Adventure
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the adventure genre, which has an emphasis on exploration and discovery.
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From Russia with Love
If you take away the camp from James Bond, you have to be careful that there’s anything else to look at other than the rug you just pulled. From Russia with Love removes the charm and exotic Caribbean/science-fiction wonder from Dr. No, and in its place remain simplistic characters and a dull plot lacking any… (read more)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I’ve never read the Hunter S. Thompson novel but I’ve no doubt it establishes its themes better by keeping Raoul Duke as a constant narrator. For all his ramblings about the American Dream in the movie, the fact that any other conception of the American Dream isn’t established means his philosophy is relative to absolutely… (read more)
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Tron: Legacy
The criticism Tron: Legacy has gotten in comparison with the original is baffling and makes me wonder when was the last time many of these people have seen Tron. Yes, this is a very flawed movie but it’s flawed in the exact same ways the original is (narratively) and its strengths to overcome those flaws… (read more)
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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Yeah, there’s a lot of dumb shit in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, but unlike The Force Awakens it still has the soul of Star Wars despite a weaker screenplay, which is more important. It’s not simply an adventure plot in space; it’s a film that still has the magic of the previous two,… (read more)
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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
The first entry in the ‘Zero Escape’ series, ‘999’ delivers horrors and thrills behind a puzzle-oriented, visual novel adventure. (read more)
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Watership Down
Watership Down is a classic adventure story with a youth-friendly aesthetic, but realizes children will eventually have to come of age and stop only watching comedies. Triumphs aren’t given by fortune but instead constant suffering full of threatening risks. The art and animation is pretty but blandly realistic, so it’s the surreal religious visions where… (read more)
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
At first it seemed some more camp would do the film some favors. Indiana Jones is inspired by old adventure radio serials, yet Raiders lacked much of a sense of danger. The problem? The camp is bland, and it never stops. Gone is adventuring, instead we have a series of rollercoaster happenstances as if Indiana… (read more)
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The Dig
‘The Dig’ was conceived with names like Steven Spielberg and Orson Scott Card to be LucasArts’s magnum opus. The final offering was a modest, commercial failure. What happened? (read more)
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Grim Fandango
LucasArts favorite ‘Grim Fandango’ struggles with technical issues and obtuseness, but can the quality writing underneath save it all? (read more)
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Hunter x Hunter
An informal, off-the-cuff review of Hunter x Hunter, a tour-de-force shonen series from Yoshihiro Togashi, the creator of Yu Yu Hakusho. (read more)