Lincoln Review: The Final Victory of a Great Man
…and the Academy Award for Best Actor goes to Daniel Day-Lewis. Of course.
Making a successful biopic about an accomplished individual is a tricky thing. Most biopics tend to be bloated, self indulgent affairs that span the life of a person from childhood to grave without much emphasis being placed on what made the subject of the film so great in the first place. They tend to be embarrassing Oscar fodder and nothing more. However, a few unquestionably great biopics have emerged over the past decades—Amadeus, Braveheart, Raging Bull, and Steven Spielberg’s own Schindler’s List to name a few—and almost without fail, those movies honed in on a relatively narrow time frame. Instead of adopting a broad unfocused approach to the subject, the filmmakers restricted themselves to giving a detailed, intimate examination of a person during a particular event. In adapting Abraham Lincoln’s life to film, Steven Spielberg chose to focus on the last months of the President’s life instead of indulging in a four hour epic vanity project. The result is probably the greatest biopic on Abraham Lincoln ever put to film.
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Life of Pi Review: Finding God
A tiger and his boy.
The big movie studios still face a challenge in attempting to convince audiences that 3D is anything more than a fad. Half assed efforts like those from hack director Paul W.S. Anderson, or worse, terrible attempts to post-convert 2D films into 3D, certainly don’t lend the process much legitimacy. And yet there are a few films that show what 3D technology can look like when employed by an expert craftsman—Avatar, Prometheus, and Hugo were all worth seeing in theaters just for the visual spectacle. Those films proved that 3D could be more than a gimmick, that 3D may eventually become as indispensable to the filmmaking process as color cinematography or sound. Ang Lee’s visually striking adaptation of Life of Pi joins this small yet distinguished company. Life of Pi is a poetic, somewhat inert feature that is entirely worth seeing in theaters if just to see how gorgeously Ang Lee employs 3D technology.
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3 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Black Friday
The typical crowds for Black Friday.
CEO’s see Black Friday as the unofficial holiday of money. Employees brand Black Friday as the 9th circle of hell. And rabid shoppers see the day as an opportunity to purchase merchandise for dirt cheap. But is spending the entire day inside of a Wal-Mart worth the effort?
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Chevy Chase Is Community’s “Pierce Hawthorne”
It’s true. Look at him. Spittin image.
If you haven’t been keeping up with your Hollywood gossip, then you should probably sit down. Or stand up, I don’t know your computer situation. If you haven’t heard it on the Twitterverse already, Chevy Chase has officially left the NBC series “Community”. And he’s been a real crabby McCrabster about it.
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Happy Thanksgiving From The Staff Of FleshEatingZipper!
GOBBLE GOBBLE
Are you a turkey fan? Well, tomorrow peeps like you are gonna be gobbling up the gobble gobble and other stuff. Me, I’d just be happy with a big bowl of stuffing. I don’t even like turkey. Anyway, while you and yours are celebrating company, we’ll be doing the same, but we’ll be working on Planetside 2, Forza Horizon, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Halo 4, probably episodes of Parenthood, and some other genuinely awesome stuff.
We’ll see you guys on Monday!
Love,
Your pals at FEZ
The Nintendo Wii U Isn’t Sold Out
Hey guys, I’m still here!
Contrary to what you may be hearing or seeing, Nintendo’s newest console, the Wii U isn’t sold out in the US. I guess if you only shop at online at Amazon and Best Buy you would see it with “inflated” cost or sold out. You may have even gone to eBay really quick to see how high the prices are. There are thousands on eBay and they are selling for most, $50 above retail. And this is only because of supply and demand. People are too lazy to look at multiple websites or go into stores. Read the rest of this article…
Black Friday Gaming Deals That Won’t Leave You Broke
Not on your life, buddy.
Black Friday is a day of the year you either love or hate. The official start of the Christmas shopping season, it is named “Black Friday” because it is the day of the year in which many retailers finally go from unprofitable to profitable…from the “red” to the “black”. It is also, for many, the most accursed day of the year, marked by tons of junk mail and the shift from hearing good music in the stores to hearing nothing but Jingle Bells over and over for a month while people scramble to get all of their shopping in before Christmas day…
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How To Destroy New Angels’ New EP? The Omen? Garbage.
Everyone’s face is blurred out because they’re trying to disassociate from the band? I mean, it makes sense.
I like Nine Inch Nails, you should, too. As a bigger fan of Trent Reznor’s “The Fragile” and beyond, the minimalist sound of his Ghosts album makes far more sense to me than to someone who loved his overproduced work earlier on, namely on The Downward Spiral. Have you seen a video of him during his Downward Spiral work? Dude was caked up on drugs and swirling around the place with his bandmates. I think the floor was even coated in weird fluids for whatever reason. Well, anyway, Trent Reznor and his band, formed with wife Marqueen Maandig and long-time producer Atticus Ross (along with another dude whom I didn’t research), was pretty hot on their first EP, but their latest release, The Omen, another EP, is a far cry from that. What are they doing over there?
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The Xbox Nexus: Is The World Ready For Multiple Xboxen?
This, but, like, smaller.
If The Verge’s claims are believable, then there might be some upset in the Xbox Kingdom, at least amongst the fanboys. If you’re old enough, you might remember when Microsoft unveiled two Xbox 360 SKUs at Gamescom in Germany seven years ago, known as the ‘Core’ and the console proper. After launching a console that had a hard drive in every single unit, the idea of fracturing the user base amongst people who both did and didn’t have hard drives seemed like a strange form of blasphemy. Well, maybe the strangest is yet to come…
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Microsoft’s Back With More Windows Phone Challenges
The colors, look at the colors!
Ben, the PC guy is back with more Windows Phone challenges in Microsoft’s new campaign, Meet Your Match. This time, Ben is more laid back with easier going challenges. After all he isn’t at CES dealing with techies that think they’re phone is the hottest thing in the world. Read the rest of this article…
