Alan Rapp

An EX-cruciating Experience

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: The Ex
  • IMDb: link

Nothing tires me out and makes me more bored than a lazy film that relies completely on formulaic plotlines and predictable story.  The Ex is just such a film, and not even the casting of some truly funny people can save this film from itself.  It’s just a stupid, boring, excruciating bore.

The Ex?  Well, at least we know the same amount of time and energy that went in to making this turkey was also used to come up with the title.  “The Waste” or “The Crap” or “The Disappointment” would all have been (slightly more) appropriate titles as well.

Tom Reilly (Zach Braff) is a nice guy who’s just never been able to hold down a stable job.  Now that his wife Sofia (Amanda Peet) has just delivered their first child Tom decides to leave New York and take Sofia’s father (Charles Grodin) up on his offer to work at his ad agency in Ohio.

…

An EX-cruciating ExperienceRead More »

An EX-cruciating Experience Read More »

The Top Action Movie of All Time?

/ / Top Tens & Lists

As we announced over a Transbuddha a few weeks ago Rogue Pictures and AMC Theaters, in part to help promote the new film Hot Fuzz, held a contest to allow voters to choose the #1 Action Movie of All Time.  Well the votes have been cast and we’ve got a winner – 1998’s Die Hard.  Yipee-ki-yay, motherfucker!  Other top voter getters included The Terminator, Lethal Weapon, Se7en, and The Untouchables.  For a full list of the top 25 movies check out the full analysis.

…

The Top Action Movie of All Time?Read More »

The Top Action Movie of All Time? Read More »

Comic Rack

/ / Comics

Hmm, we’re about to talk about comics so it must be Wednesday!  Welcome to the RazorFine Comic Rack boys and girls.  Pull up a bean bag and take a seat at the master as we look at the new comics set to hit comic shops and bookstores today.

This week includes the first issue of DC’s new weekly run Countdown, an angry Hulk returning to Earth for revenge in World War Hulk Prologue: World Breaker, Grifter and Midnighter take on an alien invasion, Battle Pope takes on God, Spidey deals with Marvel’s big event in Civil War: Peter Parker, Spider-Man, one-hundred years after Lucas’s last flick Star Wars Legacy Vol. 1: Broken tells the tale, and much, much more.  Find out what else you may miss if you don’t stop by your local comic book shop today.

Here’s issue #20

…

Comic RackRead More »

Comic Rack Read More »

Spider-Man 3

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: Spider-Man 3
  • IMDb: link

The curse of three.  This is where all comic book movie franchises begin to break down.  Though Spider-Man 3 is much better than third installments of other super-hero movie franchises (Batman Forever, X-Men: The Lamest Stand, Superman III) it struggles mightily with an overambitious plot which contains enough storylines for at least three films. Sure, we get the alien symbiote, the Sandman, Gwen Stacy, a wedding proposal, a new Goblin, and Venom, but we get them all at once and all on top of each other.  The film would have been better served if the creators had been a little more selective and told a more in-depth, concise, and fleshed-out story, rather than rushing through a half-dozen tales all at once.

As the film opens Peter Parker’s (Tobey Maguire) life is golden.  He’s got a good job at the Daily Bugle, Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) is acting on stage, the city has fallen in love with Spider-Man, and he has decided to ask MJ to marry him.

…

Spider-Man 3Read More »

Spider-Man 3 Read More »