Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Movie Recommendation

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If you don’t like my picks and want to know what’s coming out visit these site: Coming Soon, Film-Releases, Kerasotes, or Movie Web


The Best Movies for This Month

For the Month of December:

National: Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Indies: Doubt
Comedy: Yes Man
Sci-Fi/ Fantasy: No Recommendation
Family: Marley & Me
Animated: Tale of Despereaux
Christmas: Curious Case of Benjamin Button

January’s Movies I Recommend To See In 2009

National: Taken
Indies: Defiance
Comedy: Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Sci-Fi/ Fantasy: Inkheart
Family: Hotel for Dogs
Animated: No Recommendation
New Years:
No Recommendation

THE FUTURE

2010

Alice in Wonderland
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
Iron Man 2
The Last Airbender
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Thor

2011

The Avengers
The First Avenger: Captain America
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
The Hobbit
Spider-Man 4

REVIEW: The Spirit

The Synopsis

IMDb:
Down these mean streets a man must come. A hero born, murdered, and born again. When a Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face who has other plans. He's going to wipe out the entire city. The Spirit tracks this cold hearted killer from the city's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader.

Other Reviews

Critics:

Roger Ebert: 1 Star
Michael Phillips: 1 Star
EW: Owen Gleiberman: C

Other Sites:

At The Movies: Ben Mankiewicz: Skip It, Ben Lyons: SKip It
Rotten Tomatoes: T-Meter: 15% (Rotten), Top Critics: 04% (Rotten), RT Community: 43% (Rotten)
Metacritic: Critics: 31 out of 100, Users: 4.0 out of 10
Yahoo Movies: Critics: NA Users: C-

My Review

My review is based on the 30 to 45 minutes I have seen. I quite frankly think this movies looked bad from the very being therefore I had no desire to watch it. Since I work at a movie theater I saw the last
30 to 45 minutes of the movie, that were this review comes from...

Source Material: Based on Will Eisner's The Spirit, Screenplay by Frank Miller

Action: Common: No enough.

Acting and Dialogue: Defective: It seem a bite on the cheese side.

Cinematography: Common: It looked cool, almost Sin City cool but besides that nothing.

Direction: Defective: Let's say Frank Miller makes a better Graphic Novelist.

Sound: Common: No Commit

Special and Visual FX: Common: Again, No Commit

Overall: C-

REVIEW: Valkyrie

The Synopsis

IMDb: At the height of WW2, a group of high-ranking German officers hatched a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and seize power of the military command in order to end the war. The operation was codenamed "Valkyrie", for the emergency plan that was meant to be used in case of a revolt against the Nazi government. This plan had been modified by the conspirators to ensure their success, but for various reasons the plot failed when finally carried out on 20 July 1944. The conspirators of the inner circle were shot after a kangaroo trial or sentenced to death soon after.

Other Reviews

Critics:

Roger Ebert: 3 Stars
Michael Phillips: 2 ½ Stars
EW: Lisa Schwarzbaum: B

Other Sites:

At The Movies: Ben Mankiewicz: Skip It, Ben Lyons: See It
Rotten Tomatoes: T-Meter: 59% (Rotten), Top Critics: 57% (Rotten), RT Community: 78% (Fresh)
Metacritic: Critics: 58 out of 100, Users: 6.0 out of 10
Yahoo Movies: Critics: B- Users: B

My Review

Source Material: Based on true event, depicting the July 20, 1944 plot of German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Action: Brilliant: Just enough to keep ones attention.

Acting and Dialogue: Common: I wish there was more a German feel to the dialogue. Tom Cruise wasn’t having his best game by far.

Cinematography: Common: It looked good but there was something missing.

Direction: Brilliant: This is one of the reasons why Bryan Singer is one of my favorites.

Sound: Common: It had a reasonable score and a decent sound quality

Special and Visual FX: Common: Nothing to extravagant.

Overall: B-, Better than So-So but lower than Good, with some history thrown into the mix.

Friday, December 19, 2008

I Recommend To See In 2009

I have already done a rough cut of Movies I Recommend To See In 2009 but now I will update the list per month. I will post this now monthly version with The Best Movies for This Month I will start with January but won't reveal February's until end of January. What I really trying to saying is that Movies I Recommend To See and The Best Movies for This Month will meager into one post. I will rename this post Movie Recommendation.

