jccalhoun’s blog Vox 2009-12-13T03:25:41Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c2251f5a74604a/ I like to watch bad movies. I might as well review them. Ninja Assassin tag:vox.com,2009-12-13:asset-6a00c2251f5a74604a0123ddf15e77860d 2009-12-13T03:23:23Z 2009-12-13T03:25:41Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Ninja Assassin

I said it when I saw V for Vendetta and I said it to myself over and over as I watched Ninja Assassin: James McTeigue is not a good director. While I find V's direction to be lifeless and bland, Ninja's is downright disappointing. In the hands o...

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]]> Paranormal Activity tag:vox.com,2009-11-16:asset-6a00c2251f5a74604a0123ddd31cc0860c 2009-11-16T02:36:52Z 2009-11-20T19:07:45Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Paranormal Activity

I like low budget films and I like scary films. I liked this film. However, it could be much better. It is the film about a couple who are haunted. It is told through "home video" footage that the couple recorded in the style of Blair Witch. ...

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]]> Zombieland tag:vox.com,2009-10-24:asset-6a00c2251f5a74604a0123ddc87da9860c 2009-10-24T14:58:08Z 2009-10-24T14:58:08Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Zombieland Eisenberg vs. Cera

I like zombie movies but I wasn't really looking forward to this. For whatever reason it just didn't speak to me. When I did get around to seeing it, I was glad I did. This is a pretty entertaining zombie movie. It isn't perfect, though. The m...

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]]> Surrogates tag:vox.com,2009-10-19:asset-6a00c2251f5a74604a01240b6c1425860e 2009-10-19T05:09:22Z 2009-10-19T05:09:22Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Surrogates

Surrogates started out as a comic book. Even though I'm a comic book nerd I didn't read Surrogates. I just couldn't get past the artwork. I didn't like it at all. It looked to me like a bad impression of Bill Sienkiewicz or Ben Templesmith. T...

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]]> Inglourious Basterds tag:vox.com,2009-09-13:asset-6a00c2251f5a74604a0123dda192c5860b 2009-09-13T20:39:43Z 2009-09-13T20:39:43Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Inglourious Basterds

Tarantino's latest film is just odd. It exists in a kind of cartoon, comic book world that existed before America actually entered WWII. At least on the covers of those early comic books the heroes would go over to Europe and kick Hitler's butt a...

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]]> Vantage Point tag:vox.com,2009-08-30:asset-6a00c2251f5a74604a011016c9895a860d 2009-08-30T03:02:52Z 2009-08-30T03:02:52Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Vantage Point

Sometimes watching a good film is pretty frustrating because as good as that film is, while watching it, you can't help but see how it could have been a great film. Vantage Point is one of those film. The film is, as the title suggests, told fr...

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]]> Time Changer tag:vox.com,2009-07-23:asset-6a00c2251f5a74604a011016b481c1860d 2009-07-23T03:36:06Z 2009-07-23T03:36:06Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Time Changer

Is this the best movie ever made? Perhaps. Probably not though. I did love it though. Why? Because it is horrible and preachy and thinks everyone who disagrees with its message is just ignorant. OK, so this is another Christian movie. Th...

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]]> Artefacts tag:vox.com,2009-07-18:asset-6a00c2251f5a74604a01101676df34860c 2009-07-18T22:34:47Z 2009-07-18T22:34:47Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Artifacts

I like this movie a lot. Or rather I like the first 3/4 of it a lot. Although a lot of people on IMDB criticize it for not explaining things I think it falls apart when it starts to explain too much. The film is really low budget but it has a ...

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]]> Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People tag:vox.com,2009-07-12:asset-6a00c2251f5a74604a011016ad0d48860d 2009-07-12T16:13:02Z 2009-07-12T16:13:02Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People

I got this from Netflix expecting a creature feature. The story is advertised as a group of people shipwrecked on an island where the only food is mushrooms and they turn you into a mushroom person. While this is technically correct, it is also...

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]]> It's Alive tag:vox.com,2009-05-25:asset-6a00c2251f5a74604a0110182a74fb860f 2009-05-25T01:17:23Z 2009-05-25T01:17:23Z jccalhoun http://jccalhoun.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

It's Alive

This is one of those movies that I always saw in the video store but never got around to seeing. From the cover I was expecting something something like Basket Case or The Unborn but this is really much more sedate and thoughtful. Yes, it is ab...

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