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Dragon Warriors (2015)
You've Got to be Kidding
I went to the showing of this film at the Chicago Comedy Film festival last evening and I must say I couldn't understand how this film ever got listed as a comedy. Except for some nipple humor and marrying your cousin, it wasn't that funny. It seemed delighted to borrow heavily from Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and Princess Bride, which made it way too predictable and trivial.
The only funny thing about this was that the film was it was shown on an XBox machine at this theater and I'm sure the projectionist union loved that.
Skip this film all together. Watch the Princess Bride instead. That's funny.
Super 8 (2011)
Excellent Thriller set in 1979
I was nineteen years old in 1979 so I can relate to the time this film took place and JJ Abrams does an excellent job in keeping with the times. Although he did have a Sony Walkman in one scene which I felt might have been stretching it a bit. Not that the Walkman didn't exist, it did. Actually Sony introduced the Walkman on July 1, 1979 and technically, the main portion of the film occurs on or around June of 1979. OK, I know, I'm a dork who looks for authenticity in film making when they go to a specific year. However, it wasn't that big of a deal.
This is a terrific film and I know you may have seen the ET meets Transformers, or Alien meets Goonies, or other such comparisons. I will say it has Spielberg written all over it, which is a good thing because Spielberg is Spielberg. J J Abrams wrote and directed this film. If he keeps making films like this the film industry will be a better place.
So if you like E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sandlot, Goonies and Alien; you will love this film! Go see it.