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The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader:: A movie review

Alright, so I've had a very long string of movies that have been good and I've loved them all like strange only recently discovered children that I will send off to homes where they will be well cared for, but I will not see them again unless I really want to. (always terrible to end a sentence with a preposition XP). So, bearing that in mind, this will be the last "good" review I do for a little while. After this, I will issue as much bile as I can muster. But until I find a worthy nemesis on which to unleash my critical venom, it's time to say some more good things about another good movie. Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a wonderful, whimsical, child-like (not to be confused with child-ish), classical fairytale adventure. One of the first things I want to say about this movie is that it is beautiful, well written, atmospheric, and character driven. The last thing I'd like to say about this movie is that it looks gr

TRON Legacy: A movie review

So apparently prior to TRON coming out, there was a whole bunch of media exposure that I just missed out on. I don't watch TV too much and I'm not a big follower on YouTube. Roughly a month or two before TRON was released, there was a massive amount of media exposure on TV in theaters and online. A big chunk of it had to do with the fact that international techno sensations Daft and Punk were writing the soundtrack for the movie, or at least a good portion of said soundtrack. So I missed all the hype. Which for me seems great because I didn't get over-exposed to the film like a lot of other people and was able to see the movie with dewy fresh fan eyes and not cold jaded reviewer eyes. Ok so enough crap lets get down to the review: a good number of critics have put the spurs to the old girl and I think that's honestly a bit unfair. To be completely honest, having been based on a movie that's just 2 years shy of being 2 decades old, I think the