Just finished watching "Despicable Me". Pretty cute. :good:
I'm just amazed at the animation in films these days.
Another one we saw recently was "Book of Eli".
Never would have guessed the unpredictable ending.:good:
Kids and I liked "Despicable Me". We also enjoyed "How to train your Dragon" and "Chicken Run".
The other day we rented "Taken". It was pretty good. But I like Liam Neeson. 🙂
Next I want to see "Hereafter" and "Love and Other Drugs".
We're lucky; we live a mile away from the $3 theater pub. Makes for a great cheap date night. 😉
Merlin wrote about a movie called Inside Job some months back. It is out at those red box movie rental places. It's worth a dollar or so rental fee.
Dee Anna and I enjoyed "Gnomeo & Juliet".
Restrepo.
Shattering film. Really puts you in the sh#t with these guys.
Brought me right back to my days in the field as an 82c.
Went to the big city yesterday, saw Rango and ate dinner at an Italian franchise. Rango was very cute and I'll agree - the animation was fascinating.
It makes me wonder:
When we were small children, it was obvious, at least to me, that animation, even Disney's best, was fantasy and required a certain effort on the part of the viewer to suspend disbelief.
Now, given the absolute realism of the current state of the art, how do little kids separate fantasy from reality? At what age can they?
All I know is that movie was 99.5% visually indistinguishable from reality. Now, talking lizards, turtles, snakes & such are another story......
SS
"The Town" was good.
I saw the Miami Vice movie remake (2006) yesterday.
Really intense. Great sountrack just like the first one.
Super major fire fight near the end.
Not as intense as the gun battle in Heat but close.
In short......NO.
Everything is either cartoons or fast cut action flicks.
To see actual acting and thoughtful scripts, you generally need to see movies from other counties, or independent films made here without major studio backing.
The Fighter was excellent.
The movies that mix live actors with computer manipulated scenes are the hardest to decipher fact from fantasy, my children ask me what is real and what is computer generated as I am in the habit of pointing out what is "real" and what is added in. I can do this of course because of life experience with what is possible to film on location, and what is not, but it is becoming harder and harder for even myself.
Is the discussion about "True Grit" over? Cause I haven't seen it yet, but I ended up reading all five of Portis' books. Most were very good. "Norwood" was outstanding. The only one I wouldn't really recommend was "Masters of Atlantis", although it was good also, just not as absorbing as the others.
Don
Just watched "Animal Kingdom" from down under last night...very very good... In the style, sort of, of "Winter's Bone's"
