That Took Too Much Effort
Thursday, April 12, 2012 No Comments
In the dystopian universe of In Time, upon reaching the age of 25 a clock on your wrist starts ticking down from a year and you must work (or steal) in order to acquire more time. That premise offers a really unique canvas on which to paint vivid characters and situations. However, you quickly learn [...]
Monday, April 9, 2012 No Comments
“I’d rather spend forty years in the desert than watch The Moth Diaries again.” This quote from the devilishly handsome Phil G is spot on. I can’t even count on my fingers how bad this film was (and that’s not because I’m terrible at math (which I am)). Out of ten, I’d say it was [...]
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 4 Comments
A stubborn robot boxer owes money to everyone in a ten-mile radius, and there’s this kid whose mother dies and is left in the care of said immovable man. Well, you could tell where this thoroughly unoriginal underdog tale is heading (triumph against the odds), and where it’s not (rich character development). And I knew [...]
Tags: olga fonda is HOT, real steel, stubborn, ten-mile, unoriginal
Monday, April 2, 2012 No Comments
Much like J. Edgar, I think A Dangerous Method would’ve fared better as a mini-series. A Six (or so) hour character study of Carl Jung who, alongside Freud, fathered psychoanalysis would definitely do the content justice far more expediently than roughly an hour and a half. There’s just so much that can’t be properly dissected [...]
Thursday, March 29, 2012 No Comments
Rio is the story of a stranger in a strange land, a story that’s been told countless times before. But, honestly, who can resist a cast of adorable jungle animals? And with its vibrant animation and some enjoyable moments here and there, it wasn’t necessarily terrible. However, as pretty as it was to look at, [...]
Monday, March 26, 2012 No Comments
The sheer intensity of The Whistleblower is very commendable. It kept my body itching with nerves, causing me to shift uneasily in my own skin. Not that the subject matter (human trafficking with the added bonus of torturing/raping young women) was easy to digest on its own, but the ambiance and pacing of the film [...]
Thursday, March 22, 2012 No Comments
My Week with Marilyn is a film about Marilyn Monroe, following a young Colin Clark, with a heavy focus on Marilyn, but also centered on Colin. That may sound confusing, and it is, because there was no central character in the movie. It wanted to be about her, but also about him, and it ended [...]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 No Comments
On top of being heavily saturated in clichés, I never fully felt (or believed) that White Irish Drinkers was set in the seventies, which is when the story supposedly occurred in. But fine, I could appreciate that it wasn’t meant to be a timepiece as much as a tale of a young man’s struggles. And [...]
Friday, March 16, 2012 No Comments
At two hours in length, Thorne: Scaredycat was a stretched out episode of Law and Order/CSI/any other crime solving based television show. It brought nothing new to the genre, the twist was generic, and there were no substantial character arcs. Furthermore, I’m not sure if it’s how the character was written or if it was [...]
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 No Comments
Some of the humor in Wanderlust landed with gut-clenching precision, especially Paul Rudd’s sex related discussion with a bathroom mirror. At the same time, a good chunk of the comedy felt forced and needlessly prolonged to the point where it seemed like the film was trying too hard to make me laugh. Furthermore, the exposition [...]
Tags: bathroom, gut-clenching, sex, stupid, undemanding, wanderlust
