Adventure
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the adventure genre, which has an emphasis on exploration and discovery.
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Holy hell, I just gotta say that Harmy’s Despecialized Edition looks absolutely fantastic. Some of the best video quality I’ve ever seen. Really brought the sets and props to complete life, which are the best things about Star Wars. Other than that though, I might prefer the original by a hair. The Empire Strikes Back… (read more)
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Once Upon a Time in the West
I never expected any western to approach the quality of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but Once Upon a Time in the West both gave me hope and succeeded. The overstretched beginning is fairly flat, but once Charles Bronson and Jason Robards meet it’s as if the whole movie suddenly goes aflame. Sergio… (read more)
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Star Wars
I expected to not care much for this having not grown up with it, but Star Wars deserves its enormous hype. To this day, the only other film I’ve seen with such wholly unique and original set design is Brazil. Every scene contains a plethora of new wonders, yet the script never shies away from… (read more)
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The cinematography is masterful with truly blooming colors, and you’ve got a top-tier performance from Klaus Kinski backed by an unforgettable theme composed by Popol Vuh, but all of my hang-ups with Aguirre, the Wrath of God are narrative focused. The sense of humor in particular does nothing for me, and at worst it suddenly… (read more)
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Mad Max
George Miller must’ve felt like he won the jackpot for making as huge a profit from something like Mad Max. It’s a miracle hit, if you ask me. To be fair, I find the dystopian settings of these late ’70s and early ’80s movies to be very cheap and dry. This is in dire need… (read more)
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Apocalypse Now
As remarkable as everything related to the production of Apocalypse Now is, I find its cynical themes overly nihilistic with an aura that suggests animalistic ruthlessness is the world’s only truth. This “angst,” if I can even dare to use such a trivial word for this admittedly great movie, isn’t profound for me because its… (read more)
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The Hidden Fortress
Certainly not my least favorite Akira Kurosawa movie, but The Hidden Fortress is the first to make me question what the point of it all was. I also wonder what the 139-minute running time went towards, as barely anything of significance happened. Most of the movie consists of the two bandits screwing up and Toshirô… (read more)
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Army of Darkness
AKA: Evil Dead III / Evil Dead 3 The best Evil Dead movie! While a great trilogy throughout, the movies (or rather Sam Raimi) are better at parody than they are at being creepy, so Army of Darkness benefits by becoming an all-out horror-themed slapstick-fest. It’s damn funny in its own right, and is more… (read more)
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
AKA: Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark Raiders of the Lost Ark feels overly traditional and never truly exciting due to the fact every “dangerous” scene has heroic framework with the score and lighting cheering Indiana Jones on. The outcome of any scene is given away by its presentation. Yet, Raiders is non-stop fun.… (read more)
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Yeah, I don’t have to think twice about it: Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of the best animated family movies ever made. First of all, the stop motion is fantastic and total eye candy, much better than garbage CG. Second, the script is surprisingly down-to-earth and finds that awkwardness in real-life that probably isn’t what… (read more)