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Monday Apr 13, 2009 #
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In the rush of activity leading up to the Flying Pig, I didn't watch a movie for about 3 weeks. It was driving me nuts. You read about hostages who just ache for a cheeseburger, fries, and a coke. For me it was a movie.
I finally got caught up a little:
Taken (0). Sucked. Decent action movie, but the obvious emotional strings-being-pulled and the improbability of the story just ruined it for me. I actually started googling some human trafficking news to see just exactly how far-fetched this is. I suspect there are two basic reviews of this movie. Ones like mine; and ones that read, "OMG this is such an important film. Don't let your kids go to Europe until you make them watch this! Or better yet, just don't let them go! A scary, scary, poignant film about the world we live in."
Bolt (1): About a super dog. Kid's movie. I enjoyed it.
Australia (1): I was expecting an epic like The Godfather, or Gone With the Wind, or... I don't know. But it's not that kind of movie. At the beginning, it uses a lot of odd narrative, almost like a play on stage. The camera shots even look like a stage show, or even an old musical. There is this long expositional piece in Darwin that feels like a spoken-word musical medley, but with no previous introduction to the characters or what they're saying. (Kind of freaked me out.) This movie has suitcase-busting bar fights with lady's undergarments flying and all these clichéd scenes you've seen in musicals and westerns, and especially in musical westerns---So it starts off not looking like it's going to be good. It's hard to tell if they decided to spend the money for the last 2/3 of the movie, or if the early stuff was intentionally just like that. But then it settles down and turns into a range-war civil-rights cattle-drive World-War-II movie---which sounds lamer than it is. There are a lot of scenes that look like location filming with sweeping vistas. But there is also this surreal sound stage feeling with fake CGI smoke and odd zoom effects, and I actually have come to appreciate that in movies. One thing I especially liked was the movie's use of "The Wizard of Oz" as a movie in theaters at the time. It's not the epic I expected from the title "Australia", but it is a cool movie.
I finally got caught up a little:
Taken (0). Sucked. Decent action movie, but the obvious emotional strings-being-pulled and the improbability of the story just ruined it for me. I actually started googling some human trafficking news to see just exactly how far-fetched this is. I suspect there are two basic reviews of this movie. Ones like mine; and ones that read, "OMG this is such an important film. Don't let your kids go to Europe until you make them watch this! Or better yet, just don't let them go! A scary, scary, poignant film about the world we live in."
Bolt (1): About a super dog. Kid's movie. I enjoyed it.
Australia (1): I was expecting an epic like The Godfather, or Gone With the Wind, or... I don't know. But it's not that kind of movie. At the beginning, it uses a lot of odd narrative, almost like a play on stage. The camera shots even look like a stage show, or even an old musical. There is this long expositional piece in Darwin that feels like a spoken-word musical medley, but with no previous introduction to the characters or what they're saying. (Kind of freaked me out.) This movie has suitcase-busting bar fights with lady's undergarments flying and all these clichéd scenes you've seen in musicals and westerns, and especially in musical westerns---So it starts off not looking like it's going to be good. It's hard to tell if they decided to spend the money for the last 2/3 of the movie, or if the early stuff was intentionally just like that. But then it settles down and turns into a range-war civil-rights cattle-drive World-War-II movie---which sounds lamer than it is. There are a lot of scenes that look like location filming with sweeping vistas. But there is also this surreal sound stage feeling with fake CGI smoke and odd zoom effects, and I actually have come to appreciate that in movies. One thing I especially liked was the movie's use of "The Wizard of Oz" as a movie in theaters at the time. It's not the epic I expected from the title "Australia", but it is a cool movie.