Golden Compass

December 12th, 2007 at 8:04 am (Cinema)

Dev, the little woman, and I haven’t had the chance to go out for movie night in a while so last night was an extra treat for me. I was looking forward to seeing The Golden Compass as it was ever since what’s-his-putz started whining about it, and having started the third book of the His Dark Materials trilogy yesterday I was really set to go see it.

Since I’m not much of a critic I can’t give a whole lot of insight beyond the fact that I really enjoyed the movie and hope it does well. Visually I couldn’t have been more pleased, the acting was solid, and they followed the story pretty well. Yeah, they re-arranged stuff a bit, but you have to do that when you don’t want a three hour long movie. So, yeah, movie great, but as per usual I think the book is better. But that’s OK…the book is always better.

So pick up the freaking book, too. :)

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Smokin’ Aces

June 13th, 2007 at 8:46 am (Cinema)

I caught Smokin’ Aces last night and I have to say the one thing I was most impressed with was a better depiction of a 50 cal. sniper rifle than you usually see. Granted, it wasn’t quite the level of gore, but still it was nice.

Talking about gore, I noticed a shockingly small amount of it for a movie that was so violent. I mean it was there to some extent…especially lots of blood splashed on the walls, but all said it was pretty tame.

Another fine feature was the overall lack of jigglycam work. Yeah, it has its place, but far too many movies put you in the position of not having the slightest clue as to what is happening because the camera is moving too fast, and honestly that really ruins stuff for me. It ends up being far more of a letdown than a buildup of excitement.

Overall I liked it. I might have to add it to the collection if only for the cyberpunk assassins. They were fucking funny.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

May 31st, 2007 at 10:17 am (Cinema)

I’ve really grown to hate most movie reviews as I’ve noted below. I guess I really miss the days when you’d get to hear about the good things in a movie in addition to the things the critic may have had issues with.

Given that I’ll be brief about my impressions about the third Pirates movie: if you liked the first two you’ll like the third. They carry on with the supernatural elements of the story nicely, and all said things mesh together pretty well. Long before the big events of the end of the story you have a pretty good idea what is going to happen, but getting to see how things pan out is quite enjoyable.

No, like the other movies in the series it isn’t a deeply cognitive cinematic event designed to bring you to a higher level of consciousness. But it is fun, exciting, and a bunch of laughs. But then who the fuck always wants to watch heavy stuff? I enjoy all sorts of movies for what they are, and given that Pirates 3 definitely fills its role wonderfully.

For such a fast movie coming up with my favorite moments may be a bit difficult, but here are a few:

  •  ”Then to battle we shall go!” Sumbhajee was fucking hilarious.
  • Giant Tia Dalma. Pity the movie was done by Disney. You know what I’m talking about.
  • “Do you think he plans it all out or makes it up as he goes along.”
  • The spyglass penis jokes.
  • “You’re mad!” “Well thank god for that, ’cause if I wasn’t this would probably have never worked.”

All said I’d say it is worth seeing in the theater. And coming from me that means a lot since I get out to the theaters only once or twice a year most of the time. :)

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