So, I just saw Wanted this morning and I have to say, I was enormously entertained. I heard reality wasn't a friend to this movie before seeing it, and that's exactly the frame of mind I needed to be in.
If you like action movies, this movie has PLENTY and there are at least a couple of times when I said "wow, now that's cool."
The plot is pretty thin and where I most noticed it was at the end of the movie where I felt like one more scene needed to be added to explain a pretty major revelation. Revelation explained in spoiler font - MAJOR SPOILER ALERT:
so the loom of fate had all the assassins names come up, so does that mean the Fraternity was supposed to die off? They are doing more harm than good? Did their names come up BECAUSE Sloan was charging them to kill off the loom?
I was gung-ho about watching guns, gunplay, and even the underlying narrative of this movie, but I don't understand how that narrative explains the previously mentioned revelation. And I want to understand that from the movie's worldview.
Perhaps I'm asking too much, but in any event I think the movie is a solid B - if only for the level of entertainment I received! Better than Indiana Jones 4 IMO. Downside: the acting is flat from nearly all parties, but I could watch Morgan Freeman read from the phone book.
We watched Persepolis a couple of nights ago and it is downright gorgeous.
I watched
Monster
and
Michael Clayton
this morning. I think I should make sure my Netflix list doesn't have two such grim movies scheduled so close together. I could barely watch
Monster,
I wanted to fast forward through so much of it, it was just that painful. But Charlize Theron was spellbinding and I didn't want to miss any of her performance. Damn, but I was blubbering like a baby at the end, even though I knew she was a cold-blooded murderer.
Michael Clayton wasn't what I was expecting. I thought it was going to be mostly legal drama. I was pleasantly surprised to find it was more of a suspense thriller and at how much character develpment there was. Between the writing and Clooney's acting, it really made the character much more three dimensional than he could have been in the wrong hands. I enjoyed it a lot, even though it left me feeling sad for Michael Clayton despite the fact he "won."
Pictures of Hero Fiennes-Tiffin who will play the child Voldemort in HBP. (They're from some other movie he is in.)
Dude, the trailers for In Bruges SO did not prepare me for what that movie was about! It's not a quaint amusing buddy conman movie at all! It's tragic and moving! (Still very good, but seriously, trailer people, WTF?)
Also kind of glad I didn't see it when it was in theatres and D was only a few months old. Yeesh.
I'm definitely glad that I read some reviews before I watched it.
Just got back from Wall-E. Best movie I've seen this year, and I tend to see EVERYTHING.
Wired on the best robot love stories (features a familiar face): [link]
So, I saw
WALL-E
yesterday. Not sure what I think. I was somewhat distracted by A (5), who had a hard time following what was going on, and so got a bit frustrated. There were definitely things I loved, but it was very uneven.
