Let's talk movies

[MichelleHW101]

Maybe I’m weird but when I watch an actor plays a hero and a villain like Collin Farrell, Alexander Ludwig, Paul Bettany, Karl Urban…I prefer the villain role.  Anyone can save a life, be that hero the world needs.  It takes true acting to make an aundiance hate them so much that when the President of the United states tells Ivan Korshunov to, ‘get off my plane’ you want to see Gary Oldman well, get off the plane.  Kudos to Oldman.  His Ivan is waaaay better than the sappy Commissioner Gordon. 

[MichelleHW101]

I saw Batman rises and while I am happy that it ends with Batman getting Catwoman, I have to say Batman Dark Knight is better.  Was never a Christian Bale fan.  Didn’t like him as Batman, don’t own the first one.  It was my mother that convinced me to get the 2nd one because to be honest I didn’t like Heath Ledger either.  Then I saw Dark Knight and I watch it just for Health Ledger.  Tom Hardy’s Bane is nowhere near Heath Ledger’s joker.  It’s a shame Ledger died shortly after that movie because there was no question he deserved the Oscar and deserved better movies.  No wonder he had fights with Universal.  They never gave him anything to prove himself.  It’s no wonder I didn’t like him.  Universal screwed him over.  It’s also a shame that knowing he was following Ledger’s joker, Hardy didn’t try to push himself with Bane.  So miss Ledger.   

[MichelleHW101]

I will say as far as dark and serious goes the Batman trilogy has all the other comic book movies beat.  While Spiderman and Superman get constant reboots, the Batman trilogy is fine the way it is and there is no way to make them better.  Kudos to Nolan.  He certainly knows how to make a movie. 

[MichelleHW101]

I don’t care what fantasy movie comes out, what special effects or camera shots it has, nothing compares to Willow.  Ron Howard’s collaboration with George Lucus is as good today as it was back in the 80’s when it was done.  It’s a simple ‘a nobody trusting in themselves to become a sombody’ tale that is absolutely worth the two hours it takes to get through the movie.  You want to see Willow become a wizard.  You want to see him trust himself.  You want to see him get home.  You want to see the village people all run out to greet him.  Lord of the rings has to be the worst fantasy movie with the same plot of nobodies leave home, save the world then return home.  That’s a what 9hour movie just to see them come home…and to what?  So the audience can see that one nobody cared they left and two nobody cared they came back.  And that being the case somebody please tell me why they even bothered?  Okay yeah Same wanted the Barmaid but the rest of the lot?  They should have stayed with Aragon, the ents or even the elves—anybody except their hometown.   

[MichelleHW101]

I really am a child of the 80’s.  I not only love their music but I love Shelly Duvall’s fairytale theater.  I grew up with it and now that I am older and look back on episodes I can find it is amazing to see how many known actors were actually in her production.  They of course were unknown at the time (which may explain why they did it) but they are so worth watching.

[MichelleHW101]

I have seen every episode of Jane and the Dragon and I find the illustration most fascinating.  While it is clear the characters are computerized and the cammera shots move as if they are computerized the color rendering is clearly by hand.  Almost looks like colored pencil.  It even has the strokes if one actually pauses to look.

[MichelleHW101]

I have to say that while I like Milla jovovich in the resident evil movies (love ‘em, have every one) I still like her best in Ultraviolet.

[MichelleHW101]

Watched Catwoman with Halle Berry and have to say, yes I get why it killed her career.

[MichelleHW101]

Watched Ratatouille with my two year old niece and I have to say that while it’s a cute/funny disney/pixar cartoon, it is the least plausible cartoon they ever done.  While taking animals are unrealistic, each cartoon has always remained ‘realistic’ within the boundaries of their story (i.e. it makes perfect sense to have a mermaid taking with sea animals).  It makes no sense to me that while I am full able to believe a rat can cook, I cannot swallow the fact that if a rat sits on someone’s head with just a yank of two handful of hairs a rat can control full body movements of a human. 

[MichelleHW101]

I have to say that while I am not a big fan of comedy (let alone romatic comdey) I have watched Stranger than fiction so many times the dvd is nearly worn out.  Can’t stand Will Ferrell but he is so funny and believable to watch.  And Emma Thompson as the writer is golden.  And Queen Latifah is…well a queen!  I still laugh every time I watch it as if I’m watching it for the first time.

[MichelleHW101]

I have to say that while I am not a big fan of comedy (let alone romatic comdey) I have watched Stranger than fiction so many times the dvd is nearly worn out.  Can’t stand Will Ferrell but he is so funny and believable to watch.  And Emma Thompson as the writer is golden.  And Queen Latifah is…well a queen!  I still laugh every time I watch it as if I’m watching it for the first time.

[MichelleHW101]

I’ve seen every movie Dwayne ‘the rock’ Johnson has done and while I understand why he did a lot of disney stuff, I think his best movie is Rundown.

[MichelleHW101]

Watched Sahara (the matthew mcconaughey, Penelope Cruz movie) and while I know his natural hair color is brown (though I have several of his movies and he’s all blond in them, which I prefer him as a blond) I can’t understand why his hair is so dark for the movie.  I mean it’s as dark as Cruz’s.  I’ve never seen his hair that color before.  Mousey brown, yes, but in Sahara it’s like a dark almost black shade.

[MichelleHW101]

I truly miss Jim Henson.  His Muppets were great and funny no matter what age you were.  And boys as well as girls could watch them rather than the cartoons of today where they are geared for either one or the other.

[MichelleHW101]

I think the Transformers trilogy did do justice to those 80’s kids that grew up with the cartoon.  Same with the smurfs.