They are also just mindless summer popcorn fare for the most part. But it's in the 90s here and I hate it so I like to spend my weekend days in a movie theater.
I went into White House Down with zero expectations, so I suppose it didn't disappoint. I still can't stand Jamie Foxx, regardless of his Tarantino status. But I don't mind Channing Tatum. Ever since 21 Jump Street I've been a bit obsessed. This movie had the awful corny dialogue and situations: Wacky White House tour guide who's all, Get your hands off the antiques! Little girl who is wise and brave beyond her years! Multi-layered government conspiracy! A crowd of people outside the White House who are cheering while tanks roll in and get in a firefight with the bad guys, as opposed to running in terror (or not being allowed within a 10 block radius in the first place)! I suppose there are worse ways to spend a summer day. Like outdoors. Also, Channing Tatum in a white tank top.
At least in World War Z people were acting as they would in real-life - freaking terrified of zombies. I really liked the zombies in this movie actually -- fast-moving, and swarming, like a wave of water rushing down a street. Pretty cool. But OMG the plot. You could tell there were tons of reshoots and script changes. The last 1/3 is cool - basically a huge we-have-to-get-through-a-bunch-of-zombies sequence - but it feels like a different movie from the globe-spanning catastrophe movie in the beginning. And the very end feels hella tacked on.
Basically, I sat through these movies and it was OK, but I don't plan to see either of them again, until they're on HBO 100 times a week and I can't escape them. Also, I plan to read - I know, read! - World War Z, mostly because I really think this zombiepocalypse thing could happen and I need to be prepared. I've already got a camp stove.
30 June 2013
16 June 2013
Man of Steel/This is the End
I saw Man of Steel yesterday, so I finally feel capable of writing about it. Not because it's so deep that it takes a lot of time to process, but because - Jesus Christ on a bike - Henry Cavill is hot. I'm sorry, but he is. No, not hot, just really, really ridiculously good-looking. Like, criminally so. So good looking that every time he comes on screen I end up with my mouth hanging open in awe of his face. I'm not kidding. He's beautiful.
But is the movie good? Yeah I think I liked it. I think I really liked it. But I also wonder if I'd be OK with watching Henry Cavill watch paint dry. That'd be a good film. Jesus, he's handsome. I think the movie is stronger in the first half - really laying out the backstory, effectively showing the struggles of a growing alien boy. Then the second half happens and it's nonstop fighting. The action is definitely well done - it's really well-directed. Because a quarter of the movie is 2 grown men flying around and flinging each other into buildings and fighting and you totally buy it. The movie also changes some stuff in the Clark Kent/Superman backstory, at least as I know it. I'm not entirely sure I buy the way it ends up; I need to see it again to see if it makes sense. I mean, if I have to....
I've been eagerly anticipating This is the End like no other movie this summer. It's as if the movie industry read my mind - let's put all of my favorite funny guys who have awesome chemistry together into a vulgar comedy. Perfect. Everyone was awesome and it was just as funny as I hoped it would be. Plus it's crazy because, you know, apocalypse and everything. It's brilliant. As brilliant as Superman is beautiful.
But is the movie good? Yeah I think I liked it. I think I really liked it. But I also wonder if I'd be OK with watching Henry Cavill watch paint dry. That'd be a good film. Jesus, he's handsome. I think the movie is stronger in the first half - really laying out the backstory, effectively showing the struggles of a growing alien boy. Then the second half happens and it's nonstop fighting. The action is definitely well done - it's really well-directed. Because a quarter of the movie is 2 grown men flying around and flinging each other into buildings and fighting and you totally buy it. The movie also changes some stuff in the Clark Kent/Superman backstory, at least as I know it. I'm not entirely sure I buy the way it ends up; I need to see it again to see if it makes sense. I mean, if I have to....
I've been eagerly anticipating This is the End like no other movie this summer. It's as if the movie industry read my mind - let's put all of my favorite funny guys who have awesome chemistry together into a vulgar comedy. Perfect. Everyone was awesome and it was just as funny as I hoped it would be. Plus it's crazy because, you know, apocalypse and everything. It's brilliant. As brilliant as Superman is beautiful.
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