Action Movies

And people said Iron Man 2 was stupid. Robert Downey Jr. is back in the first post-Avengers Marvel film, and boy is it a cluttered mess. Featuring a bland villain, a nonsensical plot and major tonal imbalance, Iron Man 3 has plenty of laughs but very few thrills. But hey, at least Robert Downey Jr. is in it.

Read FilmJabber’s full Iron Man 3 movie review.

Who else thinks World War Z is going to be a flat-out disaster? Yeah, I didn’t think I was alone.

Vanity Fair just released a preview of their June 2013 exclusive with Brad Pitt, which provides more detail into what we already knew: the production has been a big, bloated mess. While there is a part of me that is morbidly curious to see the movie – and I hope, hope, hope that I am wrong and that the movie will be a fun thrill ride – this seemed like the best opportunity to outline why World War Z is prone to be a big, awful flop.

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“I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile.”

These are the defining words spoken in one of the best story arcs of Star Trek: The Next Generation, now embodied in high definition. The Best of Both Worlds is now on Blu-ray, and not only does the two-episode “movie” look fantastic, it still holds up extremely well.

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Thor is back, and so is Natalie Portman looking all Natalie Portman-ish! Disney and Marvel have released the first action-packed teaser trailer for Thor: The Dark World, which looks like the first one only with an even badder bad guy. The teaser isn’t all that great in the scheme of things, but it has some juicy nuggets.

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The definition of oblivion is “the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening,” which, when taking the new Tom Cruise movie Oblivion into consideration, is ironic because the filmmakers, to a fault, are acutely aware of what their movie is. Oblivion is full of good ideas, but unfortunately those good ideas are, scene by scene, pulled from other, better movies. Despite this, the movie serves as good, popcorn fun.

Read FilmJabber’s full Oblivion movie review.

When Quentin Tarantino is lurking, no genre is safe. After checking crime, kung fu, grindhouse and war movies off his list – not to mention whatever Pulp Fiction was – Quentin Tarantino turns his sights on westerns with Django Unchained. Funny, action-packed and highly entertaining, Django Unchained may not be Tarantino’s deepest of films – but it is his most accessible.

Read FilmJabber’s full Django Unchained movie review.

For those of you who were wise enough not to watch the MTV Movie Awards, the first Hunger Games: Catching Fire teaser trailer is now online for your viewing pleasure. The teaser (which, at two and a half minutes is hardly a teaser) sells the movie well – in fact, incredibly well.

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Jason Bourne has been cryogenically frozen and brought back to life with robotic enhancements in a future where the Earth is dying and the rich people live in a space station called Elysium. Bourne goes hunting for his Treadstone overlords in this paradise-in-the-sky, seeking to fully understand his true identity.

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The 1980s is considered by many as the golden era of action movies, and introduced us to such names as the T-101 Terminator, Rocky Balboa, John Rambo, John Matrix, Cobra, and the Predator. It’s safe to say I was, and still am, a huge fan of these 80s action movies and heroes. They were so over the top and as a result the larger than life stars who played in these action movies have become some of my all-time favorites.

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You know you’re in trouble when the best line of dialogue in an entire movie is a Jay Z quote. Then again, I don’t know if I was in trouble. The new G.I. Joe: Retaliation is leaps and bounds better than its predecessor, with fast-paced action sequences and the charisma of The Rock pulsing through every scene, but it’s also absurd, absurdly absurd and fucking ridiculously absurd. Whether that’s good or bad… I just don’t know.

Read our full G.I. Joe: Retaliation movie review.

Kick-Ass and Hit Girl are back! Universal Pictures has released several new stills, a movie poster and, most importantly, a red band movie trailer featuring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz and none other than Jim Carrey as absurd crime fighters doing very absurd things.

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What does $325 million buy you these days? A groundbreaking prequel to The Wizard of Oz, or an unimaginative orgy of cartoonish special effects starring James Franco playing James Franco? Oz the Great and Powerful is more the latter than the former.

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