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And then, rapeing your childhood memories again…
After seeing so much “revival” in the silver screen (hey! Transformers is just around the corner), I thought “You know, somewhere we’ll see a live action ‘Thundercats’”. Well, I guess someone took that seriously.
Wild Hogs
Sunday afternoon movie? They still do it?
A group of suburban biker wannabes looking for adventure hit the open road, but get more than they bargained for when they encounter a New Mexico gang called the Del Fuegos.
You know, I really thought those “ok funny” comedies died a long time ago. And by “ok funny” I mean those comedies with some near impossible plot, not so funny, which do the minimum to be called “comedy”. Not that they are bad, anyway.
I must say that the main casting was half well chosen. Tim Allen can make something look funny even when he looks serious; Martim Lawrence also is not bad. Now William Macy still doing the same old “geek” persona is getting so tired is not even funny anymore. And, on the top of the worst, we have John Travolta. His acting seems to be going down the drain for a long time already but, on this movie, it goes deep down. You can believe Tim Allen character doing the things he does in real life, same for Lawrence and, in a certain point, to Macy. But Travolta is the thing that you can’t even believe it is a person. Even his persona is impossible to exist in the movie.
The story is a little bit dull but, as I pointed before, it is a “ok funny” comedy. And, for a comedy, it is pretty good: middle age men decide to run around the country trying to “find themselves again”. And that’s all. You can come with a lot of troubles those guys manage to get when running around in their bikes.
As any “sunday afternoon comedy”, it is a good comedy for a lazy sunday afternoon…
Transformers on TILEFILE
Photos of Transformers actually fighting!
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After seeing that, I’m starting to believe in the digg collective:
if there was one movie Michael Bay was put on this earth to make it was a movie about giant robots coming to our planet and blowing shit up.
The Fountain
15 minutes story wrapped around 1:45 of footage.
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
I usually like the plot written on IMDB, ’cause it is short and really accurate. Except for this one.
The story goes around a couple: the husband is a scientist, looking for a cure for brain tumor and the wife is a writter suffering from a brain tumor (probably incurable). In the end, the whole story is just this. But telling such story would be really short, so it is surrounded by the story the wife is writting. So, in a way, the story is pretty weak and boring. The special effects, on the other hand, are quite amazing.
It is quite weird when you think about it: it is a pretty boring story, but is mixed with so many touching moments you can’t even realise how boring the movie is.
Spiderman 3 pictures
Reading digg, I just found this site with pictures of the upcoming Spiderman 3.
Now, since there is some pictures and there is a trailer going around the internet, Once I said that Thomas Haden Church wasn’t looking as bad as Brock/Venon should look. Well, I take that out: every time I see a picture or trailer of the next Spiderman movie, I think he would be the perfect Brock. He is tall and looks mean, which is exactly what Brock is (apart from the psychological problems and a giant ego).
And, if you look really close, there are very few shots of Topher Grace playing his Brock part on pictures or the trailers. Try to guess why.
Rocky Balboa
Not just about fights anymore.
Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement to step into the ring for the last time and face the heavyweight champ Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon.
When you think about the “Rocky” movies, what comes to your mind? Probably the fight scenes. And I think that’s the good point about the latest movie: it isn’t about fight and fight takes just a few minutes in the end. Character building is really done now and it touches some subjects that may fit some. To me, they all fit.
First, you have the “leave the past behind” problem. Rocky is somewhat living the past, thinking about things that should have been buried long ago.
Second, you have the “being what you are” problem. All the time, Rocky is pressed to be something he is not. He has to stop doing what he felt inside because what other people would think and what the general society would expect from him. In the movie, he is old and no one expects him to fight anymore, but that’s something he has to do.
Third, you have the “shadow of our fathers” problem. Not really a Rocky problem now, but his son, that has to live under his father name shadow.
Finally, the Rocky movies came to an age and that’s probably the best movie of the series.
Ghostrider
Best. Cheesy. Movie. EVA!
