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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Fast Five
Your adrenaline silver screen fix this weekend? This is it! THE Best action movie I’ve seen in a good while. Despite the sexual content, intense sequences of violence, and language, the pervasive action in Fast Five rocks! You don’t need to know anything about previous versions in this series except a reference at the end will be understood as a lead into a 6th installment in this series. Speaking of The Rock, Dwayne Johnson is pumped up for this role and fills the screen with his performance. By far not the best heist flick at all, but I give it a solid 8 out of 10 overall because you’ll like it on so many fronts - funny, bit a romance and did I say action?!
With fast cars, a fast cast and fast women, how could Vin Diesel and the Rock together on opposite sides of the law not succeed? This movie will clean up at the box office this weekend.
LiveJournal Tags: The Rock,action,Vin diesel,Fast Five,Dwayne Johnson,heist flicks,Brazil,Rio de Janerio
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Hanna
Saoirse Ronan shines as Hanna - a young, attractive, energetic, and adventurous survivalist trained by her father to survive, hunt, and kill. The pace of the story moves right along and you're always interested in what happens next to Hanna, but there are some gaping holes in the story that leave questions unanswered, and the movie is halfway evolved before you really figure out what Hanna’s background is all about, although the solid roller coaster feeling of mystery and intrigue kept me entangled in Hanna. Some of the scenic background was impressive. I found the movie ended too starkly for me, feeling sort of left hanging in it as if the creators and producers imply that they thought Hanna would inspire or spawn a series or a trilogy of Hanna movies. While this a good cross between a high tech movie and a fairy tale I don’t think I’d become that entrenched with “Hanna, the series”. Not for my children when 12 or under and I think Mom & Dad would probably like Hanna.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
People responding negatively to animations
It’s going to take a while for Hollywood’s film makers to realize that people like good acting with good scripts with good plots AND that animation can prevent some of that good from happening sometimes.
Cases in point? The total flops of “Mars Needs Mom’s” and “Sucker Punch”, the latter of which failed to fail on animation technique in any regard, but simply failed because it stank. How bad? A first for TheDigitalDad, who saw it and declined to review it. Contrast that to Pixar’s award winning Toy Story 3 using animation with a story behind it that warmed hearts.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
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