Umm yes please, well looks like I'm doing this one too. Check out the trailer and the reviews for this one and the one before will be coming some time tonight or tomorrow. Ciao for now.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Umm yes please, well looks like I'm doing this one too. Check out the trailer and the reviews for this one and the one before will be coming some time tonight or tomorrow. Ciao for now.
Sin City: Maybe the Dame Killed Herself Already?
Wow we're on our third post...who would have thought huh? I mean the
fact that I have no life at the moment probably has a big factor to it
but hey whatever! Welcome back for the third trailer this week in the
last two days. That has to be a record...but not really so here we go!
Alright ladies and gents we are delving into the new Sin City today. Oh boy! More blood, more guts, and a lot of vendettas!! I love it! Too bad I'm not in love with the trailer. Seriously either the trailer isn't doing the movie justice or there is not justice to be made, and dear Lord have grand mercy do I hope it's the first one.
I remember the first Sin City like it was yesterday, oh wait it was more like nine years ago. I was nine. I didn't even see the film until I was about 13, but I digress. I love the first Sin City, always will. I love Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, and Benicio Del Toro in the movie. They all have their own unique awesomeness about them, even if they all do the classic voice-over about what's going on and what's happening next. They all had their own style.
Now in the new Sin City it looks like Mickey Rourke's character Marv might be fighting over a braud...again. But it looks like he might not be the only one. It seems that Ray Liotta's character is also fighting for a woman, now are Marv and Liotta's character fighting over the same woman? I would guess yes over the title of the movie, but lets not jump to conclusions. Jessica Alba's character, Nancy from the first movie, is still dancing and romancing. But now she's pulling double duty as a possible assassin. You may recognize the man she is attempting to shoot as Senator Roarke played by Powers Boothe. He was the father of the kid Bruce Willis' character killed and shot the juevos off of...literally in the first movie. You know the yellow dude who killed all those girls, and could do his "duty" if the girls didn't scream. Yeah him, well Nancy is trying to kill his dad. Probably because he's the reason Bruce Willis' character John was tortured, sent to prison, and then in a remote way killed.
Now as stated before we have some new characters. We have Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character whom IMDB calls Johnny. He looks like a little scrawny punk, but of course that'll be the twist to the movie. He's really actually tough by the end of the movie, Sin City toughened him up...go stinkin figure.Then we have Ray Liotta, Josh Brolin, and Christopher Meloni. We also have the dame I think everyone is killing for Ava Lord played by Eve Green. Josh Brolin's character looks like Marv to me, just a little scaled down as does Ray Liotta's character. Now Christopher Meloni's character looks like a pencil pusher, pushed way too far. Well that's how he looks and says his line in the trailer. He looks a little peeved, so maybe we have a new crazed killer in Sin City?
Now there are a group of people I'm happy to see are going to be in the movie. The prostitutes!!! Rosario Dawson who plays Gail and Jamie Chung who play Miho have returned. Thank goodness! You may also see that Goldie or her sister Wendy are still in play, and joining them it looks like Ms. Alexa Vega. Will she be a prostitute or what? I'm counting on it. Lastly we have the character that was sorrowfully left behind by Mr. Michael Clarke Duncan, Manute. Looks like the character will be picked up by Mr. Samuel L. Jackson. I mean why not? It's not a bad choice at all.
Alright lets really get into this trailer shall we. Well first off, I'm not impressed with Mr. Gordon-Levitt in the trailer. His little macho man line at the end of the trailer isn't impressive. All in all he seems like a punk to me. He doesn't breathe hard boiled Sin City material to me but lets hope he proves me wrong in the movie. Maybe his growth is what brings him along through the story like I said earlier. How original right?
Next the fact that Rourke, Brolin, and Liotta all look like two bit macho man thugs is annoying. All three of them look like bruisers can't we have just a smidge of versatility? I like when characters have a few similarities but when they're the same character it's annoying. They better be made distinct in the movie, or it might get boring. Clive Owen kind of looked like Marv but he had his own personality and dear Lord may I say it "swag" to him. Of course he was nowhere near Marv's size, but he could kick but like him.
