TheDigitalDad Rants On... Entertainment

Friday, July 29, 2011

Cowboys & Aliens

What a terrific albeit outrageously preposterous hoot of an Action SciFi thrill ride this is! Cowboys & Aliens is a cute, crowd pleasing movie. Think “Aliens” mashed up with ”Independence Day” delivered on the Wild Wild West set of “Open Range”, and Cowboys & Aliens succeeds so well because of the huge screen presence of Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and the oh so beautiful Olivia Wilde all taking the story so seriously. This is more fun than good, but good regardless, as attested by the moderate size audience of 200 or so who expressively enjoyed LOL together at various points in the action. Safe for Mom & Dad, who will probably like it too. Because of some violence and scant attire (I don’t recall any real nudity) I’d say minimum age for my children to watch would be 13.

LiveJournal Tags: Cowboys & Aliens,Daniel Craig,Harrison Ford,Olivia Wilde

Monday, July 25, 2011

Captain America

What a nice surprise how entertaining and fun this movie was when Chris & I dropped in to see it on a lark; a solid 8.5 out of 10 in entertainment factor. It’s probably the second sleeper of the summer– a SciFi action movie romance masquerading as a preposterous, incredibly not believable faux military WWII story about the fictitious superhero. The matinee was surprisingly full, and while it wasn’t continuous laughter, many in the crowd obviously did enjoy this movie, as did Chris & I. Not seeing much room left for a sequel built into it, and the ending was kind of sad the way they just killed off Haly Atwell’s character Peggy out of the blue but, hey! Looking forward to seeing alot more of her radiant beauty in future flicks. Safe for Mom & Dad and my children when 12 and older.

LiveJournal Tags: Captain America,Marvel comics

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Comics as movies?

Not stand up comics, but comic book types.

LiveJournal Tags: comic books,movies

Reality TV $$ ?

Ryan Seacrest - $61,000,000 this year - more than the top 10 Idol winners combined. If you haven’t guessed Idol takes a huge hunk of winners salaries - Read more about top American Idol winners here.

LiveJournal Tags: American Idol,Ryan Seacrest,salary,reality TV