Showing posts with label film ponderings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film ponderings. Show all posts
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Too much of a good thing....

1:41 PM | Posted by Leah Sueko | Edit Post
I find it baffling that the powers that be in the movie and televsion biz don't understand the concept "too much of a good thing". We all know that the best characters in a movie is usually the zany wacky off the wall character.  That doesn't mean we want to see more of them though, the reason that they are so good is that they don't over stay their welcome.  With "Get Him to the Greek" recent release based off of the Aldous Snow character from "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" to the newly announced plans for a Less Grossman movie based on the character from "Tropic Thunder".  While both of the original films were very funny and the characters are funny in their own right.  Neither of them has the depth to carry a movie in my opinion.  Trust me, I saw "Get Him to the Greek"  and between the occasional laugh, was mostly boredom.  TV is no exception.  I love Sue Sylvester on "Glee", really the only thing I like about the show, but put her in more than 25% of the episode and it has gone into overkill mode with her. Kenneth on 30 Rock, also has gone into too much of a good thing category. Can I be the only one who doesn't need a character shoved down my throat in order to enjoy them?  Why can't the entertainment industry grasp the "Leave them wanting more" concept?    
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Monday, March 29, 2010

She's With Him?

10:29 AM | Posted by Leah Sueko | Edit Post
Seriously, why are so many pairings in movies and T.V. shows featuring pudgy, mediocre to not attractive at all men with super hot chicks?!  Why in the movie industry are men allowed to look however they please , but even the women they are paired with have to spend 2 hours a day at the gym.   Lets do some real casting people.  If you have a half witted, fat, balding man, he is not going to be married to Rashida Jones, or Jennifer Aniston.  What is the purpose behind this? No one is buying that these women would ever really be with these men. Probably just because movies are written by half witted, fat, balding men.  I want justice! Or at the very least some average looking ladies being cast with Taye Diggs, and Simon Baker!  
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Monday, March 22, 2010

21st Century Action!

2:13 PM | Posted by Russel Harder | Edit Post
Hi, I'm Russel.

And you're not.

And I couldn't think of any better way to introduce myself to the blog... so I just took something from SNL's Weekend Update. Yes, for a film blog, I took something from a TV program which has only created about half a dozen bankable movie stars in its 35 years (though don't worry, Chris Parnell still gets work). I'm not here to talk about that though. Not yet.

I want to talk to you about the 21st century action move and its three main iterations. Joystick movies, docu-action and action films.

The first of which, that I'll explain and differentiate. With its jarringly quick music video cuts (you could call it MTV editing, if say, they still played music videos) and violence that takes its physics and biology from video games (people either don't get hurt nearly as much as they should, or they do and they bleed... a lot), what I like to call joystick action movies are movies you can watch with less then 50% of your brain power and still enjoy them. Mostly. Far and away your typical 21st century action movie, using that classic action template while adding technology, they are also naturally based off of video games, comics and cartoons for the most part (and otherwise come from the east and involve a large amount of wire-fu). In the early 21st century these were the main type of action movies used to create action stars to take over for Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis. Now they star Schwarzteneggar, Stallone, Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis (Live Free or Die Hard and Indiana Jones and the blah blah blah Crystal Skull).

Five For Your Consideration (among many)

The Matrix
Spider-Man (Iron Man, Batman Begins, etc.)
Men In Black
Crank: High Voltage
Transformers
aaaand... Watchmen (yes, Watchmen... Matthew Goode is pretty awesome, but he didn't do this movie any favors. Not ONE. Then again, neither did the various other things. See: giant blue penis, 99 Red Ballons, etc.)



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Thursday, March 18, 2010

What Just Happened?

3:09 PM | Posted by Leah Sueko | Edit Post

 Why in certain movies are we shown things that the character then forgets or chooses to have erased from their memory?  Now don’t get me wrong.  In a movie like “Bourne Identity” where the entire movie is about remembering what he forgot, or “Eternal Sunshine” it works.  We are watching a story about something being so important that they have to remember it.  On the other hand a movie like “Men in Black” or “Sphere” where they voluntarily give up their memories, of everything we just watched, I don’t get what the purpose of the movie was, other than studios proving that they can waste our time and take our money.  The worst use of this has to go to “Superman Returns” where evidently he can erase memories by kissing?!  The way it is used amounts to little more than giving your main character and hero of the story a date rape drug… What? Why would you show me that?
Maybe I am just jealous that I too can’t forget what I just witnessed... or make out with Superman.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Ring, Ring! Who's there?

9:30 PM | Posted by Leah Sueko | Edit Post
How is it in movies people always know who is calling?  Even more mysterious without ever discussing a meeting place or time all the characters show up at the correct location, at exactly the right time.  Are people in movies psychic over the phone? Next time you are viewing a movie, pay attention to the inevitable scene on the  phone.  96.4% (actual statistic) of the time it will go a little something like this

*ring, ring*
Person A: Hey what's up?
Person B: Nothing much, what are you up to?
Person A: I was thinking about getting a burrito later on.
Person B: Sounds good, I'll see you there.
*click*

Oh yeah... Did I mention no one says goodbye on the phone in movies?!  What is up with that?  
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