Alright I have to address Mr. Gordon-Levitt's scream, and Mr. Meloni's yelling. Both look and sound so fake it's annoying. I mean really fake...like acting. If you're an actor I shouldn't know when you actually are acting. I can just see it. The fakeness. No to the fakeness please, yes to good acting. Maybe that was just the way the trailer rendered it, maybe in the movie it fits.
It's completely possible that they just chose really bad clips for the trailer, and the action from the first movie seems to be nowhere in the second one. I'm not impressed and I'm sad about it. I love Sin City, and I was ecstatic to hear that the second one was coming out. I'm hoping everything I hate in the trailer is better in the actual movie, please don't be false hope. False hope is a waste of time, and I waste my time on plenty of other things already. I miss Clive Owen...really I do...and Benicio Del Toro...even though he was a douche...ahh man....this sucks...it better be good after all this time. I'm not playing any games here.
Well folks I think I'm done with this one. Hopefully I'm wrong...please dear Father in Heaven let me be wrong! Until next time compadres!
Alright ladies and gents we are delving into the new Sin City today. Oh boy! More blood, more guts, and a lot of vendettas!! I love it! Too bad I'm not in love with the trailer. Seriously either the trailer isn't doing the movie justice or there is not justice to be made, and dear Lord have grand mercy do I hope it's the first one.
I remember the first Sin City like it was yesterday, oh wait it was more like nine years ago. I was nine. I didn't even see the film until I was about 13, but I digress. I love the first Sin City, always will. I love Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, and Benicio Del Toro in the movie. They all have their own unique awesomeness about them, even if they all do the classic voice-over about what's going on and what's happening next. They all had their own style.
Now in the new Sin City it looks like Mickey Rourke's character Marv might be fighting over a braud...again. But it looks like he might not be the only one. It seems that Ray Liotta's character is also fighting for a woman, now are Marv and Liotta's character fighting over the same woman? I would guess yes over the title of the movie, but lets not jump to conclusions. Jessica Alba's character, Nancy from the first movie, is still dancing and romancing. But now she's pulling double duty as a possible assassin. You may recognize the man she is attempting to shoot as Senator Roarke played by Powers Boothe. He was the father of the kid Bruce Willis' character killed and shot the juevos off of...literally in the first movie. You know the yellow dude who killed all those girls, and could do his "duty" if the girls didn't scream. Yeah him, well Nancy is trying to kill his dad. Probably because he's the reason Bruce Willis' character John was tortured, sent to prison, and then in a remote way killed.
Now as stated before we have some new characters. We have Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character whom IMDB calls Johnny. He looks like a little scrawny punk, but of course that'll be the twist to the movie. He's really actually tough by the end of the movie, Sin City toughened him up...go stinkin figure.Then we have Ray Liotta, Josh Brolin, and Christopher Meloni. We also have the dame I think everyone is killing for Ava Lord played by Eve Green. Josh Brolin's character looks like Marv to me, just a little scaled down as does Ray Liotta's character. Now Christopher Meloni's character looks like a pencil pusher, pushed way too far. Well that's how he looks and says his line in the trailer. He looks a little peeved, so maybe we have a new crazed killer in Sin City?
Now there are a group of people I'm happy to see are going to be in the movie. The prostitutes!!! Rosario Dawson who plays Gail and Jamie Chung who play Miho have returned. Thank goodness! You may also see that Goldie or her sister Wendy are still in play, and joining them it looks like Ms. Alexa Vega. Will she be a prostitute or what? I'm counting on it. Lastly we have the character that was sorrowfully left behind by Mr. Michael Clarke Duncan, Manute. Looks like the character will be picked up by Mr. Samuel L. Jackson. I mean why not? It's not a bad choice at all.
