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Roger's Movie Reviews
of 2009 - 2012
Technofiction Story Writing Tips
Technofiction Reviews
These are reviews of movies and books from the technofiction perspective.
- Review of Zero Dark Thirty -- well told in many ways, but it missed the big picture (Jan 13)
- Review of The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey -- delightful story telling the first half, unrelenting action the second half (Dec 2012)
- Review of Skyfall -- Impressive opening stunts and credit roll, then a ski slope: all downhill from there. (Nov 2012)
- Review of Dark Knight Rises and Moonrise Kingdom -- knight... er... night and day different (July 12)
- Reivew of Prometheus -- neat visuals, neat characterization, silly inconsistent story (June 12)
- Review of In Time -- a parable of the evils of Social Darwinism, not a tale of neat technology (Nov 11)
- Review of Atlas Shrugged: Part One -- Ayn Rand makes it to the silver screen (Apr 11)
- Review of Source Code -- good thriller, fun to watch, but with a couple technofiction weaknesses (Apr 11)
- Review of Limitless -- a good science fiction story. It explores the pluses and minuses of using a new tool (Mar 11)
- Review of Tron: Legacy -- if you don't pay attention to the story it's entertaining (Dec 10)
- Review of The Honeycomb Comet -- good science fiction in a world with slower-than-lightspeed space travel (Dec 10)
- Review of Starship Troopers -- my impression of this book has changed so much! (Nov 10)
- Review of Morning Glory -- hyperkinesis and total dedication save the day (Nov 10)
- Review of Ground Zero -- a nicely done zombie movie that avoids a lot of zombie movie cliches (Nov 10)
- Review of Inception -- ambitious in concept, but becomes OK instead of Great because it's too actiony (July 10)
- Review of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- an entertaining 2010's version of the classic mystery movie (July 10)
- Review of Iron Man 2 -- I love the acting chemistry and the battle scenes didn't get in the way (May 10)
- Review of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus -- I love Terry Gilliam's set work imagination (May 10)
- Review of How to Train Your Dragon and Clash of the Titans -- In Dragon I felt like I was watching the Orange County Middle School Vikings! Clash came out much better than I was expecting (Apr 10)
- Review of Green Zone -- I came, I saw, I wondered what I was watching? (Mar 10)
- Review of Alice in Wonderland -- Gee-whiz effects, same old story... Disney story, that is. (Mar 10)
- Review of The Book of Eli -- Interesting visuals, entertaining, but a Technofiction cringefest. (Feb 10)
- Review of Avatar -- A giant leap forward in visuals, a small step nowhere in story telling. (Dec 09)
- Review of The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction edited by Mike Ashley -- Best in five years! (Oct 09)
- Review of Nine -- nice CGI, nice critters, but... have I seen this story before? <sigh> (Oct 09)
- Review of Surrogates -- the Mc Guffin is a technology gee whiz that never gets fully explored, which is too bad. (Sep 09)
- Review of Moon and District 9 -- two movies that are as different as night and day on the moon (Aug 09)
- Review of Writers of the Future, Vol 26 -- a collection of good and bad stories, with enough good that I'll get Vol. 27 (Jun 09)
- Review of Angels and Demons - rarely have a seen a thriller violate space, time, and timing, so deeply (May 09)
- Review of Star Trek 11 - I can describe the story in three words: silly, silly, silly (May 09)
- Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine - nice effects, nice scenery, nice acting, but what a tiresome story! (May 09)
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