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I Am Legend

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Alternate thoughts on the ending.

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I Am Legend

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Some thoughts on the ending.

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The Mist

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Some thoughts on the ending…
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No Country For Old Men

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

A few thoughts on why I should definitely not be put in charge of this kind of material…
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Fantastic Four

Friday, November 30th, 2007
State of body A super-powered corpse that won’t trouble you with too many deeper questions.
Detail of Inspection Inspected twice.
Forensic Investigator winstoninabox
Comments Family friendly fun.

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Highlander: The Source

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
State of Body Not so much decapitated as cut off at the knees.
Detail of Inspection Inspected twice, with the body parts in distinctly different arrangements.
Forensic Investigator Jon Blum
Comments How hard is it to make a sequel when nobody watched the last one?

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RoboCop 3

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
State of Body Worked over pretty bad and then neutered.
Detail of Inspection Inspected 3 or 4 times. Probably this time was watching it for the last time I ever will in this lifetime.
Forensic Investigator winstoninabox
Comments How hard is it to make a sequel? You just have to copy the first one, don’t you? Hey, didn’t I already say that somewhere else?

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Memento - second impressions

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

David Morgan-Mar continues his experiment, having now watched the film in the intended order…
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Memento - in chronological order

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Guest reviewer David Morgan-Mar, having never seen the film Memento, watches it in the re-edited chronological order!
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RoboCop 2

Sunday, September 30th, 2007
State of Body Like so many other sequels this much maligned corpse can’t escape negative comparisons to its far superior progenitor.
Detail of Inspection Inspected 4 or 5 times. Difficult to remember after such a long hiatus.
Forensic Investigator winstoninabox
Comments How hard is it to make a sequel? You just have to copy the first one, don’t you?

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Die Hard 4.0

Thursday, August 30th, 2007
State of Body Certainly not stale, but as this corpse was always going to be a success it could have taken a few more risks.
Detail of Inspection Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator winstoninabox
Comments Fun, but can’t make it to the next level. What more could one expect with “4″ in the title? That’s what the writers, producers and director hoped you’d be thinking.

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Spider-Man 3

Saturday, July 7th, 2007
State of Body Watchable. Enjoyable. Unmemorable.
Detail of Inspection Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator winstoninabox
Comments Great action. ’nuff said.

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Snakes on a Plane

Monday, May 21st, 2007
State of body Oooooooh, where to start. Um, dead? Yeah. Very dead. Strange puncture wounds. Mysterious.
Detail of inspection Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator shellshear
Comments So much potential! Well, I thought so anyway. A classic example of a movie playing it far too safe; of failing to properly explore the premise.

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X2

Monday, May 7th, 2007
State of Body Viable, but has signs of future instability.
Detail of Inspection Inspected a few times.
Forensic Investigator winstoninabox
Comments This body is in pretty good nick. If only it had kept to the cast established in the first one. I think I’m mixing my metaphors. Oh well.

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Underworld: Evolution

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
State of Body Not dead, but not truly alive.
Detail of Inspection Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator winstoninabox
Comments This body’s DNA matches that of an earlier victim. Similar wounds are apparent.

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Highlander 2

Monday, August 14th, 2006

State of body No, we’re not going to do the obvious joke, okay? It hasn’t had its head cut off. Just its brain.
Detail of inspection Inspected twice.
Forensic Investigator Jon
Comments There’s been serious reconstructive work to put its body parts back where they belong, but they still don’t quite fit.

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Hostel

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
State of body Um, well. Where to begin? Elaborately tortured, of course, but oddly, cause of death was old age.
Detail of inspection Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator shellshear
Comments People aren’t exactly looking for watertight plots in a horror film, but in this case, more attention to the scenario might have made a more interesting film.

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The Da Vinci Code

Monday, June 12th, 2006
State of Body Congealed sangreal.
Detail of Inspection Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator winstoninabox
Comments A bloated corpse.

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Pride & Prejudice

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
State of body Utterly pristine.
Detail of inspection Inspected six times.
Forensic Investigator shellshear
Comments The body appears to have been desecrated by person or persons unknown. Well, OK, maybe not unknown. It was me. The autopsy was presumptuous & pointless. But fun.

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The Constant Gardener

Thursday, May 25th, 2006
State of Body Hauntingly perfect.
Detail of Inspection Inspected once.
Forensic Investigator winstoninabox
Comments There is no corpse to speak of, for the subject is not dead in so much as it is alive and very healthy.

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