If you’re playing along at home, you’ll notice that this series is a back and forth type of deal. No Country for Old Men was a best of, I Am Legend was a worst of and most recently, The Warriors was a best of installment. To keep the pendulum going, entry four brings us back to the worst of side, where we find ourselves staring into the gaping maw of Evil Otto himself…Dreamcatcher.Continue Reading …
Book-to-film adaptations: 3 – ‘The Warriors’
Installment one was a “best” and installment two was a “worst.” So here’s another example of one of the best: Walter Hill’s The Warriors is an adaptation of Jewish-American writer Sol Yurick’s novel of the same name. Walter Hill, as we already know, makes manly movies about manly men. And The Warriors is populated with manly gang members, as well as younger kids trying to be men by being in gangs. Importantly, it must be noted that this write up of The Warriors will be of the original film and not the recent “Ultimate Director’s Cut DVD,” which itself (coupled with the director’s cut of Donnie Darko) is an example of a director not realizing what makes their film great. But that’s a completely different article. So with that out of the way…Continue Reading …
Book-to-film adaptations: 2 – ‘I Am Legend’
Book-to-film adaptations: 1 – ‘No Country For Old Men’
“The book was better.”
How many times has that phrase been uttered? Films and books are two different forms of media, and there is no reason why one should be better than the other. As long as films have been made, filmmakers have been turning to books for inspiration. And why not? There’s nothing wrong with going with the old book to film route, and as history as shown, it’s a coin flip, a toss up, it could go either way. There are so many things at work on any given film that when one is made well it’s a bona fide miracle. Continue Reading …
So what’s up with The Hangover Part III?
Have you guys seen this trailer yet for “The Hangover Part III?” While giving very little in terms of plot specifics, it seems pretty clear in that this is going to be more than just a rehash of the previous two movies in this most unexpected of comedy film franchises. But just what the hell is this thing actually about?Continue Reading …
2013 Oscar Picks
The 85th Academy Awards are here (though apparently the Academy wants to just call it The Oscars this year) and what’s more thrilling than compiling a scorecard of all the categories and trying to pick the winners ahead of time? Answer: everything. But because it IS that time of year and because keeping track of these things does manage to make the actual show itself more entertaining, here are some predictions for this year’s 85th Acada- uh…the Oscars.Continue Reading …
Crespodiso Around Town
The street team has been hard at work, and here is another collection of pictures from around the globe, showing off the many places Cinema Crespodiso has invaded, conquering eyeballs and earholes with stickers and podcasts.
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Book review: ‘Superman vs. Hollywood’
“Superman vs. Hollywood: How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded an American Icon” is as compelling as that full title sounds, as Superman is a property that has been around since 1938, and make no mistake, this book goes to great lengths to show that Superman has often been handled as just that very thing – property.
Starting with his modest roots in the comic books of the late 1930s, this is a thorough accounting of all the projects that this character inspired, from radio to television to film and back again, and more interesting than the actual projects made are all the different projects that almost got made but never happened; much money was spent on Tim Burton’s 1990s take on Superman, with Nic Cage signed on to wear the tights and cape, but that plug got pulled after much craziness, much like the Kevin Smith commissioned Superman script and the J.J. Abrams’ script that got killed by a scathing review on the geek-centric website Ain’t It Cool News and scared off executives from committing to his weird version of this very well known story.
There’s even the Lois Lane television series that got a little bit of traction before going nowhere, and in introducing the roots of the successful television series “Smallville,” there is a lot of time spent on a never produced pilot for a proposed show called “Bruce Wayne,” which would have been a series about the character of Bruce Wayne in the years leading up to his becoming Batman. As the pilot script called for a cameo from a young Clark Kent, someone took that idea and turned it into “Smallville.” Cray.Continue Reading …
Top 5 most anticipated movies of 2013
The first month of 2013 has come and gone, so now is as good a time as any to look at the rest of the year and see what kind of stuff is scheduled to come out and what is worth anticipating and actually waiting for. Sure there are going to be plenty of nerd-o’s out there who are dying to see “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” and everyone wants to see “Iron Man 3,” no matter how bad “Iron Man 2” was all those years ago. Anyone who knows me knows that I eagerly await Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel,” but that’s no surprise, plenty of people are anxious to see that thing.Continue Reading …
Street team pics!
And here is round one of our streem team pics, as folks around the world show some love to Cinema Crespodiso!
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