Irrelevant But Awesome

This past week, our Netflix movie of the week was Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves from 1991. While we had some differing opinions about the quality of the film itself, one thing that’s stuck with me is how much it’s a product of its time. Robin Hood, it seems, is a story that gets adapted again and again throughout the years, often molding itself to the filmmaking and storytelling styles that are popular at the time. For example, the most recent Robin Hood movie was the Russell Crowe movie Robin Hood from 2010, which was more or less a gritty reboot of the character at a time that gritty reboots are all the rage. But that’s the last time the Robin Hood story has been adapted for theaters. Thinking it might be time for Hollywood to take a look Robin Hood again, I wanted to see if any studios were working on trying again on making a Robin Hood movie. It turns out that everybody is planning on doing something Robin Hood related. At least seven different “Robin Hood” projects are...

With there now being six different movies in the Rocky franchise, it's getting to the point where people like to group it in with other long running series of dwindling quality like Friday the 13th, or Beethoven (the one with the dog.) And with Creed being announced as a spin off of the Rocky Series but the seventh film to take place in the Rocky Universe (is that a thing?) some are jumping on that bandwagon again. But it's easy to forget that the original Rocky film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1976, and from the looks of the trailer, Creed looks like it's more in the vein of that original movie. Staring Michael B. Jordan and directed by Ryan Coogler (who directed the critically acclaimed Fruitvale Station), this doesn't look like a cash grab on a dated franchise, but rather a dream project that the creative team has been wanting to do for a while. This clearly isn't just the seventh Rocky movie wrapped up in a new fancy package. It's genuinely a Creed m...

In close to 15 years, there have been a total of seven movies that make up the Fast and the Furious Franchise, with Furious Seven coming out earlier this year. So It's time to take a good look at the franchise in the order from worst to best. 7. The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift If there is an installment of this franchise to stick out like a sore thumb it's this one. It's only one to not star either Paul Walker or Vin Diesel. (yes Diesel made a quick cameo but you can't make any argument that his amount of screen time would be called starring) The lack of these two stars shouldn't automatically make the movie bad (after all, the real stars of the franchise are the cars) but the new characters aren't as fun or as interesting as Walker and Diesel, nor is their dynamic and chemistry on par. The previous movies had already hinted at raising the stakes, only for this movie to bring those stakes back down. And focusing the whole movie on the concept of dri...