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Screen Shrapnel vs The Film World

Screen Shrapnel // 1100-1200 11.09.10

screen shrapnel vs the film world

The 35th anniversary of the first ever ‘Event Movie’, Jaws, hasn’t exactly been a classic in terms of high octane fun, but there were a few golden nuggets to be found on the bitter coalface that was summer movies 2010.

But what were these gems? The Screen Shrapnel trio reunite (well, kind of) to run through ten of the silly season's biggest hits and sort the Speeds from the Speed 2: Cruise Controls. Expect to hear some gratuitous gushing from Jamie for one film in particular, some existential angst from an out-of-sorts Graham and the usual positive contribution from a strangely taciturn Nick.

These are the piercing sound fragments of Screen Shrapnel. Prepare to be underwhelmed.

Posted at 12:58, 11th September 2010

playlist

I'm Not Your Toy
La Roux Polydor
Toy Story 3 toys with a Screen Shrapnel member's emotions
Chris Nolan dreams of Norman Fosteresque architecture and the alpine level from the Golden Eye Playstation II shoot-em-up, in Inception
The Girl With The Awful Dialogue: The turgid Millennium Trilogy trudges on with The Girl Who Played with Fire
Is Piranha 3D the greatest film ever made? No, of course not. Is it the greatest 3D movie? Sorry Mr. Cameron, not only is it better than your Piranha sequel (Piranha Two: The Spawning), but it kicks the ass out of your hubristic Avatar
Scott Pilgrim vs The World... It didn’t exactly win the battle at the box-office, but we think it will win the war
You wait years for an Adrian Brody B-movie then two come along at once. Screen Shrapnel celebrate the equine faced actor's rises (or fall, depending on how you look at it) from earnest Oscar winner to buff action hero
Sly Stallone, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Jason Strathem... this should be the action film of the summer... it really isn’t
The Cold War is still hot in hollywood evidently. But if Salt had been made three decades ago it would still be about twenty years out of date
One Day
The Juan MacLean DFA

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