The Big Movie Review Post
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windemereI think I should start with the real winner of the group.
Black Death maybe the only bad movie Sean Bean has ever made. What gets me is that it's got a pretty decent supporting cast and it's pretty realistic in it's gore. What I can't get on board with is the Christian quest to wipe out a Pagan village that's remote and therefore been spared the plague. What I really can't forgive is that the Pagans are portrayed as human sacrificing barbarians who raise the dead. We don't need these sorts of films, thanks very much. It's bad enough the way things are.
Last night I watched The Help which has to be Bryce Dallas Howard's shinning moment in her film career, because damn did she made that character suitably evil, as only the diehard Christian housewives of the suburban middle century can be. The rest of the cast did a great job and it made for a compelling and non-tear inducing story. I'm quite glad I rented it, all around! I should read the book at some point.
The new Three Musketeers movie should be seen solely on account of Orlando Bloom's various outfits and hairstyles. I'm pretty sure they had a makeup trailer just for them. The wigs I mean. I watched it for Matthew Macfadyen, as you do. Well, and the sword fights. The rest of it's utter crap.
Mirror, Mirror opens this weekend and each new trailer leaves me slightly more horrified than the last one. Which means that I'm pretty horrified by now. It will hoepfully be the only Julia Roberts movie I loath for all time. I hope it tanks.
And, lastly, because you didn't think I chose the icon randomly, did you, is The Hunger Games. Admittedly, I read the book first. I promised myself I wouldn't so that I wouldn't spent the whole movie nit-picking, but then it was on my bookshelf and I was bored...so I did. So I nit-picked. Mostly, the nit-picking stems from, for the first time ever, wishing there was actually more violence in the film. I get they wanted a lower rating to make more money, but I actually missed the horrific violence from the book. Jennifer Lawrence was better than I thought she would be, and probably as well as anyone could have done, considering Katniss' role. I have no idea how you play that at 21/22.
However, Amandla Stenberg (Rue) stole the bloody show in about five seconds flat. Peeta (whoever played him) bugged me from the get-go and Stanley Tucci is still one of my favourite actors. Because no one else could have made that one believable. The rest of the cast I think did quite a good job, but those were the ones worth mentioning. It was worth seeing (it may be worth seeing twice), but it's not going to end up on my top ten list. The trilogy may not end up on my top ten list either, depending on how the others go. I guess I'll read the rest of the books now and hopefully have forgotten them by the time Catching Fire comes out, as I assume it will.
When did they change it to Avengers Assemble? That doesn't have the same ring to it, people.
Black Death maybe the only bad movie Sean Bean has ever made. What gets me is that it's got a pretty decent supporting cast and it's pretty realistic in it's gore. What I can't get on board with is the Christian quest to wipe out a Pagan village that's remote and therefore been spared the plague. What I really can't forgive is that the Pagans are portrayed as human sacrificing barbarians who raise the dead. We don't need these sorts of films, thanks very much. It's bad enough the way things are.
Last night I watched The Help which has to be Bryce Dallas Howard's shinning moment in her film career, because damn did she made that character suitably evil, as only the diehard Christian housewives of the suburban middle century can be. The rest of the cast did a great job and it made for a compelling and non-tear inducing story. I'm quite glad I rented it, all around! I should read the book at some point.
The new Three Musketeers movie should be seen solely on account of Orlando Bloom's various outfits and hairstyles. I'm pretty sure they had a makeup trailer just for them. The wigs I mean. I watched it for Matthew Macfadyen, as you do. Well, and the sword fights. The rest of it's utter crap.
Mirror, Mirror opens this weekend and each new trailer leaves me slightly more horrified than the last one. Which means that I'm pretty horrified by now. It will hoepfully be the only Julia Roberts movie I loath for all time. I hope it tanks.
And, lastly, because you didn't think I chose the icon randomly, did you, is The Hunger Games. Admittedly, I read the book first. I promised myself I wouldn't so that I wouldn't spent the whole movie nit-picking, but then it was on my bookshelf and I was bored...so I did. So I nit-picked. Mostly, the nit-picking stems from, for the first time ever, wishing there was actually more violence in the film. I get they wanted a lower rating to make more money, but I actually missed the horrific violence from the book. Jennifer Lawrence was better than I thought she would be, and probably as well as anyone could have done, considering Katniss' role. I have no idea how you play that at 21/22.
However, Amandla Stenberg (Rue) stole the bloody show in about five seconds flat. Peeta (whoever played him) bugged me from the get-go and Stanley Tucci is still one of my favourite actors. Because no one else could have made that one believable. The rest of the cast I think did quite a good job, but those were the ones worth mentioning. It was worth seeing (it may be worth seeing twice), but it's not going to end up on my top ten list. The trilogy may not end up on my top ten list either, depending on how the others go. I guess I'll read the rest of the books now and hopefully have forgotten them by the time Catching Fire comes out, as I assume it will.
When did they change it to Avengers Assemble? That doesn't have the same ring to it, people.
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Date: 2012-04-02 10:00 pm (UTC)Just thinking about it sets me off again.
You know the English version got cut for its rating, right? The American one has more, so between that and the camera technique, I thought it was nearly violent enough (Katniss and Peeta still don't have the same number of kills, but nothing's perfect).
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Date: 2012-04-03 07:49 am (UTC)However, what I did like was the Capitol's look, because that's not in the books. It would have, in any other situation, been used to make the people behind the show more likeable or at least make the audience understand why they do the things they do. Instead, they used it to show how absolutely mad with power and control they are. It was awesome.