicken's classic tale - Scrooged. It's as close as we can get to the Goldman Sachs & Wall Street version that should be made - although we were thinking Senator Coburn (the sole member...

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The Mission - my heart of Darkness Journey

Well, it wasn't a boat ride or anything - (editor speaking now) - I was in Argentina in 1987, one year after the making of the movie "The Mission." I traveled to where they filmed it - but I went by bus. It wasn't really that bad, in fact it was kind of a fun trip but there were jungles, rivers and natives - not to mention the fact that I had a lot of time to think about the nature of man and the meaning of life in between the movies they were showing on the bus (it was one of those luxury liner types of things).Ok - I'll admit my journey was really...

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Unstoppable is High Speed Rail

Well, since we live in Ohio we had to mention our new idiot Governor, John "the Fox" Kasich gave away $400 million dollars which would have finally given us intercity rail again (since it was shut down in the 1950's) - so this movie is the closest we're ever going to get to High Speed Rail in our State.And this movie was based on a real incident which happened in Ohio and it was filmed in in Ohio as well. We were wondering if either Chris Pine or Denzel were from Ohio as well but we were too lazy to look it up. Anyway, one thing is for sure - Tony...

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Tron Legacy - Digital DoubleTake

We went to see Tron Legacy 3D yesterday - we were both amazed and disappointed at the same time - overall our impression was favorable but this movie certainly squandered an opportunity to become a classic.First things first - you'll note at the beginning of the film that some of it is in 2D and some of it is 3D. We're not sure why this happened, but we're guessing that it partly had to do with Jeff Bridges animated alter-ego, Clu as well as a strategy change after Avatar's box office results last year. The film would have been better had it been...

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The West Wing – Season One Review

First off, let me introduce myself. I’m Mike, the new (and at the moment only) guest blogger here at Ye Olde Raving Reviews! I’ll be giving you my sage wisdom and advice from time to time (which is quite naturally to be respected with the utmost respect, if not total admiration) so keep your eyes peeled for more of me! Moving on to our topic of interest (and the title of this post naturally) “The West Wing”…. Well, let’s just say I have a few things...

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Inspired by Inception

We've been dreaming about doing a review on Inception since last Summer, but somehow we can never quite finish writing it no matter how long it takes - it seems as though we're going in slow motion.Besides that we still haven't figured out what's really about - but in the meantime we're going to bring you several interesting Viral Vids from the Internet from others inspired by Inception. The first candidate comes from the college crowd - a sort of frat boys comedy ensemble called atomic:Please don't do this at home or your dorm...We loved spoofed...

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Karate Kid - Then & Now

Bullies are the same everywhere aren't they and lord knows, they never change. Plots often don't change much either but sometimes that's a good thing as with the Classic Karate Kid and this year's remake. We watched the 1984 original recently and compared it to this years slick and star-studded version of the age old tale - student learn from master - both kick ass.""Everything is Kung Fu." How true those words are, except that the Classic Karate Kid didn't use Kung Fu but "Open Hand" Karate from Okinawa. Watching both of these movies you'll...

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SyFy Channel - Wy ?

First it was Caprica, next came Stargate Universe - the two anchors of the season canceled in mid-season. Then SyFy renews Haven and picks up Merlin and seems to be going forward with Sanctuary.It seems as though SyFy is morphing into SyFantaSy which may help to explain how any of its programming could coexist with professional wrestling. We were worried when they changed the name of the channel a few years back - as if programming science fiction was too narrow or too embarrassing to embrace - now they've gone and done this.Admittedly, neither...

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Public Domain Movies

It's been awhile since our last post, we promise not to let it happen again. Today we wanted to talk to you briefly about the emerging sources of public domain movies that are beginning to crop up around the Internet.Quite Frankly, this is something we'd always hoped would happen - to make available thousands of films and documentaries available without purchase through web. More important perhaps is the historical significance of these resources and the ability for all sorts of filmmakers to have access to these types of resources while making...

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Me & My Avatar

Is it me, or is it a virtual expression of myself? Does it make it any difference? Is my virtual expression of myself anything like my residential self-image (The Matrix). These are some of the deeps thoughts I managed to avoid totally while watching Avatar on the big screen twice over the past several months - once in the visually stunning 2D and another time in the visual hangover of 3D.Even though I wasn't inspired to any profound philosophical musings, I did enjoy viewing the crowd reactions during the screenings as well as the cultural ripples...

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