Based on the Marvel character, stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze gives up his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power hungry Blackheart, the son of the devil himself.
Another comic hero movie but, this time, not one from the big league, like X-Men or Spiderman or Batman or Superman or Hulk. One of the underdogs, like Hellboy.
The story is quite simple, as you can see but the IMDB plot (which is pretty acurate). But the thing is, it is a fun movie to watch. Ok, it has its bad scenes — like a bike riding in the water, in a place that looks more like a studio than the desert outskirts — but, in all, it has more good scenes than bad.
I never thought Nicolas Cage would do a comic hero — he doesn’t look like one, he is the actor that plays characters with complex minds and with complex problems. This time he is just the guy that sold his soul to the devil — which, by the way, isn’t as scary as it could be. Maybe Peter Fonda was just too old to play the devil. Also, due the acting of Matt Long, the beginning of the movie is pretty sucky (and Matt doesn’t look anything like Cage so it seems he was a pretty bad choice to play the young Blaze).
One thing that annoyed me is how easily the Ghostrider takes every enemy. It is like he is so powerful he could ended the battle in just one night (but he doesn’t).
If you have that hot for motorbikes or want to see a movie which doesn’t require a brain and you want some fun, that’s a good movie (heck, I would watch it again!)
The Good Shepherd
What do you get when you put together an incredible cast and a poor history?
The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man’s life.
The movie tries to follow the events between the years of 1940-something and the creation of the CIA in 1964. To do that, the director decided to mix later events with past events, like showing the normal day of the main character, Edward Wilson, doing some normal stuff, like going to work and then, suddenly, you get a flashback completely unrelated to what is going on. In a way, what the director may tried is do some cutting like “Pulp Fiction” but, in the end, created a story that is really terrible to follow.
Acting is impressive. Almost all main actors play themselves in different stages of live, with different ages. And the changes are not so apparent, like white hair: they change their clothes and their behaviour and you see them looking older. The really impressive one in the list is Angelina Joile: she really manages to look like a young girl in the beginning of the movie and like a 40-something mum in the end, but that’s all she could do — it is not as impressive acting as Matt Damon or Robert De Niro or anyone else. She is no convincing (and everybody else is).
So, in one hand you have some pretty solid acting and, in the other, a poor story with a bad direction. I would recommend this movie only if you like American history, really love Matt Damon or is an American in your 60-something.
Deja Vu
Since “Twelve Monkeys“, there is no need to make another “time travel” movie, as it was brilliantly done. But people will try, anyway.
An ATF agent travels back in time to save a woman from being murdered, falling in love with her during the process.
Let me put this again: since Twelve Monkeys, which explained beautifully how time travel works, there is no need to another time travel movie (maybe saving “The Butterfly Effect“), but people still try. And I don’t see way.
The movie starts with a good idea: some sort of technology that can see the past. That’s the good thing. The story, then, goes around some governmental people tracking some explosion that killed thousands of people, including marines and navy people. That would be a good thriller if they kept things that way.
Unfortunately, the writers thought a simple thriller wasn’t good enough, so they decided to add some romance. And did that in a stupid way: suddenly, out of nowhere, the main character decide to go after some chick. And nobody question if he is not going too far, if he is really doing his job, that kind of thing that would normally happen in a government.
There is a problem, though: the chick is dead, and they are seeing her in the past. What to do now? Let’s send the main character to the past too! And, from there, the movie go downhill. Maybe if writers read something about time travel (the theories) and saw “The Butterfly Effect”, they would know that things change when you change the past. But no, things go all the same way, as if they guy was already there. Oh, and he saves the girl! How would he go back to the past and save the girl if the girl isn’t dead now?
Maybe it is me, but it seems that Denzel Washington is playing the same character over and over again: government/army guy, though, with a good heart, yada yada yada. I mean, this is what he did in “Man on Fire”, “Courage Under Fire” and “The Bone Collector”. Really tiresome. And, for some reason, all the actors follow his lead: all tired, no great acting…
Fun for the first time, even funnier to forget it two hours late.
