Category: Directed by Peter Jackson
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is really long. Director Jackson’s greatest achievement with the film has to be making that length work. He runs out of ideas for action sequences (worst is when he repeats one just a couple set pieces later), he doesn’t give his actors anything to do (he’s more concerned with showcasing…
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I’ll be honest–I didn’t make it very far, considering its length, into King Kong. I sat through a lot. I sat through the opening Great Depression montage, which was shockingly bad. The people who assailed Michael Bay for his glitzy Pearl Harbor gave Jackson a free pass for Kong? It’s obscene. I sat through the…
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Fun–which is appropriate since director Jackson referred to this extended version as “The Director’s Fun Cut”–slapstick horror comedy about a ghost hunter (Michael J. Fox) who finds himself having to deal with actually dangerous ghosts, instead of just the amusing kind. Along the way he romances Trini Alvarado and battles a crazy FBI agent (Jeffrey…
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