Alright lets really get into this trailer shall we. Well first off, I'm not impressed with Mr. Gordon-Levitt in the trailer. His little macho man line at the end of the trailer isn't impressive. All in all he seems like a punk to me. He doesn't breathe hard boiled Sin City material to me but lets hope he proves me wrong in the movie. Maybe his growth is what brings him along through the story like I said earlier. How original right?
Next the fact that Rourke, Brolin, and Liotta all look like two bit macho man thugs is annoying. All three of them look like bruisers can't we have just a smidge of versatility? I like when characters have a few similarities but when they're the same character it's annoying. They better be made distinct in the movie, or it might get boring. Clive Owen kind of looked like Marv but he had his own personality and dear Lord may I say it "swag" to him. Of course he was nowhere near Marv's size, but he could kick but like him.
Alright I have to address Mr. Gordon-Levitt's scream, and Mr. Meloni's yelling. Both look and sound so fake it's annoying. I mean really fake...like acting. If you're an actor I shouldn't know when you actually are acting. I can just see it. The fakeness. No to the fakeness please, yes to good acting. Maybe that was just the way the trailer rendered it, maybe in the movie it fits.
It's completely possible that they just chose really bad clips for the trailer, and the action from the first movie seems to be nowhere in the second one. I'm not impressed and I'm sad about it. I love Sin City, and I was ecstatic to hear that the second one was coming out. I'm hoping everything I hate in the trailer is better in the actual movie, please don't be false hope. False hope is a waste of time, and I waste my time on plenty of other things already. I miss Clive Owen...really I do...and Benicio Del Toro...even though he was a douche...ahh man....this sucks...it better be good after all this time. I'm not playing any games here.
Well folks I think I'm done with this one. Hopefully I'm wrong...please dear Father in Heaven let me be wrong! Until next time compadres!
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Annie You Already Got Your Gun...and Shot Yourself In the Foot with It
Well ladies and gentleman here we are again. Two trailers in one day!
I am on a roll, now mind you it's the summer time and I really have
nothing better to- I mean I do this for fun... I took time out of my
busy schedule. I can't even type busy and schedule in the same sentence
with a straight face. Anyways lets delve in shall we?
Well ladies and gentleman it's finally here...Annie. Oh boy. Now most of us probably had high hopes for this movie, mostly because we've seen the 1982 version with Carol Burnett and Albert Finney. Some people loved that version and some people were Communists and hated it. Just saying. Now this post may seem to be more of a critique and an opinion, but I'm just stating what I see. What I see so far, is not up to par in my opinion.
Well clearly they have updated the story of Annie for our more modern times. Our little Annie is played by the young beauty Quvenzhané Wallis. Now you might remember her from Beasts of The Southern Wild which was a beautiful movie in its own right. Our Daddy Warbucks who is not actually Daddy Warbucks is played by Jamie Foxx. That's right his name is not Daddy Warbucks, it's Benjamin Stacks who is in the running to be mayor. How delightful. Now the lovely Miss Hannigan is played by Cameron Diaz...there are no words. Actually there are a few and I will delve more into those later.
The story seems to go as follows, as presented by the trailer, Benjamin Stacks (Foxx) is in the running to become mayor of whatever city it is this story is inhabiting. In order to gain votes for his campaign and I would guess soften his image he begins to "hang out" with our young Annie. Mr. Stacks has an assistant as is called for in an Annie movie played by Rose Byrne. Byrne's character who is named Grace begins to notice that Stacks is beginning to care for and love little Annie. Awww what a surprise. Annie is just excited she may now have home and someone who loves her, after of course convincing Stacks that it would be better for his image if she actually lived with him. Miss Hannigan of course is trying to sway Stacks in her favor, which clearly does not work. Just when things are getting lovey dovey it seems that Annie's parents have been found. Oh no. What happens after...who knows? I'd say about almost everyone but whatever.
