Objective/Stakes
Take Me Home Tonight
I wish my friend had taken me anywhere but to a TV to watch this drivel. At least I didn’t watch the whole thing. Character The character of the fine actor Topher Grace graduated from MIT (in the backstory) and, rather than work in his field till he figured out his life, worked in a [...]
Stephen King’s Bag of Bones
More like, Bag of Crap. Despite it being a TV movie, the producers would’ve had a real winner on their hands had they made it like a theatrical release. A&E, why do you think HBO’s original flicks are so good? Premise – The story boiled down to a curse from the black singer who was [...]
Hanna
This was a weird movie…it had some good thriller elements, yet they never gelled together to create any thrills. Some of this was clearly due to the director- parts were over-stylized and characters like Cate Blanchett’s were cartoonish. This movie would have had a much better chance at succeeding in the realistic style of the [...]
You Again
The main character was nicely set up. After that… Objective/Stakes Kristen Bell had none. This made me think of Ben Stiller in Meet The Parents if he and his girlfriend were not that serious and he was not planning to propose. That’s why I stopped watching this after 15 minutes. Maybe the issue with the [...]
Captain America: The First Avenger
It was better than Thor, though not close to the levels of Iron Man, Spider-Man and S2. Premise – For a superhero, Cap was not so super. I liked his first action sequence where he chased the car on foot. Problem was, that seemed to be his greatest feat and it was only used that [...]
Green Lantern
Ouch. I don’t know and don’t care about anything from The Green Lantern comic books; movies are a different medium with their own language and guidelines to follow. Premise The movie split its time between the space nonsense and earthly issues. Obviously the story that had the potential to be more captivating was the one [...]
Super 8
More like, Disappointing 8. I was glad to see a movie pay attention to the all-important aspect of character empathy. That’s sadly lacking in too many flicks. Yet, surprisingly, other important aspects of a good flick were lacking in this one. Objective Act 2 was awful. After the setup of the train wreck, the kids [...]