Speed Racer is easily the most boring action film since Matrix Revolutions. The racing, with it’s cartoon backgrounds, had all the realism of racing in front of a cartoon background. All of the scenes with the cartoon backgrounds were slightly out of phase with the live action sequences so that it never looked right-but then, maybe this not quite right look is what they were going for. I don’t know who the kid playing Speed Racer was, but he was a perfect blend of cartoon Speed Racer and Elvis Presley. It was good to see John Goodman and Susan Sarandon…
Category: bad movie
The Producers Movie
The Original Producers starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder was a near perfect movie. It is zany, silly, over the top, and Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel were perfect as the greedy Broadway Producer and the sappy Accountant who wanted more from life-more money that is. The Producers was really a film of its time-the 1960s. It was only twenty years since the end of World War Two, for many people the Nazis were not a cartoon character in an Indian Jones movie, they were real, live monsters. So the idea of making a musical comedy about Hitler’s Third Reich…
Alien vs Predator 2 AVP R
Picking up exactly where the last movie left off, AVP 2 is a brisk movie where there is a ton of action and yet nothing seems to happen. The gore and violence in this film is not, as in Sweeney Todd, in any way real. This did not stop the film makers from trying really hard to push our buttons. They murder a father and son out hunting, a roomful of new born babies, pregnant mothers and their unborn children- and the death count just keeps right on rolling. But none of these deaths means anything. There is gore and…
Shadowboxer-Helen Mirren Cuba Gooding, Jr
Shadowboxer is the story of a couple of hitmen played by Cuba Gooding, Jr and Helen Mirren. There is a lot of cold blooded killing of people left and right. But Helen’s killer is ill and not long for this world, so she takes pity on a pregnant woman and spares her life. The rest of the film involves a rather convoluted story of the hitmen hiding this woman and her child from her insane criminal mob boss husband.Cuba Gooding,Jr has always been something of a mystery to me. He hit it big in Jerry Mcguire with Tom Cruise and…
Notes on a Scandal-Judi Dench Cate Blanchett
Ripped from the headlines story of a pretty blond schoolteacher having sex with a fifteen year old student. Sort of. The real story is about the old woman who lusts for a new friend, but we are never really sure what kind of a friend it is she lusting for. Judi Dench is the slightly mad, or totally mad, teacher who is near retirement age and doesn’t want to die alone. Cate Blanchett is the object of her desire, as well as the desire of the fifteen year old stud muffin. Nothing good comes from all this lusting.It is a…
Premontion-a stitch in time saves none
Most movies that have time travel as a key element work from the foundation that time is plastic-think Marty McFly or Bill and Ted-that anything in any time line can be changed at will without there being any serious side effects. Although Prof Brown was often worried about there being an end of the universe event, that never seemed to happen. My favorite of the plastic universe movies is Groundhog Day, in which a heartless and self centered Bill Murray turns into a benevolent hero to virtually everyone in Punxsutawney.The other kind of time travel is the concrete determinism type…