Category Archives: Movies

The Event Horizon of Boring

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: December 20, 2011
Having seen the recent Batman movie trailer, I have to say this film looks like a stone cold bummer.  I realize I stand on the wrong side (culturally) of this struggle, but I just didn’t care for The Dark Knight at all.  It struck me as a combination of the worst elements of superheroes, realism, [...]
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Love the Bunny Suit

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: November 1, 2011
I like bad special effects.  I like low budget movies.  I like stories that are put together from string and scrap and heaps of limitations and somehow still work.  I’m not against CGI or great FX.  These things can be awesome.  It isn’t ultimately the FX that make a sci fi / fantasy / horror [...]
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Real Steel is the Real Deal

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: October 10, 2011
Watched Real Steel this weekend.  Great little movie about boxing robots. That’s right.  I wrote little, even though I’m sure this was an expensive film.  I don’t refer to its budget when I call it little, I refer instead to the scope of its story.  At its heart, Real Steel is the story of a [...]
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Influential

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: September 16, 2011
How about a special Friday post? One of the reasons I don’t like being considered a silly writer is that it lowers the bar.  Silly is fine, but it’s just a trifling thing.  It will always be considered unimportant.  And to some degree that’s to my advantage.  If someone reads a story of mine with [...]
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