Category Archives: Movie I’ve Seen

Over the course of the last, say 30+ years this list comprises a majority of the films I’ve watched – many repeated viewings.

More movies will be added as I remember them..

Stand Up for Pain in the Oblivion of Pines

Posted on September 15, 2013 by rorydean

I watch so many movies I often get swept up in the effort to write about all of them in an effective and coherent way. Monday to Wednesday and I’m already behind, by Friday I’ll be right back here scrambling. This time I’m micro-reviewing, a handful of celluloid with the films Oblivion, Pain & Gain, Stand Up Guys and The Place Beyond The Pines. Continue reading →

Posted in Blu-ray, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves | Tagged above the line, al pacino, Alan Arkin, blue valentine, Bradley Cooper, Brian De Palma, bucket list, christopher walken, crazy stupid love, Derek Cianfrance, Die Hard, Joseph Ruben, Le Mecanisme de cineaste du jour, limitless, made for TV forgettable, michael bay, Mikael Salomon, miss it, moon, Movie Mechanic, oblivion, Pain & Gain, Paul Verhoeven, practical movie reviews, rory dean, ryan gosling, see it, silent running, stand up guys, the place beyond the pines, tom cruise, Wolfgang Petersen | 3 Comments

Game of Thrones

Posted on September 13, 2013 by rorydean

Prepare yourself for smart and articulate tones, a broad and artful universe taken masterfully from an adaptation that respectfully brings the source material to the screen. Faithful to followers and enticing to regular theater goers, the producers aptly marry art with history for a particular kind of pop eccentricity, blurring ‘what might have happened’ with ‘what could have’, the best kind of speculative realism that enjoys hearty fiction almost equally. Continue reading →

Posted in Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves | Tagged A Song of Ice and Fire, above the line, Alan Taylor, Alex Graves, Alik Sakharov, Beastmaster, Brian Kirk, D.B. Weiss, Daniel Minahan, David Benioff, David Nutter, David Petrarca, dragons, dungeons and dragons, George R.R. Martin, Golden Voyage of Sinbad, HBO, Lena Headey, Maisie Williams, Michelle MacLaren, Neil Marshall, Peter Dinklage, practical movie reviews, role-play, rory dean, sword and fantasy movies, television series, Thrones Game, Timothy Van Patten, Westeros, Xerox | 2 Comments

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Posted on August 3, 2013 by rorydean

Oliver Stone’s films live and breathe in the aether of happenstance and catastrophe, hand-wrung spaghetti noodles on the wall of Americana in Technicolor pasticcio, washed in controversy and teeming causticity. Driven by Stone’s familiar and articulate camera, his branded editing techniques and his signature bravado that makes heroes of all his criminal souls, Born on the 4th is quite easily among his best films. Continue reading →

Posted in Blu-ray, Essays on art, Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, Movie Makers & Shakers, philosophy and film | Tagged 4th of July is about community and the celebration of togetherness, above the line, aether of happenstance and catastrophe, born on the fourth of july, Character actor, condemnation and awe, everyday Americana of the 1960s, Film, hollywood, Independence Day (United States), oliver stone, practical movie reviews, rory dean, savages, specter of curiosity, Stone, Stone's driving passion and ability to weave together history and fantasy, Stone's most salient talent is to empower his broken characters with gut-level verisimilitude, tom cruise, war movies | 3 Comments

Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Posted on August 1, 2013 by rorydean

For all the shark movies in all the deep sea voyages in the world, the sweet hereafter in “Deep Blue Sea” is living it up in the moment and being OK with forgetting it by morning. Send picky for a walk and leave critical in the car. Let yourself enjoy it and then describe it as Jaws 2.0 but better – two sharks that menace for the price of one. Continue reading →

Posted in Movie I've Seen, On DVD, Online, Speak-Freely | Tagged 1999, above the line, action adventure, Adventures of Ford Fairlane, aida turturro, art, Battle of the Network Stars, blockbusters, davy jones locker, Deep Blue Sea, Die Hard 2, jaws, Joseph Bennett, Long Kiss Goodnight, michael rapaport, movie, practical movie reviews, Renny Harlin, rory dean, saffron burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, stellan skarsgard, summer movies, thomas jane, William Sandell | 1 Comment

Why Write About The Movies We Hate

Posted on July 15, 2013 by rorydean

Apparently I’m not alone. We hate our movies and love them for all sorts of reasons. People hate theaters and theater people, they hate other movie goers and especially critics; that goes for bloggers who are equally hated by the stodgy officials of film criticism, teachers and theorists and other bloggers too. We even hate the movies we love. Continue reading →