A scene from Earth to Echo. When does a film, obviously inspired by another, segue from being a homage to a blatant rip-off? If a story has a similar plot but some narrative changes, is it considered a variation on a theme or is it really the work of someone with little imagination? I think […]
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Iron Man 3 a clunky debut for Marvel’s second phase
Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 has the unenviable task of following Joss Whedon’s widely entertaining The Avengers as the next Marvel Studios movie out of the chute. Too bad that Iron Man 3 gets the company’s second phase off to a bad start. Illogical, scattered and underdeveloped, the film plays like a rush job, littered […]
