Apparently all the X-Men movies needed was the vapidness of Brett Ratner. What’s strangest about his replacing of Singer is the mutation being a metaphor for homosexuality. Singer used it as a metaphor (poorly) for race in the first one. I don’t think there were any metaphors in the second one, but it works perfectly […]
Entries Tagged as 'Michael Murphy'
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, Brett Ratner)
August 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Ben Foster· Brett Ratner· Hugh Jackman· Michael Murphy· Simon Kinberg· Zak Penn· ★
Count Yorga, Vampire (1970, Bob Kelljan)
May 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Count Yorga, Vampire is a retelling of Dracula, modernizing it to the then-contemporary 1970 and changing the locale to Los Angeles. It’s also incredibly low budget–not so low budget it has bad acting (its acting is actually the strong-point)–but it has blacked out windows on houses and cars (so night scenes can be shot at […]
Tagged: American International Pictures· Bob Kelljan· Michael Murphy· ★½
Phase IV (1974, Saul Bass)
August 31st, 2006 · No Comments
I was trying, while watching Phase IV, to think of some way to put a positive spin on the film. The film stars Michael Murphy–and I’m a big Michael Murphy fan–so I was hoping for some Murphy-goodness. He’s fine and has a couple good moments, but there’s really nothing he could do to combat the […]
Tagged: Mayo Simon· Michael Murphy· Paramount Pictures· Saul Bass· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ



