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  • By Month

    September 2011

    • Colombiana – The Review

    July 2011

    • Jumper Movie Review
    • Despicable Me … Not (Movie Review)

    June 2011

    • The Way Back a.k.a. The Bland Way Back (Movie Review)
    • Tron Legacy: The Sequel Review
    • Country Strong? More like Country Weak! (Review)

    May 2011

    • The Thor movie? Not that good. (Review)
    • The Top Movies by Pixar
    • The Expendables Movie Review
    • Fantastic Four 2 – Rise of the Silver Surfer: The Movie Review

    April 2011

    • Unstoppable (The movie review)
    • The Mechanic Movie Review

    March 2011

    • Season of the Witch
    • Tron: The Review

    February 2011

    • Bullitt a.k.a The Movie with the Car Chase (Review)
    • Upcoming Reviews and an Experiment

    January 2011

    • The Dilemma (Movie Review)
    • Don’t Give a Shit!
    • Shaft (1971)

    December 2010

    • 2010 Ends. It was nice.
    • I Am Legend – The Crappy End Movie

    November 2010

    • The 9 Worst Moviegoers You Can Encounter
    • South Movie Review
    • Paranormal Activity (The Movie Review of the First One)

    October 2010

    • You again Movie Review – Never again…
    • Lebanon Movie Review
    • Twelve Movie Review – Drugs won't help

    September 2010

    • Piranha Movie Review – Oh the Horror!
    • Redline Review (The Anime)
    • Dead Leaves Review
    • Takeshi Koike, Dead Leaves and Redline
    • The Running Man – The Movie Review

    August 2010

    • Inception Movie Review
    • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Review
    • Mary and Max Movie Review
    • Shoot ‘Em Up Review
    • The Role of Kaori in Akira
    • The Concert Movie Review

    July 2010

    • Toy Story 3 Review
    • If it's a Klingon: Always Knock...

    June 2010

    • Aeon Flux Review
    • European Filmmaking Without A Sense of Purpose
    • Speed Movie Review
    • Too crazy to be Fiction
    • My Name is Khan Review
    • The Best Action Scene Ever
    • Splice Movie Review - Stupidity Owns!

    May 2010

    • The Terrible Mess of DC and Marvel - Soon in your Theater of Choice
    • Sound Tracks - Ghost of Things to Come (Requiem for a Dream)
    • Universal Soldier makes my Review go WTF
    • Airplane! The Movie – The Review!
    • Is Hollywood Digging its own Grave?

    April 2010

    • Why the Director's Cut of Aliens Sucks
    • Mirai Nikki / Future Diary Manga Review
    • Thanks to Kick-Ass I think I get it now
    • Kick-Ass Movie Review – Kick-Ass kicks some ass
    • A Post for those who Love Conspiracies
    • Clash of the Titans Review: The Monster of the Minute Movie
    • Night at the Museum Review in One Sentence
    • A Rolling Review of Rollerball (1975)

    March 2010

    • From Paris with Love Review - Kinda
    • Akira Review
    • How to watch a DVD
    • Predators Teaser Poster Reimagined
    • How to cut a Cake the Hilarious Way
    • A Short Oscar 2010 Note
    • Hollywood’s Reboot Madness: The Ultimate Solution

    February 2010

    • An Endureview: Mr. Deeds
    • The Top 10 Worst Movie Cliches
    • A Shameless Self-Promotion Post for my Selfmade Music Video
    • Movies and Realism? Are you kidding me?
    • A Review of Tokyo Godfathers

    January 2010

    • My Review of Avatar
    • Working on a better Blog...Please stand by!

    December 2009

    • The Best of madmind 2009
    • Those Hypes! Those Hypes!!!! Arrrrgghhhh!
    • 4 Links 4 You 4 Christmas
    • Tell me how you sit and I tell you who you are

    November 2009

    • The Top 101 Sequels of All Time
    • Another Case against Unwanted Sequels and Trilogies

    October 2009

    • That makes one theory less. Thanks, Sam Raimi!
    • The Best Dialogue Ever About Storytelling and Imagination
    • How to spot a Bad Movie in One Minute

    September 2009

    • Thank God the 3D Animation Hype cools down
    • Star Trek as an Alternative Movie Poster
    • Marvel gets Disneylized and here are my thoughts

    August 2009

    • Pixar’s Up Review: Why it is not the cream of the crop
    • The bigger the better? The Bullshit Thinking of some Hollywood Studios.
    • Genius Party Beyond – Moondrive
    • Madmind-driven Technology Porn

    July 2009

    • The Disney Renaissance in Four Charts
    • Batman Begins as a Movie Poster
    • Right Statistics accompanied by Wrong Charts
    • Roland Emmerich: It’s a disaster!!!
    • The Count Fetish of Movie Bloggers and Transformers’ Revenge on Quality

    June 2009

    • Disney’s Atlantis Movie Review
    • Indiana Jones 5 is Gearing Up
    • Stupid German Additional Movie Titles
    • Terminator Salvation Movie Review
    • Google Squared: Goldfinger is not a Movie
    • The Spiral of Shit

    May 2009

    • A little bit of Ekova with Starlight in Daden
    • Bazooka Joe and Hollywood for President (Updated)
    • Slumdog Millionaire as a Movie Poster
    • A Review of Star Trek
    • Star Trek and its Opening Weekends
    • Ten Reasons we really watch Movies
    • All Star Trek Movies and Episodes in Two Charts

    April 2009

    • The Box Office Curve of Video Game Adaptations
    • Just a little rant about Monsters vs. Aliens (Review)
    • The Matrix as a Movie Poster
    • Audi Filter Ad: Smoke never looked nicer
    • A much needed Meta-Post regarding Madmind
    • Here's to the Sequel of the Prequel!

