by mike | Dec 31, 2020 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This film was one of the best sequels to appear in a long time. I first presented this post in 2017. And BTW, Happy New Year! If Rise of the Planet of the Apes was outstanding, then its sequel was even better. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes received a great deal of...
by mike | Dec 24, 2020 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
How did such a popular franchise wind up in “development hell” for decades? This post first appeared in 2017. After the “craze” died down following Battle for the Planet of the Apes in 1973, not a whole lot happened for a long time regarding the series’ return to the...
by mike | Dec 17, 2020 | Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Hollywood excess: were they beating this popular franchise to death? The post first ran in 2017. So how did the producers of the first two highly successful Apes films manage to get three more sequels out of the series—especially after the Earth was blown to space...
by mike | Dec 10, 2020 | Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
This sci-fi franchise has endured for decades. I first presented this post in 2017. It began in 1963 as a slim novel, La Planète des Singes, written by Pierre Boulle, a Frenchman. Alternately translated as Monkey Planet or Planet of the Apes, it told the futuristic...
by mike | Nov 30, 2020 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
The much-maligned 2017 film, Geostorm, is a disaster movie. And a sci-fi movie. And a political thriller. Guess what: I enjoy disaster movies; and sci-fi movies; and political thrillers. So despite its poor box office and terrible reviews, I love this film. (And as a...
by mike | Nov 19, 2020 | Disaster Movies, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
A huge money-making film, despite its terrible reviews. This post first ran in 2017. The 1998 sci-fi/disaster flick, Armageddon, grossed well over half a billion dollars—so why is it a Guilty Pleasure? Doubtless because its reviews were uniformly awful. I mean, here...
