thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | June 5, 2008
Disclaimer #1: I liked the Movie.Disclaimer #2: I am not gay. Now, I’m not going to claim that Sex and the City is some high water mark of American filmmaking. It is unabashedly what it is, a piece of escapist fantasy— the relationship equivalent of an action movie with sex replacing the cars blowing up [...]
S Andrew Swann | May 8, 2008
I just saw Iron Man and, IMO it is probably one of the best superhero adaptations made since Superman. It could have gone so very, very, wrong. We have a prolonged origin story, the driven hero with personal demons, the avuncular villian we see coming a mile away, a political subtext about weapons proliferation combined [...]
S Andrew Swann | April 11, 2008
You may have heard about the move Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed which apparently exposes the vast conspiracy of the scientific establishment to keep “Intelligent Design” from being taught in science classes alongside Evolution. This is sort of like the Yankees making a movie bemoaning the NFL’s conspiracy to keep them out of the Superbowl. They’re [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 13, 2008
A thread on the Agony Booth got me thinking of this movie again (see, they don’t just talk about crappy film there) and like Lost, it is unconventionally structured which in some ways highlights some of the storytelling mechanics. So I thought I’d come up with another list (which may be spoilery.) 1) Any time [...]
S Andrew Swann | February 23, 2008
This pic from io9 has to be a sign of the apocalypse, or something.
S Andrew Swann | January 29, 2008
I finally got around to seeing 28 Weeks Later on DVD, and it’s a great zombie flick and one of those rarities; a sequel that is a considerable improvement on the original. Not that 28 Days Later was a bad film, it was just sort of typical for the genre; “You’re in the midst of [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 20, 2008
Well, I have again returned from the CWRU Film Society’s SF Movie Marathon, which makes this about #20 for me. (I’ve been there enough times I’ve seen Zardoz twice there.) As last time, I’ve been left thinking about SF movies— in this case “SF/horror” movies since there was a zombie/undead theme going on. In particular, [...]
S Andrew Swann | December 23, 2007
S Andrew Swann | November 9, 2007
Everyone’s doing it. . .SF Signal, Big Dumb Object, Whatever. . .. . . so I have to post it too. Eddie Izzard, Lego, Darth Vader. Just to be different, here’s a bonus Eddie Izzard Lego video about movies. (Bet you didn’t know that was an actual subgenre) Warning, language not work safe.
S Andrew Swann | November 4, 2007
. . .and provides an example of a point I was making over ten years ago. You may or may not have visited my home page, which predates this blog by about a dozen years or so, if you have, buried in the writing portion are a couple of essays I did on plot and [...]
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