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Movie / Film Reviews by Marco Chacon

Browse reviews written by Marco Chacon, including critical takes on films, home entertainment releases, and television series.

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Exposed to radioactive films early on, Marco Chacon has gained proportional strength and agility, though it hasn't been useful. On the internet, opinions hold sway over facts, and Marco is no exception, often possessing multiple, conflicting views. Marco is also the author of the JAGS Roleplaying Gaming System.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Dec 01, 2009

New Moon is one of those movies for which the plot is almost superfluous. If you are a fan of Twilight, you more or less know it. If you are not, you probably do not care. How...

Full Review | Grade: B

Planet 51

Nov 30, 2009

Modern animation has benefited from two relatively recent technologies -- cheap computer animation and 3D. While the latter could be considered a gimmick (especially if the glasses give you a hea...

Full Review | Grade: C

Where The Wild Things Are

Oct 18, 2009

The 1963 book is 10 sentences long, and it is a classic. The story is about the island where the child, Max, goes after being sent to bed without supper because he was out of control in the hous...

Full Review | Grade: B

Inglourious Basterds

Aug 24, 2009

Quentin Tarantino may be the only guy I can think of to have created his own genre. When you say it is a Quentin Tarantino movie, people pretty much know what you are talking about. That,...

Full Review | Grade: A

District 9

Aug 16, 2009

In 1966, the apartheid government forcibly relocated 60,000 people from District 6 in Cape Town. Today we see a science fiction analogue of that in the 2009 movie District 9 by Neill Blomkamp....

Full Review | Grade: A

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Jul 09, 2009

"It is easy to shoot an art movie in a winery in the South of France. But people have no idea how hard it is to create something like Transformers. They (the critics) review...

Full Review | Grade: C

The Hangover

Jun 22, 2009

The Hangover fits into a category that is somewhat fuzzy and defined as "guy movies". That is, there are few women, there is a lot of male-bonding, and there are wacky, usually R-rated hijin...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Taking of Pelham 123

Jun 18, 2009

The Taking of Pelham 123 was a 1973 thriller about a group of thugs who take over a subway train and threaten to kill one hostage a minute unless they are paid 1 million dollars. It was remade i...

Full Review | Grade: C

Jun 01, 2009

I was able to tell from the teaser-trailer that Up was about an old man who fastens a bunch of helium balloons to his house and then uses it to take off. I thought "what then?" It...

Full Review | Grade: A

Star Trek

May 11, 2009

Star Trek's promise has always been that it would show us a “for-real Utopian future” where the best voices of mankind have triumphed. Star Trek’s fans, sometimes reaching reli...

Full Review | Grade: A