Cuz that movie was BORING.
Okay that's just pure unfiltered crazytalk. Hanna was great!
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Cuz that movie was BORING.
Okay that's just pure unfiltered crazytalk. Hanna was great!
It was perhaps a bit slow, but I thought it was very good, something different, although it could have been better.
Oh my goodness, it was like an escape scene straight out of Run Lola Run followed by 50 minutes of wandering around southern Europe. And then a mustache-twirling gay villian shows up, there's good scene at the containers, and then too much that happens at that INSANELY CREEPY clown house. MAMA DID NOT LIKE.
followed by 50 minutes of wandering around southern Europe.
She doesn't understand electricity! Or friendship!
I prefer my characters who don't understand how the world works to come in Misha Collins-shaped packages.
Knocked off work early to take in my 4th viewing of The Avengers. Still fun.
Also, Red 2?!
Seriously?!? RIGHT ON!
YAY!
I thought Hanna was great. The bad-ass parts were fun and the slow, making-a-friend parts were strangely believable and did a great job of capturing awkward adolescence. For me, it proved that the praise given to Saoirse Ronan after Atonement wasn't a one-time fluke thing based on the movie itself, and she is completely the real deal.
I haven't seen Hanna, but i suspect that role is why she was cast in The Host.
Okay, don't compare it to Run Lola Run. I did not like that.
However, I think maybe liking Cate Blanchett being OTT is what tips it over? I loved Hanna, and everything she did except for the electricity shit and working out the internet in 30 seconds. I liked her father, I liked the girl she met on her travels and her parents (not so much the brother), I enjoyed Cate, and for a little while I liked the requisite deviant pervy thug.
There's most of the movie right there. Unlike Haywire, the bits inbetween the fight scenes weren't soporific. Not to me.