Step Inside My Mind …

By Mike Montgomery I’m just going to come out and say it right off the bat.   Borderlands  doesn’t deserve the hate.  It’s not that bad, it’s honestly not.  I’m not saying it’s  good  but it’s not the steaming pile of garbage many seem to be insisting it is.  Now before you decide I’ve completely lost my mind and stop reading, I’d like to point out a few things to qualify my previous statement. First, I have no connection to the  Borderlands  franchise at all.  I’m not a gamer, and I’ve never consumed any  Borderlands  media outside of the film.  Second, bad films are my cinematic catnip.  Any time the buzz around a movie is “oh this is going to be awful,” “it’s not tracking very well,” “everyone expects this to bomb” etc etc, you’re basically telling me to go see the movie.  So essentially, if you’re one of those people who will go on and on in comment sections about how much the movie sucks and you can’t believ...

By Mike Montgomery For those not aware, I’m part of the recorded-when-we-can podcast “Reel Geeks.”  While we predominantly focus on older films on the show, I thought it might be interesting to use this blog to expand the brand a bit and write up print reviews for newer content when I have the chance to get to a theater.  I also thought it might be interesting to focus more on my thoughts and experiences as a member of the audience instead of the standard dissection of things like “Plot” and “cinematography” and other words usually pulled out by second rate internet trolls who’ve had about as much time in an actual film class as Neil Breen but really  want to feel important so they use the big boy words so they can sound important. And yes, I’m fully aware that if you’re learning of this column from our audio content then there’s no way in hell this will qualify as “new” by the time you’re reading it.  Look, I’m making do with what I have, ok? I shall do my best to a...