Now to delve into what we see in this trailer. For one Cameron Diaz is an awful Miss Hannigan. Just...no. Her delivery of her lines, and effort to be funny just are hit or miss. And there seem to be a lot of misses in this trailer. I understand the trying to make this movie fun and cute, but Lord have high mercy Cameron Diaz's bad acting is not funny nor cute. It's simply annoying. Also her trying to command the kids around...just is not convincing. She's not scary. Carol Burnett she was scary when she commanded the kids around, Cameron Diaz seems like a way older sister who's trying to get her annoying siblings out of the way so she canoodle with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend that does not exist.
The second problem I have is, they auto-tuned Quvenzhané Wallis. The whole allure of Annie to me is the natural voice of a child, and there ability to sing the classic songs of Annie with their natural talent. Ms. Wallis is a young wonderful actress but if she cannot sing, why was she cast for this part? It's the age old story of casting someone in a part because they are now "hot" or new to the scene and people like them. The fact that they auto-tuned 'Tomorrow' is very disappointing. The other problem is that the auto-tuning is extremely blatant. They didn't try to hid it or anything, it's just right in your face.
This movie will probably be great to go see with the kids, but as far as seeing it because you want to see how it holds up to the other Annie. Do not do it. You'll be disappointed. Heck, I'm already disappointed with the trailer. The acting seems a little dull...to be nice. The movie itself just seems so fake. Movies are known for making one feel like they're in another world or watching another piece of reality. This movie just seems like...a movie. There's no realness to it. I would have hoped they did better, but I guess I was wrong. Who knows, I could be wrong now. Maybe the movie will be great, but this trailer isn't giving me high hopes.
Well that does it for this post. Join us next time, which will probably be soon because I have no life during the summer. Alright y'all catch ya later!
Well ladies and gentleman it's finally here...Annie. Oh boy. Now most of us probably had high hopes for this movie, mostly because we've seen the 1982 version with Carol Burnett and Albert Finney. Some people loved that version and some people were Communists and hated it. Just saying. Now this post may seem to be more of a critique and an opinion, but I'm just stating what I see. What I see so far, is not up to par in my opinion.
Well clearly they have updated the story of Annie for our more modern times. Our little Annie is played by the young beauty Quvenzhané Wallis. Now you might remember her from Beasts of The Southern Wild which was a beautiful movie in its own right. Our Daddy Warbucks who is not actually Daddy Warbucks is played by Jamie Foxx. That's right his name is not Daddy Warbucks, it's Benjamin Stacks who is in the running to be mayor. How delightful. Now the lovely Miss Hannigan is played by Cameron Diaz...there are no words. Actually there are a few and I will delve more into those later.
The story seems to go as follows, as presented by the trailer, Benjamin Stacks (Foxx) is in the running to become mayor of whatever city it is this story is inhabiting. In order to gain votes for his campaign and I would guess soften his image he begins to "hang out" with our young Annie. Mr. Stacks has an assistant as is called for in an Annie movie played by Rose Byrne. Byrne's character who is named Grace begins to notice that Stacks is beginning to care for and love little Annie. Awww what a surprise. Annie is just excited she may now have home and someone who loves her, after of course convincing Stacks that it would be better for his image if she actually lived with him. Miss Hannigan of course is trying to sway Stacks in her favor, which clearly does not work. Just when things are getting lovey dovey it seems that Annie's parents have been found. Oh no. What happens after...who knows? I'd say about almost everyone but whatever.
Now to delve into what we see in this trailer. For one Cameron Diaz is an awful Miss Hannigan. Just...no. Her delivery of her lines, and effort to be funny just are hit or miss. And there seem to be a lot of misses in this trailer. I understand the trying to make this movie fun and cute, but Lord have high mercy Cameron Diaz's bad acting is not funny nor cute. It's simply annoying. Also her trying to command the kids around...just is not convincing. She's not scary. Carol Burnett she was scary when she commanded the kids around, Cameron Diaz seems like a way older sister who's trying to get her annoying siblings out of the way so she canoodle with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend that does not exist.