Format:

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If you don’t like my picks and want to know what’s coming out visit these site: Coming Soon, Film-Releases, Kerasotes, or Movie Web


The Best Movies for This Month

For the Month of __________:

National:
Indies:
Comedy:
Sci-Fi/ Fantasy:
Family:
Animated:
Holiday Weekend Movies:

__________’s Movies I Recommend To See In 2009


National:
Indies:
Comedy:
Sci-Fi/ Fantasy:
Family:
Animated:
Holiday Weekend Movies:

THE FUTURE

2010

Alice in Wonderland
Iron Man 2
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Thor
The Last Airbender
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I

2011

The First Avenger: Captain America
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
Spider-Man 4
The Avengers
The Hobbit

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Award Season: BSFC Awards

BSFC

Picture:
TIE: Slumdog Millionaire & WALL-E
Directing: Gus Van Sant "Milk" & "Paranoid Park"
Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black "Milk"
Actor in a Leading Role: TIE: Sean Penn "Milk" & Mickey Rourke "The Wrestler"
Actor in a Supporting Role: Heath Ledger "The Dark Knight"
Actress in a Leading Role: Sally Hawkins "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Actress in a Supporting Role: Penélope Cruz "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"

Saturday, December 13, 2008

UPDATE: Award Season: Critic Awards

I will fill in the gaps for the top categories:Best Picture, Directing, Writing (Adapted Screenplay), Writing (Original Screenplay), Actor in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Leading Role, and Actress in a Supporting Role

LAFCA


Best Picture: Wall-e
Directing: Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire"
Screenplay: Mike Leigh "Happy-Go-Luuky"
Actor in a Leading Role: Sean Penn "Milk"
Actor in a Supporting Role:Heath Ledger "Dark Knight"
Actress in a Leading Role: Sally Hawkins "Happy-Go-Luuky"
Actress in a Supporting Role: Penelope Cruz "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" & "Elegy"

NBR

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Directing: David Fincher "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): TIE: Simon Beaufoy "Slumdog Millionaire" & Eric Roth "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Writing (Original Screenplay): Nick Schenk "Gran Torino"
Actor in a Leading Role: Clint Eastwood "Gran Torino"
Actor in a Supporting Role: Josh Brolin "Milk"
Actress in a Leading Role: Anne Hathaway "Rachel Getting Married"
Actress in a Supporting Role: Penelope Cruz "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"

NYFCC

Best Picture: Milk
Directing: Mike Leigh "Happy-Go-Luuky"
Screenplay: Jenny Lumet "Rachel Getting Married"
Actor in a Leading Role: Sean Penn "Milk"
Actor in a Supporting Role: Josh Brolin "Milk"
Actress in a Leading Role: Sally Hawkins "Happy-Go-Luuky"
Actress in a Supporting: Penelope Cruz "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"

WAFCA

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Directing: Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire"
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): Simon Beaufoy "Slumdog Millionaire"
Writing (Original Screenplay): Jenny Lumet "Rachel Getting Married"
Actor in a Leading Role: Mickey Rourke "The Wrestler"
Actor in a Supporting Role: Heath Ledger "The Dark Knight"
Actress in a Leading Role: Meryl Streep "Doubt"
Actress in a Supporting Role: Rosemarie DeWitt "Rachel Getting Married"

The Filmmakers

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

30 July 1970, London, England, UK

I was going to do Frank Miller but I realized even though he co-directed Sin City and directed The Spirit, he is more of a graphic novelist…and great one at that. So I decided to skip him and move on to a greater filmmaker, Christopher Nolan. It really hard to find a bad film that has Christopher Nolan name on it, granted he only has seven films on his Filmography. As most of you know I am a Sci-Fi/ Fantasy fan leaning more toward Fantasy. So when I say I also like Comic Book movies, you may be think, that not a
stretches. Out of the pantheon of Comic Book movies I prefer Marvel over D.C. I say this to bring the point that Christopher Nolan brought out a different kind of love for D.C. via Batman. Even thought Batman Begins wasn’t my first Christopher Nolan film, which would be Memento; It was Batman Begins that made me a fan of Christopher Nolan’s work. I also like a good mind boggling Drama, anything that make you think or question your very being (religion, philosophy, or belief system). With Christopher Nolan knack of no-linear-storytelling he can put up a good fight for a great good mind boggling drama, case and point, Memento or even The Prestige. As Christopher Nolan’s career progresses his work gets better, look at his latest film if you don’t believe me, The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins. It is filmmaking skills like Christopher Nolan that places some like him in my top ten all time favorite filmmakers.

Biography

Filmography

They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They?