http://filmjournal.net/bangerman Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:58:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Star Wars is in desperate need of a re-make. I have not seen the original series for a number of years, but my memory of them is that of a bland trilogy of films that were groundbreaking in their time, but now just look very dated and ... http://filmjournal.net/bangerman/2006/12/30/star-wars-time-for-a-re-make/ Scorsese has just released Departed. A film that is getting rave reviews. I’m not so sure. If you're going to make a film about organised crime, there can be no alternative but to base it on the Italian Mafia. The best organised crime films in movie history have been based ... http://filmjournal.net/bangerman/2006/10/11/italian-americans/ Jesus Christ Final Destination intrigues me. The premise is simple. We have good looking teenagers who cheat death. Death then goes on a killing spree to reclaim the lives which he believes rightly belong to him. Now, my problem is; once the teenagers work out that Death is after them, why ... http://filmjournal.net/bangerman/2006/08/30/final-destination-god/ I'm writing this on the back of just having watched Underworld Evolution. A popcorn film with awesome CGI and a fit Kate Beckinsale. However, I do have one major gripe with Underworld and gripe with Hollywood blockbusters in general. That is: why do the villains have to always lose? Why ... http://filmjournal.net/bangerman/2006/08/16/rooting-for-the-bad-guy/   Am I the only one who finds how the running times on DVDs and cinemas are written annoying? Why is it written in minutes rather than hours? For example, the Aussie western "The Proposition" on DVD has a running time of 100 minutes. The question is: how long is that in hours and minutes? As it happens ... http://filmjournal.net/bangerman/2006/08/13/running-time-rant/     It is said that everyone has his or her favourite James Bond. Unfortunately, I am not one of these people. I just cannot understand the appeal of the films. James Bond annoys me for one big reason: that is, the villains never seem to kill Bond when they have the chance. ... http://filmjournal.net/bangerman/2006/07/20/7/ Halloween Lets get the synopsis out of the way first. Its Halloween 1963: a young Michael Myers stabs his older sister to death and gets sent to an asylum for the criminally insane. More then 10 years later, he escapes on the eve of Halloween and makes his way back to his ... http://filmjournal.net/bangerman/2006/07/17/6/ The Fog A movie about vengeance and retribution: a dead crew of a ship returning a century later to seek vengeance on the residents of a town whose founding fathers were responsible for their death. Is Fog any good? No. Is it scary? No. I remember first watching The ... http://filmjournal.net/bangerman/2006/07/15/the-fog/ A Nightmare on Elm Street What can one say about this film that hasn't been already said? Well it no longer has the impact it did when it first hit the screen. In fact it looks very very dated. The effects are rubbish (just look at the last scene at the ... http://filmjournal.net/bangerman/2006/07/15/a-nightmare-on-elm-street/ I've had enough of these so called established reviewers you come across on many DVD websites.  Reviewers who just jump on the bandwagon and rate movies simply to fit in. Example of this include regarding the boring and over long Shawshank Redemption as one the greatest film ever made (yawn). Well my ... http://filmjournal.net/bangerman/2006/07/14/hello-world/