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7 May 2008
There have been 34 movies based on DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse comic books released in the past decade (9 by DC, 17 by Marvel, 8 by Dark Horse). If you put any stock in Rotten Tomatoes's raw percentage, the worst of them was Son of the Mask (5%), and the best is Iron Man (94% and currently in theaters). 2007 was an especially unremarkable year for comic book movies: only Spider-Man 3 and 300 scored at least a 60%, and both just barely. There are at least four more such films slated for release before the end of 2008, and based on my totally unbiased guesses, The Dark Knight will be highly rated, The Incredible Hulk and Hellboy II will be mediocre, and the sequel to The Punisher will be junk.
My brief unscientific survey showed that most people believe that Marvel would have the highest average rating. The Daredevils and Elektras would be more than balanced out by the consistent high-quality of the X-Men and Spiderman series. In truth, DC edges out Marvel by a pedestrian 58 to 54%. Dark Horse does worse, with a dismal 37%.
I'd really like to revisit these numbers in another ten years. Iron Man will certainly have sequels, as will Superman Returns and the burgeoning Batman franchise.
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14 Apr 2008The ratings board issues explanations of its ratings ("for violence and language", etc), and sometimes they're vague and weird.
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28 Mar 2008This was a fantastic book, and it sounds like the screenplay lives up to it.
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19 Feb 2008In one month, Warner, then Netflix, then Walmart, and now core-manufacturer Toshiba have all abandoned the HD-DVD. It's not too soon to declare that the war is over, and Blu-Ray is the victor.
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11 Feb 2008That sound you hear is tens of thousands of XBox 360 owners crying themselves to sleep.
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4 Feb 2008How many days do you see in the movie? 37. How long does he repeat the day? Well..
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22 Jan 2008
It's one my few yearly traditions to check the list of movies nominated for Oscars and see how many of them I've seen through the year. I never do very well, not because I usually see crappy movies, but more because I usually don't see very many movies. The 80th Annual Academy Awards nominees were announced today, and here's how I did.
Category # seen Best Picture 1 Best Actor 0 Best Actress 1 Best Director 1 Best Screenplay 2 Best Adapted Screenplay 0 If these had been announced 2 weeks ago (before I saw Juno), the only point I'd have got would have been the Best Screenplay nomination for Ratatouille. There are at least 9 more points listed on my Netflix queue (No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, and The Butterfly And The Diving Bell), but I doubt any of those DVDs will come out before the awards
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6 Jan 2008Don't know how I feel about this. It fits more data than HD-DVD, but it's regioned. The mandatory scratch-proof coating is a nice touch. I guess it's good just to know the fight will eventually end.
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18 Dec 2007WTF TWO?
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18 Dec 2007Without a doubt, the most beautiful Pixar movie yet. (Welcome to movie week on Plutor.org!)