    March 2009

    • Fooly Cooly
    • A Moment beyond the Alphabet
    • To Disney
    • From Alien to X-Men: The Ranking
    • From Alien to X-Men: 32 Franchises and Trilogies in 2 Charts

    February 2009

    • Why Sequels are a Wise Investment decision
    • The End of Blockbuster Movies
    • Songsmith Unleashed
    • The Best of the Worst! The Cream of the Crap!

    January 2009

    • 3D cinema is still a hype – now with an argument
    • Ten "Plot Holes" and Errors in Wall-E
    • The most successful Genres of 2008
    • The future of Effects as shown by Benjamin Button
    • Zombie Logic on a whole new Level
    • Ten surefire ways to build a successful Top Ten List

    December 2008

    • The Last Post
    • The Neverending Search for Crap
    • Top 10 Movies of 2008 I did not see
    • Merry Christmas with some Great Movies
    • STAR WARS as a Chart
    • The Cool Movie Way of a Wordpress Update
    • Ode to the Critic
    • Made for those moments

    November 2008

    • 90 seconds you will never forget
    • About Idiots
    • Life really is the best source for writing

    October 2008

    • 3D is hating me Part II
    • 3D is hating me
    • How side-effects become opportunities
    • A scene you will never see in a movie
    • A Nightmare you don't wish for
    • My mind on the run
    • Blu-Ray might kill the movie

    September 2008

    • God dammit, Pixar!
    • There is always someone who doesn’t get it
    • Pixar vs. Me
    • Surprise your audience
    • How BABYLON A.D. could have been saved from downfall
    • 3D cinema is a hype worth nothing

    August 2008

    • The Reinvention of Madmind
    • Is Dreamworks Animation broke? Photoshop says "Yes"
    • Real Life vs. A ROBOT’S DREAM

    July 2008

    • Is focused better?
    • THE DARK KNIGHT nukes everything
    • Batman goes east – A review of GOTHAM KNIGHT
    • Kung Fu Panda swings hard and punches mildly (Review)

    June 2008

    • The Time of Road Runner
    • Is this the end of M. Night Shyamalan?

    May 2008

    • Powerpoint. Your Story Design Tool.
    • Number 100. Yay!
    • Two Trailers. Two Worlds. One Movie.
    • Oh my...PROM NIGHT
    • The wonderful cruelty called movie writing
    • Thoughts about the success of a franchise called JAMES BOND
    • A Robot's Dream and its Genre
    • A Visual FALLING DOWN with Scarlett

    April 2008

    • Epic Symmetrical Guessing
    • About the title "A Robot's Dream"
    • A title for my 3D short and a big change for the site
    • And my 3D animated short movie shall be named
    • There was something...
    • The one with the list
    • What makes a good title?
    • WALL E could become awesome
    • The Problematic Plot Hole called UNTRACEABLE

    March 2008

    • Stupid German Movie Titles Reloaded
    • It is OK to be stupid because I am the protagonist
    • What is up with all those remakes?
    • The last shot of MICHAEL CLAYTON
    • High Art and Low Technology
    • Opening Scene
    • In Search of a Title for my 3D Short

    February 2008

    • AKIRA live action project moving forward
    • What’s up with Warner and their Cover Designers?
    • The new Batman Anime
    • My Top Ten crazy experiences in a Movie Theater
    • About the Difference between “Story” and “Plot”
    • My thoughts about Animation Scriptwriting and more
    • John Alvin and his Poster Art
    • Awards and Animation
    • TALK TO ME and the constant conflict in its story
    • An In-Depth Analysis of 2001. Part 4: On the Space Station

    January 2008

    • Moving on with my 3D short? Yeah! Moving on!
    • It seems to be too good to be true
    • About the ending of THE MIST and why it feels unconnected
    • Stephen King's THE MIST or The Retention of Disbelief
    • About disappearing story points and wrong motivations in THE ISLAND
    • Four days and no posts about nothing
    • The Beauty and the Big Problem of Voice Over Narrations in Movies

    December 2007

    • The Year 2007 of madmind.de in Review
    • Why movies never can be truly realistic
    • An In-Depth Analysis of 2001. Part 3: The Space Waltz Sequence
    • Aaaahhh. Those pop references in movies...
    • One minute of film really equals ten pages of writing
    • 3D movies and the fate of their stories

    November 2007

    • An In-Depth Analysis of 2001. Part 2: The Beginning of “The Dawn of Man”
    • An In-Depth Analysis of 2001. Part 1: The Structure of 2001
    • An In-Depth Analysis of 2001. The Introduction
    • The ultimate Tip for all beginning screenwriters
    • Stupid German Movie Titles
    • Are first person shooter bound to die?
    • IMDB and movie geeks
    • Sioen - No Conspiracy at all
    • What is a MacGuffin?
    • Why leaps of time can cause problems for movies
    • Why I love the Internet
    • Will the Pixar Factor save 3D?
    • The Benefits of 2D Animation
    • Will a live action adaption of "Akira" become real?

    October 2007

    • Why "Spiderman 3" had to become what it is today
    • The Trailer Competition Revisited

    September 2007

    • I reboot my electronic life with some nines in my head

    February 2007

    • The best opening shot of a movie ever
    • The best movie ending shot ever

    November 2006

    • A review of PULSE
    • Call me genius - I created a new word

    October 2006

    • Monster movies' final revelation
    • SEVERANCE

    September 2006

    • Warning. Comedian entering the movie stage!
    • Oh, please dub me, Mr. Diver!

    August 2006

    • Thank you for not spoiling

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The actors, movies and production crews portrayed in this motion picture blog are fictitious. Any similarity to actors or persons or movies or production crews, fictitious or real, is entirely coincidental and unintentional.