The Artist is very good, but I wish it had more dancing like it has at the end. I wish it had dancing all the way through. Oh, okay, I wish it were just an actual old-timey movie. It's fine, though.
But I did just see The Guard again, and holy fuck is that a good movie. Everything about it is perfect. Go see it.
February 6, 2012
What I Do Have Is a Very Particular Set of NOT FIGHTING WOLVES WITH BROKEN AIRPLANE BOTTLES ON MY HANDS
Yeah, The Grey is total bullshit. It's marketed as a movie where Liam Neeson fistfights wolves, but he does no such thing. He wanders around Canada thinking about his daddy issues, trailed by some dudes who get picked off one by one by some ridiculous CGI werewolves that wandered over from Twilight.
I do like the scene when Liam Neeson asks god to help him, and when nothing happens, huffs "FUCK IT, I'LL DO IT MYSELF." But that's immediately nullified by the fact he says this after rolling around in a river for about 20 minutes and then just chillin (HA HA) in his wet clothes on a snowbank, instead of LYING THERE BEING DEAD OF HYPOTHERMIA.
I saw this movie in a special sneak preview thing where the director did a Q&A afterward. In true idiot auteur fashion, he scoffed at how everyone in his focus groups said "hey, you know how this whole movie builds up to a wolf fistfight and then the screen cuts to black and the movie's over and there's no wolf fistfight? That's total bullshit." He thought those people were so foolish not to understand his vision that it was MORE ARTISTIC to NOT SHOW the ONE THING THAT EVERYONE WANTED TO SEE. But he directed The A-Team, so I guess he knows from good cinema.
I do like the scene when Liam Neeson asks god to help him, and when nothing happens, huffs "FUCK IT, I'LL DO IT MYSELF." But that's immediately nullified by the fact he says this after rolling around in a river for about 20 minutes and then just chillin (HA HA) in his wet clothes on a snowbank, instead of LYING THERE BEING DEAD OF HYPOTHERMIA.
I saw this movie in a special sneak preview thing where the director did a Q&A afterward. In true idiot auteur fashion, he scoffed at how everyone in his focus groups said "hey, you know how this whole movie builds up to a wolf fistfight and then the screen cuts to black and the movie's over and there's no wolf fistfight? That's total bullshit." He thought those people were so foolish not to understand his vision that it was MORE ARTISTIC to NOT SHOW the ONE THING THAT EVERYONE WANTED TO SEE. But he directed The A-Team, so I guess he knows from good cinema.
February 5, 2012
The Grey
If you can think of ANYTHING ELSE WHATSOEVER to do, you should probably do that instead of watching this movie. I can't complain, because I received adequate warning but failed to give it proper credence. I'LL NEVER DOUBT YOU AGAIN, LADY BLOGPANTS.
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