The second problem I have is, they auto-tuned Quvenzhané Wallis. The whole allure of Annie to me is the natural voice of a child, and there ability to sing the classic songs of Annie with their natural talent. Ms. Wallis is a young wonderful actress but if she cannot sing, why was she cast for this part? It's the age old story of casting someone in a part because they are now "hot" or new to the scene and people like them. The fact that they auto-tuned 'Tomorrow' is very disappointing. The other problem is that the auto-tuning is extremely blatant. They didn't try to hid it or anything, it's just right in your face.
This movie will probably be great to go see with the kids, but as far as seeing it because you want to see how it holds up to the other Annie. Do not do it. You'll be disappointed. Heck, I'm already disappointed with the trailer. The acting seems a little dull...to be nice. The movie itself just seems so fake. Movies are known for making one feel like they're in another world or watching another piece of reality. This movie just seems like...a movie. There's no realness to it. I would have hoped they did better, but I guess I was wrong. Who knows, I could be wrong now. Maybe the movie will be great, but this trailer isn't giving me high hopes.
Well that does it for this post. Join us next time, which will probably be soon because I have no life during the summer. Alright y'all catch ya later!
Dawn of an Age Old War Story
Well here we are. Our first look into a trailer together...I think
I'm crying. Oh wait no, just had to sneeze. Anyways lets take a lookie
see what we have here.
If you haven't watched the trailer yet, it was my first post (YIPEE). Go check it out first and then you make your way back here. You silly goose.
In the trailer we see the Caesar and his buddies have clearly developed into some pretty smart primates. Caesar can talk, though you can tell that it is a bit difficult for him. Now whether that is the lack of vocabulary or just the fact he's a monkey who can now talk, who knows? It's probably just a bit of both, but really how hard can it be for him to talk? I have a little monkey who talks to me all the time, it calls me its sister. Weird.
Anyways we are also now introduced to the new world of the humans. The human race has been cut back just a smidge due to the disease that was introduced in the first movie. As said in the trailer the disease was man made in a laboratory, which is also a quick shot back to the first movie. Now clearly it looks a little post apocalyptic around there, but you can always count on us humans to find guns. We do our Second Amendment proud I tell ya.
The primates still live in their little forest. As a small part of the trailer shows they have begun to reproduce. They are shaping into a society all their own. How much longer can the woods sustain them, and their found intellectuality?
Now in these desperate times you can always count on that crazy gun toting voice of reason to be there, and that voice is aptly played by Gary Oldman. Well may be he isn't that crazy, or a great voice of reason. It's just the age old tale of a man/race pushed to the point of desperation, who are willing to point the fingers at everyone but themselves. Everyone here of course being Caesar played by Andy Serkis and his Einstein primate friends. Now our good hairy friend Caesar does not want to go to war, as stated in the trailer by our assumed protagonist Jason Clark. He is too intelligent to want war...I think I just picked up a little moral theme or some type moral lesson. Smart people do not want to go to war...until it is absolutely necessary. Now throughout the trailer we are introduced to Jason Clark's character who has not yet been formally introduced, but IMDB has let me know his name is Malcolm. Now Malcolm wants peace with the primates and he believes that humans and primates can coexist together and live in harmony. Now how often does that tend to work out in these films? Lets see no war...no special effects and awesome battle moves to attract crowds. Well it looks like we have our answer. No no no, this movie can't all be tension of whether or not they go to war that would make this some type of "intellectual artsy" movie. No there must be a war and the trailer foreshadows that same thing. It does more than foreshadow it gives you a small little glimpse into the war itself.
Well here we have the age old tale of two sides, here it's species, both at some point of desperation. One is immediately going towards the idea of war, and the other would like to steer clear. In the middle we have a neutral party, most likely from the side that is itching for war. This neutral party wishes to make peace not war and try to coexist. In the end we all know that coexisting is not going to work. The two sides go to war, and I think we all know who wins here. I mean *spoiler alert* but come on now...the title even gives you an idea. There's a movie called Planet of The Apes that existed before this one and its predecessor. I'm just saying.
