Archive for October 2nd, 2009
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Oct
2009
If It’s Halloween, It Must Be Saw: Why Saw Works Despite Itself.
*This article contains spoilers for the Saw series. You’ve been warned.
Successful long running Horror franchises can be counted on one hand. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street and now Saw have made it past 5 installments. Normally franchises don’t get past 3 and remain successful. For example: Superman, X-men, and Alien all miserably failed by the third film. However, for some reason the Horror genre has had success despite horrible sequels. 3 of the 4 listed Horror franchises were created back in the 80s, and a new franchise hadn’t emerged in over 20 years. So, why has Saw remained so successful? Especially, since it’s notorious killer died in the third installment?
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Oct
2009
California is Going DOOOOOWWWWNNNN! 5 Minute Clip from 2012
Check out this ridiculous clip from Roland Emmerich’s Disaster Porn flick, 2012. John Cusack & Co outrun a giant earthquake in a Limo!!
This could be brainless fun in the theater. Matinee for sure.
Plot Synopsis for 2012:
Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe, making contact with his double in an effort to prevent the catastrophic prophecies of the ancient Mayan calendar from coming to pass. According to the Mayan calendar, the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012.
When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) uses his knowledge of the ancient prophecies to ensure that the human race is not completely wiped out. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt round out the cast of this end-of-the-world thriller co-scripted by the director and his 10,000 B.C. writer/composer, Harald Kloser
