MotionPicturesComics.com http://www.motionpicturescomics.com Daily movie parody web-comic. Fri, 18 May 2012 12:01:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From the DVD Shelf: Platoon (1986) After watching The Deer Hunter (click here for my review), I decided to move on to another famous Vietnam war movie that I’d never seen: Platoon.

Oliver Stone wrote and directed the film, based on his experiences as a…

]]> http://www.motionpicturescomics.com/2012/05/18/from-the-dvd-shelf-platoon-1986/ New Comic: Your mentor survived the games, years ago…

]]> http://www.motionpicturescomics.com/2012/05/17/new-comic-your-mentor-survived-the-games-years-ago/ More fun from the Mighty Marvel Archives! A few weeks ago I wrote about the collected editions I’d ben reading of old, classic Marvel Comics story-lines.  Here are some more of the Mighty Marvel collections I’ve been reading lately!

West Coast Avengers: Sins of the Past —…

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]]> http://www.motionpicturescomics.com/2012/05/15/new-comic-tributes-from-district-7/ Josh Reviews The Five-Year Engagement In the opening scenes of The Five-Year Engagement, Tom (Jason Segel) and Violet (Emily Blunt) get engaged after having been dating for exactly a year.  They seem perfect for one another, and the engagement is quickly followed by a movie-perfect…

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]]> http://www.motionpicturescomics.com/2012/05/14/new-comic-come-on-down/ From the DVD Shelf: The Deer Hunter (1978) A few years ago when I was watching the documentary I Knew it was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (a really incredible short documentary that is well worth checking out — click here for my review), I commented that of…

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]]> http://www.motionpicturescomics.com/2012/05/10/new-comic-i-trained-with-the-best/ Josh Reviews the Newly-Released Complete Soundtrack for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home I’ve been really enjoying the releases, over the past few years, of the complete soundtracks for the original Star Trek films.  (Click here for my review of James Horner’s complete score for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock,…

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