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5 Ways Marty McFly Could Get Rich Without the Sports Almanac
In Back to the Future Part II, when Doc Brown discovered that Marty McFly was going to take lucrative information about the future back to the past (in the form of a Sports Almanac), he was furious. He didn’t want … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, back to the future, comedy, films, fun, future, money, movie review, movies, nostalgia, science fiction, sequels, technology, time travel, vietnam, wealth
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10 Reasons to Love Marc McClure in 1977’s The Phone Call
Did you know that one year before playing Jimmy Olsen in 1978’s Superman: The Movie, Marc McClure appeared in a little short film called The Phone Call? It was produced by my alma mater, Brigham Young University, so it has … Continue reading
Posted in Forgotten Film Gems
Tagged back to the future, bassoon, films, fun, funny, humor, karate kid, movie review, movies, music, phone call, relationships, short film, soundtrack, spiderman, superman
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Unceremonious Ways Sequels Dump the Previous Film’s Love Interest
Sequels are never easy. They have to continue where the last film left off and add something new to the mix so they don’t feel stale. Frequently this involves writing out the previous love interest in order to make room … Continue reading
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Tagged alien, austin powers, back to the future, batman, batman returns, comic books, die hard, die hard with a vengeance, films, jason bourne, karate kid, love, movie review, movies, princess diaries, robocop, romance, science fiction, sequels, star trek, superman, toy story
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Thank You to My Wonderful Readers
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. My biggest priority in creating and maintaining this website is to have fun sharing new ways of looking at movies. And I’m so pleased that I’m reaching an ever-growing audience of people who are as eager to … Continue reading
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Tagged back to the future, chiasmus, gratitude, holiday, kindness, thank you, thanksgiving
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10 Actors Who Had to Suffer to Make Their Movies
Some actors really suffer to make their movies. I’m not talking about getting minor injuries doing a stunt and having to wait a few days or weeks before continuing on. I’m talking about actors who are in constant pain and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, abyss, action movies, actors, back to the future, cliffhanger, comic books, dustin hoffman, ed harris, films, fugitive, harrison ford, how the grinch stole christmas, jackie chan, jim carrey, lord of the rings, marathon man, michael j fox, movie review, movies, peter weller, popeye, robin williams, robocop, rumble in the bronx, science fiction, sylvester stallone
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10 Actors Who Owe Their Careers to Someone Else’s Misfortune
A lot of movie casting decisions have compelling stories attached to them. Sometimes actors get a job at someone else’s expense. I’ve discovered 10 examples of actors who owe a lot of their professional success to someone else’s misfortune. Some … Continue reading
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Tagged action movies, actors, aliens, back to the future, batman, batman and robin, christopher nolan, comic books, dark knight rises, films, funny, ghostbusters, james bond, james t kirk, movie review, movies, science fiction, sequels, star trek, superman, the godfather, tim burton
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10 Clever Uses of Old Pop Songs in Modern Movies
I love good music. And while I appreciate how some films (for example, Star Wars) manage to create a completely original orchestral accompaniment that complements the action, sometimes I like to relax in familiar territory with some good old pop … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, action movies, american graffiti, back to the future, comedy, comic books, drama, groundhog day, guardians of the galaxy, hocus pocus, movie review, movies, music, pop songs, romance, science fiction, sister act, songs, soundtrack, terminator, untamed heart, waynes world
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10 Directors Who Seamlessly Transitioned to Sci-Fi on Their First Try
Great directors are ones who thrive even when making films in genres they’re not particularly familiar with. Science fiction is a great one to test a director’s mettle because films in this genre could so easily be dismissed as mindless … Continue reading
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Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, action movies, alien, back to the future, don siegel, empire strikes back, films, ghostbusters, irvin kershner, ivan reitman, movie review, movies, paul verhoeven, richard donner, ridley scott, robert wise, robert zemeckis, robocop, science fiction, sequels, stanley kubrick, star wars
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Great Scott! The Entire Back to the Future Trilogy Is One Big Chiasmus
I’ve discovered that some films follow a chiasmus formula in the way their stories are set up. What is a chiasmus? It’s an ancient writing structure in which ideas are listed in one order and then repeated in the opposite … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, back to the future, chiasmus, comedy, films, fun, funny, humor, movie review, movies, relationships, science fiction, sequels
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9 Iconic Performances That Weren’t Even Nominated But Should Have Won Oscars
The Academy Awards seem so arbitrary to me. Sometimes they completely forget to acknowledge performances that turn out to be iconic genre changers in retrospect. Here are nine particularly egregious examples of actors who should have not only been nominated … Continue reading
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Tagged academy awards, actors, animated films, back to the future, beauty and the beast, characters, christopher reeve, disney, et the extra terrestrial, films, james dean, jim carrey, movies, oscars, robocop, science fiction, star trek, superman, the truman show, tombstone, val kilmer
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