Warriors Sometimes you get a filmmaker who pulls off a real miracle by coming up with a movie where it turns out that neither the story, script, performances, or any one actor are particularly significant, but somehow through the use of style, pacing, cinematography, and other miscellaneous factors, manages to pull off a masterpiece with […]
Watchmen: Ultimate Cut As sprawling in its epic scope as any comic book movie even beyond The Dark Knight, director Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the once-thought unfilmable graphic novel by Alan Moore brings all the elements action-wise one could hope for yet so much more: A political subtext through this alternate universe of costumed crimefighters […]
Waterboy This football comedy starring Adam Sandler in many ways is hard to score. Having actively played the game myself for a number of years, my criticisms of football movies is usually harsher than it is for most sports movies, yet this film has an undeniable goofy earnestness that manages to win the viewer over. […]
Waterworld: Director’s Cut As pure an example of a failed epic as there’s ever been made, this 1995 monstrosity (which carried a then-record budget of $175 million) tries hard to be different with its setting and apocalyptic take, as apparently Al Gore’s worst nightmare has come true and the polar icecaps have melted, leaving the […]
Waxwork Straight up genre homage films are usually considered to be a risky gamble, going to great lengths to recreate a scene (or scenes) from other, better known movies to weave into the fabric of their own storyline, and if not done just the right way, usually inspiring jeers of derision from its more knowledgeable […]
Wayne’s World If there’s any comedy star in recent cinema history who is more misunderstood than most, it would have to be Mike Myers, whom (according to most accounts) is said to take his particular style of comedy very seriously to that of almost a perfectionist level, a far cry from the usually breezy, lighthearted […]
Wayne’s World 2 Looking back, it’s easy to see the basic appeal of the Wayne’s World movies in that they were comedies about two (obviously) adult males who had simply refused to grow up (and not in the Michael Jackson / Peter Pan kind of way). They and their friends would spend their lives tooling […]
Weird Science John Hughes established himself so quickly and strongly in the “teen comedy” genre in the early 80s with Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club (an undisputed classic anyway you cut it) that when the time came in 1985 to make his next film, the studio basically handed him a blank check and told him […]