Every once in a while, you watch a great movie and notice this little thing in the opening credits – “Based On”, or maybe “Inspired By”, and in some rarer cases, nothing at all. These are the films where most seem to have forgotten to look down at those titles, and either don’t remember or […]
Month: May 2017
13 Polarizing Movie Endings That Got People Debating
One would think that concluding a movie would be the easiest part of screenwriting. The hero walks off into the sunset with his love interest, foes defeated, world saved and an extremely exaggerated character arc reached, only to do it all over again in the sequel. The complete opposite if you’re one of those pretentious […]
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All 11 Hayao Miyazaki Movies Ranked From Good To Best
Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most renowned figures in the world of anime, and animation in general. In his capacities as director, producer, scriptwriter, animator, author, manga artist, and Studio Ghibli’s co-owner, he has shaped the field, and brought anime to the attention of the world audience as something more than a genre simply […]
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The 10 Greatest Film Scores No One Talks About
A swelling of strings, a triumphant booming of horns, a delicate cascade of woodwinds, and a great percussive thunder, all bookended with soaring choirs and vocals. These are the old guard of film music, still as essential and iconic as ever. Even under barrages of parodies and imitators, this tried and true method of composing the accompanying music […]
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All 13 Harmony Korine Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Too often Harmony Korine is dismissed as a mere provocateur, the dubious character behind films like Gummo and Trash Humpers that are aesthetically, well, trashy. Detractors account for his success by referring to an experimental visual style and subjects that tend to be, as Variety called the Humpers, “riveting beyond rationality.” At the beginning of […]
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The 10 Weirdest Movie Sequels Ever Made
So far, the biggest money-making film this year is “Beauty and the Beast”, a Disney film that is a live-action remake of Disney’s own animation film. It’s basically a carbon copy of the original film, but with inferior musical renditions of the songs on the original soundtrack. We live in a time when Disney can […]