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This just in:Â Batman is kicking Spider-Man’s ass… The End of the World is too close to call… and the famous runner with the French name is in a dead heat with himself… We know, […]
This just in:Â Batman is kicking Spider-Man’s ass… The End of the World is too close to call… and the famous runner with the French name is in a dead heat with himself… We know, […]
The Smackdown Given his humble beginnings as a kid doing TV sitcoms like “Growing Pains,” it’s extraordinary to be writing about two huge-budget films where Leonardo DiCaprio is an action hero, but that’s where we […]
With the 2008 election showing signs of being as close as the 2000 and 2004 near-ties, Sunday night’s Emmy success for “Recount” seems like a perfect moment to re-visit our Smackdown between that film and […]
The Smackdown It’s been ten years next week that audiences got their first look at “American Beauty,” the film with its dark vision of Americana that went on to win our highest honor in film. […]
The Smackdown With 2008’s Bottle Shock and 2004’s indie darling Sideways, we have two films that put their respective audiences smack into the middle of the California wine growing scene. One is more about making […]
Ready for his Close-Up? Honestly, we try not to get too political over here at Movie Smackdown! After all, we have our work cut out for us with our film-on-film comparisons without taking sides in […]
It’s the End of the World as We Know It. Back in 1998, during the Year of Lewinsky, Paramount/DreamWorks got into a game of chicken with Touchstone. The result was two disaster films about comets that were about to crash into the Earth and destroy all life. The two films could share a single log-line:
When a “planet-killer” sized comet is discovered to be on an imminent collision course with Earth, an international space effort — led by the United States — sets out to deflect the object by setting off nuclear weapons deep inside its core so that it will miss Earth and, therefore, save humanity.
I won’t tell you how the Earth fared yet, but I can tell you that the point of impact in the theaters was about two months apart. Talk about operational redundancy!
Even though Deep Impact was the first in the theaters, for our purposes, we’re giving the “Defending Champion” designation to Armageddon because it won at the box-office. Armageddon grossed $553-million world-wide to the Deep Impact gross of $349-million. Incredibly, IMDB (the Internet Movie Database) has it as a virtual tie with both films scoring a 5.9 out of ten audience rating. […]
The Smackdown There must be something about Scarlett Johansson in a foreign land getting mixed up in love, sex and forbidden romance that is like catnip to directors. So far it’s inspired two of them […]
After the Obama-Clinton slugfest this year, we all know that polls have their limitations. And we know that blog polls are even more unreliable than most. Still, we’re drawn to doing polls more often on […]
Seems like summer is the time for super-hero sequels. That was true last summer, of course, but this summer has shown that when they work, they really work! Spring fizzled with the often-dismissed fourth "Indiana […]
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