All in all the movie definitely looks entertaining. Even though it would seem we have most of the movie figured out, it may not be that simple. Mind you the director is not J.J. Abrams keep everything a darn secret and making us all wait and spend money. So we can expect that most things are probably straightforward like the trailer, but who knows there could be a few surprises headed our way.
Stay tuned the movie comes out July 11th. I hope it's a good one. Thank you for sticking with me through this post. I hope you don't regret it and if you do I regret writing it for you...really I do. But if you loved it and wish for more than I loved writing it for you! Come back and hear from us again why don't you?! Make sure you follow the blog, I'll be back and so should you!
If you haven't watched the trailer yet, it was my first post (YIPEE). Go check it out first and then you make your way back here. You silly goose.
In the trailer we see the Caesar and his buddies have clearly developed into some pretty smart primates. Caesar can talk, though you can tell that it is a bit difficult for him. Now whether that is the lack of vocabulary or just the fact he's a monkey who can now talk, who knows? It's probably just a bit of both, but really how hard can it be for him to talk? I have a little monkey who talks to me all the time, it calls me its sister. Weird.
Anyways we are also now introduced to the new world of the humans. The human race has been cut back just a smidge due to the disease that was introduced in the first movie. As said in the trailer the disease was man made in a laboratory, which is also a quick shot back to the first movie. Now clearly it looks a little post apocalyptic around there, but you can always count on us humans to find guns. We do our Second Amendment proud I tell ya.
The primates still live in their little forest. As a small part of the trailer shows they have begun to reproduce. They are shaping into a society all their own. How much longer can the woods sustain them, and their found intellectuality?
Now in these desperate times you can always count on that crazy gun toting voice of reason to be there, and that voice is aptly played by Gary Oldman. Well may be he isn't that crazy, or a great voice of reason. It's just the age old tale of a man/race pushed to the point of desperation, who are willing to point the fingers at everyone but themselves. Everyone here of course being Caesar played by Andy Serkis and his Einstein primate friends. Now our good hairy friend Caesar does not want to go to war, as stated in the trailer by our assumed protagonist Jason Clark. He is too intelligent to want war...I think I just picked up a little moral theme or some type moral lesson. Smart people do not want to go to war...until it is absolutely necessary. Now throughout the trailer we are introduced to Jason Clark's character who has not yet been formally introduced, but IMDB has let me know his name is Malcolm. Now Malcolm wants peace with the primates and he believes that humans and primates can coexist together and live in harmony. Now how often does that tend to work out in these films? Lets see no war...no special effects and awesome battle moves to attract crowds. Well it looks like we have our answer. No no no, this movie can't all be tension of whether or not they go to war that would make this some type of "intellectual artsy" movie. No there must be a war and the trailer foreshadows that same thing. It does more than foreshadow it gives you a small little glimpse into the war itself.
Well here we have the age old tale of two sides, here it's species, both at some point of desperation. One is immediately going towards the idea of war, and the other would like to steer clear. In the middle we have a neutral party, most likely from the side that is itching for war. This neutral party wishes to make peace not war and try to coexist. In the end we all know that coexisting is not going to work. The two sides go to war, and I think we all know who wins here. I mean *spoiler alert* but come on now...the title even gives you an idea. There's a movie called Planet of The Apes that existed before this one and its predecessor. I'm just saying.
All in all the movie definitely looks entertaining. Even though it would seem we have most of the movie figured out, it may not be that simple. Mind you the director is not J.J. Abrams keep everything a darn secret and making us all wait and spend money. So we can expect that most things are probably straightforward like the trailer, but who knows there could be a few surprises headed our way.
Stay tuned the movie comes out July 11th. I hope it's a good one. Thank you for sticking with me through this post. I hope you don't regret it and if you do I regret writing it for you...really I do. But if you loved it and wish for more than I loved writing it for you! Come back and hear from us again why don't you?! Make sure you follow the blog, I'll be back and so should you!
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