I was reluctant to watch the film, I’ll admit. I wanted to simply let that one slide by. But, on a rainy night, with naught on my schedule but a potential hang-over, I called up the girl and we went to the late show. We go there early and fortunately, shared the theater with only [...]
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Alice In Wonderland – again
Posted: 30th April 2010 by Eric in characters, film, reviewsTags: 3d, accurate, alice, film, high, life, real, Tim Burton, Wonderland
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Sherlock Holmes: Film Review
Posted: 31st December 2009 by Eric in Fiction, Uncategorized, characters, film, reviewsTags: cimena, film reviews, Sherlock Holmes
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One of the things I love about contemporary cinema is the filmmaker’s collective understanding of our extremely short attention spans. Sherlock Holmes is a film that indulges that attention deficiency in the extreme.
While I, and perhaps other members of the audience were expecting something more akin to a mystery, I found myself delighting in the [...]
Researching the Anti-hero in popular culture
Posted: 21st February 2009 by Eric in characters, writingTags: anti-hero, characters, pop-culture
The anti-hero’s acceptance into mainstream media is a relatively recent happening. Within the past ten years, it seems that we’re saturated with anti-heroes; comics, books, television, video games. The white armored knight is cliché to the jaded Gen-Xers, and down right hokey to me-centric Millenials. Maybe the Millenials can easier identify with a character that takes what he wants, and doesn’t have to go through the hoops to get it. It’s closer to their instant gratification culture. Easier to identify with, perhaps, than the stodgy moralist heroes like Captain America. Regardless of the cultural consequences of a generation raised on Grand Theft Auto, the Punisher and Hellboy, anti-heroes are in.