Recent content by Jacob Bawden

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    All-Female Ghostbusters Reboot Officially Happening

    Poehler and Fey might be fine, but having them together in the film would probably be too much without major revisions to their established character roles. Both play only slightly varied models of the same character in almost everything, Poehler being energetic to Fey's downer-with-optimism...
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    The Big Picture: Leave Michael Bay Alone

    You ask why Michael Bay's the seemingly singular target for why "movies are bad" and "Hollywood has gone down the drain"? You then listed all his supposed crimes, while also listing the same grievances shared by other film makers? That's exactly why Bay is the cumulative punching bag for the...
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    7 Transformers Cartoon Stories That Could Be Transformers Movies

    I would love Beast Wars. However, I can see how it would be passed over, as they try to convey "realistic proportions" and giant robots disguised as, what undoubtedly would have to be, giant animals would stretch whatever sense of believability the series has. That said, they made dinosaurs...
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    New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trailer Revealed

    Jeezus, this looks like someone picked up an abandoned script off the Transformers writers floor and said, "Yeah, I can work with this." Urgh. What made me angry at this trailer was the stinger joke, "What are they, some kind of aliens?" To which, Megan Fox says, "No, that's stupid; they're...
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    Escape to the Movies: 22 Jump Street - Comedy Lightning Strikes Twice

    Clint Eastwood directing is considered "not anything big"? How bout a review, or Intermission or whatever you have, for The Signal? 22 already is going to do alright, why not push the indie-scifi?