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Feb 14 – Day 45 – Happy Heart Day
Happy Valentines Day!
Now onto the review of AVATAR or as I’d like to call it, “James Cameron’s version of every other movie in the world”. I’m going to be honest and brutal in the next few paragraphs so strap in it’s going to be a very open and bumpy ride. I’m justifying my honesty because I did a film class in high school where we actually made a movie & I’m pretty sure I qualify as a nearly graduated Padawan Movie Geek.
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Jan 21 – Day 21 – Up and Out
I saw the film “Up in the Air” yesterday and it was exactly what I needed on a lazy Wednesday afternoon. The movie stars George Clooney as a corporate termination terminator who is always flying from one corner of the states to the other firing people for companies that don’t wish to burden themselves with the complicated and delicate process of letting someone go from their employ.
Jan 10 – Day 10 – Sherlock’n it
I had the choice tonight between Avatar, Up in the Air and Sherlock Holmes at the movie theatre today. With the help of twitter, I decided the pipe smoking detective was the best bet. It was well worth it.
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Why “Julie and Julia” matters
Julia Child is and always will be a legend. A cooking legend in her later life she has captured the imagination and hearts of amateur and professional cooks everywhere. She is the quintessential quirk in everything that she did. Her show and life inspired a exhibit in The Smithsonian. And the top it all off, she inspired a burned out writer to take Julia Child’s cook book and cook through the year with the idea that it was something to finish after not finishing so many different things in her life.
It is a great movie. Meryl Streep is Julia in every sense of the word. By the end of the film you have fallen in love with her several times over and simply want to reach out and hug her over and over. Then have her cook for you because she was on helluva cook. The Julie character is less perfect and more flawed than Child and it’s an interesting study in perspectives. Halfway though the movie (it’s long but well worth it) Julie sends her husband into a righteous rage about her self centered selfish ego that nearly destroys their marriage. It is a moment of brief seriousness that brings us all down a bit from the half cocked smiled we’ve all had since the credits rolled.
AMC Best Picture Showcase in Review
This morning came far too early for my particularly late sleeping tastes. In fact, I almost hit the snooze button and rolled over. Almost. You see, this morning began an odyssey of movie watching geekdom unparalleled to anything see before. At least for this blogger. AMC Theatres has been doing this for the past few years, but I apparently didn’t get the memo until a few weeks ago when the buzz began to build.
The Oscar Showcase is a genius of a plan. Every year before the bling infested glitzy overload event known as the Academy Awards plays across our televisions, AMC Theatres wrangles together a day of Oscar Nominated movies for viewing by the general public. For the cheap price of thirty dollars, we all get a full day of fantastic film footage.
The social media experiment has taken off with AMC and they’ve actually hired a full time guy to handle that aspect of the machine. With his help, AMC has taken the unique step of asking bloggers, twitterers and others to attend events and blog, vlog and twitter about the entire day. I was among the many chosen. Today was the culmination of that and I have to say it’s started out very well. Five movies will equal about 13.5 hours of moving pictures playing across the screens nationwide.
I’ll be doing my best to review these movies and talk about the experience as this article unfolds. There’ll be video, pictures and of course words to paint the picture. So get ready. Here…we..GO!
AMC Oscar Showcase in Review- Vlog
Well, it’s over! I managed to get through 5 movies on Saturday with the help of Toby and Sarah. I’m still working on the written blog post, but I’ll post the six videos below so you can check ‘em out if you wish.
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Today is “teh” Day!
I’ll be at Westminster 24 doing to the AMC Theaters Oscar Showcase today from 9:00am to midnight. I’ll be updating mostly through twitter and if I can some mobile stuff. Lots of blogging, vlogging and whatever else I can manage will be going on. If you’re going to be there, hit me up or seek me out. Live Twitter Stream is below. I’ll take this post out late tonight and replace with my layers upon layers of blog post and vlog posts.
See you there!
Coraline, a review
I’ll be the first to admit I haven’t seen a Hollywood movie in the theatres since Quantum of Solace. I’ll also be the first to admit I felt like I was seeing another “Bourne” movie that held as much flavor of Bond as watered down Kool-Aid. I’ve become disappointed with the ‘Wood crowd as they seem unable to put anything of value on to the screens that really interests me. I’ve been a bit put off from the political thrillers that wished to thrust turgid torrents through my throat. I’ve been sitting to the sidelines waiting for something original, something interesting. Anything that has a bright spot within the scripted scenes.
I first saw the trailer for “Coraline” and was immediately interested. I’ve long been a fan of the Tim Burton-esque film making. Hellboy II was a visual and action packed buffet that I couldn’t stop feasting from. That idea of a cracked mirror that bends and spins new worlds out from within the frame captures my interested from the get go.
I feared that “Coraline” would be this dark tale of despair that sent you careening on a rollercoaster ride of rancid rapture. I was pleasantly surprised when it turned into a fantastical journey into the mind of a girl caught between her mundane existence that threatens to bore her to near death and a new shiny world of supposed perfection that calls to her in the midst of moving from Michigan to the Somewhere beyond the Nowhere.
Hamlet 2: Review
Let me first start off with this statement. My Christian Sensibilities (if they’re still even there after this) screamed bloody murder when they found my brain contemplating seeing this movie. Somehow I put them down (pushing them down some stairs…more or less) and got to the movie about twenty movies late with my brother.
There, got the exposition out of the way. Onto the real good stuff.
Hamlet 2 is a hilarious movie. It is also a drama filled story of a guy trying to find his meaning. And there’s the whole Latino vs. White Girl thing going on. Yea and there’s some Rent-esque satire. Oh and Jesus Christ Superstar gets lampooned. Of course this movie is as course as a rough black bear on the charge. It’s pretty bleepin’ touchy at times.
First, there’s some seriously hilarity in this film. “Rock me Sexy Jesus” was hands down the best part of this entire film. As a Christian (conservative even!) I followed and enjoyed the entire number. It was a great satire and/or send-up of “Jesus Christ Superstar” and had some hilarious moments lampooning us Christians. It was a cheeky left jib, which had no real menace. That’s good poking of fun at a group.
The Dark Knight: Review
The Dark Knight returns us to Batman and the City of Gotham along with the regular cast o’ characters we know and love. It begins ala “Heat” with a terrifyingly intelligent twist and proceeds to run wild through the streets of the Gothic town never stopping, never slowing and forever reminding us that yes indeed, Hollywood can do good.
The headliner that you cannot ignore (the interwebs are literally on fire and in full blaze) is the late Heath Ledger as the classic (and original Batman Rouge) Joker. A maniacal creation drawn from several sources it is this villain that has long tortured the Caped Crusader throughout the movies, television shows and comics. And it is here that one actor manages to perfect each and every moment on screen so deliberately and intensely you know Ledger went to his grave with some dark memories.
The Joker is an iconic villain. He’s killed Robin in the comics. He’s been the foil of Batman and others throughout the DC Comics universe. He is The One. Bigger than anyone on the block. And his mannerisms, his speech, his cracked mind and the wild eyed lunacy is spot on. More than anything I squirmed for the first time in a long time as The Joker played out as a spinning spinster of spastic insanity. I actually feared him. I loathed him. And I wanted him to get his from Batman.
That is perfect casting, directing and acting at the peak. Each look, glance, word or even shrug from Ledger conveys something deeper. His mind is a sprawling madhouse on a carnival ride intent on killing, destroying and pushing anyone and everyone to near ends of sanity.
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